Sorry to link to YouTube for this, but it’s just such a great example of actual humor from the decades where it was allowed to joke about it.
So in your opinion you can’t make yokes about piracy nowerdays? How did you get to that conclusion?
I honestly don’t even think this is that edgy of a sketch …
Perhaps some overzealous reference to the fact that Graham Linehan is a massive wanker, butthurt transphobe. The way you “can’t really make rape/racist/sexist/transphobic jokes anymore”. He doesn’t really make TV anymore. This skit on the other hand, as well as most of Father Ted and The IT Crowd, is perfectly PG.
Vaguely conservative people love to claim that “you can’t joke about anything nowadays!!” but everytime I ask for an example it’s either completely banal stuff like this sketch, or it’s just straight up bigotry with the thinnest veneer of “a joke”.
Like, sorry that calling a trans woman a guy or saying weird shit about Muslims isn’t funny in 2023, but good god get some fucking actual material.
My reply was regarding this:
I honestly don’t even think this is that edgy of a sketch …
Crap, I’ve known this skit back from when YouTube had 5-star rating system on videos, and learned it comes from The IT Crowd just today
I used to love this show until that one transphobic episode. After watching that I looked up the main show writer and learned that he is huge piece. Such disappointment.
Thought the joke was more that the character was transphobic and it was an iran pun
That one, and the writer, have not aged well. Old shows often have jokes that just leave a bad taste today, and Graham Linehan’s unpleasant politics add to this. But it seems he went off the deep end after he had finished his best work, and aside from this episode the rest remains funny and watchable.
Wait until you realize 99% of people are transphobes and just don’t tell you because it’s not allowed.
That happens when you ban opinions. :)
and then steal it agaiiiiiin!
The IT Crowd basically cemented itself as timeless by never directly referencing anything super techy that would date it. Sure, there’s a guitar hero controller and an xbox 360 in a lot of shots, as well as some 4:3 laptops, but that’s about it.
There is that one episode where they go into intense detail about how the Internet functions. They even show it!
