![]() “People can then reply, ‘No, that’s inaccurate, because we took down the programme, so we’re definitely not racist.’ Racism in Britain has always been more subtle and insidious – we need those blatant examples to remind us.” “They can say, ‘Things still aren’t equal, because I’m being mistreated in this institution where I feel there isn’t full equality,’” he explains. ![]() ![]() What’s more, Chawawa says the removal of the most blatant examples of racism in mainstream media can also lead to a gaslighting situation for Black people and people of colour. “It’s important to have that on record, so we know that we need to progress leaps and bounds, and to also know we must have had a racism problem at some point, because we were ridiculing people of colour by mocking them on national television.” “It marks where we were at that time in history and where we were culturally,” he adds. Could the drive from nervous broadcasters and contrite comedians to fix their past transgressions actually hamper efforts to improve equality?īritish media reporting on Black Lives Matter protests □□ #comedy #satire #protestĪ post shared by Munya Chawawa on at 11:00am PDT While comedies face re-evaluation of their content – material in some cases from just a decade ago – and there is a greater understanding of the harm they caused, the path of how we deal with past shows is less obvious. ‘Little Britain’ has been removed from streaming services due to its use of blackface. Other series, including The Mighty Boosh and The League of Gentlemen, remain on iPlayer but are no longer to be found on Netflix. Later, Leigh Francis apologised on Instagram for his caricatures of black celebrities in noughties sketch show Bo’ Selecta, which is no longer available on All4. Popular shock-comedy series Little Britain and Come Fly With Me, both written and performed by Matt Lucas and David Walliams, were taken off iPlayer, BritBox, and Netflix, before the pair issued an apology for the programme’s use of blackface. Much-loved titles that have, in the past, been held up as the pinnacle of British telly, face cancellation or editing of episodes that feature bad taste jokes, racial slurs, and blackface.īBC-owned broadcaster UKTV, for example, was quick to remove an episode of Fawlty Towers which saw its stuffy Major Bowen character use racist language in relation to an anecdote about the West Indies cricket team. In the last few weeks, outrage has broken out online as classic TV shows are pulled from circulation in the wake of global anti-racism protests.
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