{"id":16979,"date":"2020-08-26T00:12:55","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T07:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=16979"},"modified":"2020-08-26T00:12:55","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T07:12:55","slug":"decline-fall-of-british-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2020\/08\/26\/decline-fall-of-british-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Decline &#038; Fall of British Humor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16980\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/salmon-mousse.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/salmon-mousse.jpg 624w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/salmon-mousse-300x156.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Post-WWII, one of the things that the British could boast about was their brilliant comedy, that even the BBC could boast about while otherwise putting down the U.K.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uPkD4E1-MO8\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;So, what has British \u201chumor\u201d\u2014in all it\u2019s political correctness\u2014degraded to?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FunnyAlfGarnett\/status\/1281288722659639299\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">This<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" align=\"center\">It&#39;s time for us to check out how those wacky and zany folks in terrestrial TV comedy have been gettin&#39; on since we all stopped watching.<br \/>What d&#39;ya think?<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IbZZrJPyvB\">pic.twitter.com\/IbZZrJPyvB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Alf Garnett (@FunnyAlfGarnett) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FunnyAlfGarnett\/status\/1281288722659639299?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 9, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;As the veritable Daniel Hannan notes, \u201cDoes anyone, even the wokiest of the woke, actually find this funny? My suspicion is that it triggers a kind of Pavlovian response: \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DanielJHannan\/status\/1281502622420209664\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ooh, she said something about racists, I\u2019d better guffaw<\/a>\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;But the sadness of this clip is not so much from the clip itself, but from it\u2019s fall from comedic gems such as these:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VKHFZBUTA4k\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vnciwwsvNcc\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8e1xvyTdBZI\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Sadly, British Comedy seems to have collectively imbibed upon the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7m1SXSdeWVY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Salmon Mousse<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\"><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatblog\"><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalhat\"><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Decline &#038; Fall of British Humor\"><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"What has British 'humor'\u2014in all it's political correctness\u2014degraded to?\"><meta name=\"twitter:image:src\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/salmon-mousse.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Post-WWII, one of the things that the British could boast about was their brilliant comedy, that even the BBC could boast about while otherwise putting down the U.K. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;So, what has British \u201chumor\u201d\u2014in all it\u2019s political correctness\u2014degraded to? &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This. 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