This Liberal Wants the Roseanne Show Back

[jonathan]

Roseanne is a great comedian and her show
was wonderful.

Comedy should be immune from political correctness
else there will be no outlets for controversial
views.

[David E. Powell]

Well put. The last couple of episodes dealt with opioid addiction among blue collar Americans, and the pressures in the modern economy on skilled handymen and construction people, in the face of cheap competition and underbids on jobs. Both of those issues are important and both are ignored on American TV, especially Sitcoms where "Everyone is Upper-Middle class at the very least and totally happy" is the usual model these days.

I am just blown away that the wheels came off this quick.

[dav...@agent.com]

Benny Hill (1924-1992), the first comedian star to be made by TV, went
on to be the most popular comedian in the world, admired by his peers,
notably Charlie Chaplin who loved his slapstick. Hill fell foul of the
politically correct brigade and was sacked by Thames Television in
1989. Killed off, he died an early death; and is now largely
forgotten. His comedy was based on innuendo, bosoms, bottoms and
nubile girls. The speeded-up chases were always good fun. Hill had
the look of a naughty cherub who never grew up and his so-called smut
and sexism were innocent and as naughty as a Donald McGill dirty
seaside postcard.

[bob]

In terms of British TV taste, Benny Hill was 1970s. His show was cancelled
as much because audience preference had moved to a different style of
humour, with the “new wave” of comedians like Alexi Sayle, Ben Elton and
Rowan Atkinson being preferred. There were only 4 channels in the UK at the
time, so competition was severe, and Benny Hill just couldn’t hold the
audience any more. They themselves have been replaced by newer ideas,
that’s the nature of show business. There’s no conspiracy involved to make
thing “politically correct”, just changes in taste.

Robin

[Mitchell Holman]

dav...@agent.com wrote in news:p0a0hdlaiavmq9mtu...@4ax.com:

> jonathan <WriteI...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Roseanne is a great comedian and her show
>>was wonderful.
>>
>>Comedy should be immune from political correctness
>>else there will be no outlets for controversial
>>views.
>
> Benny Hill (1924-1992), the first comedian star to be made by TV,

I would wager that Lucielle Ball holds that distinction

[Byker]

> jonathan <WriteI...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Benny Hill (1924-1992), the first comedian star to be made by TV, went
> on to be the most popular comedian in the world, admired by his peers,
> notably Charlie Chaplin who loved his slapstick. Hill fell foul of the
> politically correct brigade and was sacked by Thames Television in
> 1989. Killed off, he died an early death; and is now largely
> forgotten. His comedy was based on innuendo, bosoms, bottoms and
> nubile girls. The speeded-up chases were always good fun. Hill had
> the look of a naughty cherub who never grew up and his so-called smut
> and sexism were innocent and as naughty as a Donald McGill dirty
> seaside postcard.

Don’t forget Dave Allen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Allen_(comedian)

https://tinyurl.com/yawnwkc2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upEBdKFGlPg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbgqtvJOJus

One our local TV stations aired Benny Hill and Dave Allen back-to-back five
nights a week for many years...

[Dean Markley]

On Wednesday, May 30, 2018 at 6:44:03 PM UTC-4, jonathan wrote:

Exactly. ABC ought to be embarrassed.

[dav...@agent.com]

bob <rcp...@gmail.com> wrote:

><dav...@agent.com> wrote:
>> jonathan <WriteI...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Roseanne is a great comedian and her show
>>> was wonderful.
>>>
>>> Comedy should be immune from political correctness
>>> else there will be no outlets for controversial
>>> views.
>>
>> Benny Hill (1924-1992), the first comedian star to be made by TV, went
>> on to be the most popular comedian in the world, admired by his peers,
>> notably Charlie Chaplin who loved his slapstick. Hill fell foul of the
>> politically correct brigade and was sacked by Thames Television in
>> 1989. Killed off, he died an early death; and is now largely
>> forgotten. His comedy was based on innuendo, bosoms, bottoms and
>> nubile girls. The speeded-up chases were always good fun. Hill had
>> the look of a naughty cherub who never grew up and his so-called smut
>> and sexism were innocent and as naughty as a Donald McGill dirty
>> seaside postcard.

the above is according to Robert Tanitch.

[george152]

True.
Theres a lot of snowflakes out there who are butt hurt before they even
open the book/magazine/radio or TV show..

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[jonathan]

Still have a thing for 'Hills Angels'. This clip
is an all time favorite. The French girl with
the long black hair still holds my eh hum..
attention.


Hill's Angels ft. Mischa Daniels - Run Away
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri-N4DkRSps





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[Fred J. McCall]

Dean Markley <dama...@gmail.com> wrote on Thu, 31 May 2018 12:28:42
-0700 (PDT):

The lesson here seems to be "Don't insult the political friends of the
bosses." That said, I'm not sure what it has to do with naval
science.


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-- Professor Walsh, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"

[a425couple]

OK. Especially with the clear partisan double standard.

from
http://mynorthwest.com/1005625/dori-roseanne-samantha-bee/

Dori: The obvious double-standard with Roseanne and Samantha Bee
BY DORI MONSON
JUNE 1, 2018 AT 10:27 AM

Comedian Samantha Bee (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)
As everyone heard earlier this week, Roseanne Barr sent out a racist
tweet about Obama staffer Valerie Jarrett, in which she implied that
Jarrett was the offspring of “Planet of the Apes.” In response, ABC
promptly fired Roseanne, canceling the 2018 reboot of her hit 90s sitcom
“Roseanne.”

My question is, what will happen to comedian Samantha Bee? Wednesday
night on TBS, Samantha Bee used the most vile word in our English
language when she called Ivanka Trump the c-word. Samantha was making a
comment on the government’s immigration policy, in which parents and
children are separated at the border. The comedian criticized Ivanka
Trump for tweeting a photo of her with her son, calling it oblivious.

RELATED: Roseanne blames Ambien for racist tweet

You don’t have to be a Trump supporter to find it absolutely repulsive
to call a woman the c-word. But we now know that TBS is not going to
treat Samantha Bee the same way that ABC treated Roseanne. Like
Roseanne, Samantha apologized on Twitter. TBS praised her on Twitter
along with an apology of their own.

The double-standard is undeniable here. Calling a woman the c-word is
every bit as vile and disgusting as calling an African-American woman
the offspring of an ape. They are both inexcusable. But the reaction is
about as unpredictable as you can get in America these days. Roseanne
was fired. Samantha kept her job.

Roseanne is a wack-job, there’s no doubt about that. I don’t know if
Roseanne was drunk or high or bipolar when she sent out that tweet. She
claimed Ambien, which I’m not buying, but either way, it was a stupid,
inexcusable, career-destroying tweet. However, Samantha Bee not only
planned on what she said well in advance, but they put it in the
teleprompter, and her producers were aware of what she was going to say.
TBS allowed it to air on their network. There is no way to explain this
societal double-standard that we have.

Not to mention, Roseanne’s show was a cash show; it was the most
successful sitcom in years on network television. And ABC dropped it
immediately. Samantha Bee is a marginal show on a marginal network. Yes
TBS stood by her. Why? Because calling the president’s daughter the
c-word is, somehow, in the bizarre world of showbiz, infinitely more
acceptable than calling an African-American the offspring of an ape.
They’re both horrible. They’re both disgusting. But the reaction is stark.

Equally disgusting. One cost someone her career. The other got laughs
from an entire audience. You can’t say that one is a comedian and one
isn’t — Roseanne began her career doing stand-up. They’re both the same.

Also, that is a word that I find so vile. It is a word that has not and
will not ever pass over my lips. The c-word to describe a woman is every
bit as disgusting as the n-word to describe an African-American. But you
can be vile — as long as you’re describing the daughter of a Republican
president.

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