Quote: Bomsh @ January 26 2011, 3:26 PM GMTI've got an idea! Why not just make someone from what used to be called the working class the new head of BBC 1? Or Comedy Commissioner?
I've even heard they used to pay for some of them to go to University.
I'm joking, of course.
Churchill wasn't when he said....''Keep them in the pubs and out of the universities''
Quote: sootyj @ January 26 2011, 12:58 PM GMTWhat about Bravo? (though it no longer broadcasts)
Food channel=self harming anorexics
Military channel=people who shouldn't be allowed anything sharp
God channel=loonies in nice suits
Scifi=sofa masturbators
TCM=some one who probably shat themselves
Oxygen=women with more than one cat
CBBC=paedophiles
CBBies=more worrying paedophiles
Cartoon network=people who think they're ironic but are just immature
Skyarts=intellectuals with Sky subscriptions (who?!)
Dave=Blokes who cry during Top Gear
Gold=Aaron
E4=People who think they're better than Channel 5 but they're not
Quote: bushbaby @ January 26 2011, 1:59 PM GMTAt least you won't continually contract wine flu like moi
I'm using that 
I think I am now probably disqualified from being able to write a working class sitcom. I realised I'm now middle class last week as our toddler complained that we wouldn't go into Waitrose to buy her a pain au chocolat on the way to church.
Quote: Gerry McDonnell @ January 26 2011, 3:42 PM GMTI'm using that
My husband suffers from the finest Grouse flu [whiskey]
The writers of Steptoe & Son do a good article on why they think Mr Cohen is missguided in todays Mail
Galton & Simpson didn't write working-class sitcom, they wrote about the human condition - in particular, about crushed dreams and the grim meat-hook realities of everyday life.
Quote: Bomsh @ January 26 2011, 3:26 PM GMTI've got an idea! Why not just make someone from what used to be called the working class the new head of BBC 1? Or Comedy Commissioner?
I've even heard they used to pay for some of them to go to University.
I'm joking, of course.
What this guy says, never mind the 'class' of sitcom, let's just actually have more sitcoms!
http://sitcomgeek.blogspot.com/2011/01/give-em-what-they-want-sitcom.html
Good article.
Quote: Tim Walker @ January 26 2011, 10:43 PM GMTGalton & Simpson didn't write working-class sitcom, they wrote about the human condition - in particular, about crushed dreams and the grim meat-hook realities of everyday life.
Thats what they seemed to be saying, they never set out to make it 'working class' but wanted to show the frustrations of life when it doesn't live up to our expectations, and the setting in the rag and bone yard just a backdrop, not the focus really
Just catching up with the excellent "Gary Tank Commander" and thinking if Danny Cohen wants an off the shelf "working class" sitcom then why not just put this on BBC1 across the UK rather than limiting it to less than 10% of the population?
Quote: Griff @ January 26 2011, 4:00 PM GMT*makes butler phone Childline*
I hope you didn't speak to that dreadfully common Esther Rantzen.
'Blue Collar' comedy? Comedy writing is a craft that covers a broad spectrum and until the likes of Danny Cohen understands that simple premise then "We're all doomed!"
Apparently Danny Cohen was responsible for refusing "Gary Tank Commander" a slot on BBC3, so I guess there's not much hope for an excellent comedy to be seen by anyone outside of Scotland or the few people who seek it out on the iPlayer.
I wasn't blown away by Gary: Tank Commander. It was good but not "rush out and buy the box set" brilliant. But it is a perfect example of a working class sitcom. So if you're listening, Danny...
