Not sure if Real Life examples would be valid here or not as there's no No Real Life Examples marker on the page. Floating this as a possible: the repeated situation throughout the 1980's-early 2000's where comedians of a previous generation were repeatedly consternated to be called out on some of their sources of humour which had either fallen out of fashion or were considered to be no longer acceptable. As an example, the public argument between Stephen Fry and Bill Oddie which lead to Oddie walking out on a charity benefit that Fry was organising for AIDS charities. Bill Oddie had been told that aspects of the comedy that made him famous in the 1960's and 1970's simply would not fly in the 1990's. Oddie, who had (and still has) a fan-base that grew up with his sort of comedy and was comfortable with the style, got angry, pointed out that jokes about gay and black people were meant affectionately, and actually said "nobody has ever complained about this before!", declared he wasn't prepared to rewrite his act, and walked out. This is typical of the late 20th century clash between British comics of the older and newer schools of thought and the line "nobody ever complained before" is a recurring theme.
So... is this worth adding?
And why is the formatting putting a back-slash where it shouldn't go, every time an apostrophe comes into play, ie as in "The 1970's"?
Edited by AgProvMale, early sixties, Cranky old fart, at least two decades behind. So you have been warned. Functionally illiterate in several languages.
Not sure if Real Life examples would be valid here or not as there's no No Real Life Examples marker on the page. Floating this as a possible: the repeated situation throughout the 1980's-early 2000's where comedians of a previous generation were repeatedly consternated to be called out on some of their sources of humour which had either fallen out of fashion or were considered to be no longer acceptable. As an example, the public argument between Stephen Fry and Bill Oddie which lead to Oddie walking out on a charity benefit that Fry was organising for AIDS charities. Bill Oddie had been told that aspects of the comedy that made him famous in the 1960's and 1970's simply would not fly in the 1990's. Oddie, who had (and still has) a fan-base that grew up with his sort of comedy and was comfortable with the style, got angry, pointed out that jokes about gay and black people were meant affectionately, and actually said "nobody has ever complained about this before!", declared he wasn't prepared to rewrite his act, and walked out. This is typical of the late 20th century clash between British comics of the older and newer schools of thought and the line "nobody ever complained before" is a recurring theme.
So... is this worth adding?
And why is the formatting putting a back-slash where it shouldn't go, every time an apostrophe comes into play, ie as in "The 1970's"?
Edited by AgProv Male, early sixties, Cranky old fart, at least two decades behind. So you have been warned. Functionally illiterate in several languages.