Thursday 28 February 2008

Just a little more information, please

It's a common thing: somewhere overseas a list is published of the top 10 whatever, and some journalist over here thinks "Oh, here's easy copy!", and bangs out a piece highlighting the top thing and some of the other entries. But they also completely fail to provide any link to an actual list.

The latest example of this is called, ironically enough, What are the top 25 TV put-downs? Indeed, what are the 25? The article lists seven, but nowhere does it say where one can find out the other 18. (There is a comment about humour in current TV, but that was also probably copied from somewhere else.)

I did find the list, so can save your time and here it is. However... I might question the use of the term "humour". I suspect, for many lines, you had to be there, and I wasn't.

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