I enjoyed his TV shows when I was a kid, but then I enjoyed Dick Emery, Benny Hill and various others who are now regarded as out of favour. I didn't understand the stuff now regarded as racist or sexist. Warren Mitchell was very funny as Alf Garnet too, but of course Mitchell was lampooning bigotry in a very clever way. Something that I didn't understand as a child either. Good quality comedy (like less good comedy) does not always age well. Interestingly I was watching some old Not the Nine O'Clock News recently. Noticed that a few times Pamela Stephenson 'blacked up' to impersonate (kind of) newsreader Moira Stewart. No offensive in my view, but curious that I should now be more sensitive to that kind of thing. Billy Connolly - he can be very funny sometimes, other times not - in my view. A bit like John Cleese.
I always remember Ricky Gervais saying about offence. People saying that remark is offensive. He says, and I agree with him, what you should say is that you found it offensive. Offence is taken, other people might not find it offensive. The same with Comedians. You can’t say a comedian is funny. You say you find him funny. It is subjective.
Watching/ listening to a bit of Forest v Chelsea on the way down. The two “experts” on the game are errr Lucy Ward and Rachel Corsie. This is nothing less than Woke social engineering in the UK media. I have never heard of either. Why is this happening ?
