Isn't he an Oxbridge educated Dickens expert?
Time to work on "Oliver twist, shake and vac"
A sitcom where he and Fagin set up a carpet cleaning company.
or
"The Mystery of Ediwn Dude!"
Danny Cohen wants working-class sitcoms for BBC1
He probably thinks 'My Family' is a working class sitcom....
I need to change my surname to Cohen. 
Never mind "working class" sitcoms, maybe they should first tackle the problem of "funny" sitcoms...?
So working class people are only able to relate to storylines that directly mirror their lives because they are ignorant scumbags?
While us middle-class types, of course, are infinitley smarter and are able to laugh at a far broader demographic.
Did he really think the main strength of 'Steptoe' was its innate appeal to the Rag & Bone community?
I used to work in advertising and this is the kind of ignorant twat-talk you'd expect from a junior product manager on some frozen dessert product.
Why can't they just shut their gobs and make the odd funny programme.
I watched that The Smoking Room and thought it was really good. But I've never smoked and generally get pissed off by those who do. Also, I like Red Dwarf a lot but have never been a spaceman nor have I been in the future.
What should I watch? If somebody could inform me, that would be very pleasant.
Dan
I don't see anything wrong his argument. If he had taken the opposite view he would of still been pillared in papers like the Mail ('BBC toff wants more middle class sit-coms').
However not sure if I buy the idea about shows like Outnumbered just appeals to posh types. All sorts of people who enjoy children's silliness like this show.
Besides a sit-com like that only works with a drippy urban middle class couple as anyone else would have told the little shits to shut up unless they wanted a clip around the ear.
So is he looking for, like, a period sitcom?
Quote: Bomsh @ January 24 2011, 4:03 PM GMTSo is he looking for, like, a period sitcom?
ENough about women comics and menstruation!
And another thing...
"People's Choice" - Miranda.
A comedy about a middle-class girl running a twee little shop with an even posher mum and lots of yuppy friends.
That Danny Cohen's got his finger on the pulse.
Quote: Lazzard @ January 24 2011, 4:45 PM GMT"People's Choice" - Miranda.
People who view Channel 4. Not exactly the home of working-class programming.
Quote: chipolata @ January 24 2011, 5:11 PM GMTPeople who view Channel 4. Not exactly the home of working-class programming.
Where is? ITV?
Quote: Matthew Stott @ January 24 2011, 5:13 PM GMTWhere is? ITV?
Pretty much. Comedy is the bastion of the middle-classes and quite right too. Working class people can't even be trusted to drink sensibly or bring up their children properly, so we certainly shouldn't be spending any money making programmes for them.
Quote: Griff @ January 24 2011, 5:26 PM GMTWhenever ITV do comedy nowadays it's always White Van Man stuff like Benidorm and The Pub Landlord. I still can't believe someone managed to sell them a postmodern meta-sitcom like Moving Wallpaper.
(By the way I like all three of these shows).
I suspect it was the spoof of a soap aspect of the first series of Moving Wallpaper that enabled them to slip it past the commissioners.
Quote: chipolata @ January 24 2011, 5:22 PM GMTPretty much. Comedy is the bastion of the middle-classes and quite right too. Working class people can't even be trusted to drink sensibly or bring up their children properly, so we certainly shouldn't be spending any money making programmes for them.
