[arista]

[Controversial Little Britain sketch where
David Walliams
says Asian character 'smells of soy sauce'
is 'racist and outdated' - and it is surprising the
sketch is still available on iPlayer,
according to Ofcom research

David Walliams played a university employee
and described an Asian student
A respondent - who is a father - said he'd be
'horrified' if his daughter mimicked it]

Yes a Out of date Comedy that
BBC need to remove from iPlayer


[Walliams's character,
university employee Linda Flint,
described the Asian student as
having 'yellowish skin, slight smell
of soy sauce ... the ching-chong China man']

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-research.html


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I do not think Yinrun
over in Wembley Live
would laugh at this...............

[Oliver_W]

The whole POINT of that sketch was that the old woman was a bigot and saying unacceptable things about students right to their faces.

Are people so stupid that they can't understand we the audience weren't meant to be agreeing with the character’s comments?

[arista]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

The whole POINT of that sketch was that the old woman was a bigot and saying unacceptable things about students right to their faces.

Are people so stupid that they can't understand we the audience weren't meant to be agreeing with the character’s comments?

Of course


But These below
are the Problem
for 2023:


[yellowish skin, slight smell
of soy sauce ... the ching-chong China man']

[Soldier Boy]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

Are people so stupid that they can't understand we the audience weren't meant to be agreeing with the character’s comments?

The issue is that a big chunk of the audience is as well. You have people laughing because they get it... and then you have people laughing because they just agree with it.

The character "Homelander" in The Boys is a similar example: if you've not seen it, he's (to sum it up) "What If Superman was an Incel". He's meant to be sad, pathetic, almost a parody of the "frustrated angry bloke with mummy issues", but with the twist of being terrifying because he's so powerful.

Problem is that the incels ****ing idolise him, unironically.

Same thing here really. Yes some people are laughing at the parody of the racist gammon-lady ... but others are just laughing at the things she's saying.

That said I'm not one for censoring historical telly. This whole trend of trying to rewrite history by pretending it never happened is very odd.

[Ninastar]

Just wait til they see the blackface

[arista]

Originally Posted by Ninastar

Just wait til they see the blackface

Yes,
the whole body
they worked hard on those comedy sketches

[bitontheslide]

The problem is that in the good old days, tv shows were recorded to tape, they basically lived on as memories because the tapes were destroyed, broken or over written. There wasn't the opportunity to judge the output from an historical perspective.

Now, relatively modern content is avalable forever and free to view from a host of sources, so it always remains somewhat current. It creates a problem that we really never had to deal with in the past

[Soldier Boy]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

The problem is that in the good old days, tv shows were recorded to tape, they basically lived on as memories because the tapes were destroyed, broken or over written. There wasn't the opportunity to judge the output from an historical perspective.

Now, relatively modern content is avalable forever and free to view from a host of sources, so it always remains somewhat current. It creates a problem that we really never had to deal with in the past

I don't think that's necessarily true, things like Fawlty Towers and Blackadder were definitely being shown in syndication on BBC2 when I was a teenager (early 2000's) at the very least... and obviously stuff like Star Trek, Knight Rider, Magnum PI etc. were constantly shown at least a decade after they stopped airing.

I guess the main difference is that if a decision is made with aired telly that something is no longer appropriate, they can just quietly not air it again and no one will really notice. But with streaming once it's there, to get rid of it you have to actively remove it, and people will notice.

[arista]

It is not hard to remove it from
iPlayer.

[bitontheslide]

the reality is that you cant remove any tv program these days, it will always be available somewhere

[arista]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

the reality is that you cant remove any tv program these days, it will always be available somewhere

Sure
but that's all Ofcom needs.


As BBC iPlayer
is a big part of the BBC.

[LeatherTrumpet]

As if anyone cares what off com think

[arista]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

As if anyone cares what off com think

Sure LT.


But the BBC does not needs fine
No station needs that..............