- Sat Nov 08, 2014 8:37 am
#392030
From my eighties youth, only a handful of sitcoms or sketch shows get repeated. The Young Ones, Blackadder, Not the Nine O'Clock News (highlights thereof), Allo Allo, not much else. Same as for the nineties. Is there a sinister reason why Alexei Sayle's 'Paris' is never repeated but every Christmas we get subjected to the Father Ted special? I THINK WE SHOULD BE TOLD BUT WE ALL KNOW WHY, DON'T WE, EH?
It's all back to whoever said on here recently that 'being PC' was, more often than not, about asking people not to be pricks. If you're finding loud, crass bullying and belittling funny, and you're being asked to identify with the bully, you've got problems. Likewise, there's a difference between two black people in a film calling eachother n****r but with mutual respect, and someone using it clearly as a belittling insult and once again us being asked to sympathise with the abuser and find it funny. Which is, you know, what the cranked laugh track is there for.
"There ain't nothing you fear more than a bad headline, is there? You'd rather live in shit than let the world see you work a shovel."