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Creativity is so much lacking
Dear Editor,
If certain TV stations don’t have anything proper or meaningfully sarcastic or satirical to put on their yearend satirical programmes, then they should just cancel the whole thing.
I say this in the wake of a poorly produced satirical programme “Dis is we”. The State media really could’ve done a better job in pointing out critical issues in a very humorous manner.
Since when have we started to regurgitate ‘forwarded email jokes’ and put them on these programmes? I recall reading some of the skits performed on the programme in my email inbox. Have we run out of material to resort to this?
I can remember laughing so much when watching satirical shows that no longer air, for example, DTV’s ‘Berbice Lampoon’ and LRTVS ‘Bloopers & Scudoopers’. ‘Stretched-Out Magazine’ on VCT also was a barrel of laughs.
Creativity can play an important part when composing, writing and producing these kinds of programmes. Satire is not featured much in the Guyanese society; hence it is shows like these that can really bring out clearer meanings in more serious situations. ‘Saturday Night Live’ on NBC in the USA is one of the most creative and loved shows of this nature.
More time, perhaps the entire year, needs to be spent planning what to put out on these programmes.
Creativity is so much lacking.
Leon Suseran
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