![]() And to be honest with you, this country doesn’t have time either” Trump told a (mostly) confused crowd back in June. I’ve been challenged by so many people, I don’t frankly have time for total political correctness. “I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct. Who’s behind this shadowy cabal of comedy killing Political Correctness? Politicians? Well, not quite, given the incumbent US President was elected after a campaign in which he repeatedly lambasted it whenever questioned on his views on Islam, and women. “It seems to be in vogue at the moment, and I’m hoping it will pass.” “It seems to be cool at the moment to be offended by stuff, and that’s a shame,” sighs a jaded Buckley. The forces behind the powerful political correctness brigade must have reared their head at some point in the last three years. When did this change occur? Well, we know the sitcom in question finished in 2010, perhaps under the boot of modern sensibility, but then it produced two successful spin-off movies which grossed a cumulative nigh-on £100 million pounds at the box office as late as 2014. The comedy is apparently satirising offensive jokes, while still getting to make them, alongside a load of cakes, which they’re also eating.īut this is all academic, because apparently, in this new post-political correctness world, The Inbetweeners is illegal. Suddenly that laughing at/with line becomes muddied. But he’s also right that you’re meant to sympathise with them. The hormone-addled foursome hopelessly flail their way through their A-Levels, and more importantly, in their attempts to lose their virginity and in fairness to Buckley, he’s right in the respect that you’re supposed to think the characters are buffoonish, dim-witted losers. ![]() The Inbetweeners was essentially an American Pie homage set in a British sixth form with the addition of a character that ingeniously sidestepped any accusation of being a junior Mark Corrigan rip-off by wearing glasses. ![]() We aren’t laughing with the characters’ unsavoury worldviews, but at them. In other words: you’re nicked, Jim.īut officer, he replies, “when The Inbetweeners was around, everyone understood the context – that they were kids… there used to be a sympathy, where you could almost forgive them, because you can’t really have a go at someone for being stupid – that’s not really their fault.” “The comedy is apparently satirising offensive jokes, while still getting to make them, alongside a load of cakes, which they’re also eating”Īh, the Alf Garnett defence. ![]() Why? Well having rewatched YouTube compilations of the ‘Funniest Moments’ from all 3 series in the cold light of 2018, I’ve got your ‘sitcom’ on charges of rampant misogyny, casual homophobia and routinely using disabilities as little more than slapstick props. You got that right Sonny Jim, this is PC Gonemad, so step away from the banter, put your hands on your ‘Mingemobile’ and don’t you dare think about reaching for a comeback series, because your enduringly popular show is now illegal in the hypothetical present. There seems to be a joke police, nowadays.” There’s no in-between, it’s just, ‘This person said this on television – isn’t that terrible?’ and it’s killing comedy, because you’re not allowed to joke about anything, it seems. “I do think that possibly people would maybe be more offended by The Inbetweeners if it was to be made today… it feels very black and white with comedy. Last month James Buckley, best known to Inbetweeners fans as comedy teen sex-pest ‘Jay’, told Digital Spy: But is the show really worth celebrating? Ten years after the show first aired, the original Inbetweeners cast members are set to reunite for a special show to mark the anniversary of the sitcom appearing on our screens.
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