Remember the good old days of comedy where people didn't get OFFENDED by everything and Lenny Bruce got arrested for swearing, Mary Whitehouse had a platform for years on end, the Christian right bullied a cancer charity in to refusing a donation from Jerry Springer the Opera...
George Carlin was arrested for swearing, companies pulled their ads when Ellen DeGeneres's character came out as gay on their sitcom, Laura Dern had trouble getting work after playing a lesbian on Ellen, Life of Brian screenings were suppressed throughout the UK and banned in Ireland....
Some of the most ardent defenders of "free speech" in comedy in this shithole are the spawn of people who spent the 80s and 90s kicking a fit over anyone who made jokes about Fatima or the Pope, and they display the exact same politics as their parents and are the same kind of bootlicker.
I can remember The Goodies doing an episode called "South Africa" which had blackface and lots of racial epithets thrown around. It caused something of a stooshie at the time because it was satirising SA's apartheid regime.
"I'm still relevant, it is the children who are wrong" is never a good look. Especially when "the children" encompasses everyone under 70.
At least Michael Palin seems to be aging well.
I remember Terry Jones was hugely proud that four films had been banned in the whole history of the Republic of Ireland and he’d directed three of them.
good heavens. I thought she was super hot back then, but knowing now I was barely 9 months older than her gives me the squicks. Murdoch and his minions sure earned their thrones in hell.
It's one thing a teenager fancying another teenager, completely different thing having tabloids fantasizing about teenagers 'becoming legal' innit? Just awful.
The same people who brag about riding their bike with no helmet as a kid on Facebook will call the police when they see a teenager on a skateboard because they made some noise.
That’s why they call it the Good Old Days - it doesn’t include the Bad Old Days - two totally separate times (in certain people’s heads)
“Everything used to be so much simpler”
“How old were you?”
“Six”
I would get a ride into work with my first boss. He was weeks from retirement and would often talk of the Good Old Days. Once I asked him - quite innocently - if things were better back then. After a thoughtful pause, he admitted: 'No. There were a lot of bad things too.' I always appreciated that.
