Censoring the Classics

[Slippery Jack]

Silly internet folk . . .

[Susan Foreman]

Getting back to the ORIGINAL point of this thread:

Why can't we laugh at the old jokes any more? - Telegraph

[Demoncrat]

Originally Posted by Hawkmonger

Do you feel the need to comment on everything you dont like? Its quite enfuriating at times. I have no idea how you can defend such modern tosh (95% of which are simply unwatchable) and bash genuinly classic comedy like Python and Faulty Towers. Of all modern sitcoms I can think of I enjoyed I can only name The Royal Family, Hebburn, The IT Crowd and The Big Bang Theory. Simply terrible times for comedy.

REALLY?? The Thick Of It, Getting On, Burnistoun, Catterick, Modern Family, Louie, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Veep (well, half of it....) to name just a few. IMO.

[Hawkmonger]

Originally Posted by Demoncrat

REALLY?? The Thick Of It, Getting On, Burnistoun, Catterick, Modern Family, Louie, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Veep (well, half of it....) to name just a few. IMO.

Ahem.

Originally Posted by SuziG

Getting back to the ORIGINAL point of this thread:

Why can't we laugh at the old jokes any more? - Telegraph

[Justin101]

The majority of those are US comedy, I think it's difficult to find good quality UK TV comedy these days, every now and then there is something great, but since Green Wing and The IT Crowd it's been slim pickings - saying that though, a lot of these older 60's and 70's shows aren't that funny either though, there were a few gems from that era and I disagree with censorship completely and they should be left alone but you can't say explicitly that 'golden era' comedy is better than modern comedy or vice versa.

There is crap now and there was crap then - but everything should be left alone to be the way they once were.

[Hawkmonger]

Couldn't have put it better myself!
There was crap then, jut in general there's alot more crap in proportion to great stuff now. The only comedys i've enjoyed since the fall of Only Fools and Horses and The Vicar od Dibly are Mrs. Browns Boys, The IT Crowd and Hebburn. Prity much everything else is offencive and not in the inoccent, ironic way either (which, interestingly, stuff like Faulty Towers and Monty Python where. Next they'll be banning dad's Army for unflattering depiction of The Home Guard. Utter bollocks.)

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Hawk its Fawlty Towers not Faulty.

[PaulD]

Flowery Twats.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by PaulD

Flowery Twats.

Interesting, i wonder if they censored the opening credits of that episode?

[Hawkmonger]

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