Blackface

shaveAbullock wrote: »

There must be some misunderstanding, white chicks is still available on streaming services.

Saw"Iron Sky" with white face character on somewhere last week, saying that it did have Nazis on the moon and Sarah Palin in the White house

Oh look another thread stoking up the race hate.

for the love of god, open the pubs and let young people get back to drinking and debauchery , they have too much time on their hands

Leg End Reject wrote: »

Lyons Tea will have to apologise for the minstrels.

I've a feeling they already did.

shaveAbullock wrote: »

I'm writing a very angry email to RTE and Channel 4 right now!

What does a photo of the Supremes have to do with the thread topic?

Mrcaramelchoc wrote: »

I couldn't see any other thread about this.

https://news.sky.com/story/little-britain-removed-from-iplayer-and-netflix-after-blackface-criticism-12003558

In a nut shell comedians are having to apologise for black facing themselves in their sketches over the years.jimmy fallon apologising for a sketch he did on snl 20 years ago.
Its absolutely pathetic and a world gone mad.
Little Britain is one of them.that is comedy gold and having to apologise for some sketches now is a disgrace.
Its like erasing bits of history just because it offends a certain section.
There's isnt a race on the planet that hasn't had the piss taken out of it.
A load of bollox.

Just to be clear, these people aren’t being forced to apologise by anyone, to anyone. They’re apologising of their own volition, and many are acknowledging that what they considered material appropriate for comedy then, they would not consider it appropriate now.

The only thing any of them have to apologise for is being greedy, spineless twats that still need the validation from the public to massage their fragile egos.

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

They’re getting in before they’re forced. No need to pretend it’s something it isn’t.

It’s the OP is pretending it’s something it isn’t, and now you? They’re getting in simply because they want to be on the right side of history from their perspective as it were. It’s self-flagellation and prostrating themselves to remain relevant, trying to appeal to an audience which doesn’t actually care what they do.

You don’t see Brendan O’ Carroll apologising for inflicting that pile of shìte he calls comedy on people. Inflicting is probably a bit strong, he’ll keep producing it as long as people want it. The same way all these people wouldn’t be apologising if people still wanted their comedy.

Church on Tuesday wrote: »

Robert Downey Jr's blackface in Tropic Thunder was a breath of fresh air.

It's the age of outrage and it's nearly all bad. Even the understandable outrage of the Floyd murder has been tainted now.

He even did the commentary track in character

Bloody awful "comedy" shows from the early 2000s are dropping like flies recently. If only something unsavory could happen to Ricky Gervais and we'd be entirely free of the era.

Actually, League of Gentlemen somehow survived its scandals, so Little Britain / Come Fly With Me could somehow survive too.

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Father Ted had an episode where Fr. Dick Byrne and the lads blacked up and pretended to be the Supremes.

That will have to go.

just googled to see who played him, came across this 'where are they now' article from 2015, with a quote from the man himself

https://www.thejournal.ie/father-ted-priests-2053996-Apr2015/

there was so much expertise and awareness in how something should be pitched in terms of longevity, as comedy.

I’m quite sure that the values they were applying to the comedy and to the production made sure that it was going to last – that it was going to have as much resonance in five or six years’ time as now. That the essence of the comedy would still hold up. And they were right.

RandomViewer wrote: »

Saw"Iron Sky" with white face character on somewhere last week, saying that it did have Nazis on the moon and Sarah Palin in the White house

And the black character that's "white-faced" is done so by a moon-Nazi doctor in an attempt to "Aryanize" him.

I'm not making any point, just you don't often see the brilliance that is Iron Sky (with a soundtrack by the undisputed best band in the world: Laibach) discussed in public, and I felt like joining in.