I remember the battery sergeant major in "it aint half hot, Mum" (wonderful series now banned by the liberal elite), referring to "Paddington General"
Was it ever?
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This is completely off topic but it deserves a mention.
It is a fact of life that humour, the subject of humour, and indeed what is or isn't acceptable, changes over the generations.
For example, you will find a clip of the music hall comedian Gus Elen on Youtube doing his song "It's a great big shame" towards then end of his life in 1931. The song is about a henpecked friend of his and what he would do if he was married to the woman in question. In the break between the chorus and the next verse he circles the stage waving a hammer. If a comedian or indeed anybody else did that on stage today they would probably be nicked for inciting violence towards women.
The Black & White Minstrel Show (whatever you happened to think of the content) was taken off air because the male cast were white actors who were blaced up. In "It Ain't Half Hot Mum" white actor Muchael Bates is blacked up as an Asian, and a racist one at that.
"Love Thy Neighbour" made fun of racism.
It was commomplace to poke fun of homosexuals, and It Aint Half Hot Mum has a bit of that as well.
The list is a long one.
Whilst I agree that people are perhaps preceived to be more thin-skinned today than they were 50 years ago, it has to be borne in mind that those who have or had that fun poked at them might have not thought too highly about it.
And that is not liberal elitism; that is to accept the way things have changed over the years.
The past is another country. They do things differently there...
