Canadians' Sense of Humour?
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Re: Canadians' Sense of Humour?
Manning died back in 2007 at the age of 76.
He belonged to an earlier era when the word multiculturalism didn't even feature in dictionaries.
Nobody else here remember "Love thy Neighbour"?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Thy_Neighbour
Let's just say the 70's were a period of adjustment in the UK
He belonged to an earlier era when the word multiculturalism didn't even feature in dictionaries.
Nobody else here remember "Love thy Neighbour"?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Thy_Neighbour
Let's just say the 70's were a period of adjustment in the UK
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Re: Canadians' Sense of Humour?
Manning died back in 2007 at the age of 76.
He belonged to an earlier era when the word multiculturalism didn't even feature in dictionaries.
Nobody else here remember "Love thy Neighbour"?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Thy_Neighbour
Let's just say the 70's were a period of adjustment in the UK
He belonged to an earlier era when the word multiculturalism didn't even feature in dictionaries.
Nobody else here remember "Love thy Neighbour"?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Thy_Neighbour
Let's just say the 70's were a period of adjustment in the UK
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Re: Canadians' Sense of Humour?
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#154
Re: Canadians' Sense of Humour?
Probably both
Leonard Rossiter died two decades before Manning ... but Rigsby's reactions to Philip in Rising Damp were just as uninformed and negative ... but they were very funny for the viewing public at the time
Maybe if he had lived longer, we'd be calling him an old racist too
I've been watching too much Access ...
Leonard Rossiter died two decades before Manning ... but Rigsby's reactions to Philip in Rising Damp were just as uninformed and negative ... but they were very funny for the viewing public at the time
Maybe if he had lived longer, we'd be calling him an old racist too
I've been watching too much Access ...
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Re: Canadians' Sense of Humour?
Probably both
Leonard Rossiter died two decades before Manning ... but Rigsby's reactions to Philip in Rising Damp were just as uninformed and negative ... but they were very funny for the viewing public at the time
Maybe if he had lived longer, we'd be calling him an old racist too
I've been watching too much Access ...
Leonard Rossiter died two decades before Manning ... but Rigsby's reactions to Philip in Rising Damp were just as uninformed and negative ... but they were very funny for the viewing public at the time
Maybe if he had lived longer, we'd be calling him an old racist too
I've been watching too much Access ...
(I can't comment on love thy neighbour as I never saw it - the wiki entry makes it sound like social commentary, but that may well be retrospective flattery.)
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Re: Canadians' Sense of Humour?
Rigsby, and Alf Garnet as played by Warrent Mitchel, were sending up those attitudes, whereas manning really was a racist.
(I can't comment on love thy neighbour as I never saw it - the wiki entry makes it sound like social commentary, but that may well be retrospective flattery.)
(I can't comment on love thy neighbour as I never saw it - the wiki entry makes it sound like social commentary, but that may well be retrospective flattery.)
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Re: Canadians' Sense of Humour?
Well ... yeah ...
#159
Re: Canadians' Sense of Humour?
The point i was putting across is that it's ok for the likes of Chris Rock to be racist yet a fat northerner isn't.
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Re: Canadians' Sense of Humour?
I would say no and no. Not all sitcoms are commentaries, red dwarf? black adder (well maybe the 4th is) for example. I do think comedy can be had out of social, racial or religious differences, but there is a difference between friendly or affectionate banter and outright bigotry.
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Re: Canadians' Sense of Humour?
I would say no and no. Not all sitcoms are commentaries, red dwarf? black adder (well maybe the 4th is) for example. I do think comedy can be had out of social, racial or religious differences, but there is a difference between friendly or affectionate banter and outright bigotry.