This was acceptable on tv !

[broughtonblue]

Just heard about this tv series from the late 60's  as a child at the time we were bought up with programmes like 'Love thy neighbour '  and Alf Garnett.  But never saw this,  at the time this must have been acceptable but definitely not today 

 

 

 

 

[Nalis]

Anytime something similar to this comes up, it always reminds me of this:

 

 

[urban.spaceman]

Spike Milliagan was one of Britain’s greatest ever comedians - the best of his generation, and one who inspired so many comedians who came after him. He grew up in India so of the comedians from that era he was perhaps better placed than any to make this sitcom. As the blurb says, it was intended to highlight discrimination; obviously he failed to get that across. 

 

I don’t understand why people get offended by things in the past. 

 

You can’t change it, it was controversial enough 50 years ago that there were complaints and ITV canned it. Case closed. 

 

I’d much rather live in a world where comedians can express themselves freely than one where the morality police decide what I can and can’t watch. 

[urban.spaceman]

 

[RoboFox]

There was this bizarre entry into the UK's sitcom legacy. And it was from 1990.

Hitler and Eva Braun move into a house in suburbia next to a Jewish couple, the Goldsteins. Hilarity ensues.

 

Seems like they were going for either full satire or trying to pull off the same kind of creative accounting seen in "The Producers," in going with the single most tasteless concept they can find.

 

It failed on both accounts and was canned after one episode. 

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[The Syrup]

Spike Milligan played a Pakistani guy in a couple of episodes of 'Til Death Do Us Part', would never get a title of an episode like the one below. Way 70s sitcoms were I guess. Alf Garnett insulted everyone in that show though tbf... Spike Milligan appears from 20:58 below

 

[Trav Le Bleu]

 

Don't consider myself the slightest bit racist, but I think this is hilarious. Really the only thing racist is the title, as the Dalek could really be any race.

[bovril]

16 minutes ago, The Syrup said:

Spike Milligan played a Pakistani guy in a couple of episodes of 'Til Death Do Us Part', would never get a title of an episode like the one below. Way 70s sitcoms were I guess. Alf Garnett insulted everyone in that show though tbf... Spike Milligan appears from 20:58 below

 

Alf Garnett was racist, but he was a character and the joke was on him. Some people may have been laughing with him, but I think they were missing the point. 

[Parafox]

A lot of humour comes from the opposed issues of culture and belief, including race, religion, ethnicity, sexuality, gender. These in themselves generate differentials in how society deals with the conflict  and that often is how ethnic, religious, class structure, comedy comes about. 

Nobody has complained about the John Cleese/Ronnie Barker sketch about class from many years ago. No one has complained that The Two Ronnie's Four Candle's sketch made a fool of a simple shopkeeper and an imbecile customer. Why would they? It's humour generated by all that is different and that is funny because they expose the differences between all of human beliefs, experience, lifestyles, culture, class, religion etc. And that juxtaposition in all of our lives make us at laugh at things we as individuals, not others, find funny. 

Comedians exploit this and the good ones are very good. Peter Kay took all the miniscule day to day things that have happened to us all and made it a reflection of how comedic everyday life can be. And we laughed at ourselves. 

[fuchsntf]

6 hours ago, bovril said:

Alf Garnett was racist, but he was a character and the joke was on him. Some people may have been laughing with him, but I think they were missing the point. 

Brilliant!!! I laughed then,and I laughed now...parody on parody...