Quote: Marc P @ April 28 2013, 9:07 AM BSTSecond in command an asian woman.
Indeed. Your Asian, the racist from the saloon bar will tell you (or, indeed, your racist Tory councillor inveighing against a boarding school for inner-city children will tell you) is so much harder working than your black. White man in charge, subcontinent assistant, black still cleaning the lavatory. Exactly the power gradient of the empire.
As it was a vehicle for David Haig in the main, would it be better if he 'blacked' up for the part.
And yet a role for a black woman could be found. Had he not been so busy casting his mates' daughter, he would have had other roles open for a bit of diversity.
Shame he knocked other comics but he did apologise in some ways when he grew up a bit.
He accused Benny Hill, if memory serves, of being responsible for rape. In that context, any fit of the vapours he has over a crappy sitcom being called crappy is entirely his problem. He didn't apologise, anyway: he used the politicians "out of context, I never intended, if I caused offence" formulation.
