Showing posts with label the league of gentlemen. Show all posts
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Thursday, January 27, 2011

"blackface" in usually sophisticated and funny british sitcoms

i generally dig these shows, but why the fuck did they think this was ok?!

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(i've seen one worse but i cannot seem to locate it on-line...)
update:  above video has been removed, but here's a lower quality version on youtube.


(undecided...)
update:  above link/video broken, lesser quality version on youtube.

little britain related discussion here

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what the fuck?!  i stopped watching this show once i saw this shit!!

discussion on this "papa lazarou" character here.

more on the subject here.





one show that actually did something right w/the subject:
"peep show-jez in painted black face"

related links:

List of contemporary comedians using blackface

Why 'blacking up' white actors isn't necessarily racist
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