50 year old tv

It does star off well though :D :D

 
I enjoyed comedy back then, moreso than today in many ways. However, Dick Emery, Benny Hill and Kenny Everett I couldn't watch after a while. It was pretty much the same sketches every week. and they called these people geniuses. (I suppose they were really because they made a fortune out of it).

"Ooh you are awful"
"In the best possible taste"
Hills Angels

And the same double-entendres week in week out. It all got a bit too silly really.

Dave Allen was brilliant though.
 
Robmac said:
I enjoyed comedy back then, moreso than today in many ways. However, Dick Emery, Benny Hill and Kenny Everett I couldn't watch after a while. It was pretty much the same sketches every week. and they called these people geniuses. (I suppose they were really because they made a fortune out of it).

"Ooh you are awful"
"In the best possible taste"
Hills Angels

And the same double-entendres week in week out. It all got a bit too silly really.

Dave Allen was brilliant though.
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And may your God go with you :)



I think of all the various comedians back then, Dave Allan probably the best. And like stuff the Dads Army for example, if you watched Dave Allan today he would still be as funny.
 
They were the shows of the time I'm not sure they showed the attitudes of the time we were just much more tolerant of others and it showed in the humour and of course, they were very popular, if not there would not have been so many, but these days it seems to be the norm to be offended on behalf of others even when they are not.

I, like millions of others enjoyed some of them at the time, I'd not watch them now as attitudes have changed and we (some) have moved on.
 
Pudsey Bear said:
They were the shows of the time I'm not sure they showed the attitudes of the time we were just much more tolerant of others and it showed in the humour and of course, they were very popular, if not there would not have been so many, but these days it seems to be the norm to be offended on behalf of others even when they are not.

I, like millions of others enjoyed some of them at the time, I'd not watch them now as attitudes have changed and we (some) have moved on.
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We were much more intolerant, Kev, as the racism and non-pc language of the time towards people with disabilities shows.

Steve
 
Not sure I agree Steve, but we all lived very different lives back then with different attitudes, attitudes have changed and we (some) have moved on.
 
Pudsey Bear said:
They were the shows of the time I'm not sure they showed the attitudes of the time we were just much more tolerant of others and it showed in the humour and of course, they were very popular, if not there would not have been so many, but these days it seems to be the norm to be offended on behalf of others even when they are not.

I, like millions of others enjoyed some of them at the time, I'd not watch them now as attitudes have changed and we (some) have moved on.
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You don't have to be personally affected or impacted by something to be offended by someones actions or behaviour. Apparently it is called "wokism" or being a 'snowflake'? I'd say it was just being normal, but that is just me (and I guess have been 'woke' apparently for over 50 years).
I am not convinced "tolerant" is the right word there at all either? "intolerant" would be closer and "uncaring of others" as well. And it was not only comedies. Just watch a rerun of The Sweeney for example and see Jack's attitude to Black people, Gay people and sometimes Disabled people. Of the time indeed, but poor. I still enjoy The Sweeney, but I still 'smh' at some points in the programme - and in the same way I did when I watched it in the 70's.

There is a very famous poem/prose that many people vaguely know, by Martin Niemöller (maybe I am familiar with it as my mother was a Lutherian?). The one that starts "First they came ..."? That is one whose principles can be applied to many situations. Ukraine is a key current example on a big stage, but also in ones own personal life as well.
Anyway, sorry if preaching, but it is an important topic.
 
As you say an important topic David, but those were the times, all we can do is not repeat them, but now it's gone the other way and dumbed everything down, it seems to have eased now but very recently there wasn't much on TV that didn't have a black disabled lesbian in it, they were trying so hard to be inclusive it was ludicrous, case in point the re-make of The Darling Buds of May.
 
Robmac said:
I enjoyed comedy back then, moreso than today in many ways. However, Dick Emery, Benny Hill and Kenny Everett I couldn't watch after a while. It was pretty much the same sketches every week. and they called these people geniuses. (I suppose they were really because they made a fortune out of it).

"Ooh you are awful"
"In the best possible taste"
Hills Angels

And the same double-entendres week in week out. It all got a bit too silly really.

Dave Allen was brilliant though.
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Cleo Rocas played a couple of big parts in The Kenny Everett show (Ooo Matron)

Dave Allen was very good.
 
Pudsey Bear said:
As you say an important topic David, but those were the times, all we can do is not repeat them, but now it's gone the other way and dumbed everything down, it seems to have eased now but very recently there wasn't much on TV that didn't have a black disabled lesbian in it, they were trying so hard to be inclusive it was ludicrous, case in point the re-make of The Darling Buds of May.
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The attempts to redress the balance have indeed tipped things the other way to a daft degree I agree. And all these complaints of 'cultural appropriation' are getting a bit much.
Unless I really have my history wrong, I was not aware Anne Boleyn was a black woman (as in a recent BBC Drama). I didn't understand the rational behind that and it was just not watchable as so silly.

There was an enjoyable Agatha Christie adaptation on over Christmas, and the main character was a Nigerian man. Now Agatha Christie would be unlikely to ever have had a Nigerian as a key character (in fact, one of her books had to have its title renamed of course for it ever to be in a bookshop again), and the amount of complaints about 'destroying' the story with that casting was amazing. But it made no difference to the story for me and added an interesting twist actually, so it can be very easily to update old stories to be more inclusive if the screenwriters are skilled enough.
(the thing that annoyed us with that particular drama was not the actor, but the fact he turned up with a smallish suitcase off the train but still managed to have around 10 completely different outfits perfect for every occasion he happened to find himself in - it was like he was really Mr Ben :) )
 
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