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Politically incorrect sitcoms
Glenn A
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What to you was the most politically incorrect sitcom ever? To me it has to be Mind Your Language, ironically written by the scriptwriter of the equally controversial Love Thy Neighbour, which stereotyped every nation on earth and hasn't been shown for decades. However, I have to admit a lot of these sitcoms were amusing as they sent everyone up and even white Englishmen didn't escape the joke.
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Little Britain
The classic of course was "'allo! 'allo!"
Given the time it was first shown, there would have been a lot of ex-service men in this country still alive who'd been through the last war as had my dad, from Dunkirk to D Day.
But because it sent every nationality up, he loved it.
Admittedly it did overstay its welcome - when it first started it was a parody of the popular drama Secret Army, which maybe lost on younger viewers;)
I think I must have watched a different show....perversely I did't watch Allo Allo when it was first aired but I have watched many of the countless repeats over the years and to be honest I can't see what all the fuss is about and I'am somewhat baffled to discover some DS members find the show politically incorrect...I just found it funny
It showed the Brits as upper class twits, the French as lazy and devious, the Germans as stupid and kinky, the Italians as cowards, no one escaped the joke and it was a massively popular sitcom.
Currently working through a DVD of Love Thy Neighbour and actually the bigoted white character, Eddie, is the butt of most of the jokes and always comes of worse.
I have never seen Love thy Neighbour but my mum and dad told me all about it. They said some of it was actually funny but they felt uncomfortable finding bits of it funny because of where we lived. When was Mind your Language on?
On the Buses is dreadfully un PC.
Mind Your Language was shown in the late seventies, Love Thy Neighbour was an earlier sitcom by Vince Powell, who wrote Mind Your Language as well as the less controversial Nearest and Dearest and Bless This House.
However, with the massive popularity of Mrs Brown's Boys, I think there has finally been a big fightback against achingly PC alternative humour.
Fawlty towers...
Don't get me wrong, Ben Elton is a fantastic scriptwriter from the new guard, reating Blackadder and The Thin Blue Line, but it's just I prefer Johnny Speight( ironically a communist), Chesney and Hawkes, John Sullivan, Perry and Croft and Vince Powell as scriptwriters.
The one and only?
Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun move in next door to a Jewish couple. Oh the hilarity.
I kid you not
Only 1 episode was aired before it was pulled
It's no surprise that shows like The Inbetweeners stand out alone as brilliant comedy, because they don't give a rats arse about being PC
Love it!
I guess that Spitting Image could had been classed as politically incorrect some of the time, as well as Hale & Pace.
TV was so much better where there was this kind of material on TV. Which is why things like the Gene Hunt character was so great in Life on Mars & Ashes to Ashes.
Give me these type of programs over all things like "Our queen" crap any day of the week.
How many more ways can one FM think of talk about LTN and Mind your language, again. :rolleyes:
Erm he also liked George V, West Ham, beer, Winston Churchill and Enoch Powell, however, he hated everyone else.
Several actors who appeared in Secret Army also appeared in Allo Allo
Richard Marner, Hilary Minster, Guy Siner and John D. Collins
5 years ago a German channel bought the rights to Allo Allo
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7286459.stm
I know, 'Down With PC Crap!'
It's not as if all those PC stuff has stopped those who are determined to behave a certain way.
Everybody's way oversensitive these days and I don't appreciate liberal do gooders making decisions on my behalf.