I T V Misundeerstood Diversity Issues......?

[mushroom25]

.....or an honest mistake by the production team?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35009530

[Mamyalynne]

Mistake by the looks of it.

[Sqad]

They all look the same to me................an honest mistake.

[jomifl]

Which is which? not having seen either knowingly for some years.

[jomifl]

snap

[TheChair]

Probably they were told to find something funny featuring Lenny Henry, and that was too difficult.

[jomifl]

That would be a problem, still at least one person laughs at his 'jokes'

[jno]

it doesn't matter if Sq

[jno]

... if Sqad mixes them up, unless he's about to operate on one of them. It does matter if a production team have to find footage of one named person and get the wrong one, the more so if the "mistake" is because they're so thick they can't tell one black person from another.

Just as well the footage wasn't of Dianne Abbot (or Obama).

[hc4361]

I thought Lenny's sketch show was very funny.

[hc4361]

He co-founded Comic Relief

[mikey4444]

Amazingly ignorant comment from divebuddy !

[hc4361]

And of course he's only been black for 57 years, divebuddy

[THECORBYLOON]

It's not as if the £1,000,000,000 raised by Comic Relief is anything major, eh?

[Mamyalynne]

I think he is as deserving as many who have been awarded similar honours.

I have never seen his Shakespearean stage performances but I believe they were well received, he was great in TV's 'The Syndicate' proving he's more than a stand up comic.

[mikey4444]

Keep digging divebuddy !

[Mamyalynne]

I rather doubt Lenny wrote begging letters, am sure he'd have been happy with what he had.