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just watch the OFAH episode..."Who's a pretty Boy" can someone tell me why this was cut out? Right at the start Del walks into the Nags head and sees Ranjet, an indian, he says: " Saw your Mrs in the market, she's got a nasty spot on her forehead!" - they both burst into laughter. Whole line cut, why? This madness is destroying the classics.
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TTT @18:57 \\webbo: "Todays young audience find everything offensive." - no, anal sex, blokes snogging, TG bowlockes, same sex couple that's all fine. One bit of carry on innuendo and they wet their non gender specific pants.// Exactly.
19:02 Wed 23rd Aug 2023
TTT
"well there is very little "amazing new music"
"¯\_(ツ)_/¯"
Regarding Ron Atkinson - a very large number of black people I know found that language offensive. Same way that if he were the manager of a woman's team and called a defender a "stupid menstruating c-word".
Even if the person he was talking to said she felt sorry for the hear he was getting, women who have had work with sexist mysoginists would feel fury if the FA appeared to shrug it off.
It absolutely isn't only the made-up word you used.
"well there is very little "amazing new music"
"¯\_(ツ)_/¯"
Regarding Ron Atkinson - a very large number of black people I know found that language offensive. Same way that if he were the manager of a woman's team and called a defender a "stupid menstruating c-word".
Even if the person he was talking to said she felt sorry for the hear he was getting, women who have had work with sexist mysoginists would feel fury if the FA appeared to shrug it off.
It absolutely isn't only the made-up word you used.
naomi24
Are you really judging comedy by a single joke at the Edinburgh Fringe?
I think it's better to judge it by a range of comedians - stand ups as diverse (and brilliant) as Wanda Sykes, Anthony Jeselnik (Jimmy Carr but talented), Rhys Davidson, Sarah Millican (goddess), Dean Cole, Reginald D. Hunter, Nimbuses Gaffigan
Just looking at the names above - my personal favourites...most of them could never have worked in the 80s. Audiences would've had a fit (apart from Jim Gaffigan who doesn't swear or do 'blue' material).
I've always liked stand-up and since I was young it's gone from strength to strength...
Are you really judging comedy by a single joke at the Edinburgh Fringe?
I think it's better to judge it by a range of comedians - stand ups as diverse (and brilliant) as Wanda Sykes, Anthony Jeselnik (Jimmy Carr but talented), Rhys Davidson, Sarah Millican (goddess), Dean Cole, Reginald D. Hunter, Nimbuses Gaffigan
Just looking at the names above - my personal favourites...most of them could never have worked in the 80s. Audiences would've had a fit (apart from Jim Gaffigan who doesn't swear or do 'blue' material).
I've always liked stand-up and since I was young it's gone from strength to strength...
SP, did you read this article from Naomi earlier?
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I think that sums it up pretty well.
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I think that sums it up pretty well.
sp: "Just looking at the names above - my personal favourites...most of them could never have worked in the 80s. Audiences would've had a fit (apart from Jim Gaffigan who doesn't swear or do 'blue' material)." - you have a strange recollection of the 80s, they'd have been fine. Probably not in the 70s where they actually told jokes rather than relate everyday life.
TTT
Have you heard Anthony Jeselnik's bit about his dead niece or...actually the filter on this site won't allow me to write it. Just watch Fire in the Maternity Hospital on Netflix. You'll understand.
Also - and this is key...this has ALWAYS gone on.
Remember the furore surrounding the release of Life of Brian? Church leaders (and christians) up and down the country clamoured for it to be banned - even picketing cinemas showing it.
Remember the episode of Star Trek when Kirk kissed Uhuru? Still hasn't been shown in parts of the US.
I think we're misremembering the past - there were plenty of shows that caused public outcry...Mary Whitehouse had plenty of followers in the 70s.
Have you heard Anthony Jeselnik's bit about his dead niece or...actually the filter on this site won't allow me to write it. Just watch Fire in the Maternity Hospital on Netflix. You'll understand.
Also - and this is key...this has ALWAYS gone on.
Remember the furore surrounding the release of Life of Brian? Church leaders (and christians) up and down the country clamoured for it to be banned - even picketing cinemas showing it.
Remember the episode of Star Trek when Kirk kissed Uhuru? Still hasn't been shown in parts of the US.
I think we're misremembering the past - there were plenty of shows that caused public outcry...Mary Whitehouse had plenty of followers in the 70s.
You've complained here several times about the cuts made to OFAH, yet you still insist on watching it on TV when you have every episode on tape or DVD to watch at home. Why do you keep subjecting yourself to the torment?
Or do you just enjoy finding yet another thing to complain about?
Have you tried watching some up to date sitcoms?
Or do you just enjoy finding yet another thing to complain about?
Have you tried watching some up to date sitcoms?
sp: "Remember the episode of Star Trek when Kirk kissed Uhuru? Still hasn't been shown in parts of the US. " - remember the episode when he kissed Uhura! That was one of a couple of episodes that were originally not shown in UK. Anyway you are correct there has always been protests etc about certain things but not to the extent it is today. All this cancel culture it's getting like the z-eye's in white christmas (black mirror)
vulcan42
"I think a lot of modern humour wouldn't have worked in the eighties because they wouldn't have been considered funny."
I agree but that's because humour has developed.
Compare The Thick of It to Yes Minister, or (non-comedy but relevant) Tales of the Unexpected to Black Mirror.
What we have now, and not to be insulting to older audiences - is television that's a lot less 'broad'.
Take for instance Are You Being Served. Hilarious - but effectively a pantomime with copious amounts of mugging.
The only thing we have now that's anything like that is Mrs Brown's Boys or perhaps Citizen Khan. That kind of broad comedy has pretty much had its day.
Also - just about every British situation comedy on telly nowadays doesn't have a laughter track. That's something else that viewer back in the 80s would find bizarre.
"I think a lot of modern humour wouldn't have worked in the eighties because they wouldn't have been considered funny."
I agree but that's because humour has developed.
Compare The Thick of It to Yes Minister, or (non-comedy but relevant) Tales of the Unexpected to Black Mirror.
What we have now, and not to be insulting to older audiences - is television that's a lot less 'broad'.
Take for instance Are You Being Served. Hilarious - but effectively a pantomime with copious amounts of mugging.
The only thing we have now that's anything like that is Mrs Brown's Boys or perhaps Citizen Khan. That kind of broad comedy has pretty much had its day.
Also - just about every British situation comedy on telly nowadays doesn't have a laughter track. That's something else that viewer back in the 80s would find bizarre.
"there has always been protests etc about certain things but not to the extent it is today".
Are you talking about television or broadening the scope to encompass attitudes in general.
Probably right...people in the past were much less likely to stand up and say they don't find something acceptable.
I think with television comedies we need to remember the past is anther country - they do things differently there. The issue is when the past crops up in the present.
Are you talking about television or broadening the scope to encompass attitudes in general.
Probably right...people in the past were much less likely to stand up and say they don't find something acceptable.
I think with television comedies we need to remember the past is anther country - they do things differently there. The issue is when the past crops up in the present.
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