Pc Script Writing On The Bbc, The end of comedy. Options

[The Old Lady]

In this morning's Telegraph, there is a report stating that the BBC have made rules as to what you can or can't say in scripts. Of course, you can't offend anyone. So that's the end of comedy. With these rules, there would have been no Basil Fawlty; the bit in Blackadder goes forth where the General is advised of the unsuitability of a woman and he askes, "Why? Is she Welsh?" ( I am half Welsh, so don't get the wrong idea), or any of the episodes of "Allo Allo", where just about any European is sent up including ourselves. All not allowed. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mad.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wacko.gif)
The world has gone crazy.
Bev.

[The Old Lady]

Does anyone have comedy that they used to find amusing that they no longer do? I thought that "On The Buses" was funny when I was a child, but it's cringeworthy now. Is that age or socialisation?

[Crotchetymum]

Does anyone have comedy that they used to find amusing that they no longer do? I thought that "On The Buses" was funny when I was a child, but it's cringeworthy now. Is that age or socialisation?

Good taste (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) I never like it (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

I'm trying to think what I really enjoyed watching, but I think it was comedians rather than sit-coms - Morecombe and Wise and the Two Ronnies - I still enjoy those (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif). Strangely enough, the only sit-com that I can think of is My Wife Next Door with John Alderton and Hannah Gordon, which I haven't thought of for years! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wacko.gif) I can't remember any really laugh-out-loud ones at all - can anyone jog my memory for me?


By the way, do the new rules mean that the very funny Goodness Gracious Me! writers won't be able to pen their 'going out for an English' scipts any more? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif)