AIBU to object to Hancock's Half Hour?

[TiddlesTheTiger]

I took exception to this episode. I complained to the BBC and they replied.
I won't say, yet, what I wrote or what they replied so if you have a few spare mins have a listen to the episode and give me your view.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b007yntz .

This is a 64 year old broadcast - it may not be fair to judge it by today's standards.

This is a show from the 50s and 60s. Standards where very different back then. A completely different era so you are being unreasonable.

You want me to give up half an hour of my life to listen but you’re not prepared to tell me why? YABU.

It's a very old broadcast, very funny but also very much of it's time.

If you don't like the kind of thing that is bound to be included don't listen, watch, read, etc.

It's an old comedy show, even if it was recent you'd still be unfair

You have to put it into historical context. If they started showing episodes of Love Thy Neighbour or Mind Your Language, that would be objectionable, but Tony Hancock's just silly.

I think you've missed the boat to complain about this. Tony Hancock's been dead for at least 40 years.

Thank fuck this wasn’t about Matt. I was struggling with the idea that he and his turtleneck had been given their own show.

Oh! You mean you took objection to The Male Suffragettes? OK!

Can I suggest you don't watch the Two Ronnies mini series The Worm That Turned

A pint? That's nearly an armful!

You want me to give up half an hour of my life to listen but you’re not prepared to tell me why? YABU.

Only listen if you have a few spare minutes or can play it while you do the dishes or something.

I know it's very old but it's on BBC Sounds now. BBC Sounds chooses what it makes available - it doesn't include everything that's ever been broadcast.

Never liked Tony Hancock, but I wouldn’t complain about it, because it’s of its time. Loads of comedy I like is also of its time but I just accept that some attitudes in it are outdated.
I think Mrs Brown’s Boys is a pile of misogynistic shite, but I wouldn’t complain about that, either.

@SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius

This is a 64 year old broadcast - it may not be fair to judge it by today's standards.

I enjoyed the level of understatement employed here.

or can play it while you do the dishes or something.

Oh well played, sir.

You can't judge past TV programmes by today's standards, otherwise you'd never finish. Have you seen The Benny Hill Show?

play it while you do the dishes or something

Oh touche! You wins t'internet for today.

You got me

The thing about Tony Hancock's shows is that he's always so full of himself, but comes unstuck and does stupid things which show him to be a buffoon. He's also hugely neurotic and none of the views he has can be taken seriously at all and the audience ends up laughing at him. He's a typical neurotic middle aged man that nobody takes seriously.

@TiddlesTheTiger

You want me to give up half an hour of my life to listen but you’re not prepared to tell me why? YABU.

Only listen if you have a few spare minutes or can play it while you do the dishes or something.

I know it's very old but it's on BBC Sounds now. BBC Sounds chooses what it makes available - it doesn't include everything that's ever been broadcast.

I imagine it's on bbc sounds so older listeners can remember and reminisce. Its not just about you or your age group.

I can't really be arsed listening to the whole thing . Can someone just tell me what the offensive bit is about please?

If you don’t like this then you’d better not watch The Office.

Only listen if you have a few spare minutes or can play it while you do the dishes or something.

nah, mate. You want an opinion? give us a summary.
The only bit of this show i remember is the blood donor one "a pint? that's nearly an armful"

Where do you stand on Round the Horne? Or the Navy Lark? Or the Goon Show? What about later ones, Benny Hill? Dave Allen? Dick Emery?

Of all the things in this world you could complain about, you choose a comedy programme that was made over 40 years ago.
Stop clutching your pearls.

So you didn't have to listen to it? But you did, didn't like what you heard and then you decided that no one should be allowed to listen to it?

What exactly is your issue?

Why do you think posters do dishes?

@Tonya345

You can't judge past TV programmes by today's standards, otherwise you'd never finish. Have you seen The Benny Hill Show?

We used to love Benny Hill, traditional silly slapstick/music Hall comedy. They've been repeated on Forces TV recently and they seem like drivel now. We must be changing in our tastes. Some of Hancocks still funny but a lot isn't but that's true of most comedy even current stuff. A lot of the stuff on TV now seems to be for their own entertainment rather than the viewers. OH still watches his dvds of Laural & Hardy though.