@@yerauldda4909 Very sadly you are totally missing the whole point. It attacked the whole idea of bigoted racism but this whole perspective is beyond your mental capacity. I weep with frustration for people such as you.
@@yerauldda4909 its a social commentary the character felt anger how times have changed struggled for a modern change lol life in a bubble the chracter struggles bigtime ! look at the very gay black male nurse working at home he is forced to accept lol brilliant idea lol great idea xx
@@richarddickson747 I suspect your tears of frustration say more about your mental capacity than mine. Those of us capable of entertaining more than one thought at a time understand that a text can intend to attack racism and yet still contain irredeemably racist elements. To steadfastly affirm only the former and deny the latter in this, particularly flagrant instance, suggests a serious deficit in either morality, or intellect, or both.
Warren Mitchell used to talk about how people would come up to him congratulating him for "saying it how it is". he took great pleasure in telling them that they were actually the butt of the jokes. Warren was a Jewish Socialist who could not have been further from the right wing, racist Alf Garnett he played so well.
Just shows how infective the anti racist message of the show actually was..The bigots saw Alf as a hero..That story wasn't a one off. Apparently he got cheers and shouts of "Good old Alf, saying it how it is!" wherever he went.
That was Spike Milligan playing Kevin O'Grady. Till Death Do Us Part is a joke on racists. Alf Garnet is a parody of a racist. The problem was the racists watching didn't get that they were being made fun of. He always lost. All In The Family was the American version.
IIRC, in later seasons, we got a black camp gay character - "Marigold", Garnet's home help. And once again Garnet was humiliated every week by him... and once again the bigots didn't grasp it.
it couldnt because people have become more american thanks to antisocial media: too eager to be offended in hopes they get rich from it, and too simple minded to understand satire on this level.
So Sipke Milligan who's in the "Blackface" playing the Pakistani, was actually born in India. (before partition when India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh was still all one country)
plus weirdly in some parts of the uk, the shortened term for pakistani isnt considered racist, like in Birmingham ive heard it used casually, whereas in liverpool its racist
I think you're confusing racist jokes with 'systemic racism'. That means things like American whites are still richer than American blacks because of slavery and almost everyone else moves to the USA with money etc. to get a good start in their big competition. It's not a crime if you haven't thought about it that way, people should explain it more but it would take too long on twitter while prats get attention for being edgy with sound bites.
good old spikey milligan acting as the Pakistani guy , i do remember when i was a kid , it never got to the stage where i would copy what was said the reason why i understand comedy and parody.
Milligan made a show so racist that it was was cancelled after one show back in the 70's...Too much even back then. He did his best work in the 60's before he lost his mind and became sad rather than funny.
Good observation, - So, - do you think we have more OR less racism today? (The population has certainly increased) or have the roles just been reversed? - Not many people I know can actually define and explain what ACTUAL racism is. Yes, the character "Alf Garnett" played by the actor Warren Mitchell, was written as a bigot and a racist - but in just about every single episode, that character was the butt of the joke and it shone a light at that time in history, on the shortcomings of judging people along racial lines. Today - anyone who dares to point out any FACTS regarding anyones racial identity or tendancy is immediately labelled as "A racist". without being allowed the opportunity to provide any context, and no consequenses for any accusers, who can not provide any facts to support their "Racist" labelling.- To be honest, I think as a whole, (All races taken into consideration) we are "Racially" worse off not better.
So miss English comedy where people had the greatest laugh at themselves and each other without taking offence. What was hilarious was how outrageous it was and so very witty. We were given so much social commentary about the state of the world in the most palatable and funny ways. God bless the Brits.
I remember watching "Till Death Us Do Part" as an adolescent. The show ridiculed the racist views of the older people in my family, who would otherwise have been role models. The show had an enormous influence on my generation, in that it confronted the idiocy of racism head on, by taking it to it's illogical conclusion and exploiting it for laughs. The UK was a more sane and sensible place for it. Thousands of years of legislating against crime and violence has failed to eradicate those evils. Perhaps the panacea for racism, sexism and homophobia should have been ridicule. Now we will never know.
Creator Johnny Speight and lead actor Warren Mitchell both hated racism sexism and anti semitism. So they came up with Alf Garnett to embody all of those things. A bigotted old man who hates change. World class comedy at its most offensive.
You need to check out more Alf Garnett, it’s an East Ender, West Ham fan, my old man’s a West Ham fan & so was my brother, I grew up watching that as a kid, loved it, there’s some really funny stuff for you to watch. I remember one guy in there, he plays the guy running the local shop & he was also an Only Fools & Horses episode & Alf’s wife has died but she owed him some change before she passed, try & find it 😂
Dear Neil, I love the way you connect with these local Londoners (fictional ?; Warren a Jewish Actor: from His experience as a outsider) The more we are together the happier we will be Best wishes I enjoyed the Police spoof you posted in harmony with all of us making the best of being of living on earth
Alf would always be the very vocal antagonist, playing up to every racist dog whistle cliche but would always come off second best and look a total fool. British sitcoms had quite a history of sending up uptight and unpleasant characters whist also making them quite endearing. Other examples are: Love Thy Neighbour and It Ain't 'alf Hot, Mum.
It's a classic program that will never be repeated have a look at LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR that's just a racist as this but on both sides so funny there is 7seasons to watch and a movie
TBH, you wouldn't see "All in the Family", "The Jeffersons", "Maude", "Sanford and Son" and many other 60's/70's/80's US shows either. Times have changed.
This comes from Till Death Us Do Part, which was remade in America as All In The Family. This pales in comparison to Love Thy Neighbour, about a white working class couple whose next door neighbours are an immigrant couple from the Caribbean. The wives get along like best friends while the husbands hurl racist insults at each other.
There was a sitcom in the 70s on British tv. it was called Love Thy Neighbour. It was a comedy where you had two couples living next door to each other. One was a black couple and the other were a white couple. The men were always trying to one over the other. There was a lot of Racial banter between the two men, all in good fun. The two wives were totally different from their husbands where they just acted as normal neighbours do. You might like to do a reaction video of that show some time.
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In the words of Warren Mitchel, the Jewish British actor that played Alf Garnet: "You're supposed to laugh at Alf Garnet, not with him". Alf won in the end, because now nobody can be Alf Garnet. That's the point of satire.
The problem with programmes like this then, is not the intent is the fact the studio audience laughed at the same bits as the racist and not at the racist. Same with Rising Damp, the audience laughs with Rigsby.
Those were the days when you didn't have to explain what wasn't acceptable, you just knew because it came out of the mouths of those deliberately rascist and bigotted objectionable characters.
Warren was confused and angry that some viewers saw his character as a champion of racism and the far right rather than satirising their beliefs. It just goes to show how ignorant racists are. You are right it was a different time, it was not intended as racist but times change.
People only hear the language and fail to get the message. At the time of this show the UK had two TV broadcasters the BBC and ITV. Both channels had anti-racist sit-coms this one on the BBC and Love Thy Neighbour on ITV. This was the time that a lot or Race and Sex equality legislation was being debated in society and in our parliament. Both shows depicted a racist, misogynistic and at times homophobic central character. The aim of the shows was to call out the central character for his stupidity, ignorance and intolerance. The shows made the racist look old-fashioned, stupid and laughable and were used to highlight how illogical racist, sexist and, to a lesser degree, homophobic arguments and stereo-types were.
Warren Mitchell who played Alf, was Jewish, the TV series was not racist, it was meant to expose the stupidity of racism. Check out , Love thy Neighbour
The writer tried to take racism to the extreme to show people how wrong and stupid it was ( black folk only really came ti England, in numbers 10/15 years before this) but thick racists didn’t get the satire and made Alf into a hero.
Remember the times, Pakistan and Bangladesh were India before 1947, and the old back then remember empire. *Pakistan and Bangladesh were part of British India, which was a single country under British colonial rule, from 1858 to 1947* The old or many of them still call Thailand - Siam, Sri Lanka - Ceylon and Myanmar - Burma. I must admit I found it hard to switch from Burma.
Alf Garnett was always the butt of the joke. The entire show highlighted how ridiculous and stupid his views were. Seeing it out of context, in a short clip, doesn't give the full picture. Warren Mitchell, the actor who played Alf Garnett, was on the left, as were the writers. They all hated racists. That's a large part of the reason they made the show. :)
now react to ' Love thy Neighbour ' . . it was class, and making fun of the white guy and his silly comments, they were friends and their wives would tell them off for falling out... hilarious and clever.
Sad thing is that people can't take a joke these days. IT'S CALLED BANTER CHECK ANY BUILDING SITE. such a shame we can't take the piss out of each other anymore without the risk of getting arrested 🤬🤬
I've had mates on site of all kinds of backgrounds - everyone gave back as good as they got. And laughed with each other. Just seems everything just gone nuts. People's skin seems so thin these days
Johnny Speight, the show’s creator and writer was fiercely anti-racist but used racism as a device to mock itself, thereby illustrating its absurdity; much of his work reflected that. Alf is always given plenty of rope to hang himself and blithely uses it, exposing himself to be the witless buffoon that he was written to be. When it began in 1965, Alf represented the Old Guard, defender of the Empire and the status quo, in contrast to his daughter and her husband who were representative of the ‘Swinging 60’s’ and the progressive attitudes that were beginning to surface. In real life, Warren Mitchell was a jewish socialist, which would have been anathema to Alf. Spike Milligan, on the other hand, as funny as he was, was a dyed in the wool racist; if you want to see an example, try the Pakistani Dalek sketch from the ‘Q’ series.
In Sickness and in health series 1 episode 3. Last joke in sketch is so non politically correct from mins 22:35 ish to the end. When he first meets Winston, his wife's new home help. The run up of the joke begins in the pub. Touching on race, sexuality, illness. Of course to those not grasping the dark sense of humour Brits have would take real offence. The Aussies and Kiwis will get it and South African and Canadians with other Commonwealth to a degree. Mates from all walks of life which the sketch covers don't take offence and laugh at ourselves. But would be good to see an American react. Remember it's the height of HIV AIDS at the time. I'm sure the actors had a laugh together making it. 😂
I had a look at BBC's iPlayer and it suggests it was last available on BBC4 in 2010. I laughed and laughed at bigoted Alf back in the 60's. But I'm not sure it could be rerun as mainstream TV today. Despite us here all knowing who it's really making fun of, it would probably be viewed in the wrong light by many others.
Yes you can call it racism NOW however it was just humour back in the 70s, everybody laughs at what is different, it's human nature, the whites made fun of the blacks and Indians amd they made fun of the whites. You never see a white person getting offended at being called a honky in a comedy sketch because that's all it is, a comedy sketch, and that's the problem with today's society, everybody thinks everything is a personal insult where the comedy really is just a ignorant generalisation rather than a personal attack.
We had a sense of humour back then, it was just funny both ways,it wasn't meant to be taken seriously. But then the thought brigade came and said it was offensive, but the name calling went both ways. So who was offended?
The idea of the show was anti racist. Alf ( the bald guy ) was the racist, but he was always in the wrong and ended up as the but of the joke.
yes!! intelligent actors idiots are the but of a joke
In that case, it must surely count as the most poorly executed idea in the history of television.
@@yerauldda4909 Very sadly you are totally missing the whole point. It attacked the whole idea of bigoted racism but this whole perspective is beyond your mental capacity. I weep with frustration for people such as you.
@@yerauldda4909 its a social commentary the character felt anger how times have changed struggled for a modern change lol life in a bubble the chracter struggles bigtime ! look at the very gay black male nurse working at home he is forced to accept lol brilliant idea lol great idea xx
@@richarddickson747 I suspect your tears of frustration say more about your mental capacity than mine. Those of us capable of entertaining more than one thought at a time understand that a text can intend to attack racism and yet still contain irredeemably racist elements. To steadfastly affirm only the former and deny the latter in this, particularly flagrant instance, suggests a serious deficit in either morality, or intellect, or both.
Warren Mitchell graduated from Cambridge and the script written by a genius.The best weapon against bigots is mockery.
He actually went to Oxford. He was there with Richard Burton.
@ I stand corrected and couldn’t remember which.
Yes, bigots both right and left.
Perfecty put...I tried to explain the same in my comment...just not as well
He also supported Spurs rather than West Ham.
Classic British Comedy at its best 😂😂😂🏴
Warren Mitchell used to talk about how people would come up to him congratulating him for "saying it how it is". he took great pleasure in telling them that they were actually the butt of the jokes. Warren was a Jewish Socialist who could not have been further from the right wing, racist Alf Garnett he played so well.
Just shows how infective the anti racist message of the show actually was..The bigots saw Alf as a hero..That story wasn't a one off. Apparently he got cheers and shouts of "Good old Alf, saying it how it is!" wherever he went.
That was Spike Milligan playing Kevin O'Grady. Till Death Do Us Part is a joke on racists. Alf Garnet is a parody of a racist. The problem was the racists watching didn't get that they were being made fun of. He always lost. All In The Family was the American version.
IIRC, in later seasons, we got a black camp gay character - "Marigold", Garnet's home help. And once again Garnet was humiliated every week by him... and once again the bigots didn't grasp it.
It was the same with Rigsby in Rising Damp. The small-minded bigot was the butt of the joke, but small-minded bigots just couldn’t see it!
It could be aired today. You are missing the point. It was mocking racists, not agreeing with them.
it couldnt because people have become more american thanks to antisocial media: too eager to be offended in hopes they get rich from it, and too simple minded to understand satire on this level.
I couldn't agree more. The entire script was perfectly engineered to make the audience uncomfortable with pretty much all of Alf's narrative.
@@davidhines7592 Its available to watch on UK TV and youtube
It is still aired on TV.
@@jeanplunkett5580 But they do bleep or silence certain words out, even with a massive disclaimer at the start.
So Sipke Milligan who's in the "Blackface" playing the Pakistani, was actually born in India. (before partition when India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh was still all one country)
plus weirdly in some parts of the uk, the shortened term for pakistani isnt considered racist, like in Birmingham ive heard it used casually, whereas in liverpool its racist
@@bigfrankfraser1391 It's considered racist around Hertfordshire ways too.
@@bigfrankfraser1391 You a very mistaken if you think can call an Asian person that in Birmingham..id like to see you try.
@@zivkovicable and i would like to see scarlett johansson mud wrestle naked with my wife
Racism goes both ways today, but we don't laugh at it anymore and we pretend it only goes one way 🤷. I prefer the old days
I think you're confusing racist jokes with 'systemic racism'. That means things like American whites are still richer than American blacks because of slavery and almost everyone else moves to the USA with money etc. to get a good start in their big competition. It's not a crime if you haven't thought about it that way, people should explain it more but it would take too long on twitter while prats get attention for being edgy with sound bites.
good old spikey milligan acting as the Pakistani guy , i do remember when i was a kid , it never got to the stage where i would copy what was said the reason why i understand comedy and parody.
I'm pretty sure the Americans remade this programme as All in the family, Archie Bunker was the Alf Garnett character.
The balls it took to hold a mirror up to a pretty prevalent mindset at the time was simply amazing.
do every series of "love thy neighbour" (its allowed on YT, others have reacted) you will love it.
Spike Milligan was amazing 👍🏻
Spike was Irish, but was born in India.
Spike Milligan has on his grave stone 'see i told you i was ill'
'see' .... ?
@thegroovetube3247 it says I told you I was ill... my bad lol
i think its in celtic because the cemetary told them he couldnt have that on his tombstone
@@davidhines7592 It was in Irish, specifically. Dúirt mé leat go raibh mé breoite. ~ I told to you that I was sick.
Milligan made a show so racist that it was was cancelled after one show back in the 70's...Too much even back then. He did his best work in the 60's before he lost his mind and became sad rather than funny.
Holding up a light to the idiocy of racism, so starting a conversation the Country needed, to end racism. Genius ❤
Good observation, - So, - do you think we have more OR less racism today? (The population has certainly increased) or have the roles just been reversed? - Not many people I know can actually define and explain what ACTUAL racism is. Yes, the character "Alf Garnett" played by the actor Warren Mitchell, was written as a bigot and a racist - but in just about every single episode, that character was the butt of the joke and it shone a light at that time in history, on the shortcomings of judging people along racial lines. Today - anyone who dares to point out any FACTS regarding anyones racial identity or tendancy is immediately labelled as "A racist". without being allowed the opportunity to provide any context, and no consequenses for any accusers, who can not provide any facts to support their "Racist" labelling.- To be honest, I think as a whole, (All races taken into consideration) we are "Racially" worse off not better.
I use to watch all these. Called “Till death do us part “
So miss English comedy where people had the greatest laugh at themselves and each other without taking offence. What was hilarious was how outrageous it was and so very witty. We were given so much social commentary about the state of the world in the most palatable and funny ways. God bless the Brits.
This show is currently being repeated - with content warnings and the occasional bleep - on a UK cable channel called "That's TV 2".
I remember watching "Till Death Us Do Part" as an adolescent. The show ridiculed the racist views of the older people in my family, who would otherwise have been role models. The show had an enormous influence on my generation, in that it confronted the idiocy of racism head on, by taking it to it's illogical conclusion and exploiting it for laughs. The UK was a more sane and sensible place for it. Thousands of years of legislating against crime and violence has failed to eradicate those evils. Perhaps the panacea for racism, sexism and homophobia should have been ridicule. Now we will never know.
Creator Johnny Speight and lead actor Warren Mitchell both hated racism sexism and anti semitism. So they came up with Alf Garnett to embody all of those things. A bigotted old man who hates change. World class comedy at its most offensive.
Not seen you for a while. Glad you are well and truly thank you for sharing this. 🇬🇧🙏❤
I watch this every night, in fact it's on in an hour from now. Classic British comedy... 😂
A time when people didn't take offence every time someone opened their mouth. Remember what LAUGHTER was?
This is how British broke down barriers.
Bro you would not believe how big is was back in the day. If i remember rightly this was on the BBC. 😂
The best thing about old British Comedy that appears to be racist, is the joke is actually on the racist person 😂
You need to check out more Alf Garnett, it’s an East Ender, West Ham fan, my old man’s a West Ham fan & so was my brother, I grew up watching that as a kid, loved it, there’s some really funny stuff for you to watch.
I remember one guy in there, he plays the guy running the local shop & he was also an Only Fools & Horses episode & Alf’s wife has died but she owed him some change before she passed, try & find it 😂
Its amazing to see history come full circle
Dear Neil,
I love the way you connect with these local Londoners (fictional ?; Warren a Jewish Actor: from His experience as a outsider)
The more we are together the happier we will be
Best wishes
I enjoyed the Police spoof you posted in harmony with all of us making the best of being of
living on earth
Alf would always be the very vocal antagonist, playing up to every racist dog whistle cliche but would always come off second best and look a total fool. British sitcoms had quite a history of sending up uptight and unpleasant characters whist also making them quite endearing. Other examples are: Love Thy Neighbour and It Ain't 'alf Hot, Mum.
It's a classic program that will never be repeated have a look at LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR that's just a racist as this but on both sides so funny there is 7seasons to watch and a movie
That's why she was laughing.. knowing he's his new neighbour
It is repeated in uk on That’s TV channels but with warnings about offending some people
"Love thy Neighbour" from the early 1970s is a must watch.
Good old British comedy take it how you like it comedy and it funny AF ❤ 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
TBH, you wouldn't see "All in the Family", "The Jeffersons", "Maude", "Sanford and Son" and many other 60's/70's/80's US shows either. Times have changed.
This comes from Till Death Us Do Part, which was remade in America as All In The Family. This pales in comparison to Love Thy Neighbour, about a white working class couple whose next door neighbours are an immigrant couple from the Caribbean. The wives get along like best friends while the husbands hurl racist insults at each other.
Spice Milligan was part of the Goon show
There was a sitcom in the 70s on British tv. it was called Love Thy Neighbour. It was a comedy where you had two couples living next door to each other. One was a black couple and the other were a white couple. The men were always trying to one over the other. There was a lot of Racial banter between the two men, all in good fun. The two wives were totally different from their husbands where they just acted as normal neighbours do. You might like to do a reaction video of that show some time.
Spike Milligan (The blackface comedy lunatic) is actually Indian Irish. Love his stuff.
They still show repeats of this series here in the uk now it's still funny
the black guy was one of englands best comedians , spike milligan.
Loved this show as a child. Don't make them like this no more. It's a shame
Not only could it be aired but an episode was aired tonight on British tv.
Later on is an episode of it ain’t half hot mum.
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Warren Mitchell was Jewish...He loved his role as Alf Garnett taking the piss out of the ignorance of racists
In the words of Warren Mitchel, the Jewish British actor that played Alf Garnet: "You're supposed to laugh at Alf Garnet, not with him". Alf won in the end, because now nobody can be Alf Garnet. That's the point of satire.
Look for a clip that includes Eemon Walker playing Winston opposite Alf. Walker is known in the USA for being the Chief in the TV show Chicago Fire.
and he speaks very highly of warren Mitchell........they got on very well and eamonn credits warren Mitchell saying he was great to him...
@paulrichards6894 Absolutely.
The woman sitting next to warren starred in carry on comedy films.
The problem with programmes like this then, is not the intent is the fact the studio audience laughed at the same bits as the racist and not at the racist. Same with Rising Damp, the audience laughs with Rigsby.
"I told you I was ill"
Those were the days when you didn't have to explain what wasn't acceptable, you just knew because it came out of the mouths of those deliberately rascist and bigotted objectionable characters.
Warren was confused and angry that some viewers saw his character as a champion of racism and the far right rather than satirising their beliefs. It just goes to show how ignorant racists are. You are right it was a different time, it was not intended as racist but times change.
Oops, I'm a Grandma, 👵👵👵 so I remember this show?
Spike Milligan was born and raised in India but the black face is shocking, even for that time.
People only hear the language and fail to get the message. At the time of this show the UK had two TV broadcasters the BBC and ITV. Both channels had anti-racist sit-coms this one on the BBC and Love Thy Neighbour on ITV. This was the time that a lot or Race and Sex equality legislation was being debated in society and in our parliament. Both shows depicted a racist, misogynistic and at times homophobic central character. The aim of the shows was to call out the central character for his stupidity, ignorance and intolerance. The shows made the racist look old-fashioned, stupid and laughable and were used to highlight how illogical racist, sexist and, to a lesser degree, homophobic arguments and stereo-types were.
irish roman catholic by an old friend of my fathers.. is a lot like what these 'irish americans ' look like to us
It has missed the end which is very funny.
We all need to laugh at ourselves. Great comedy.
This is what archie bunker and eric cartman are based on!
Warren Mitchell who played Alf, was Jewish, the TV series was not racist, it was meant to expose the stupidity of racism. Check out , Love thy Neighbour
Funny thing is Spike Milligan , although in blackface was born and raised in India
You should watch *"Love thy Neighbour"* our self-deprecating humour has zero racism.
The writer tried to take racism to the extreme to show people how wrong and stupid it was ( black folk only really came ti England, in numbers 10/15 years before this) but thick racists didn’t get the satire and made Alf into a hero.
I use to love this show
Remember the times, Pakistan and Bangladesh were India before 1947, and the old back then remember empire.
*Pakistan and Bangladesh were part of British India, which was a single country under British colonial rule, from 1858 to 1947*
The old or many of them still call Thailand - Siam, Sri Lanka - Ceylon and Myanmar - Burma. I must admit I found it hard to switch from Burma.
I remember watching this in the 70s. We loved it, but obviously you can't do it today. Especially the blackface
Do more on Alf Garrenet that was tame for him 😂
Is Love Thy Neighbour coming next? 🤣
Fabulous!
In normal countries that still understand what comedy is so it's fine it would only be a problem in the land of the home schooled.
warren mitchel the guy who takes the part of alf, is a jewish man, he was showing the racists what they are relly like lol
So many miss that point. I saw Mitchell playing Shylock in A Merchant of Venice. Superb.
Alf Garnett was always the butt of the joke. The entire show highlighted how ridiculous and stupid his views were. Seeing it out of context, in a short clip, doesn't give the full picture. Warren Mitchell, the actor who played Alf Garnett, was on the left, as were the writers. They all hated racists. That's a large part of the reason they made the show. :)
now react to ' Love thy Neighbour ' . . it was class, and making fun of the white guy and his silly comments, they were friends and their wives would tell them off for falling out... hilarious and clever.
thing is, we see trump and vance and are sort of expecting its a joke, like this
You need to watch Love Thy Neighbour another 70's "racist" classic, again the comedy value is against the racist, not racism if that makes sense
Sad thing is that people can't take a joke these days. IT'S CALLED BANTER CHECK ANY BUILDING SITE. such a shame we can't take the piss out of each other anymore without the risk of getting arrested 🤬🤬
@AndyCaley Risk arrest for taking the piss? Come on. Don't talk bollocks.
@@paulfletcher3998 Depends on who’s being depissed..
@jeanplunkett5580. No it doesn't. I think you're getting confused between taking the piss and outright abuse.
Two very different things.
@paulfletcher3998 nope I'm not.look at the people just sentenced for having an opinion. At very least now you could face the sack. For having banter
I've had mates on site of all kinds of backgrounds - everyone gave back as good as they got. And laughed with each other. Just seems everything just gone nuts. People's skin seems so thin these days
Johnny Speight, the show’s creator and writer was fiercely anti-racist but used racism as a device to mock itself, thereby illustrating its absurdity; much of his work reflected that. Alf is always given plenty of rope to hang himself and blithely uses it, exposing himself to be the witless buffoon that he was written to be. When it began in 1965, Alf represented the Old Guard, defender of the Empire and the status quo, in contrast to his daughter and her husband who were representative of the ‘Swinging 60’s’ and the progressive attitudes that were beginning to surface. In real life, Warren Mitchell was a jewish socialist, which would have been anathema to Alf. Spike Milligan, on the other hand, as funny as he was, was a dyed in the wool racist; if you want to see an example, try the Pakistani Dalek sketch from the ‘Q’ series.
Fucking hell, this made me so uncomfortable to watch, my insides are spinning, shows you how times have changed.
Just goes to show, comedy is just that. We laugh just as much at the Asian making fun but about white people. And I am white British.
It wasn't racist......it was just normal before everyone was offended by everything
The thing is the stuff alf said about labour was correct.
In Sickness and in health series 1 episode 3. Last joke in sketch is so non politically correct from mins 22:35 ish to the end. When he first meets Winston, his wife's new home help. The run up of the joke begins in the pub. Touching on race, sexuality, illness. Of course to those not grasping the dark sense of humour Brits have would take real offence. The Aussies and Kiwis will get it and South African and Canadians with other Commonwealth to a degree. Mates from all walks of life which the sketch covers don't take offence and laugh at ourselves. But would be good to see an American react. Remember it's the height of HIV AIDS at the time. I'm sure the actors had a laugh together making it. 😂
If you wanna watch offensive British shows watch love thy neighbour 😂
or "Mind your language"
I had a look at BBC's iPlayer and it suggests it was last available on BBC4 in 2010.
I laughed and laughed at bigoted Alf back in the 60's.
But I'm not sure it could be rerun as mainstream TV today. Despite us here all knowing who it's really making fun of, it would probably be viewed in the wrong light by many others.
Look up spike milligan.
You want to try watching blazing saddles something they wouldn't put on tv these days with the snowflakes
Neal,Humbs up if you like this..
This is not super racist anyone who thinks it is needs to grow up it's mocking racism
Those were the days when you could say what you liked and no one got offended
Yes you can call it racism NOW however it was just humour back in the 70s, everybody laughs at what is different, it's human nature, the whites made fun of the blacks and Indians amd they made fun of the whites. You never see a white person getting offended at being called a honky in a comedy sketch because that's all it is, a comedy sketch, and that's the problem with today's society, everybody thinks everything is a personal insult where the comedy really is just a ignorant generalisation rather than a personal attack.
Although this series was a great parody and satire of racist values, this isn't a great example of the show IMO.
Tome are not different maby in the usa..in Europe there Is stil comedy like that. European arw more tollerant if you look to the usa
We had a sense of humour back then, it was just funny both ways,it wasn't meant to be taken seriously. But then the thought brigade came and said it was offensive, but the name calling went both ways. So who was offended?
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Wow ! Alf Garnet super racist 🤭.....Obviously you have never watched American black comedians on stage to understand what racist material is.
It's only right.