The Thick Of It is a BBC satirical comedy that I never really warmed to. The amount of swearing may have had something to do with that - I\'m not opposed to swearing automatically but there is a LOT - sometimes entire sentences are swear words and almost every sentence from the star contains several. I think the reason I didn\'t particularly like it is that the satire element slipped by me - it was too much like a documentary to my mind to work well as satire.
But the thing that really made me laugh? BBC America have just started broadcasting it. According to
The Independent, they\'re broadcasting a sort of Morse code version because they\'re bleeping out all the swearing!
One has to suspect it won\'t be very popular in the US... you could argue that strongly accented swearing might not be too, but when you\'re trying to pick out the odd words among the beeps... nope.
It made me laugh a lot more than the show ever managed.
