Doesn't seem like understanding of comedy to be honest, if it was against black people they wouldn't be the only reasonable and level headed characters in the sketch
It's taking the piss out of racist people who think they aren't because they have black friends
Find me one comic of any race other than white that doesn't use race in their act, attacking a sketch making fun of white people's ignorance because it's white people talking about race is hypocritical
Red-pilled on Der Coomer
This sketch also makes out the white people to be ignorant idiots
Insane and unconvincing transgender Emily Howard
This is the only one we can make a case for because it clearly shows the trans person as the target of ridicule
People have been attacking comedy flippantly for years and it will get laughed out because it's a coward move to attack a comedian who lazily exaggerates for the clear purpose of a joke, rather than take on more serious instances of it actual racist abuse that is harder to take down, if you're gonna waste your time going after a comedy show years after it comes out, at least make an actual effort
The sketch takes the piss out of these people... Who you're now also taking the piss out of, so you just agreed with accidentally agreed with little Britain while trying to attack little Britain??
Whatever trevor if you wanna help racism do something actually meaningful because complaining about how old comedy may/may not be interpreted is so soft you could be on a toilet paper ad... And ironically exactly what a "white liberal" would do
I got to agree with the ‘most incriminating’ I thought it was absolutely ripping it out of white people who try to fit in with black people.
I’ve seen this behaviour first hand and it is cringe.
In my group of friends a handful of them are black, we all hang around in combinations of the same group of people. This brings us into association with other groups of people who are on the outer circle of friends you could say.
In my area there honestly isn’t many black people about on the drinking scene. Here’s a few examples of some of the cringiest shit these idiot outer circle people do to ‘accommodate’ these black people.
One over the course of an evening kept referring to my best friend as ‘nigger’ like he had just watched don’t be a menace. It was awkward as fuck and after an hour or so my mate ended up threatening to beat him up.
We were all drinking cans of red stripe and another outer circle instead of just handing a beer to my friend had to for some reason mention that he doesn’t have any Hennessy for him to drink unfortunately he’s just run out. It came out of no where and was just fucking silly.
I came into a party full of very what we’d call politically correct people, very liberal. I came with my best mate who’s black and two of his friends also black who i knew but not very well. I swear to god one of them sees them sitting down on the sofa and says ‘ah I see the brothers have arrived’ everyone went quiet and upon realising how awkward it was starring apologising profusely. Because of the combination of cocaine and alcohol then ends up crying at how racist that was. Making a big scene when everyone was over it lol.
There’s more but the little Britain thing just made me laugh more than anything.
Right? I'm here from the trending section, never seen the show but his examples posted are obviously taking jabs at specifc types of white people and how they behave around others. None of this is negatively impacting blacks.
Though I didn't laugh uncontrollably I gave a few nose puffs of humor.
Is British humor just dry? It just seems like they’re playing one joke over and over again “look my black friend. Want some chicken and peas. Oh look more of my black friends, hope they like reggae”. Or the transgender episode where he just keeps saying “I’m a lady” or “look at my lady purse which means I’m a lady”. How is it funny?
Humor is subjective dude idk what you want from me. I dont think things should be banned because they became less funny or more offensive.
You can ban it if you want, but that only means the people who want it will get it by pirating it. It's pretty pointless, and erasing history is an ass-backwards way of making progress.
You’re not erasing history though. It’s not like they’re burning every trace. HBO removed it, Netflix removes shows all the time yet it’s not “removing history” because you can buy it or pirate it.
Humor is subjective but when you’re humor is just making fun of transgender people the way they did and cranking a stereotype to 11 is really unfunny. Those seem to be the problematic episodes and even the creator had problems of how they portrayed mentally handicapped (never seen an episode) or how he treated transgender people. Idk why they removed the whole series.
Yeah that's a good point, they could have just axed those episodes from the service. Guess they thought it wouldn't be good enough and people would still be mad.
Oh no, mildly offensive humor from ages ago isn't 100% pure by today's standards. Fucking stupid they are removing it from streaming services, it changes literally nothing except people will have to pirate it now
I honestly don’t see the problem with black face in that context. They weren’t attacking people of colour, it was just a character. Stop acting like anyone who doesn’t share your opinion is privileged and ignorant and get a fucking life
Lol I’ve met people like this, in real life. They truly never measure up in anything they do. They can’t maintain eye contact, they don’t ever really accomplish anything, this is his only outlet because he’s too spineless, weak, and awkward to do anything else. He goes from sub to sub crying about some kind of criminal high fantasy as if anyone would ever notice him in real life. Someone’s probably bullying him as we speak lmao.
Wow. How unbelievably ridiculous. And yet and the same time, how painfully predictable considering the shitstorm that we’re currently experiencing.
How exactly is doing shit like this going to help anything? How is removing access to a hilarious comedy tv series just because it has “blackface” going to make anyone take the BLM movement more seriously? Because I can guarantee that all it’ll do is piss people off.
Oh wait, of course, I forgot. The people making these decisions can neither understand comedy, nor do they have any backbone, nor any semblance of common sense. They’re cowardly, stupid and this is downright pathetic.
Maybe people only recently realized this show exists, because it's full of stuff that would immediately get someone CANCELLED for the rest of their life. I thought it had already been wiped out for not being woke enough. I fucking hate this stuff so much. It's a comedy sketch show. Context should matter.
Putting on darker pigment on your face is not offensive when you are portraying a character. This blackface thing is imbecilic.
This 'sanitisation' effort of retroactively removing everything that is offensive to today's soy based standards is plain puncture of our collective wit.
Surely you must not know the history of black face the way you're dismissing it. Dont act like it wasnt something that demeans blacks. There can be edgy comedy without flat out offensive depictions of blacks I mean is it that hard to find someone that isnt white to play someone of color ffs.
But sometimes it shines a light on racism, allows people to laugh at it. The fat fighters lady is case in point. She refuses to hear any of the perfectly understandable words of the lady of Indian descent because she is prejudiced. They are making fun of ridiculously prejudiced people, what could be wrong about that?
As a black dude I wasn’t offended by anything in little Britain, loved watching it as a kid as did the rest of my family. I hate woke culture, this is so fucking stupid.
This is stupid if you get easily offended don’t watch offensive shows. It’s obviously a joke the show isn’t racist, congrats to the protesters who are ruining tv. Now the only way to watch it is on YouTube for like 5 quid an episode, or on the fucking black market. This is just ridiculous.
Edit:
An now come fly with me has gone. At this rate they will be banning bloody horrid Henry
It's aged horribly and I can't stand to look at it (not from an offensive point of view, just the humour is a bit stale) but I wouldn't lie that I enjoyed it back then. This is fucking ridiculous it's been removed. They made fun of everyone.
it's interesting because this is a sketch show,where 2 comedians play the main characters within the sketches they create. In sketches where there are other characters that aren't the main, they don't black face,as they being in actors to play the roles. They aren't deleting black actors,they just aren't black for those core characters. It's important those characters are black because they mostly are about racism.
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13 PM_ME_UR_RARE_PUPPER 2020-06-10
I'm surprised they took this long, tbh. Among their sketches:
Insane and unconvincing transgender Emily Howard
Red-pilled on Der Coomer
The most incriminating
10 cannythinkofaname 2020-06-10
Doesn't seem like understanding of comedy to be honest, if it was against black people they wouldn't be the only reasonable and level headed characters in the sketch
It's taking the piss out of racist people who think they aren't because they have black friends
Find me one comic of any race other than white that doesn't use race in their act, attacking a sketch making fun of white people's ignorance because it's white people talking about race is hypocritical
This sketch also makes out the white people to be ignorant idiots
This is the only one we can make a case for because it clearly shows the trans person as the target of ridicule
People have been attacking comedy flippantly for years and it will get laughed out because it's a coward move to attack a comedian who lazily exaggerates for the clear purpose of a joke, rather than take on more serious instances of it actual racist abuse that is harder to take down, if you're gonna waste your time going after a comedy show years after it comes out, at least make an actual effort
8 PM_ME_UR_RARE_PUPPER 2020-06-10
I wrote "most incriminating" because the sketch mocks those who fetishise black people and cringily try to ingratiate themselves with them.
2 AntAlvarez 2020-06-10
So why is that the most incriminating?
19 PM_ME_UR_RARE_PUPPER 2020-06-10
Because white liberals might see themselves in it.
2 oracle9297 2020-06-10
maybe the point of the sketch is specifically to make fun of those who would see themselves in it
2 cannythinkofaname 2020-06-10
That makes no sense, just cringe to be honest
The sketch takes the piss out of these people... Who you're now also taking the piss out of, so you just agreed with accidentally agreed with little Britain while trying to attack little Britain??
Whatever trevor if you wanna help racism do something actually meaningful because complaining about how old comedy may/may not be interpreted is so soft you could be on a toilet paper ad... And ironically exactly what a "white liberal" would do
0 AntAlvarez 2020-06-10
I’m not sure I follow, do you mean potentially incriminating for the viewer?
7 JannesCantBreathe 2020-06-10
Are you Autisming on expert mode?
-2 AntAlvarez 2020-06-10
Are you always a cunt or just today?
0 JannesCantBreathe 2020-06-10
So you're flame broiled angry whopper on the Burger King Asperger's scale. Got it
1 AntAlvarez 2020-06-10
Always then. Got it
5 buttholiothesecond 2020-06-10
I got to agree with the ‘most incriminating’ I thought it was absolutely ripping it out of white people who try to fit in with black people.
I’ve seen this behaviour first hand and it is cringe.
In my group of friends a handful of them are black, we all hang around in combinations of the same group of people. This brings us into association with other groups of people who are on the outer circle of friends you could say.
In my area there honestly isn’t many black people about on the drinking scene. Here’s a few examples of some of the cringiest shit these idiot outer circle people do to ‘accommodate’ these black people.
One over the course of an evening kept referring to my best friend as ‘nigger’ like he had just watched don’t be a menace. It was awkward as fuck and after an hour or so my mate ended up threatening to beat him up.
We were all drinking cans of red stripe and another outer circle instead of just handing a beer to my friend had to for some reason mention that he doesn’t have any Hennessy for him to drink unfortunately he’s just run out. It came out of no where and was just fucking silly.
I came into a party full of very what we’d call politically correct people, very liberal. I came with my best mate who’s black and two of his friends also black who i knew but not very well. I swear to god one of them sees them sitting down on the sofa and says ‘ah I see the brothers have arrived’ everyone went quiet and upon realising how awkward it was starring apologising profusely. Because of the combination of cocaine and alcohol then ends up crying at how racist that was. Making a big scene when everyone was over it lol.
There’s more but the little Britain thing just made me laugh more than anything.
3 ArnoldNorris 2020-06-10
The joke is that the white person is making an ass of himself so I dont really see how its "incriminating"
2 discourse_friendly 2020-06-10
its 2020 and we are burning books nazi style
or if you prefer the ministry of truth has decided this is objectionable material and will hurt our efforts with the war against East Asia.
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1 kkantouth 2020-06-10
Right? I'm here from the trending section, never seen the show but his examples posted are obviously taking jabs at specifc types of white people and how they behave around others. None of this is negatively impacting blacks.
Though I didn't laugh uncontrollably I gave a few nose puffs of humor.
2 ArnoldNorris 2020-06-10
The joke is in the white person, for being out of touch. If you can't tell that idk what to say. When did people become so overly sensitive?
2 PM_ME_UR_RARE_PUPPER 2020-06-10
I wrote that it's incriminating because the censors are likely to be white liberals who see themselves in it.
1 ArnoldNorris 2020-06-10
Spot on bro my b
1 unkown-shmook 2020-06-10
Is British humor just dry? It just seems like they’re playing one joke over and over again “look my black friend. Want some chicken and peas. Oh look more of my black friends, hope they like reggae”. Or the transgender episode where he just keeps saying “I’m a lady” or “look at my lady purse which means I’m a lady”. How is it funny?
1 ArnoldNorris 2020-06-10
Humor is subjective dude idk what you want from me. I dont think things should be banned because they became less funny or more offensive.
You can ban it if you want, but that only means the people who want it will get it by pirating it. It's pretty pointless, and erasing history is an ass-backwards way of making progress.
1 unkown-shmook 2020-06-10
You’re not erasing history though. It’s not like they’re burning every trace. HBO removed it, Netflix removes shows all the time yet it’s not “removing history” because you can buy it or pirate it.
Humor is subjective but when you’re humor is just making fun of transgender people the way they did and cranking a stereotype to 11 is really unfunny. Those seem to be the problematic episodes and even the creator had problems of how they portrayed mentally handicapped (never seen an episode) or how he treated transgender people. Idk why they removed the whole series.
1 ArnoldNorris 2020-06-10
Yeah that's a good point, they could have just axed those episodes from the service. Guess they thought it wouldn't be good enough and people would still be mad.
1 unkown-shmook 2020-06-10
Yeah HBO is just scared and would rather axe a show then add disclaimers or just remove problematic episodes.
2 forcedhammerAlt 2020-06-10
lol
I thought Little Britain was some mr Bean type shit
9 FlamingPenguinFeet 2020-06-10
Oh no, mildly offensive humor from ages ago isn't 100% pure by today's standards. Fucking stupid they are removing it from streaming services, it changes literally nothing except people will have to pirate it now
3 LeaderOfThe4thReich 2020-06-10
I think they’ve done the same with come fly with me because a white guy was painted brown and acted Muslim, it’s a shame both are hilarious shows
3 FlamingPenguinFeet 2020-06-10
What a day to be alive, any show that could he considered mildly offensive is being removed. What are we gonna be left?
2 silverpanther17 2020-06-10
RuPaul's Drag Race.
1 FlamingPenguinFeet 2020-06-10
Lmao yep
1 groovygyal 2020-06-10
I’m brown/Muslim and though taj was hilarious.. shame people have took offence
2 Burnsyde 2020-06-10
Four lions will be next
1 Bubbly_Relation 2020-06-10
If people come for Chris Morris I’m gonna flip
3 Davidthelad 2020-06-10
Don’t worry they’ll be coming for your books soon 🔥
1 FlamingPenguinFeet 2020-06-10
Already have, havnt they? There's the whole J.K Rowling Twitter drama that happened just cause people want something to complain about
1 Davidthelad 2020-06-10
No it will go further than that
1 FlamingPenguinFeet 2020-06-10
I've gotta go watch The IT Crowd again lol, a man wore lipstick for one episode so I assume those morons will cry that it's transphobic
2 Davidthelad 2020-06-10
No actually, that’s okay, the emasculation of men will always be encouraged
9 jojacobs97 2020-06-10
This woke shit is going to ruin television
13 kikidowndablocc 2020-06-10
Already has let's be real
8 InvisibleMan97 2020-06-10
This is so pathetic. I hate how everything nowadays has to be “woke” I don’t see why people get so distressed over blackface anyway 🤷🏻♂️
3 Wardine 2020-06-10
Your privilege is showing
7 ArnoldNorris 2020-06-10
Person on tv wear paint decades ago 😤😤😤😤
2 memeville123 2020-06-10
I agree with him and I’m black. Little Britain is meant to be offensive
1 thats-chaos-theory 2020-06-10
Your dullness is showing
1 Wardine 2020-06-10
"i don't see why people get so distressed over blackface" hella privileged or ignorant take your pick
1 thats-chaos-theory 2020-06-10
I honestly don’t see the problem with black face in that context. They weren’t attacking people of colour, it was just a character. Stop acting like anyone who doesn’t share your opinion is privileged and ignorant and get a fucking life
4 SnapshillBot 2020-06-10
Lol I’ve met people like this, in real life. They truly never measure up in anything they do. They can’t maintain eye contact, they don’t ever really accomplish anything, this is his only outlet because he’s too spineless, weak, and awkward to do anything else. He goes from sub to sub crying about some kind of criminal high fantasy as if anyone would ever notice him in real life. Someone’s probably bullying him as we speak lmao.
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4 NumerousEvent 2020-06-10
Yeah, I know.
4 suspend_me_if_ur_gay 2020-06-10
they removed Come Fly With Me as well, even though it had a character made exclusively to mock racist bongs and immigration control as a whole
3 BlackJack14598 2020-06-10
Wow. How unbelievably ridiculous. And yet and the same time, how painfully predictable considering the shitstorm that we’re currently experiencing.
How exactly is doing shit like this going to help anything? How is removing access to a hilarious comedy tv series just because it has “blackface” going to make anyone take the BLM movement more seriously? Because I can guarantee that all it’ll do is piss people off.
Oh wait, of course, I forgot. The people making these decisions can neither understand comedy, nor do they have any backbone, nor any semblance of common sense. They’re cowardly, stupid and this is downright pathetic.
2 Mercy82 2020-06-10
That’s such a shame. I binged all of this last Christmas. Always gold
2 flamescale 2020-06-10
People need to take a joke
2 12agamble 2020-06-10
What about Psychoville? Man I loved that show And I love little written as well as come fly with me amazing shows!
2 hashtagrealaccount 2020-06-10
Maybe people only recently realized this show exists, because it's full of stuff that would immediately get someone CANCELLED for the rest of their life. I thought it had already been wiped out for not being woke enough. I fucking hate this stuff so much. It's a comedy sketch show. Context should matter.
2 megamonkeybob 2020-06-10
Do people not understand what satire is
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1 harshnoisebestnoise 2020-06-10
I wonder how long come fly with me will be on these then
1 Business_Specific 2020-06-10
Putting on darker pigment on your face is not offensive when you are portraying a character. This blackface thing is imbecilic.
This 'sanitisation' effort of retroactively removing everything that is offensive to today's soy based standards is plain puncture of our collective wit.
1 rbond13 2020-06-10
Surely you must not know the history of black face the way you're dismissing it. Dont act like it wasnt something that demeans blacks. There can be edgy comedy without flat out offensive depictions of blacks I mean is it that hard to find someone that isnt white to play someone of color ffs.
1 BlackMoss 2020-06-10
But sometimes it shines a light on racism, allows people to laugh at it. The fat fighters lady is case in point. She refuses to hear any of the perfectly understandable words of the lady of Indian descent because she is prejudiced. They are making fun of ridiculously prejudiced people, what could be wrong about that?
1 guhy67787v 2020-06-10
im a proud pirate arrrrrrrr
1 scottvalentine808 2020-06-10
Wonder what will happen to that film where Robert Downey jr was in blackface the whole time
1 lalilakshmi 2020-06-10
Understandable but shame - it’s a great show.
1 allenjones2003 2020-06-10
So I assume for the same reasonings the film White Chicks will be banned and removed from streaming services and not shown on TV 🤷♂️🤷🏿♂️
1 aorxhsjli 2020-06-10
Exactly
1 madeamistale93 2020-06-10
As a black dude I wasn’t offended by anything in little Britain, loved watching it as a kid as did the rest of my family. I hate woke culture, this is so fucking stupid.
1 memeville123 2020-06-10
Nah man white dudes are going to rescue you and tell you, a black man what you have to be offended by. Malcolm X was fuckin right
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1 chambertlo 2020-06-10
It’s alright. I’ll just get a torrent of it.
1 w_tl_06 2020-06-10
This is stupid if you get easily offended don’t watch offensive shows. It’s obviously a joke the show isn’t racist, congrats to the protesters who are ruining tv. Now the only way to watch it is on YouTube for like 5 quid an episode, or on the fucking black market. This is just ridiculous.
Edit: An now come fly with me has gone. At this rate they will be banning bloody horrid Henry
1 harlicuta 2020-06-10
It's aged horribly and I can't stand to look at it (not from an offensive point of view, just the humour is a bit stale) but I wouldn't lie that I enjoyed it back then. This is fucking ridiculous it's been removed. They made fun of everyone.
1 Signal-Lock 2020-06-10
A real shame. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it
1 Cheekie169 2020-06-10
it's interesting because this is a sketch show,where 2 comedians play the main characters within the sketches they create. In sketches where there are other characters that aren't the main, they don't black face,as they being in actors to play the roles. They aren't deleting black actors,they just aren't black for those core characters. It's important those characters are black because they mostly are about racism.
1 jajajakel 2020-06-10
Is it weird to anyone else that certain threads in this subreddit are 100% larping and other threads are 100% genuine comments?
Anyway, people won’t magically stop enjoying humor that others deem as offensive. When this wave passes I hope there’s an equal and opposite pushback
1 limegreenlegend 2020-06-10
Use of blackface, and also because it was shit.