Sorry to link to YouTube for this, but it’s just such a great example of actual humor from the decades where it was allowed to joke about it.

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    1 year ago

    So in your opinion you can’t make yokes about piracy nowerdays? How did you get to that conclusion?

    I honestly don’t even think this is that edgy of a sketch …

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        Perhaps some overzealous reference to the fact that Graham Linehan is a massive wanker, butthurt transphobe. The way you “can’t really make rape/racist/sexist/transphobic jokes anymore”. He doesn’t really make TV anymore. This skit on the other hand, as well as most of Father Ted and The IT Crowd, is perfectly PG.

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        1 year ago

        So? My point was, that you could easily make this joke today, why not?

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          Vaguely conservative people love to claim that “you can’t joke about anything nowadays!!” but everytime I ask for an example it’s either completely banal stuff like this sketch, or it’s just straight up bigotry with the thinnest veneer of “a joke”.

          Like, sorry that calling a trans woman a guy or saying weird shit about Muslims isn’t funny in 2023, but good god get some fucking actual material.

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          1 year ago

          My reply was regarding this:

          I honestly don’t even think this is that edgy of a sketch …