the thing is a lot of people are not offended themselves, they’re offended on behalf of others who they assume would feel the same way but most of the time they don’t
Everything may changed nowadays but the classics are still the classics, comedy are comedy these are the stuff I still watch now because they are funny if people don't like it don't watch it
People always say "they'd never make this nowdays" but they really can. People will always complain and these series also got loads of complaints during their time. As long as the comedy is clever and funny, you can still get away with a lot. It just that so few people are willing to try
You say that, but “Little Britain” and many others were deliberately pulled from streaming. An episode of “Urban Myths” starring Joseph Fiennes as Michael Jackson was also pulled a few years back, and there is a movie on extended hold, starring Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr, for its apparent controversial by-todays-standards humour. “All-Star Weekend” I believe it’s called.
I'm Black British and I'm screaming for comedies like these. I remember growing up hating Warren Mitchell for his portrayal of Alf Garnett as I was too young to get satire.
I'm so lucky to have grown up in the 90s and early 2000s loved Little Britain, Da Ali G Show, Bo Selecta, Brass Eye and I use to love watching It Ain't Half Hot Mum with my granddad on Gold he was Asian and found it funny.
no you are not. Growing up 90's and 2000 is one of the most boring times in history nor is your Granddad is Asian that like saying "I;m African American please KKK beat me up" AInt Half hot Mum was 80's and one the most bring crap televeision far less than Hedi Hi and Dads ARmy Please stop using non white attribute to be something else Didn;t know you hate being white From a Pakistani British Muslim
I don’t think people these days are constantly offended - but I do think people don’t get irony. The point of most of these comedies was to make ‘offensive’ comedy ironically, not to actually offend.
I wonder if this is why I don't watch TV no more? 🤔 Yet I do indeed watch the old comedies. Not everyone featured here, but many good British comedies.
How about "Mind your Language" from the 1970's based in a multicultural language evening class. Poor Mr Brown trying to teach English to Chinese, Italian , French, German and many more. Enjoyed it back in the 70,s.
Comedy in general is ruined because the producers fear the wrath of the 9% that find it offensive more than the 91% with a sense of humor. David Zucker said something similar in november 22'.
*"Can I get a re-wiiiiind?"* Sorry, that killed me!😅 I used to watch *"Bo Selecta."* But it was the overuse of blackface that killed it, so Leigh Francis and Channel 4 came to an agreement to end the show. I also think Sacha Baron Cohen is a genius.
Bo Selecta was absolute comedy gold and it really sucks that we can't have comedy like that any more because a lot of people enjoy being offended on behalf of folks who really didn't give a shit. Shamone Mothafucka!
Brass eye, the day today, nathan barley, jam, the league of gentlemen.... some of the best humour ever committed to celluloid and have all aged timelessly. Nothing in the past ten years even comes close.
Theres a huge differance between 2 people doing a character sketch show and using black face, compared to big budget blockbusters going out of their way to use it instead of changing actors. I feel so sorry for the young generation these days, having to live in a protective bubble, choosing anger over laughter. Computer says no.
I am of mixed race and personally see no problem whatsoever with comedians of any colour portraying a race outside of their own. In sketch comedy, it is done frequently to showcase the range and inventiveness of the performer. It is by no means the same as intentionally lampooning an entire underprivileged group as seen with the traditional black face vaudeville performers. Of course this could still be done satirically. Those who complain and wish to put an end to the practise entirely, will deliberately conflate the two.
John Cleese said last year that he wants to reboot Fawlty Towers with his real life daughter in the role originally played by Prunella Scales (who has Dementia), with all due respect to the man I'd rather he didn't, what was pant wettingly funny 50 years ago isn't even PC these days so a new Fawlty wouldn't be anywhere near as funny.
I've found in my 50+ years on this planet that the best comedy is that which today's perpetually offended class doesn't like. You left out 2 series that should have been on your list. Are you being served and On the buses. I was wrong. You left 3 off your list. I almost forgot Benny Hill.
Re the Lucas/Walliams shows, you're overlooking the key reason they wouldn't get made today - they're just endless reshuffles of the same five or six scripts.
Broadly speaking that's fair comment, but I think Lucas and Walliams were (not past tense) particularly weak writers in this regard. The question isn't whether you could get their shows made today, but how they ever got past pitch stage ("We've written these four catchphrses and we're going to recite them each episode and also Matt will be in brownface") to begin with.
Little Britain's punching down to disability is a bit of a surface level idiocy. Both Andy and Ann were clearly pretending to be physically and mentally ill. It reflected the growing culture of benefit cheating and taking it to an absurd length because that is how satirical comedy works.
A big difference seems to be that in the shows from the seventies they were trying, maybe too simplistically and maybe unsuccessfully, but trying to mock the bigoted or racist characters but the later shows - Bo Selecta, Little Britain etc seem to be mocking the victims of bigotry, racism, disability prejudice and so on. I have more respect for the writers of the older shows. They were at least aiming at the right targets even if they missed them while viewers missed the point.
Regarding. Michael Bates in it Ain’t half hot Mum. Michael was born in India 🇮🇳 spoke fluent Hindi and Urdu . He was more Indian than most of these so called Indians in the Uk, who weren’t even born in India or their parents or Grandparents.
I never found brass eye funny, I appreciated everything else on the list as I grew up with all of them it's just brass eye I couldn't watch back in the day
The Kenny Everett bit where he black faced and played a Pakistani impersonator called 'Ralph Patel' who just did really bad impressions of stars in a faux Pakistani accent would probably be considered a teensy bit edgy these days fosho. lol
I would be interested to see Little Britain in this current climate…the trans characters, black characters, fat fighters one (in the age of body positivity)…😅
There was an abominable show called "Mind Your Language" in the mid-late 1970s that sought to find humour in crude stereotypes of people learning English as a second language. It was also shown on one of the Australian networks in that period.
Balls of steel - public indecency is stringent as ever nowadays Dick and Dom bogies - shouting bogies in public settings could have bouncers embarrassing you or cops intervening
I feel sorry for parts of the younger generation. It appears they don’t understand irony, satire, parody and the ability to laugh at yourself. I’m not British but we had nearly all of these shows in my country. I find them hilarious however, these days, everybody finds things offensive. They certainly wouldn’t be able to handle Ricky Gervais. I find him hysterically funny!
I own the 'It ain't half hot mum' DVD boxset. And there's definitely a noticeable few missing episodes. Same with 'Mind your language' boxset that I also own.
and spoke Hindi and Urdu fluently, before he properly learned English. He was commissioned into the Indian Army and served with The Gurkha Regiment in WW 2.
several of those air on the likes of yesterday & other digital channels, they just have a note on saying that 'its a product of its time & if you're likely to be offended dont watch it' hell they even stuck one of those on Men Behaving Badly for gods sake, grow up people, its comedy, if you dont like it then dont watch it I say
My grandad got me into It ain't half hot mum and dad's army and honestly I love both shows I don't care it offends the modern world, it just a show that has character, story etc. Tbh the modern day shows are not as good as shows from 1950s to mid 2010.
It ain't half hot mum was great. The joke was an English guy made up as an Indian guy who goes around saying he's British . A lot of people don't understand the basic meaning of English words let alone a joke .
Little Britain was always meant to be offensive so don't understand why they said sorry. It's like if the cast of dexter said sorry about making a show about serial killers. It's what it set out to do.
people, we've always been sensitive and everybody across the political spectrum (including you) is sensitive. we all have biases and opinions and will emotionally defend them. we are all sensitive and easily offended. all of us.
I don't have trouble introducing 'Little Britain' to my friends ... those who know it already love it and those who don't know it wonder why they didn't know it. 😅
I have the dvd box set of it ain't half hot mum i still can laugh at it now perhaps by today's standards not politically correct but still funny to watch even if it doesn't get shown on TV anymore 😂
Does anyone remember a comedy called "Heil,Honey,im home?" It was like love thy neighbour,but hitler moved in next to a jewish couple in golders green.Some time in the early nineties,i think,but cant remember the channel.
I Have watched most of the comedies above and its not about offending people its about make people laugh which we really need in this day and age. To be totally honest i dont think some of the things that are on this list are offensive at all (Bo Selecta doing craig david for instance its just a face mask) and when i watch i laugh because of kes and him pissing himself not the mask. Also how is trigger happy tv on this list its not offensive at all? I totally understand why people would be offended with some nowadays but its just to make people laugh. I watched You people film latley and i love Eddie Murphy but if it was the other way around it would be able to be shown and it would be racist. Some one please tell me how that works.
So glad I grew up in an era of creativity and humour in the 80s and 90s before everything was neutered. Sad there seems to be a generation of people don’t understand irony, satire, parody and the ability to laugh at themselves. Modern mainstream media is just encouraging these simple and weak mindsets.
Monkey Dust is a great animated comedy sketch show that's still quite relevant today with it's satire on British society. But it's been all but buried by the BBC who I imagine are terribly embarrassed by it now.
When 'It ain't half hot mum' was made there were very few Indian actors (Which explains why some appeared as different characters in different episodes). Michael Bates, who grew up in India and could speak the language fluently, was probably the next best thing (And adds to the humour to his line of 'we British"). the use of the word 'poofs' was a product of it's time, it was used as the Jimmy Perry had heard it used multiple times by officers while on service. The portrayals of the British and Indians were both written as stereotypes and multiple times it was the Indians who came with the solution to a problem. one of the Indian actors was said to be not happy with the BBC when they refused to air an episode as a tribute to Windsor Davies.
Anyone who is not buying up the old box sets of British dvd comedy series, is going to be highly disappointed in their old age when they want to remember what a real side splitting laugh feels like. They are putting many on the list not to be produced again for distribution and series like " Bo Selecta " Alf Garnett " and even Bernard Manning are becoming harder to find for sale. They might not be your taste now, but with how unfunny and restricted life is becoming we will need every smile we can find in later life for entertainment.
What do you think is the best modern comedy?
Top 10 British Sitcoms of the Century So Far
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A new series of Little Britain is currently being made 😃😄😄😁😊😍
the thing is a lot of people are not offended themselves, they’re offended on behalf of others who they assume would feel the same way but most of the time they don’t
Everything may changed nowadays but the classics are still the classics, comedy are comedy these are the stuff I still watch now because they are funny if people don't like it don't watch it
People always say "they'd never make this nowdays" but they really can. People will always complain and these series also got loads of complaints during their time. As long as the comedy is clever and funny, you can still get away with a lot. It just that so few people are willing to try
Same
You say that, but “Little Britain” and many others were deliberately pulled from streaming. An episode of “Urban Myths” starring Joseph Fiennes as Michael Jackson was also pulled a few years back, and there is a movie on extended hold, starring Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr, for its apparent controversial by-todays-standards humour. “All-Star Weekend” I believe it’s called.
I'm Black British and I'm screaming for comedies like these. I remember growing up hating Warren Mitchell for his portrayal of Alf Garnett as I was too young to get satire.
I'm so lucky to have grown up in the 90s and early 2000s loved Little Britain, Da Ali G Show, Bo Selecta, Brass Eye and I use to love watching It Ain't Half Hot Mum with my granddad on Gold he was Asian and found it funny.
no you are not. Growing up 90's and 2000 is one of the most boring times in history nor is your Granddad is Asian that like saying "I;m African American please KKK beat me up"
AInt Half hot Mum was 80's and one the most bring crap televeision far less than Hedi Hi and Dads ARmy
Please stop using non white attribute to be something else
Didn;t know you hate being white
From a Pakistani British Muslim
"Series", not "Season". Remember we're British. 😁
"No sex please, we're British" 🤣
@@richallenxbox1976 Yes. Or Americanisms.
I don’t think people these days are constantly offended - but I do think people don’t get irony. The point of most of these comedies was to make ‘offensive’ comedy ironically, not to actually offend.
Eric Sykes and Spike Milligan in Curry and Chips would upset a few people today 😂
You know if it wasnt for things like Twitter. People would still have a laugh. 😂😂😂😂
I wonder if this is why I don't watch TV no more? 🤔
Yet I do indeed watch the old comedies. Not everyone featured here, but many good British comedies.
Come Fly With Me, love it. Little Britain was super too. The old shows were better than what’s around today.
I still think of those programmes as relatively recent.
Yep, completely agree, grew up in the 70’s and all these shows will never get on tv in this day and age.
social media killed comedy
Absolutely, .. everybody needs to have a good laugh 🤣 & stop being so precious 😵💫
Yes, and a complete lack of irony, and understanding context.
Yup it's why I don't use it just full of hate and depression
No, the "Woke Guardian reading lefties" killed comedy!
So true.
Loved Love thy neighbour. A very good social narrative. They tried to keep it light hearted. Rudolph Walker (Bill), aways has the last laugh.
How about "Mind your Language" from the 1970's based in a multicultural language evening class. Poor Mr Brown trying to teach English to Chinese, Italian , French, German and many more. Enjoyed it back in the 70,s.
Or "In sickness And In Health"? The black dude on it went to America and became famous. He's on Chicago Fire as the fire chief. It's with Alf Garnet.
@@MuddyPigg Winston (or Marigold as Alf called him). Elsie adored Winston, partly as he was good at his job but also as it upset Alf.
@@madabbafan Eamon Walker, I couldn't remember his name. He looks insanely different now.
@@MuddyPigg well he is about 40 years older.
@@madabbafan True.
As an older guy i can tell you that even the west Indian immigrants back in the day even used to love 'love thy neighbour'
Comedy in general is ruined because the producers fear the wrath of the 9% that find it offensive more than the 91% with a sense of humor.
David Zucker said something similar in november 22'.
*"Can I get a re-wiiiiind?"* Sorry, that killed me!😅 I used to watch *"Bo Selecta."* But it was the overuse of blackface that killed it, so Leigh Francis and Channel 4 came to an agreement to end the show. I also think Sacha Baron Cohen is a genius.
Bo Selecta was absolute comedy gold and it really sucks that we can't have comedy like that any more because a lot of people enjoy being offended on behalf of folks who really didn't give a shit. Shamone Mothafucka!
Eeee-heeee!
I remember a teacher I had putting on Come Fly With Me on in school 😂
Brass eye, the day today, nathan barley, jam, the league of gentlemen.... some of the best humour ever committed to celluloid and have all aged timelessly. Nothing in the past ten years even comes close.
Just say "Everything before 2010"
Yup because everything after gone to shit and boring
Social media didn’t kill comedy, wokism did.
As an Australian I don’t know any of these programs. But I have fond memories of On the Buses and Benny Hill. People can’t take a joke these days
People have gone soft, Can't take a joke.
Always someone to get offended over nothing.
It's a shame that everyone is so sensitive these days
It's called idiocracy
Projecting are we? Imagine believing this bs narrative get real
@@chaserseven2886 are you suggesting that people are not too sensitive these days?
And yet the people who keep saying we're all sensitive are the biggest snowflakes of them all.
Yeah, you just say the word "pronouns" are people begin to dry heave and shout at you.
Theres a huge differance between 2 people doing a character sketch show and using black face, compared to big budget blockbusters going out of their way to use it instead of changing actors. I feel so sorry for the young generation these days, having to live in a protective bubble, choosing anger over laughter. Computer says no.
I am of mixed race and personally see no problem whatsoever with comedians of any colour portraying a race outside of their own. In sketch comedy, it is done frequently to showcase the range and inventiveness of the performer. It is by no means the same as intentionally lampooning an entire underprivileged group as seen with the traditional black face vaudeville performers. Of course this could still be done satirically. Those who complain and wish to put an end to the practise entirely, will deliberately conflate the two.
Bo Selecta was 'rubber face' NOT 'blackface'.
1:55 - Fun fact: Did you know that BSM Williams, played by Windsor Davies, would go on to play at Sergeant Major Zero from Terrahawks
John Cleese said last year that he wants to reboot Fawlty Towers with his real life daughter in the role originally played by Prunella Scales (who has Dementia), with all due respect to the man I'd rather he didn't, what was pant wettingly funny 50 years ago isn't even PC these days so a new Fawlty wouldn't be anywhere near as funny.
Gets me why should they apologise. It was a reflection of the times.
I've found in my 50+ years on this planet that the best comedy is that which today's perpetually offended class doesn't like. You left out 2 series that should have been on your list. Are you being served and On the buses. I was wrong. You left 3 off your list. I almost forgot Benny Hill.
They would never redo Benny Hill these days. Pity!
"the stupid irriot's" 😄
Re the Lucas/Walliams shows, you're overlooking the key reason they wouldn't get made today - they're just endless reshuffles of the same five or six scripts.
could say the same about any sketch show or any comedy show where the same actors play multiple characters
Broadly speaking that's fair comment, but I think Lucas and Walliams were (not past tense) particularly weak writers in this regard. The question isn't whether you could get their shows made today, but how they ever got past pitch stage ("We've written these four catchphrses and we're going to recite them each episode and also Matt will be in brownface") to begin with.
Little Britain's punching down to disability is a bit of a surface level idiocy. Both Andy and Ann were clearly pretending to be physically and mentally ill. It reflected the growing culture of benefit cheating and taking it to an absurd length because that is how satirical comedy works.
God bless the 90’s
A big difference seems to be that in the shows from the seventies they were trying, maybe too simplistically and maybe unsuccessfully, but trying to mock the bigoted or racist characters but the later shows - Bo Selecta, Little Britain etc seem to be mocking the victims of bigotry, racism, disability prejudice and so on. I have more respect for the writers of the older shows. They were at least aiming at the right targets even if they missed them while viewers missed the point.
Regarding. Michael Bates in it Ain’t half hot Mum. Michael was born in India 🇮🇳 spoke fluent Hindi and Urdu . He was more Indian than most of these so called Indians in the Uk, who weren’t even born in India or their parents or Grandparents.
I never found brass eye funny, I appreciated everything else on the list as I grew up with all of them it's just brass eye I couldn't watch back in the day
Was it too quick for you?
Amazed Benny hill or the carry on crew missed a mention. Fan of Kenny Everett who probably wouldn’t make the cut these days either
The Kenny Everett bit where he black faced and played a Pakistani impersonator called 'Ralph Patel' who just did really bad impressions of stars in a faux Pakistani accent would probably be considered a teensy bit edgy these days fosho. lol
There are many programmes still being broadcast today that I wished didn't exist anymore.
I would be interested to see Little Britain in this current climate…the trans characters, black characters, fat fighters one (in the age of body positivity)…😅
Young people can't see how things was in the past. So how can the future be improved??
There was an abominable show called "Mind Your Language" in the mid-late 1970s that sought to find humour in crude stereotypes of people learning English as a second language. It was also shown on one of the Australian networks in that period.
I actually quite liked it. Child of the 70s here.
Shame people have lost their sense of humour.
Can get offended to death with a side of being offended to death and an upgrade of im writing a letter I’m too offended
I’m surprised the comedy Goodness Gracious Me isn’t on this list
Glad I have 90% of these on dvd :) people need to get a life ffs 😂
I agree, keep watching drop the dead donkey & fast show on DVD
The Benny Hill show or On the buses. Blakey as Gestapo .
Everyone who was in OTB is dead now, the "'alf dawft sister" Olive died in 2022.
Balls of steel - public indecency is stringent as ever nowadays
Dick and Dom bogies - shouting bogies in public settings could have bouncers embarrassing you or cops intervening
By the way, Sacha baron cohen is bringing Ali G back this year )))
Benny Hill, The Goodies, Dick Emery...
The commentator misunderstands the essence of much of this comedy and who is actually being sent up. A pity.
I feel sorry for parts of the younger generation. It appears they don’t understand irony, satire, parody and the ability to laugh at yourself. I’m not British but we had nearly all of these shows in my country. I find them hilarious however, these days, everybody finds things offensive.
They certainly wouldn’t be able to handle Ricky Gervais. I find him hysterically funny!
I own the 'It ain't half hot mum' DVD boxset. And there's definitely a noticeable few missing episodes. Same with 'Mind your language' boxset that I also own.
I have the original box set for both and there’s nothing missing?
Bates was born in Jhansi, United Provinces, India.
and spoke Hindi and Urdu fluently, before he properly learned English. He was commissioned into the Indian Army and served with The Gurkha Regiment in WW 2.
@@philipthomas3629 you are correct. I wonder what... no im just going to say it, the colour of skin was wrong.
I love Trigger Happy.
several of those air on the likes of yesterday & other digital channels, they just have a note on saying that 'its a product of its time & if you're likely to be offended dont watch it' hell they even stuck one of those on Men Behaving Badly for gods sake, grow up people, its comedy, if you dont like it then dont watch it I say
My grandad got me into It ain't half hot mum and dad's army and honestly I love both shows I don't care it offends the modern world, it just a show that has character, story etc. Tbh the modern day shows are not as good as shows from 1950s to mid 2010.
I have them all on DVD and regularly rewatch them
It ain't half hot mum was great. The joke was an English guy made up as an Indian guy who goes around saying he's British . A lot of people don't understand the basic meaning of English words let alone a joke .
The slight irony was that the actor Michael Bates was born in India, spoke fluent Urdu, and was a captain in the Gurkhas
F*ck social media and today society.
Little Britain was always meant to be offensive so don't understand why they said sorry. It's like if the cast of dexter said sorry about making a show about serial killers. It's what it set out to do.
All of my favourites are now blacklisted. Unbelievable how far comedy has fallen. Funny is funny, no matter how much it may offend some.
Comedy is dead
Political correctness killed it
Agreed that's why nowadays TV programmes and movies are not as good as back in the day
i think they would be able to get away with it cause europe aint that sensitive to comedy and mockery
You better start eating your word on number 2 Little Britain on its way back in 2024
The new statesman with rik mayel
The young ones
Filthy rich and catflap
And
Lastly
The black & white minstrel show
people, we've always been sensitive and everybody across the political spectrum (including you) is sensitive. we all have biases and opinions and will emotionally defend them. we are all sensitive and easily offended. all of us.
I don't have trouble introducing 'Little Britain' to my friends ... those who know it already love it and those who don't know it wonder why they didn't know it. 😅
Computer says no.
The fact bo selecta had to apologise to the snowflake celebs is serious...
Mind your language would never get on TV today
I have the dvd box set of it ain't half hot mum i still can laugh at it now perhaps by today's standards not politically correct but still funny to watch even if it doesn't get shown on TV anymore 😂
Where is balls of steel and rising damp lol
I was hoping Alf garnet would make the list and it didn't disappoint lol, shame marigold wasn't mentioned though
Can’t believe you’ve missed ‘Curry and Chips’!
I thought little britain was coming back
Does anyone remember a comedy called "Heil,Honey,im home?" It was like love thy neighbour,but hitler moved in next to a jewish couple in golders green.Some time in the early nineties,i think,but cant remember the channel.
It's sad that mainstream media don't make comedy shows or films anymore. Totally neutered themselves through fear of offending.
I Have watched most of the comedies above and its not about offending people its about make people laugh which we really need in this day and age.
To be totally honest i dont think some of the things that are on this list are offensive at all (Bo Selecta doing craig david for instance its just a face mask) and when i watch i laugh because of kes and him pissing himself not the mask.
Also how is trigger happy tv on this list its not offensive at all?
I totally understand why people would be offended with some nowadays but its just to make people laugh.
I watched You people film latley and i love Eddie Murphy but if it was the other way around it would be able to be shown and it would be racist.
Some one please tell me how that works.
Interesting. But its not 'Till Death Do Us Part'. Rather 'Till Death Us Do Part'.
Idk man, aside from a few iconic characters, Little Britain was kinda meh even back then. A lot of the sketches were very hit and miss.
The best comedy’s ever in my opinion
either not seen or watched very few mins of the others, laugh never started
They are all perfectly acceptable to me ,funny as well!!
So glad I grew up in an era of creativity and humour in the 80s and 90s before everything was neutered. Sad there seems to be a generation of people don’t understand irony, satire, parody and the ability to laugh at themselves. Modern mainstream media is just encouraging these simple and weak mindsets.
Brass Eye
Seeing both Ali G and Bo selecta in the same video just brings so much to joy to me rofl
Little Britain and Come Fly with Me were brilliant. In fact most of these shows were brilliant. Too many whingers these days.
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@@franklingoodwin I am a woman
Monkey Dust is a great animated comedy sketch show that's still quite relevant today with it's satire on British society. But it's been all but buried by the BBC who I imagine are terribly embarrassed by it now.
British comedy exists but not on tv but on the streets
When 'It ain't half hot mum' was made there were very few Indian actors (Which explains why some appeared as different characters in different episodes). Michael Bates, who grew up in India and could speak the language fluently, was probably the next best thing (And adds to the humour to his line of 'we British"). the use of the word 'poofs' was a product of it's time, it was used as the Jimmy Perry had heard it used multiple times by officers while on service. The portrayals of the British and Indians were both written as stereotypes and multiple times it was the Indians who came with the solution to a problem. one of the Indian actors was said to be not happy with the BBC when they refused to air an episode as a tribute to Windsor Davies.
Remember when you couldn't get away with reality nowadays?
Correction. Never get away with ON THE BBC now.
It’s comedy gold. Sense of humour is dead!!! I’ll watch any un-edited rerun.
Anyone who is not buying up the old box sets of British dvd comedy series, is going to be highly disappointed in their old age when they want to remember what a real side splitting laugh feels like. They are putting many on the list not to be produced again for distribution and series like " Bo Selecta " Alf Garnett " and even Bernard Manning are becoming harder to find for sale. They might not be your taste now, but with how unfunny and restricted life is becoming we will need every smile we can find in later life for entertainment.
note to self......get these series
Half Hot Mum would never be made because it was boring and stupid
It Ain't Half Hot Mum was a BBC show, not ITV.
This narrative is so bs actually Dave chapels and Ricky gervais still gets Netflix specials which probably earns them millions
#1 sounds a lot like "All in the Family".
Ah yes the good old days before everyone got offended by words and everything got woked up beyond belief