I just heard this for the first time today on Radio 4 Extra. It's from 2005 and stars Alexander Armstrong as an extremely un-PC advertising executive.
So funny and cringe-worthy. His opinions today would really cause such an outcry.
Weak At The Top
Yes, I remember that. It is very amusing. Geoffrey Whitehead is in it too, he's always good.
Quote: Chappers @ 11th June 2022, 3:33 PMI just heard this for the first time today on Radio 4 Extra. It's from 2005 and stars Alexander Armstrong as an extremely un-PC advertising executive.
So funny and cringe-worthy. His opinions today would really cause such an outcry.
With a vocal minority, but why on earth should that stop such a piece being commissioned today? (As it seems such opinions and characters are being blocked) The fear of being cancelled by the (small) mob is making sitcomedy an unfunny grey, homogenous gloop with no sharp edges. Loonacy. ?
Because times and society change, Alfred.
Quote: beaky @ 13th June 2022, 12:32 PMBecause times and society change, Alfred.
Unfortunately.
Quote: Chappers @ 13th June 2022, 1:28 PMUnfortunately.
Still, abject poverty and starving children are on the way back - so, look on the bright side!
What, to the point of outlawing practically all humour? Then it's not a change for the good, is it. I don't even believe half the fuss made is genuine, it's mostly caused by bandwagon jumpers who seek to be outraged all the time. If you don't like a show's sense of humour, then don't watch it, but don't force the many who do like it to feel guilty and definitely don't force the broadcasters to stop making it or force the creators of it out of work. This is a nasty puritanical trend redolent of the Taliban or Cromwell's black hats or the Spanish Inquisition. (I'm not suggesting you're personally a member of any of these Beaky.)
Quote: beaky @ 13th June 2022, 12:32 PMBecause times and society change, Alfred.
Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ 13th June 2022, 1:42 PMWhat, to the point of outlawing practically all humour? )
Silly.
Why is it? That's its ultimate fate if the current purge carries on unchecked. People are taking offence for making fun of regional accents now, a basic staple of everyday humour, ffs. The BBC and others are cowardly fools for caving in and effectively narrowing the field of acceptable or broadcastable comedy.
Victims of the 'purge' are who, exactly?
Caving in? Did it never cross your mind that people might be writing, making and producing the stuff they actually want to make?
You must have a very high opinion of yourself if you think they're doing it all to annoy you.
And I would say they're widening the field, if anything.
Lesbians? Mixed race couples? Black men? Women with jobs? Children born out of wedlock?
Wouldn't have had the back in the good old days.
Unless they were there to be mocked, of course.
No not just me. There've been several high profile comedians who've recently spoken out against cancel culture in comedy, you must have read of. Possibly putting their own careers on the line, so rabidly vindictive this mob is.
Quote: Lazzard @ 13th June 2022, 4:19 PMAnd I would say they're widening the field, if anything.
Lesbians? Mixed race couples? Black men? Women with jobs? Children born out of wedlock?
You're on a completely different track to me. I was commenting on the exclusion of non politically correct characters and their attitudes and opinions, not the inclusivity of modern socially diverse characters. Please read the post before assuming your general stock defensive stance. Thank you.
So what characters would you like to see?
The Alan Partridge character seems to do OK - he's fairly non-PC.
Quote: Lazzard @ 13th June 2022, 5:21 PMSo what characters would you like to see?
Quote: Chappers @ 11th June 2022, 3:33 PMIt's from 2005 and stars Alexander Armstrong as an extremely un-PC advertising executive.
So funny and cringe-worthy.
This sort. The classic sitcom monster who upsets everyone around him and almost always gets put in his place. So I'd like to be free to watch old shows on TV which haven't been shown for decades, for a start. Then I'd like to see a resurgence of this character and sitcom model so I can laugh again at sitcoms instead of wanting to smash my telly in with a hickory shaft club hammer.
But that's not because of any 'purge'.
They're just out of fashion.
And they old stuff gets re-shown - there's so many channels now, plus DVD releases - you were only talking about Ever Decreasing Circles the other day.
I know a lot of this cross-ness is for comic effect, but I can't help thinking you're making a mountain out of a molehill.
Exactly Alfred! (I think)