just a British comedy in the old days when people didn’t get upset about things being said it was just a joke and everyone took it as such but you never get away with that on tv nowadays
Seems like innocent British comedy, to the discerning mind this is social conditioning to manipulate the British population into accepting immigrants. The Scouser in Till Death Do Us Part was Cherie Blairs dad.
Only thick people saw this as a racist program, the average person saw multiple nationalities taking the piss out of each other and the white brit is usually 99% of the time but of the joke. I think it's racist to not allow these shows because it implies black people can't have a laugh! I bet 90%+ of the people saying this was racist were white!
Alf Garnet character was doubled edged comedy. What made it funny was how inappropriate and outrageous his comments and responses were. "Mind your language" was the worst for stereotyping. Imo.
It wasn’t racist, if the character said anything racist you knew you were meant to be laughing at him, we really have dumbed down if people today can’t grasp that!
When Warren Mitchell was congratulated by a skinead nazi type on his "laughing at the N words and the queers" he responded "My good sir. I was laughing at you"
@@dawnelder9046 Which is the American version of Til Death Do us Part/In Sickness and In Health. Its not just people today who can't grasp how they were meant to laugh at the absurdity of the main character.
Many people will dismiss this as racist, but the point was, it's exposing the ridiculousness of it. Alf Garnet was always the butt of the jokes. You're laughing AT him, not with him.
The whole point was to show the stupidity of racism and the bigot. Every joke was at Ajf's expense and while some bigots thought he was an icon most realised his shallowness. I believe, in hindsight, it did help to bring more harmony, acceptance and inclusivity to British society and its writer Johnny Speight, should be recognised for that..
Old British shows like 'Love Thy Neighbour' and this one brought diverse cultures together. It is only the modern woke who look for even the tiniest thing they can then twist about to grandstand about racism or other ism's to give their sad, empty lives some vestige of meaning.. .. and along the way help destroy various things that brought joy to people not so long ago
The whole point was that the Alf Garnet character was a pi$$ take of people who were racists, and everybody laughed AT the character because he was a racist, rather than laugh WITH the character when he said something funny. I was at college with an Indian guy and a Sudanese guy, and both found it hilarious.
Can you watch "Mind Your Language" too? I believe they stopped that because it was thought to be racist but if you read the comments on TH-cam clips, non-English people find it hilarious. It's about an English language class for immigrants.
we need to get back to a place where we laugh together I miss that nobody immune to being sent up Alf most of all! rising damp was another old one maybe worth a look too
Love thy neighbour was brilliant. There was as much white racism as black. White comedians made fun of black people, black comedians made fun of white people. Everybody laughed and thought it was funny but then you get people like Starmer who divides us up.
Everyone took Comedy shows like this and Love thy Neighbour for what they were and no one got upset about it.....they expressed the attitudes of people on all sides back then BUT the main characters such as Alf Garnett and Eddie Booth in Love thy Neighbour always "lost" and it was hilarious
@@Trebor74 interesting 🤔 was it a remake of Love Thy Neighbour? If not I wonder why they took the main character's name from Love Thy Neighbour for Alf Garnet's "In Sickness and in Health" / " 'Til death do us part".
man this show was flippin great. Back when you could laugh at everything and not feel bad for it. Definitely wasn't racist but about a character that felt proud and justifiably against change. Most Brits have this including those of colour. Actually what this show really did was desensitize people to the subject of race and make it all warm and accepting
Yeah I remember the show as a kid, it was quite an Ouch type of humour even back then. One of the facets of British comedy is it can bring nuances to light, for example this particular episode highlighted how each wave of immigration potentially sees the next wave as something to crumble about, regardless of skin colour or Country of origin.
Love they neighbour was very funny , didn't much like in sickness and in health it was Alf garnet shouting all the time .. But watch love they neighbour shady , great actors worked brill together, probably not PC though .
The British comedy was always done in good humour, and the black man always won the argument. If they showed this humour today we'd all be banged up! Classic comedy where everybody took the mickey and it was harmful humour and fun.. Thats all it was.
Alf is meant to be laughed at Shady. He is representative of a type of East End geezer who carried on like this. The creator has deliberately engaged in hyperbole and exaggerated that. Note how his gay black home help makes a lot more sense. Alf is actually a fair bit calmer in this than in the early shows he starred in. He is sometimes prepared to listen to the black guy or concede a point. He was much nastier when he first appeared on TV screens in the 1960s.
My late grandads brother inlaw was also an actor and her brother was a guy called Alfie bass and If I recall played alfs garnets son inlaw in the show .the English have always laughed at different situations and we used to make the best tv shows at one point .now we are told don't say that it might offend someone its good to see that you saw the funny side of the joke was alf a tight fisted old git I think you will find if he could get away with not buying a pint he would and say that others where tighter then he was .
Alfie Bass played the neighbours husband not his son-in-law. That was Anthony 'Tony' Booth. He was in quite a lot of tv and films in the 50/60/70s and was the lead on stage in Fiddler on the roof for a while too.
I loved how cantankerous and quick to flare up Alf was as a character. Some of the episodes are also surprisingly deep. Been a long time since I've seen that show.
Ah, here we have an educational video, showing something young people of today may have heard about but never experienced. It’s called a sense of humour
Why does (nearly) everyone miss the whole point of comedies like this. The figure of fun, the fool, the one we all laugh at, is the racist. The best way to deal with fools of any description is to laugh at them. The bigger the fool, the longer and harder we laugh. Alf isn't the hero of the show, he is the fool we all laugh at.
These go back a long way. Back to musical when jokes began’. An Englishman an Irishman, a Welshman, and a Scotsman, went into a pub………..’. I miss them. Each one had a National insult.
The whole issue of Alf Garnett was he was openly racist and the humour was in exposing his bigotry and stupidity. In Sickness and in Health it had the brilliant twist of deliberately bringing in two aspects of a character that would guarantee to make Alf's head spin. A black AND gay health care worker. This just exposed Garnett's bigotry even more. The best episode of Til death us do Part was the one where Alf has to give blood and he meets a black donor at the transfusion centre. The argument with his son in law on the subject is a classic.
The main character in this show started in the 1960s show called Till Death us do part that in turn inspired a US version called am Emmy winning series called All in the Family in the 70s This was a spin off of the original Series Till Death US do part,
There was fear less racism when we could laugh with each other, then someone decided it wasn’t right and now here we are today with many people hating each other’s differences instead of laughing about them.
I remember this in the dim and distant past, everyone hated the character of Mr Garnett, he was written to be a charicature, a ridiculous individual, the subject of everyone’s ridicule! Even his daughter and son in law on the show endlessly ripped the living daylights out of him, the character was completely “bonkers” the butt of everyone’s jokes and derision! How ludicrous he was, was why so many people were laughing at him. It’s taking the micky out of anyone expressing comments that might mimic the ludicrous utterances of Mr Garnett.
So let's see the actors were Black, Asian, and Jewish, addressing some real issues of the day, they were all educating the British public with the use of comedy, it was brilliant, I watched when I was a kid and watched as an adult it was super funny all times, all the actors were brilliant in this comedy and it helped to change a lot of attitudes. Things people say can have consequences even if not meant in a hateful way. Alf Garnet was a nationalist, Warren Mitchell was a great actor that brought the character to life, the show deserved to get awards I don't know if they got any. People of all sides loved the show and still do, yes some of the language was not pc but the only people complaining were the people most likely to use that type of language, and yes we heard the racist words from all sides, Black, white, and Asian as in real life.
Johnny Speight created the Alf Garnett character in the sixties to laugh at the racist, to to ridicule and comically demonstrate their ignorance and stupidity, this kind of public, cultural shaming of racism is impossible in this era.
I miss classics like this. Only fools and horses, Fawlty Towers and Some mothers do have em have always been my favorites. Never watched this but it seems funny af lol
The joke is they were all racist just some were the main characters and others supporting….. but underneath it all they loved and liked each other. We don’t make comedy’s like this anymore for fear of upsetting some people.
Oh yes how I miss the good old days of true comedy when a joke was a joke and everyone laughed yes everyone laughed and didn’t try to find something offensive oh how I miss that
These were the days when racism didn't exist. We were able to laugh at each other and with each other, and were not offended. In fact these comedies taught each of us a lot about the other. And we got on so much better. No hatred or violence then.
Every character in this show took the mick out of each other no one was offended. Alf Garnet was gutted when Winston his carer left him. I liked the banter they had between them 😂
Like anything people learn more by turning things into comedy where everyone can laugh together, rather than hide it as if it doesn;t exist and learn nothing. What is great about this sketch is it doesn't patronize in the slightest as all three play their parts really well.
The problem with characters like Alf Garnet is that instead of realising that they were the bigots to be laughed at and actually usually the butt of the joke, was that the real bigots watching it misunderstood the point they were being made fun of and identified with those characters as 'people like me' saying what they wanted to in real life. The previous show 'Til Death Do Us Part' had Alf pitted against his family - wife, daughter and Left voting son-in-law, and they always bested him. In Sickness and In Health had him being bested by Marigold every time in part because he gave as good as he got. And it was HIS response we were meant to laugh with not the original baited comment. There were several tv comedies which took on the idea - Love Thy Neighbour was another one where its now considered racist, but it was of its time and the bigoted guy usually got his comeuppance. The language used though was not always pleasant and would definitely be seen as offensive now. To this day its still misunderstood that the whole point of Alf Garnet - who was played by a Jewish man - (so your clip has Jewish, Asian and West Indian actors in it all using stereotypes....) and written to show the absurdity of racism and right wing beliefs by those who still think of him as a hero....!
You've gotta admire the irony, whether intentional or not. How many of us remember those days? Love Thy Neighbour, the Black and White Minstrels. Don't forget the hassle the poor gays got as well. It's good to know society can change, just not that quick. My grandad served in the Punjab, he called them.. well I won't say it.. but until his dying breath he used this term, but never with hate. More with a sneaking admiration that they could nick his sheets, pyjamas and mosquito net without him waking up.
All my black mates use to love this tv show and love thy neighbour lol i think these tv shows done more for race relations in uk than anything else... i dont think people saw them racist.. but having a laugh at racism..
The good old days, when racism actually meant racism. Today the word is almost defunct. These old comedy programs are just that, COMEDY! Jokes never used to have the power to offend people, people today are offended by the smallest of things.
Its how things was in the good ol days. Racist comedy was actualy taking the piss out of racists and racism and showing it for what it is (Rediculous) .
White GenX here. Not saying there was no racism, there was. But, these programs enjoyed the delicious differences and poked fun in all directions. It was not mean spirited. There were problems from this humour, eg in a school with only a couple of black lids the white kids would repeat the jokes in the playground and the black kids being totally outnumbered didn’t feel great about it to but it mildly, playgrounds are also prone to being mean spirited. But the program itself wasn’t imo racist. Enjoying the differences and taking the piss out of everyone used to be part of being British, until the woke brigade buggered everything up .
The thing is about that is to remember. Alf and Marigold are born in Britain, and the shopkeeper has "Right of Abode" under common wealth rules. (I'll leave you to Google that) So they're all British citizens. Same passport's different faces. That was the underlying joke. They're being racist to people who are as British as each other. Therefore, exposing the stupidity of their views. Like Benny Hill making fun of gay men, when he was, in fact, gay himself. Hope that helps.
I think most people focus on the racist things said, however the angle is we are laughing, but at the outdated and backwards thinking of the protagonist. These shows were to show the rest of the backwards thinkers that they are a joke and to beaughed at and ridiculed I'm 52 for context and this was how I interpreted it. Though I know each to their own perspective.
just a British comedy in the old days when people didn’t get upset about things being said it was just a joke and everyone took it as such but you never get away with that on tv nowadays
Seems like innocent British comedy, to the discerning mind this is social conditioning to manipulate the British population into accepting immigrants.
The Scouser in Till Death Do Us Part was Cherie Blairs dad.
@@Odin11-119thought so
Only thick people saw this as a racist program, the average person saw multiple nationalities taking the piss out of each other and the white brit is usually 99% of the time but of the joke.
I think it's racist to not allow these shows because it implies black people can't have a laugh! I bet 90%+ of the people saying this was racist were white!
Spot on. It's a shame now.
Alf Garnet character was doubled edged comedy. What made it funny was how inappropriate and outrageous his comments and responses were. "Mind your language" was the worst for stereotyping. Imo.
It wasn’t racist, if the character said anything racist you knew you were meant to be laughing at him, we really have dumbed down if people today can’t grasp that!
I had to explain that about All in the Family.
When Warren Mitchell was congratulated by a skinead nazi type on his "laughing at the N words and the queers" he responded "My good sir. I was laughing at you"
Exactly, but most folks didn’t get the irony.
Love thy neighbour was awful in comparison.
Totally - modern idiots don't see the underlying context
@@dawnelder9046 Which is the American version of Til Death Do us Part/In Sickness and In Health. Its not just people today who can't grasp how they were meant to laugh at the absurdity of the main character.
Humor brings people together. That's what is missing these days.
Laughter is a good feeling ..... but some dont want us to feel good
@@celianorris7042 yes so very true
If you are able to laugh at racism of any kind, then racism disappears but the powers in charge don't want that and so is divisive.
In 2024 nobody knows what a joke is!!
I do ,it's wankier Starmer and the liebour party.
Or what a woman is!
Correct
How can you say that - you all know Tommy Robinson
Now there's a joke 😂😂
I hope people still have enough critical thinking skills to know they are mocking racism with classic intelligent humour
Yes Irony is lost on dimwits.
Many people will dismiss this as racist, but the point was, it's exposing the ridiculousness of it. Alf Garnet was always the butt of the jokes. You're laughing AT him, not with him.
The whole point was to show the stupidity of racism and the bigot. Every joke was at Ajf's expense and while some bigots thought he was an icon most realised his shallowness. I believe, in hindsight, it did help to bring more harmony, acceptance and inclusivity to British society and its writer Johnny Speight, should be recognised for that..
Spot on !
It was exactly that
Same with a lot of shows of that era.thankyouxox
You enjoyed that sir , 😂 , they were racist to each other but in a funny way , cannot beat the old British humour !
Thats me and my friends currently 😂😂😂
@@ShadyShae 🤣🤣😁
Old British shows like 'Love Thy Neighbour' and this one brought diverse cultures together. It is only the modern woke who look for even the tiniest thing they can then twist about to grandstand about racism or other ism's to give their sad, empty lives some vestige of meaning.. .. and along the way help destroy various things that brought joy to people not so long ago
This is when everyone has a sense of humour… 😂😂
The whole point was that the Alf Garnet character was a pi$$ take of people who were racists, and everybody laughed AT the character because he was a racist, rather than laugh WITH the character when he said something funny. I was at college with an Indian guy and a Sudanese guy, and both found it hilarious.
Warren Mitchell is the interesting actor. He was very anti racist. Active campaigner. This was his way of exposing the what was going on.
Did'nt he have Indian heritage?
@@patrickkirwan3353if I remember correctly he was Jewish.
@@andrewwilliamson5121 Cheers!
Can you watch "Mind Your Language" too? I believe they stopped that because it was thought to be racist but if you read the comments on TH-cam clips, non-English people find it hilarious. It's about an English language class for immigrants.
There was also a Scotsman in one
I remember that one. Was hilarious
Back then when we could laugh together. We all laughed with these programs,there was a few at the time.
About as racist as Blazing Saddles. Actually just taking the mickey out of the bigotry.
we need to get back to a place where we laugh together
I miss that
nobody immune to being sent up
Alf most of all!
rising damp was another old one maybe worth a look too
You should watch the series Shady. Very funny and made at the same time as love thy neighbour.
Love thy neighbour was brilliant. There was as much white racism as black. White comedians made fun of black people, black comedians made fun of white people. Everybody laughed and thought it was funny but then you get people like Starmer who divides us up.
Before everybody started crying about words.
Everyone took Comedy shows like this and Love thy Neighbour for what they were and no one got upset about it.....they expressed the attitudes of people on all sides back then BUT the main characters such as Alf Garnett and Eddie Booth in Love thy Neighbour always "lost" and it was hilarious
Eddie booth is Alf Garnet. American remake.
@@Trebor74 interesting 🤔 was it a remake of Love Thy Neighbour?
If not I wonder why they took the main character's name from Love Thy Neighbour for Alf Garnet's "In Sickness and in Health" / " 'Til death do us part".
@@Trebor74 All in The Family was the American remake with Archie Bunker as the main character.
This is not 'racist comedy' it is comedy with a racist character. Big difference.
Good old days when snow flakes didn’t get upset about words said on TV.
man this show was flippin great. Back when you could laugh at everything and not feel bad for it. Definitely wasn't racist but about a character that felt proud and justifiably against change. Most Brits have this including those of colour. Actually what this show really did was desensitize people to the subject of race and make it all warm and accepting
Those were the days when people got on really well together taking the mickey was on both sides.
Yeah I remember the show as a kid, it was quite an Ouch type of humour even back then.
One of the facets of British comedy is it can bring nuances to light, for example this particular episode highlighted how each wave of immigration potentially sees the next wave as something to crumble about, regardless of skin colour or Country of origin.
Thanks for the memories God bless brother
Shady look at Mixed Blessings and old TV sitcom, about a white man marrying a black women this was late 70s
Wow! Great memory.
Thank you for remembering the name of this all I can remember is 'you're gonna have a what'
It’s stuff like this that brings us all closer together.
Love they neighbour was very funny , didn't much like in sickness and in health it was Alf garnet shouting all the time .. But watch love they neighbour shady , great actors worked brill together, probably not PC though .
The British comedy was always done in good humour, and the black man always won the argument. If they showed this humour today we'd all be banged up! Classic comedy where everybody took the mickey and it was harmful humour and fun.. Thats all it was.
Alf is meant to be laughed at Shady. He is representative of a type of East End geezer who carried on like this. The creator has deliberately engaged in hyperbole and exaggerated that. Note how his gay black home help makes a lot more sense. Alf is actually a fair bit calmer in this than in the early shows he starred in. He is sometimes prepared to listen to the black guy or concede a point. He was much nastier when he first appeared on TV screens in the 1960s.
Big up shady baby love the british comedy so much😂😂😂😂😂❤😊
Love love
If you just watch and listen, this sketch is just brilliant; everyone in it gets stick in equal measure and we all laugh, we all laugh 🙂
Also watch Love thy neighbour, very funny back in the day.
My late grandads brother inlaw was also an actor and her brother was a guy called Alfie bass and If I recall played alfs garnets son inlaw in the show .the English have always laughed at different situations and we used to make the best tv shows at one point .now we are told don't say that it might offend someone its good to see that you saw the funny side of the joke was alf a tight fisted old git I think you will find if he could get away with not buying a pint he would and say that others where tighter then he was .
Alfie Bass played the neighbours husband not his son-in-law. That was Anthony 'Tony' Booth. He was in quite a lot of tv and films in the 50/60/70s and was the lead on stage in Fiddler on the roof for a while too.
@@Freya262 thankyou for letting me know I think Anthony booth is related to Tony Blair as her father was an actor as well if I recall correctly
@marksargent2440 ye. Cherie Blair is Tony Boothes's daughter.
Alf Garnet wasn't racist, ha was everybodyist.
It's not racist as you think, the main older character and the black guy were friends in real life.
Back then, everyone took the piss out of each other and laughed about it together
I loved how cantankerous and quick to flare up Alf was as a character. Some of the episodes are also surprisingly deep. Been a long time since I've seen that show.
Ah, here we have an educational video, showing something young people of today may have heard about but never experienced. It’s called a sense of humour
my childhood, when people could laugh at each other and themselves. This all derives from the tradition of banter that permeates British culture
Why does (nearly) everyone miss the whole point of comedies like this. The figure of fun, the fool, the one we all laugh at, is the racist. The best way to deal with fools of any description is to laugh at them. The bigger the fool, the longer and harder we laugh. Alf isn't the hero of the show, he is the fool we all laugh at.
People don’t understand that these days. Modern comedy is terrible.
These go back a long way. Back to musical when jokes began’. An Englishman an Irishman, a Welshman, and a Scotsman, went into a pub………..’. I miss them. Each one had a National insult.
The whole issue of Alf Garnett was he was openly racist and the humour was in exposing his bigotry and stupidity. In Sickness and in Health it had the brilliant twist of deliberately bringing in two aspects of a character that would guarantee to make Alf's head spin. A black AND gay health care worker. This just exposed Garnett's bigotry even more. The best episode of Til death us do Part was the one where Alf has to give blood and he meets a black donor at the transfusion centre. The argument with his son in law on the subject is a classic.
The old white racist, Alf Garnett was played by Warren Mitchell, a Jewish actor………..
*Winston* 😂. My son had a tiny dog called Winston 😅. This program was not my cup of tea tbh, but my mum & step dad were addicted to it 😂.
Thank you for making me laugh again! 😂
It was anti racist but people didn't get it. Marigold is now in the US in a fireman series.
The unforgivable sin ---laughing at a black person .
The main character in this show started in the 1960s show called Till Death us do part that in turn inspired a US version called am Emmy winning series called All in the Family in the 70s
This was a spin off of the original Series Till Death US do part,
There was fear less racism when we could laugh with each other, then someone decided it wasn’t right and now here we are today with many people hating each other’s differences instead of laughing about them.
It was actually called "Till death do us part"
The whole point about this was to expose the racism. It’s done through comedy. Honestly people are so dumb these days.
I remember this in the dim and distant past, everyone hated the character of Mr Garnett, he was written to be a charicature, a ridiculous individual, the subject of everyone’s ridicule! Even his daughter and son in law on the show endlessly ripped the living daylights out of him, the character was completely “bonkers” the butt of everyone’s jokes and derision! How ludicrous he was, was why so many people were laughing at him. It’s taking the micky out of anyone expressing comments that might mimic the ludicrous utterances of Mr Garnett.
one scene worth a watch is called alf extra £5 absolutely brilliant
So let's see the actors were Black, Asian, and Jewish, addressing some real issues of the day, they were all educating the British public with the use of comedy, it was brilliant, I watched when I was a kid and watched as an adult it was super funny all times, all the actors were brilliant in this comedy and it helped to change a lot of attitudes.
Things people say can have consequences even if not meant in a hateful way.
Alf Garnet was a nationalist, Warren Mitchell was a great actor that brought the character to life, the show deserved to get awards I don't know if they got any.
People of all sides loved the show and still do, yes some of the language was not pc but the only people complaining were the people most likely to use that type of language, and yes we heard the racist words from all sides, Black, white, and Asian as in real life.
Great fun every one laughed in those days no harm was meant or done to anyone
The actor who played Alf Garnet was in real life quite a gent. The character was meant to be absurd. He never came out on top.
It's actually mocking racists, it's not about racism it's all about irony
Johnny Speight created the Alf Garnett character in the sixties to laugh at the racist, to to ridicule and comically demonstrate their ignorance and stupidity, this kind of public, cultural shaming of racism is impossible in this era.
I miss classics like this. Only fools and horses, Fawlty Towers and Some mothers do have em have always been my favorites. Never watched this but it seems funny af lol
Shae you crack me up😂😂😂
😂😂😂
Still watch this today on thats tv every night great laugh 😂😂
The joke is they were all racist just some were the main characters and others supporting….. but underneath it all they loved and liked each other. We don’t make comedy’s like this anymore for fear of upsetting some people.
The freedom of laughter has been suppressed over the years.
Oh yes how I miss the good old days of true comedy when a joke was a joke and everyone laughed yes everyone laughed and didn’t try to find something offensive oh how I miss that
🤣 Alf garnet back when it was alright to have a laugh with each other terrible how it is today
Also the fact all of that fuss over a couple of quid is hilarious!
These were the days when racism didn't exist. We were able to laugh at each other and with each other, and were not offended. In fact these comedies taught each of us a lot about the other. And we got on so much better. No hatred or violence then.
Every character in this show took the mick out of each other no one was offended. Alf Garnet was gutted when Winston his carer left him. I liked the banter they had between them 😂
Like anything people learn more by turning things into comedy where everyone can laugh together, rather than hide it as if it doesn;t exist and learn nothing. What is great about this sketch is it doesn't patronize in the slightest as all three play their parts really well.
It was to show up nasty characters and what they thought and said out loud without a problem. I luv that Marigold is now Chief in Chicago Fire 💜🦇
Shady! You have me stitches
The problem with characters like Alf Garnet is that instead of realising that they were the bigots to be laughed at and actually usually the butt of the joke, was that the real bigots watching it misunderstood the point they were being made fun of and identified with those characters as 'people like me' saying what they wanted to in real life. The previous show 'Til Death Do Us Part' had Alf pitted against his family - wife, daughter and Left voting son-in-law, and they always bested him. In Sickness and In Health had him being bested by Marigold every time in part because he gave as good as he got. And it was HIS response we were meant to laugh with not the original baited comment.
There were several tv comedies which took on the idea - Love Thy Neighbour was another one where its now considered racist, but it was of its time and the bigoted guy usually got his comeuppance. The language used though was not always pleasant and would definitely be seen as offensive now.
To this day its still misunderstood that the whole point of Alf Garnet - who was played by a Jewish man - (so your clip has Jewish, Asian and West Indian actors in it all using stereotypes....) and written to show the absurdity of racism and right wing beliefs by those who still think of him as a hero....!
Proper comedy this, love it 😂
We luv taking the piss out of each other, it’s given and taken but outside of comedy there were bad attitudes but this is comedy so take it as it is.
Coukdnt believe it when a mate pointed out to me that marrigold is the firehouse 51 captain on chigargo fire. Would never of known .
Hi shady have you watched mind your language? I suggest watching from s1e1 btw you going 26th oct?
You've gotta admire the irony, whether intentional or not. How many of us remember those days? Love Thy Neighbour, the Black and White Minstrels. Don't forget the hassle the poor gays got as well. It's good to know society can change, just not that quick. My grandad served in the Punjab, he called them.. well I won't say it.. but until his dying breath he used this term, but never with hate. More with a sneaking admiration that they could nick his sheets, pyjamas and mosquito net without him waking up.
Did realise Alf Garnet would turn out to be so prophetic.
Oh I so miss this kind of humour
“One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us.”
- Michael Cibenko
Move on !
It's still screened today lol
Yes on the TV channel called 'That's TV' they also show Rising Damp and other great classics.
The TV channel called 'That's TV' shows some great classics.. Rising Damp etc.
This laughing at a racist character, rather than laughing at other races. Most British people understood that, even back in the 1970's.
That is what we call comedy.
All my black mates use to love this tv show and love thy neighbour lol i think these tv shows done more for race relations in uk than anything else... i dont think people saw them racist.. but having a laugh at racism..
The most misunderstood comedy in British History.
Hey Shady Have you checked out love thy neighbor?
Super racist? You mean SUPER FUNNY 😂
Ahaha! 😹 title of the original video said super racist but it was funny haha
The good old days, when racism actually meant racism. Today the word is almost defunct. These old comedy programs are just that, COMEDY! Jokes never used to have the power to offend people, people today are offended by the smallest of things.
Its how things was in the good ol days. Racist comedy was actualy taking the piss out of racists and racism and showing it for what it is (Rediculous) .
White GenX here. Not saying there was no racism, there was. But, these programs enjoyed the delicious differences and poked fun in all directions. It was not mean spirited. There were problems from this humour, eg in a school with only a couple of black lids the white kids would repeat the jokes in the playground and the black kids being totally outnumbered didn’t feel great about it to but it mildly, playgrounds are also prone to being mean spirited. But the program itself wasn’t imo racist. Enjoying the differences and taking the piss out of everyone used to be part of being British, until the woke brigade buggered everything up .
The thing is about that is to remember.
Alf and Marigold are born in Britain, and the shopkeeper has "Right of Abode" under common wealth rules. (I'll leave you to Google that)
So they're all British citizens.
Same passport's different faces.
That was the underlying joke. They're being racist to people who are as British as each other.
Therefore, exposing the stupidity of their views.
Like Benny Hill making fun of gay men, when he was, in fact, gay himself.
Hope that helps.
They had a dig at each other, it was standard across all races. It was fun, good honest fun. If you want racist, try Love Thy Neighbour.
Omg we get along with black people in the U.K.! And this was just a typical British sarcasm.
Shady suggest you look at the series 'Til death do us part', this was the previous series, its just as funny
The good old days 😆👍🏽
Ahhh i miss the good old , bad old days..
The whole point of the show is to mock racism regardless of who initiates it. It is not to celebrate it as many claim.
I think most people focus on the racist things said, however the angle is we are laughing, but at the outdated and backwards thinking of the protagonist. These shows were to show the rest of the backwards thinkers that they are a joke and to beaughed at and ridiculed I'm 52 for context and this was how I interpreted it. Though I know each to their own perspective.