{"id":4022,"date":"2021-10-16T20:41:45","date_gmt":"2021-10-16T20:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=4022"},"modified":"2022-12-18T12:08:46","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T12:08:46","slug":"media-miranda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=4022","title":{"rendered":"MEDiA: Miranda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"615\" height=\"409\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/img_1951.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4021\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/img_1951.jpg 615w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/img_1951-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">I love Miranda!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"155\" height=\"30\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/stars_09_fourhalf-1-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6720\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/stars_09_fourhalf-1-2.jpg 155w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/stars_09_fourhalf-1-2-150x30.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 155px) 100vw, 155px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We didn\u2019t watch <em>Miranda<\/em> at the time it came out. I did occasionally see bits of it. And I loved it. So, she\u2019s been around ages, and I\u2019ve been ignoring her. Actually, she\u2019s been around as long as I have, more or less, born in \u201872, as she and I are. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, a few weeks back we started watching from series one, on the BBC iPlayer, and we\u2019re now into the \u2018Specials\u2019, with <em>The Final Curtain<\/em> about to play. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What I love best about Miranda, in addition to her clumsiness and wind, is her disarming candour, around generally not being a typical person, never mind typical woman, or \u2018lady\u2019. But then of course, in most important respects she is quite typical. Or rather she both is and isn\u2019t\u2026 er\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"580\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/img_1959.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4023\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/img_1959.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/img_1959-300x218.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/img_1959-768x557.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">What a woman!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So, I guess what I mean is that she\u2019s very ordinarily human, at the same time as not conforming to social stereotypes. And she\u2019s brave about showing herself in that light, of imperfection, or rather difference. Something many of us are simply to vain and\/or insecure to do. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve had horrible soul-crushing moments of my life that could probably make pretty good comedy. Like when a \u2018local hero\u2019 guitarist at a jam session I\u2019d finally worked up the courage to go to knocked my glasses of as I attempted to chat a girl up at the bar. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rather than kung-fu-kickin\u2019 his ass, Clint Eastwood style, I was down on my knees, like Mr Magoo, scrabbling on the floor amongst the forest of legs to retrieve my specs, before someone stepped on them. Hey ho!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wEizK9nS-08?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, Miranda makes such things the meat and potatoes of her comedy. That\u2019s not massively unusual in itself. From Woody Allen to <em>Some Mothers Do \u2018Ave \u2018Em<\/em>, klutzy dorks have been standard fare in male comedy forever. But there\u2019s something refreshingly guileless in how Miranda serves up her female version of this timeworn comedy trope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, one can pontificate all one likes. At the end of the day pratfalls are extremely funny, as is farting. And Miranda serves up plenty of both, bless \u2018er!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We didn\u2019t watch Miranda at the time it came out. I did occasionally see bits of it. And I loved it. So, she\u2019s been around ages, and I\u2019ve been ignoring her. Actually, she\u2019s been around as long as I have, more or less, born in \u201872, as she and I are. Anyway, a few weeks &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=4022\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MEDiA: Miranda&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[74],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-12S","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4022"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4022"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7618,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4022\/revisions\/7618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}