Just the Tip Ep 15: Television Censorship... again!

Woke Asian Guy and Egg White

This episode dealt with the current controversy of blackface and politically incorrect shows so there is a lot of show notes links to be created. Especially for Millennials and Americans who don’t know the dodgy television history that Britain created.
Little Britain has taken a lot of stick recently for the blacking up scenes. Do you agree it should be taken down or not? Read the controversy
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/13/blacking-up-was-of-a-piece-with-comedy-that-dealt-in-contempt
If you want to know the culturally insensitive television series starring a blacked up Spike Milligan in Curry and Chips then have a quick read of this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry_and_Chips
It has to be seen to be believed.
Mind your language was another series of infinite offensiveness. So bad it managed to have multiple stereotypes in one programme which in television racism is a Herculean effort
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFASIzQeDac
Spike Milligan’s Q series was a forerunner to The Monty Python Flying Circus so if you like that you will LOVE this! The latter pretty much ripped off the former.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q..._(TV_series)
Lenny Henry’s lone attempt at a Hollywood move: True Identity. Watch and LOL at the film trailer.. watch the movie only if you have exhausted every title on Netflix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JBXtVrGmaI
A time when American Pie was considered edgy. Really? That really happened? A mainstream film about pie f**king. Read the blurb here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Pie_(film)
Another amazing Dennis Waterman Fact:
From 1975 to 1978, he starred as Detective Sergeant George Hamilton Carter in ‘The Sweeney’. Meanwhile in 1976, he released his first music album, ‘Downwind of Angels’, Two years later, he returned to the Royal Shakespeare Company to play Sackett in ‘Saratoga’