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cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/4028344
A controversial Little Britain sketch is “explicitly racist and outdated”, and it is surprising it is still available on BBC iPlayer, according to audience research by Ofcom.
The regulator showed people a number of clips of television as part of a study into audience expectations on potentially offensive content across linear TV and streaming services.
One sketch from Little Britain, originally broadcast in 2002 and available on iPlayer, shows David Walliams as university employee Linda Flint describing an Asian student, Kenneth Lao, over the phone to her manager.
He is described as having “yellowish skin, slight smell of soy sauce … the ching-chong China man.”
The scene is accompanied by a laugh track.
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Aren’t all sketch shows intended to be offensive, or atleast tip toe the line
Forget inoffensive. Was it ever even funny?
I never found it funny but taste is subjective. A lot of people did at the time.
