This is obviously corporations terrified of drawing any attention from the Black Lives Matters protests, rather than because they are acting out of any moral duty. The joke with the transsexual cab driver is less a joke at the expense of 'Barbara' but at the passenger who feels awkward.Little Britain even at the time it came out felt dated in all the worst ways. It's about an asian boy who would dread the night of the week when The Simpsons came on because he knew the next day at school people would repeat whatever Apu said in order to racially bully him. It wasn't funny or clever. )I think you have to judge the past in its context. I pay Netflix every month, and I believe Little Britain punches down at minorities, makes horrible jokes based on stereotypes of working class people, black people and especially trans people. NOW TV said The Mighty Boosh had not been available on Help keep Chortle viable. Look, we let a BAME person in to our BAME hating club!" I've known for a long time that Little Britain in particular is not okay, but I can't pretend that I don't find it funny. It's nuanced answers and grey areas, it is debate and conflict. And the context of living in 2020 during a period of social upheaval is that Julian Barratt wearing fake buck teeth, afro and brown face paint to imitate a Jimmy Hendrix like character is not okay anymore. What is now deemed racist was actually progressivein its day. 81.9% of Britain is White British people, there are not white people who are sensitive about being white. The Mighty Boosh and The League Of Gentlemen have become the latest shows to be dropped by streaming platforms following criticism over the use of blackface.
Am I trying to "white knight" and "virtue signal" (to use the language of the terminally thick) about race, when in fact the people whose race is being mocked are fine with the joke? Find out when The League of Gentlemen is on TV, including Series 4-Episode 1: Return to Royston Vasey. In fact nobody in the 60s was campaigning for gay adoption/marriage and gay rights advocates would accuse those of saying it might happen as scaremongering. Just thought I'd kick off a conversation to see how other British leftists feel about this. The ironic "look at us being racist to show that racists are silly" comedy movement (looking at you Gervais) probably seemed very woke in the late 90s/early 2000s but now looks pretty crass. How do my fellow ("The Problem of Apu" is relevant here if anyone hasn't read it. This is not uniquely my view, Matt Lucas himself referred to it as "cruel" upon reflection in comments picked up by The Mirror (It's not too much of a leap for me to say I don't want to give someone money for them to use it to distribute content that I find utterly offensive and damaging to societal perceptions of minority groups. You have to allow for a slope of progression in which something negative will be said.Tbh I never liked Little Britain too much, but Come Fly With Me is a an all time favourite show of mine.There were a couple of perhaps tasteless jokes, but I always saw it as a way of mocking racists and people who took things too seriously.That raises a whole other issue doesn't it: Does my taking offense to Little Britain count for less than yours because I'm white and you're not? We are not going to hurt the feelings of white people this way..Have you ever read "The Problem of Apu"?
So I would argue those were never their funniest material to begin with.Welcome to Green and Pleasant, a place for UK related news, politics and memes. Primary school teachers are 'censored' from calling their year 1 class cunts. You can laugh at an offensive depiction of a trans person and think it's a funny joke, but a lot of people do internalise these stereotypes and carry the view that trans people are just men in dresses shouting about how they're a lady.That being said, I've not actually watched Come Fly With Me, so won't comment on that, and in my opinion, The Mighty Boosh is not really offensive, but if Netflix and the BBC say they don't meet their standards, I'm not going to argue with it and cry censorship, they decide what to do with their resources.Also on the point of black people wearing whiteface, I think poking fun at an oppressed class, making fun of what makes them different from white people is a bit different from poking fun at white people for being white.
For anyone who didn't know: popular comedy shows featuring blackface are being removed from streaming services like Netflix. That feels far more like censorship to me. As BBC faces questions over Chris Lilley clips still onlineThe League Of Gentlemen has been pulled from Netflix in the continuing row over blackface in comedy.All episodes were dropped by the streaming giant as it also took Little Britain and its follow-up Come Fly With Me From its library because of concerns about the way Netflix has also pulled four shows from controversial Australian comic Chris Lilley over similar fears: Angry Boys, Summer Heights High, We Can Be Heroes and Jonah From Tonga.The move has put pressure on the BBC to follow suit.We Can Be Heroes, in which Lilley plays Chinese physics student Ricky Wong, and Summer Heights High, in which he wore brown make-up to play Jonah, remain on iPlayer.And the BBC Three website includes several clips from Angry Boys of the comic in blackface as rapper S.mouse, above , including one which he sings about having ‘big black balls’ and others in which he uses the n-word.The League Of Gentlemen has fallen foul of the same drive to purge blackface from Netflix because of the character of Papa Lazarou.However, the series has largely avoided a major backlash over the grotesque creation, with viewers trusting the instincts of the creators.This morning, Chortle also revealed that Bo’Selecta!
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