List any comedians that would not be allowed on TV today, but they were in the past.
- Borat
- Roy Chubby Brown
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List any comedians that would not be allowed on TV today, but they were in the past.
- Borat
- Roy Chubby Brown
Kenny Everett
How did the BBC not notice Cupid Stunt?
Kevin Bl00dy Wilson :yesyes:
I really used to enjoy Kenny Everett.
Not so much Benny Hill.
My guilty pleasure has always been Frankie Boyle.
Not a chance, no. Don't get me wrong, I think some of his material is awful, but I've also read interviews that suggest he's a decent bloke.
Mrs Brown....hopefully.
I love Mrs Brown's Boys.
This years offering wasn't as good, but this show has helped me through some dark days.
You either love Mrs B or you don't. :shrug:
I find it rather ironic that people discuss acts like comedians not being allowed on TV nowadays, despite everything else typically considered unsuitable for children and/or easily offended seemingly being fully permissible on the box post-watershed.
Mind you, I've heard quite a few people say over the past few years that while they thought comedians like RCB were groundbreaking and 'must-see/hear' some 30-odd years ago, their gags now sound tired, cliched and trite. In fact, someone I know went to see RCB live at Tamworth Assembly Rooms about 10 years ago and found his entire show on that particular occasion nothing but a tedious bore-fest, especially the endless F-bombs basically every other word, coupled with the usual racist and sexist gags, despite said person admitting to being quite a big fan of RCB back in his 90s heyday.
Just shows how the personal tastes of certain individuals themselves can change as they get older, despite the basic subject matters from the likes of certain comedians, etc, still remaining more or less the same throughout their long-established careers.
Bernard Manning
Benny Hill and Kenny Everett is back on the TV, which surprises me. :shrug:
Mrs. Brown is hilarious. I often find the longer a show goes on, the less spark it has. Except Big Bang Theory, I could watch that on repeat every day.
I didn't even know about half of these comedians. Jim Jefferies is funny. I thought he died, who was the comedian that died recently? Last year or the year before I think.
Barry Cryer died this time last year. (I met him several times. He swore a lot and liked a drink. Liked his rock 'n' roll and could belt out a number or two)
Jethro died a couple of years ago.
There was a younger comedian that passed not so long ago, I can't think of the name off hand.
I like Mrs Brown but it has gone stale.
And I'm with you on The Big Bang Theory wiredincorrectly, I could literally watch it everyday. The writing for that series is superb!
I'm glad Barry Cryer is everything I hoped he'd be.
Saw Jethro once at an end of the pier show and he was vile, lots of horrible racist material.
I think that's probably happened in the case of RCB (and others of his ilk) that I covered earlier today upthread.
Edgy and exciting to many back in the 90s and 2000s (especially in the context of 'controversy sells') but increasingly 'stale' and 'meh' by the 2010s and 2020s, plus of course 'non-PC', which he and others pretty much always were anyway from the off.
On a similar note, there were edgy celeb programmes like 'TFI Friday' and 'The Word' back in the 90s, and not forgetting certain Brit Awards in particular between the mid 90s and the early 2000s which were often notorious for artists/celebs behaving badly, whereas over more recent years the Brit Awards have reportedly become tamer in terms of behaviours/antics displayed by featured artists.
Also, whilst not comedy per se, we don't seem to have edgy live TV debate shows like 'Central Weekend Live' anymore, which was a Friday night TV 'staple' of the 90s for many people, where certain participants and even audience members would sometimes end up behaving like animals, especially in pursuit of one's fifteen minutes of fame with the latter!
Back to edgy comedians; I'm sure I have already mentioned in another thread on here before that my brother's old covers band did a show at a WMC near Coventry supporting the late Bernard Manning back in the early 2000s (which I was present at for my brother's band, not BM), and BM's set, complete with his typical vulgar gags for some reason just went totally over my head at the time.
Nowadays, anyone of BM's (and RCB's) ilk would make me flinch, but of course I'm far more enlightened, socially aware and less naive now compared to what I was back then.
I've never even watched 'Mrs Brown's Boys' TBH, so I can't really comment on it, even though I've heard that it's a bit of a cuss-fest.
I was referring more to the person who I know that went to see RCB live locally around 2013-15 and no longer found his constant trademark profanity and whatever else he's always been notorious for exciting nor entertaining to the same extent they once did.
Probably the typical 'I've seen and heard it all umpteen times before' syndrome.
Also, whilst still on the subject of profanity and the like, I've known some people express similar views on the rapper Eminem, saying that while they liked a lot of his earlier albums from the late 90s-mid 2000s era and thought they were 'out of this world' at the time, they thought a lot of his later efforts (2009-present) seemed a bit stale and trite by comparison.
Big time. I do love the swears, but I also really like 'Winnie', 'Buster' (and his acquired Christmas trees) and Mrs B doesn't 'alf remind me of my mother-in-law (Same cardigans and hairdo).
He got older. Less angsty.Quote:
Also, whilst still on the subject of profanity and the like, I've known some people express similar views on the rapper Eminem, saying that while they liked a lot of his earlier albums from the late 90s-mid 2000s era and thought they were 'out of this world' at the time, they thought a lot of his later efforts (2009-present) seemed a bit stale and trite by comparison.
Same happened to The Arctic Monkey's. :shrug:
I suppose similar can also be said for the likes of Noel and Liam Gallagher, Robbie Williams, Guns 'N' Roses, former members of the Sex Pistols, etc.
Also youngsters rebelling against authority in general no longer seem to carry quite the same weight that they once did, especially in the context of 'moral panics'.
Axl's got his work cut out trying to hit those notes (and breathe) while wearing those tight pants.
Take me back to the days when Axl danced about in those skimpy shorts and his hair was gorgeous. (And Slash played guitar in front of the smallest church, ever). :yesyes:
Not a huge GnR fan but damn that scene was iconic.
Axl? I'm just going to leave this here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k85mRPqvMbE
Thank me later.
Comedy is subjective though isn't it? I remember me and my dad falling about laughing at Kenny Everett doing 'Sid Snot' and 'Gizzard Puke' while my mum sat there poker-faced. Same with The Young Ones. (She didn't find Vyvyan funny at all). :huh:
As for re-runs, I'm enjoying Victoria Wood's Dinnerladies again. (I think Julie Walters is hilarious in this) and Last of the Summerwine - one of my all-time favourite TV shows, hence my avatar and username. :yesyes:
Nora, BBC2 and iPlayer have Our Flag Means Death at the moment; it's very funny but also carries a huge emotional punch. Very much worth a watch if you haven't done so already.
Funnily enough I was looking at a thread over on Digital Spy yesterday which is about TOTP repeats from 1995, and Roy Chubby Brown's vulgar version of 'Alice' was mentioned (and of course had its infamous F-bombs bleeped out when played on the show, both then and now), and quite a few people on DS commented on how crap and juvenile they thought said record was (in retrospect) watching and hearing it now almost 30 years later, nor do they find RC remotely funny in general.
In fact, one of the posters on there posted a link to the BBC site regarding certain local councils cancelling RCB's live appearances in their theatres because they felt he did not reflect the 'cultural values' of the local areas concerned, especially owing to many of his blatantly racist, sexist, and mysogynistic gags, coupled with his well-known tendencies to extreme foul language.
In fact, RCB is due to be performing live at our local Assembly Rooms again this Saturday (2nd March), and me and my dad will be staying well away as we can't stand that odious barsteward of a comedian!
Cheer up, Lenco, he'll be dead soon :) Quite disappointed to find out he isn't dead already, to be honest.
Lots of cheesy stuff finds it's way into the charts. Remember Spitting Image or The Goodies. All juvenile stuff but a light laugh for anyone not wanting to be so serious.
I've seen Chubby on video as he was a big thing years ago but that type of show went off the boil years ago.
Some great comedy without shock value. I guess it moves with the times hence why I find some of it dull.
Quite a few people seem to opine that extreme shock value stuff is now rather passe and no longer carries the same weight as it once did; both for and against.
Like I also said upthread, hardly anyone seems to get excited by the likes of Eminem and certain others of that particular ilk anymore, though whatever new album he releases will still pretty much always be a guaranteed chart-topper, despite him now being long past his prime.