Poll: What is your gender (serious answers only please)

Your earlier post said not a single trans rights group was allowed to make their case. That’s untrue. No group applied for permission.

 

Your earlier post said not a single trans rights group was allowed to make their case. That’s untrue. No group applied for permission.

 

No group did, because of previous harassment and other issues when doing so.

Some individuals did though and were denied.

 

Hahaha that's hilarious, hahahaha. Nothing wrong about that at all. Hahahahaha. Punching down is always hilarious, hahahahaha my sides.

 

Didn't little britain take the piss out of everything and everyone? I barely used to watch it. But isn't punching down when you only make comedy about one subset of people/things/stuff/places whatever?

 

Yeah, I loved the jokes they made about the ching chongs and the invalids.

 

Strange humour but fair enough.

 

Punching down is when you make fun of minorities and/or people with less privilege in society

 

Thankyou, I appreciate you answering without taking the piss. Genuinely thought it was just when you target a select group of people/country i.e muslim countries etc and joke at their expense without joking about anything else.

 

Ugh, thank you for reminding me about this absurd double-standard that still unaccountably exists in English law.

 

What double standard? It's a specific act. Men and women can sexually assault.

 

Yeah it was weird and I'm amazed the Beeb allowed it to carry on as long as it did.
I think Matt and David always said that people don't seem to understand, that we're actually having a go at the people with racist and bigoted thoughts.
Well to be honest, when I see odd bits of it now I really can't agree with them there.

 

Remember Bernard Manning, and some other comedians and attitudes from that era.
I think he also used to do what Little Britain did, he picked at just about every subject and every type of person.
And he kind of thought it was a good positive thing lol. That while yeah he was offensive, at least he was offensive about absolutely everything and every body!!.
They were weird times!!.

 

Bernard Manning won a court case when a waitress at one of the shows at his club tried to sue him for racism, he ‘won’ as his defence was he wasn’t racist as he was offensive to everyone.

Not sure he’d be succesful these days with that defence mind.

 

Alf Garnett and Fawlty Towers genuinely were calling out bigotry, at a time when such attitudes were far more entrenched across society as a whole than they are now. And it was mostly done in a very clever way - think of how even Basil Fawlty, an absolutely deplorable human being, looks completely horrified at some of the things the Major comes out with.

I have no reason to think that Lucas and Walliams were trying to be bigotted in their material, but even at the time I felt that a lot of Little Britain was lacking in any sort of finesse or subtlety, hence why many of the characters have aged so badly in such a short space of time.

Revisiting it now, some of it is still pretty good - Marjory Daws' treatment of the Indian lady in her slimming group is clearly calling out casual racism, Daffydd's role as a professional victim and the absolutely non-homophobic characters that surround him are brilliantly observed, as is the MP who always finds himself in various scrapes.

But other sketches are horrendous. Personally, I always found Harvey utterly repulsive. Still can't for the life of me understand what possessed them to do a sketch of an adult being breastfed. It's very weird.

Just as an aside I revisted The Fast Show as well recently - which has stood the test of time much better. Competitive Dad a particular favourite, but too many to mention.

 

It would be extraordinary for the SC to grant permission to intervene to an individual. Why didn’t Stonewall apply? It should have plenty of money from organisational subscriptions and it wrote many of the policies that will now need to be reviewed.

 

I think comedy is subjective I used to like Harry Enfield in the 90s they wouldn't bring that out in today's world. I like Jimmy Carr but again he's upset a few. Isn't the bloke who did little Britain gay? Problem today is too many people want to be offended for others.

 

Spot on!