(September 14, 2016 at 3:18 pm)paulpablo Wrote:(September 14, 2016 at 12:16 pm)RobertE Wrote: Another one that could be considered racist because he has a go at Irish and some blacks, but nothing too extreme. A laugh from start to finish:
Yeh but this is more a thread talking about this challenge, and tv shows where you're surprised there's an accusation of racism.
All you've done there is put a video up of a guy who's fairly obviously going to be accused of racism.
I live not too far from the Bernard manning social club if it's actually still standing in Moston.
He pretty much made his living telling jokes based on racial stereotypes.
"Of a guy?" You live not too far from his "Embassy Club", and you don't know who he is. I'll ignore that. As for me, born in Wythenshawe just south of Manchester and brought up in Moss Side where blacks to white ratio was something like 15:1. My parents had sense and moved out of there otherwise I might have been in prison by now. Getting back to the point, yeah, he was racist, but only in his shows. Furthermore, he attacked anyone verbally in the crowd. He didn't care if they were yellow, white, black, brown, Irish or a yid. He did jokes about them all and they all laughed. All those in the audience knew what his content would be and they still went. The only ones who complain are a) fannies and b)people who don't have a sense of humour and auto-derision.
Back on topic for racist tv shows:
"Mind your language"
"Til death do us part"
"In sickness and in health."
"It ain't half hot mum."
"Love They neighbour."
All racist as anything, but it made for good entertainment and it took racial tension off the streets. Bring them back so we can have a good old laugh again.
And are we going to ban a film that was a true story about Sir Barnes Wallis and his bouncing bomb?