Some Comedies That Were Around Years Ago Seem So Unfunny Now. I Think This Is Still Very Funny And Stood The Test Of Time.

[RATTER15]

Im not sure it would be appreciated in some quarters as being very "non PC."

And see the basis of some of Les Dawsons sketches.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne2aDX4oO04&list=RDNe2aDX4oO04

[hc4361]

I love Hilda Baker and I'm a great fan of British sitcoms generally. Nothing for the PC brigade to get upset about here - compare with Benidorm, Mrs Brown's Boys, Father Ted

[sandyRoe]

Nothing to get upset about here? There's a chap there smoking a cigarette. Wouldn't be allowed now.

[RATTER15]

Actually hc4361, you are right, they are worse!

[ummmm]

Why wouldn't it be allowed?

[sandyRoe]

Sends out the wrong message to young viewers. It wouldn't do to have them thinking it's OK to smoke.
When did you last see a character in a TV programme smoking, Ummm?

[hc4361]

Lots of characters in Coronation Street smoke and most of the main characters in George Gently smoke.

[ummmm]

Lots on EE smoke and Casualty.

[hc4361]

Thinking about it the vicar in the recent sitcom Rev smokes.

[RandyMarsh]

Sends out the wrong message to young viewers. It wouldn't do to have them thinking it's OK to smoke.
When did you last see a character in a TV programme smoking, Ummm?

omg, Watch mad men

[aelmpvw]

nearly everyone in retro dramas about the 40s-50s smoke but that's because they did isn't it?

[sandyRoe]

George Gently was set in a time when most people did smoke. I though the other programmes would have reduced the number of characters who smoker. I'm not watching enough TV as I've missed a lot of the smoking scenes.

[mikey4444]

Thanks ratter for cheering me up with this....after all this business with Rolf Harris, Cyril Smith and others, i needed something to make me laugh. There was really nobody like Hilda Baker...she was the best. Look at her face, even if she hasn't any lines to say...priceless !

[jeffa]

I happened to catch an early episode of The Liver Birds recently, Polly James rather than Elizabeth Estensen, and it was absolutely unwatchable. I can't believe I used to laugh out loud when it was first broadcast.

[hc4361]

I very recently watched all of Brush Strokes, still find it enjoyable.

[mikey4444]

You want to have a walk around my housing estate...nearly everybody smokes ! Its like going back 30 years !

[royfromaus]

RATTER15
Some Comedies That Were Around Years Ago Seem So Unfunny Now


I agreed with that bit, but not with what followed.

[jeffa]

Jim Royle the character smokes according to plot but you never see him doing so on screen, unlike his wife and daughter, because Ricky Tomlinson the actor is strongly anti-smoking.

[askyourgran]

Can you imagine what they would do to Benny Hill nowadays, the way he used to chase the young blondes around. That was acceptable comedy in those days. No four letter words, just innuendo and smut (think Carry on films).

[hc4361]

Call me a prude but I also thought Benny Hill, St Trinians and The Fenn Street Gang was unsavoury.

[hc4361]

I meant Please, Sir! which was the precursor to Fenn St Gang.