Are The Bbc Wrong To Ban 'it Ain't Half Hot Mum' From Our Screens?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2583111/It-aint-half-daft-BBC-ban-racist-Dads-Army-creator-JIMMY-PERRY-BBCs-refusal-repeats-greatest-hits.html

[andy-hughes]

Possibly high to start, the older viewers reliving their youth, but the younger audience would simply be baffled by the sheer pointessness of it all.

When Jean-Paul Satre famously said 'Hell is other people ...' - he may just have watched an episode of this clusmy tripe.

[Zeuhl]

/I wonder what the viewing figures would be if they were to show Love thy neighbour again? /

Poor I would estimate.

Beyond a brief look for curiosity/nostalgia it is hard to imagine why anyone would want to watch such a thing today.

And I doubt any major advertisers would want to be associated with it.

[B00]

Well yes, it is my opinion.

Actually im more offended that my license fee is being used to peddle this 40 (ish) year old piece of tat around.

[maggiebee]

Oh no, not Dad's Army!! I love it even though I've seen most episodes many time. My 15 year old grandson loves it too.

[jomifl]

They should ban 'The Vital Spark' too Anne. It is obviously racist, pokes fun at people with accents and regional attitudes and isn't the least bit funny :o)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=7RYRSPir6ng

[jno]

today's comedians can, for instance, make jokes about Katie Price being raped by her handicapped son and that's apparently OK.

Who says that's okay? Have the BBC broadcast it?

[andy-hughes]

divebuddy - "Something's wrong though, isn't it, when today's comedians can, for instance, make jokes about Katie Price being raped by her handicapped son and that's apparently OK."

Obviously it's far from OK, but perhaps you remember the fall-out from that vile nonsense from Frankie Boyle, and the fact that he has been quietly dropped from Channel 4.

When TV companies drop a show mid-series and then put out a message saying "We are in talks with - - - - about other projects ..." it tranlates as - 'Hell will freeze over before we touch this viewing disaster ever again!'.

[andy-hughes]

dive-buddy - what Frankie Boyle has thus far failed to grasp - and has a vested financial interest in failing to grasp - is that laughter does not always equate with amusement.

The human response to shock and fear is often to laugh, but it has nothing to do with being amused, so when FB's audiences laugh, and hold their heads in their hands, it is not because they think what he just said was amusing - just that it was so offensive that their only reaction is to laugh as a release of tension.

People will pay to receive this stmulus, in the same way that people will ride roller-coasters and watch horror films, but to confuse the reaction with the happiness of genuine laugher is to entirely miss the point.

It finally dawned on Channel 4 that Frankie Boyle is not only deeply unfunny, his shock tactics have turned him from a witty edgy comedian into a deeply unpleasant human being - and their continuing distance from him is proof of that position.

[redman41]

Let's look to the future rather than try and resurrect Series like this which belong in the past, even though they were good at the time....

[Zeuhl]

Agree Andy.

Steve Coogan and Sascha B-C at least have the sense to invent 'edgy' characters other than their true identities which gives them the means to push boundaries and then move on when and if they need to.

Frankie Boyle invented a 'challenging' character who might upset a lot of people and called him ..... Frankie Boyle (Doh)

[ummmm]

I find Frankie Boyle funny as well...

[EdmundD]

Leaving aside the quality of the programme, was anybody offended first time around?

[jno]

yes, there was some objection at the time to Bates blacking up.

But what people thought at the time isn't really relevant, otherwise we could bring back bear-baiting on the grounds that Elizabethans loved it.

[hc4361]

Vital Spark and The Tales of Para Handy are not racist - based on books written by a Scot about Scottish characters, portrayed by Scottish actors and made by BBC Scotland.
Fab series - I have them all.

[emmie]

yes they are.

[hc4361]

Bates was born and raised in India, had a deep love of India and could speak both Urdu and Punjabi fluently.

[andy-hughes]

Jordyboy9 - "I for one like Frankie boyle watch his audiences and then say he is not funny"

If you have read my post, you will be aware that my contention is that FB's audiences are not actually amused - just shocked, which is not the same thing.