I THINK we accept that classic comedies like Till Death Us Do Part could never be made in our PC times.
Writer Roy Clarke, who wrote Last of the Summer Wine among many, reckons there’s too much fear of giving offence today as the “thought police” took away our ability to laugh at ourselves.
While this has a grain of truth, I’m not sure we’ve got the stomach for an Alf Garnett now.
He was pretty horrible to everyone, including his family, and some of the programmes were actually hard to watch.
Perhaps our sense of humour just grew up.
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