Talk:Ted Rogers (comedian)

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"Rogers also provoked ire in the music world with the obvious sub-text of his comedy act and persona deemed politically incorrect and epitomised the banality of American imported ideas regarding the game-show genre. One acidic song sung by the Manchester based cult-indie group, The Fall, "Joker Hysterical Face" with the barbed lyric, "Ted Rogers' brains burn in hell"."

What a load of nonsence! Yes, that lyric did appear in "Joker Hysterical Face" by The Fall - a very minor, unremarkable track off one of their less memorable albums. They never mentioned Rogers in any other lyrics neither in that song, nor any other song. Mark E Smith put that lyric in Joker Hysterical Face simply to sound surreal. I have never heard Smith mention Rogers in any other context, lyrics, interview or whatever.

Also, i have also never heard any other artist mention Ted Rogers name, so to say that he "provoked ire in the music world" is absolute claptrap! I doubt most people in the music business would have given Ted Rogers a second thought. I would also take issue with the assertion that he was "Polictically incorrect". I don't recall that at all, he was simply not very funny! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.179.104.141 (talk) 13:13, 16 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]