[Nicky91]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

It's a bit like Karen-like to want everything banned that makes one choose to feel "offended"

don't get me wrong, when i say this

fiction and reality are 2 different things so yes i can understand the PC world is bothering some people


so yeah reality shows like Cops ok fair to ban that


but yeah i guess it's more the ''based upon real life'' term


overall i find this a very difficult, complicated matter

[Strictly Jake]

White chicks is hilarious

[Oliver_W]

Originally Posted by Kazanne

People are now saying the movie 'White Chicks' should be pulled,have you seen it ? I haven't ,but apparently there are two black guys whited up as white women also people saying the Pyramids need to come down now as they were built by slaves, what are your thoughts on that ? are we going too far /

Originally Posted by Strictly Jake

White chicks is hilarious

White Chicks is great. I'm not gonna play the "whatabout" game, if people find White Chicks offensive they're free to petition whatever platforms it's on, and ask them to remove it.

The answer they should get is the same answer the places hosting the other comedies in question should have given - get a grip and watch something else.

[Livia]

Let's start a list of things we can't laugh about. We can have people with no sense of humour police it, and tell us what we should and shouldn't find insulting.

[Nicky91]

Originally Posted by Livia

Let's start a list of things we can't laugh about. We can have people with no sense of humour police it, and tell us what we should and shouldn't find insulting.

i get it, sarcasm from you

but anyway it goes a bit too far now, comedies for example are meant for light entertainment purposes, not to be taken serious

the only ones going too far for me personally are some stand up comedians but then again i never have been a huge fan of stand up comedy with all honesty

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Livia

Let's start a list of things we can't laugh about. We can have people with no sense of humour police it, and tell us what we should and shouldn't find insulting.

Hmm. There's a difference between what you should and shouldn't find funny or insulting, and the ability to appreciate that what other people find insulting, and where the line is, in different social situations.

I think there's stuff in Little Britain that can pass in a stand-up comedy but not in a mainstream TV show. And lots of things in stand-up that just can't and shouldn't be in mainstream (essentially) "family telly".

Me and my wife say and laugh about things at home that we would not in public. Me and my friends say things in WhatsApp groups that we would never say on a public forum or open social media.

No one is telling you what you're privately allowed to find funny or what you "should" find insulting. You can disagree with someone and still have consideration for them.

[Livia]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Hmm. There's a difference between what you should and shouldn't find funny or insulting, and the ability to appreciate that what other people find insulting, and where the line is, in different social situations.

I think there's stuff in Little Britain that can pass in a stand-up comedy but not in a mainstream TV show. And lots of things in stand-up that just can't and shouldn't be in mainstream (essentially) "family telly".

Me and my wife say and laugh about things at home that we would not in public. Me and my friends say things in WhatsApp groups that we would never say on a public forum or open social media.

No one is telling you what you're privately allowed to find funny or what you "should" find insulting. You can disagree with someone and still have consideration for them.

Henning Wehn the German comedian made a couple of Holocaust jokes on Live at the Apollo. I didn't see anyone demand he is taken off TV. I didn't see the usual long line of white Anglo Saxons making threads and saying how disgusting it was.

If we tell people what they can laugh at, what's next? Telling people what they can read?

[Nicky91]

Originally Posted by Livia

Henning Wehn the German comedian made a couple of Holocaust jokes on Live at the Apollo. I didn't see anyone demand he is taken off TV. I didn't see the usual long line of white Anglo Saxons making threads and saying how disgusting it was.

If we tell people what they can laugh at, what's next? Telling people what they can read?

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comm...holocaust_the/

you mean this, Liv

[Livia]

Originally Posted by Nicky91

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comm...holocaust_the/

you mean this, Liv

That's not the one I saw. But I do think he's hilarious. Imagine, a German comedian! (stereotyping the Germans now).

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Livia

Henning Wehn the German comedian made a couple of Holocaust jokes on Live at the Apollo. I didn't see anyone demand he is taken off TV. I didn't see the usual long line of white Anglo Saxons making threads and saying how disgusting it was.

If we tell people what they can laugh at, what's next? Telling people what they can read?

But I specifically pointed out that stand-up comedy is distinctly different to prime time family television? Whether or not Little Britain was ever intended to be that isn't really relevant; it became that.

I also specifically said it's not about telling people what they can or can't find funny. You can find something funny and still have consideration for those who you know won't find it funny.

For what it's worth I'm not a huge fan of "erasing history" - I don't think there's much sense in pulling or censoring things that have already been made and aired, in time it'll only distort historical perspective. We can look back on old shows from the 60's and think "Ooooh, that wouldn't fly these days" and appreciate and understand why. I wonder how people will be able to do that in 40 years time if we pretend that shows from the 2000's never existed?

But I say that still fully recognising why it simply isn't funny for many people, and for many reasons.

[Nicky91]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

But I specifically pointed out that stand-up comedy is distinctly different to prime time family television? Whether or not Little Britain was ever intended to be that isn't really relevant; it became that.

I also specifically said it's not about telling people what they can or can't find funny. You can find something funny and still have consideration for those who you know won't find it funny.

For what it's worth I'm not a huge fan of "erasing history" - I don't think there's much sense in pulling or censoring things that have already been made and aired, in time it'll only distort historical perspective. We can look back on old shows from the 60's and think "Ooooh, that wouldn't fly these days" and appreciate and understand why. I wonder how people will be able to do that in 40 years time if we pretend that shows from the 2000's never existed?

But I say that still fully recognising why it simply isn't funny for many people, and for many reasons.

yes here in Netherlands, we got a Nostalgia TV channel, basically lots of old shows being re-aired there

we also have one comedian, one of our comedy icons you can easily call him, André van Duin, his shows from back then wouldn't be appropriate now, however he himself is still very popular also with younger people, having adapted to modern day TV industry as presenter for dutch bake off, as for his comedy he just makes random cheesy humour songs for carnaval here (where that is still allowed, since it is for light entertainment purpose)

[Livia]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

But I specifically pointed out that stand-up comedy is distinctly different to prime time family television? Whether or not Little Britain was ever intended to be that isn't really relevant; it became that.

I also specifically said it's not about telling people what they can or can't find funny. You can find something funny and still have consideration for those who you know won't find it funny.

For what it's worth I'm not a huge fan of "erasing history" - I don't think there's much sense in pulling or censoring things that have already been made and aired, in time it'll only distort historical perspective. We can look back on old shows from the 60's and think "Ooooh, that wouldn't fly these days" and appreciate and understand why. I wonder how people will be able to do that in 40 years time if we pretend that shows from the 2000's never existed?

But I say that still fully recognising why it simply isn't funny for many people, and for many reasons.

Where do we draw the line though? There's no one-size-fits-all legislation for this. Humour can be cruel. And people are teased for all sorts of reasons

It does make me smile that this current generation of young people doesn't understand that this feeling that you're going to be the generation that changes the world.... are at the end of a long line of generations that thought the same.

[Braden]

The League of Gentlemen and The Mighty Boosh have also been dropped from Netflix.

[The Slim Reaper]

I was talking to my dad the other day, and we were talking about the statues and TV programmes and he told me about a show in the 80's called mini-pops that was just basically tv for paedo's.

I watched a few clips on YT the other day as there's not much around anymore and it was completely shocking to watch through a 2020 lens.

Youtube video

Youtube video

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by The Slim Reaper

I was talking to my dad the other day, and we were talking about the statues and TV programmes and he told me about a show in the 80's called mini-pops that was just basically tv for paedo's.

I watched a few clips on YT the other day as there's not much around anymore and it was completely shocking to watch through a 2020 lens.

Youtube video

Youtube video

But your dad is obviously not a Paedo so why did he watch it?

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by The Slim Reaper

I was talking to my dad the other day, and we were talking about the statues and TV programmes and he told me about a show in the 80's called mini-pops that was just basically tv for paedo's.

I watched a few clips on YT the other day as there's not much around anymore and it was completely shocking to watch through a 2020 lens.

Youtube video

Youtube video

My daughter had a video very similar called pop skool, she loved it! :/

[arista]

Originally Posted by Braden

The League of Gentlemen and The Mighty Boosh have also been dropped from Netflix.

[Noel Fielding's The Mighty Boosh becomes latest show to be pulled from Netflix over scenes containing blackface.]



[In the bin: The Mighty Boosh
joins The League Of Gentlemen and Little Britain
in being pulled from Netflix over scenes
containing blackface. The BBC comedy show features
a character called The Spirit Of Jazz,
portrayed by Noel Fielding [pictured] ]


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbi...blackface.html

[Oliver_W]

Originally Posted by arista

[Noel Fielding's The Mighty Boosh becomes latest show to be pulled from Netflix over scenes containing blackface.]



[In the bin: The Mighty Boosh
joins The League Of Gentlemen and Little Britain
in being pulled from Netflix over scenes
containing blackface. The BBC comedy show features
a character called The Spirit Of Jazz,
portrayed by Noel Fielding [pictured] ]


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbi...blackface.html

That looks more like a sugar skull than blackface.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

That looks more like a sugar skull than blackface.

Netflix and BBC in a Rush panic.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Love the Mighty Boosh

It's being pulled for fear of blame not because anyone thinks or cares anyone is offended

[arista]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Love the Mighty Boosh

It's being pulled for fear of blame not because anyone thinks or cares anyone is offended

Love your Avatar LT
the Man that saved us from Nazi Germany

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by arista

Love your Avatar LT
the Man that saved us from Nazi Germany

Yes a hero to all the great British public

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Yes a hero to all the great British public

As Basil once said 'nobody mention India'!!!... What do you mean he never said that? :/

[arista]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

As Basil once said 'nobody mention India'!!!... What do you mean he never said that? :/

Yes Fair Criticism Kizzy.

But as he saved GB from the Nazi take over
he is our Hero.
Or we would all be speaking German , now

[Tom4784]

Streaming services choosing not to air a comedy series on their platform is not the end of free speech.