BBC Memory Holes Comedy Sketches that SATIRISED Racism
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The BBC has given That Mitchell and Webb Look a digital dust cloth. Eleven old sketches have disappeared from BBC iPlayer because, according to the broadcaster, they no longer "work" well today. A striking choice, because comedy that won a BAFTA twenty years ago turns out not to be automatically resistant to...
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Even safe lefty establishment comics are now being erased The BBC has completely cut multiple sketches from 2006 comedy skit show That Mitchell and Webb Look after dumping the Bafta-winning series back onto its streaming service for its twentieth anniversary. The official line is that some of the old material no longer "works today." What no longer works, it turns out, is comedy that satirised and mocked the very mindset of racism. A BBC spokesm…
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Harry Potter author JK Rowling has responded to the BBC's removal of That Mitchell and Webb Look from iPlayer after 11 sketches from the show, which ran from 2006 to 2010, were taken off the site.It came this week after the broadcaster deemed some specific scenes unsuitable for modern audiences.The Bafta-winning sketch show, which featured David Mitchell and Robert Webb across four series, was recently made available on the streaming platform to…
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