Viewers protest at Matt Lucas and David Walliams's Show

papa smurf · 28-12-2010, 09:40

Viewers protest at Matt Lucas and David Walliams's 'minstrel show': Comedy duo's new BBC spoof accused of being racist

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz...#ixzz19OxSQydF

did you see it ? what did you think of it ??

i thought it was hilarious ,spat my beer out a couple of times .

**Kymmy** · 28-12-2010, 09:43

As one news reporter said they'll be people who will take offence at everything..

I really enjoyed it

Sirius · 28-12-2010, 09:46

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Originally Posted by Kymmy

As one news reporter said they'll be people who will take offence at everything..

I really enjoyed it

Agreed.

There are too many idiots out there looking for reasons to complain because they have nothing better to do with there sad little lives.

punky · 28-12-2010, 09:51

I think it is more racist (and sexist) to assume that every member of staff in an entire airport and airline company would be a middle-aged white male.

Meera Syal and Sanjeev Bhaskar play up to Indian stereotypes but noone ever calls them racist?

The really sad thing is that as soon as Precious Little (the West-Indian lady) came on I knew what was going to happen. Just once it would be nice to have a pleasant surprise.

martyh · 28-12-2010, 10:03

i thought it was a very funny show , 10.3 million viewers watched it ,it would be interesting to see how many complained to the Beeb

**Stuart** · 28-12-2010, 10:07

One thing to remember here: The Daily Mail is rabidly anti-BBC, so will use every opportunity to attack them..

Also, I did a search for one of the "tweets" mentioned in the article.

Searching for the phrase "Watching replay of Come Fly With Me. Black & White Minstrel Show comes to mind" on Twitter returned a messeage that loading tweets was taking a while. Searching for the phrase on Google returned this article and a couple of others.

No sign of any tweets though.

I am not sure if Google searches tweets, so I searched Bing, which I am certain I read does search tweets. This also returned the article, but no mention beyond that.

**Hugh** · 28-12-2010, 10:07

I watched it, but didn't find it very funny.

martyh · 28-12-2010, 10:14

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Originally Posted by Hugh

I watched it, but didn't find it very funny.

but did you find it racist?

**Hugh** · 28-12-2010, 10:17

Not particularly - it used stereotypes, but a wide range; I don't think it was racist, just lazy and unfunny; ymmv.....

Actually, I am surprised that the BNP have not complained about the over-representation of minorities on the programme.....

jb66 · 28-12-2010, 10:29

I thought it was hilarious, i thaught it was borderline, but that doesn't bother me, I'm Scottish and if there was a man in a kilt with Ginger hair drinking whisky I'd laugh at that too

**Stuart** · 28-12-2010, 10:32

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Originally Posted by Sirius

Agreed.

There are too many idiots out there looking for reasons to complain because they have nothing better to do with there sad little lives.

Agreed. I thought the show was brilliant.

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Originally Posted by punky

I think it is more racist (and sexist) to assume that every member of staff in an entire airport and airline company would be a middle-aged white male.

True.

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Meera Syal and Sanjeev Bhaskar play up to Indian stereotypes but noone ever calls them racist?

The thing is, people are more forgiving when people make fun of their own.

I need a better way of explaining that. Try this. I am sure you, from time to time, make fun of your other half. How would you feel if a stranger did? Offended? Happy?

I suspect you would not be happy, even if you weren't offended. The reason is that you don't know the person so you don't know if they were having a joke or just being nasty.

It's the same with stereotyping groups.

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The really sad thing is that as soon as Precious Little (the West-Indian lady) came on I knew what was going to happen. Just once it would be nice to have a pleasant surprise.

Yeah, but I've known many people that would do that (a lot of different races).

Matt Lucas and David Walliams have always played caricatures of different groups in society. Their whole act is playing caricatures. Right from the early days of Rock Profiles (when they played hilarious but wildly inaccurate caricatures of pop and rock stars). It's also worth remembering that the characters they have played are predominantly white.

Perhaps the Daily Mail should look at it's own Cartoons before criticising anyone else's caricatures.

**Hugh** · 28-12-2010, 10:55

Nothing wrong with stereotyping, it's when prejudice (preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience) is added to the mix that problems (imho) occur - I saw very little evidence of prejudice in the programme.

Gary L · 28-12-2010, 11:33

I think it's a good thing to have on the TV. if you just see it for what it is and not what you want it to be then it's just comedy.

I like Taaj on the cat mobile.

**Maggy J** · 28-12-2010, 11:37

Title amended to make more sense.

papa smurf · 28-12-2010, 12:14

sorry you didn't like it the way wot i wrote it