Channel 4 has commissioned a sitcom about the Irish Famine in which one million Irish died of starvation and one million emigrated. What a great subject for cheap laughs!
No this is not an April Fools story, this is a January 1st story, incredible as it may seem.
The writer will be Dublin-based Hugh Travers, a 31-year-old, who has already had a major hit with a show called “Lambo.” He is a former film student at UCLA.The sitcom will be called “Hungry” and Channel 4 has given the Dublin writer full freedom to write his own scripts which he says is seriously daunting.
Asked by the Irish Times why The Famine, Travers stated, “Well, they say ‘comedy equals tragedy plus time’,” he says, laughing.
A sitcom on the Irish Famine? Thought I'd heard all the revisionism by now… #hungry #irishfamine #hughtravers http://t.co/0qQzm2yIOI
— Lisa O'Connor (@LisaOCTweets) January 2, 2015
https://t.co/3K9zIXKDuA link for petition, Hugh Travers and @ComedyOn4 would want to think about what passes for humour,.
— Cáit Trainor (@Caittrainor) January 2, 2015
