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 .

@ManateeFair

“Please spend half an hour of your life listening to a programme made about 60 years ago by people who are mostly dead so you can indulge my need for validation. AIBU?”

Yes you are.

oh this exactly! OP get a life

If you want to listen to things that comply with modern standards of taste and acceptability then listen to things that are new.

We should not censor the past - it happened. Art is made at a particular point in time and reflects the attitudes of that time.

@Mochudubh

This is like people calling Till Death Us Do Part racist. The whole point was to show up the ridiculousness of the sort of views held by the real-life equivalents of the Alf Garnett character.

Indeed But Til Death Us Do Part is never shown now.

But Til Death Us Do Part is never shown now

It's on Amazon Prime for 99p per episode

Don't be daft, of course it is, it's being streamed in many places! And you can buy videos, youtube it all sorts.

Ok. A Hancock fan writes. It's fair to say that most of the women characters in this programme - not this episode, but across the whole programme - are generally written as less than sympathetic characters - secretaries, unhappy girlfriends, whatever. However I couldn't find any references to violence in this episode, and the general tone is that the male characters' attitudes to misogyny are written in a way to make the holders of those views appear stupid rather than sympathetic. And, in the end, their mothers put a stop to it.

It's from the 1950s.

And not short on irony, a man who can't cook his own food, claiming women hold him back. And a woman telling him to his face, if he doesn't like her cooking, he can do it himself!

What's the issue? It made me smile. I seem to remember my dm telling my df much the same thing.

@TheInebriati
Your explanation of the episode in the context of the time it was made has actually made me want to listen to this. Thanks

Even programmes from 20 years ago seem unacceptable today. Look at Jim McDonald’s behaviour in Classic Coronation Street from 2000. The way Hayley Cropper was treated in her workplace.
Old 70s/80s sit-coms sound horrendous today. There’s often a warning “ humour from a bygone time”
I think Hancock’s Half Hour is older than me!!😱

Grow up. Tony Hancock had probably been dead longer than you have been alive.

Why do you think posters do dishes?

Why not? I do, and listen to things at the same time.
I also listen while doing various other things eg sawing branches.

So come on OP, what did the Beeb reply?

Were you searching for something to be offended by?

Why did you choose to listen to HHH?

What did the BBC say in reply?

YABVVU

They've probably not got back to you yet because they're still pissing themselves laughing.

If you censor the past you can't learn from it.

While I’m doing the dishes OP?

I thought i would enjoy a few nostalgic episodes of an amusing comedian.
Which I did, until I heard this episode.

The BBC said all the 'of its time' stuff that most on here are saying so okay, I'm wrong to think it's offensive to laugh at lines like "how to hit them so the bruises don't show".

You want the Bible & all other religious texts banning as well? They're not well known for being support of women.

I think YABU. I mean if it was shown on prime time BBC 1 then you might have a point but the fact it’s available on BBC sounds makes it much harder to put it on by accident. Do you want the BBC to destroy the recordings? Confined to history’s bin? At a push you could ask the BBC to put a warning at the beginning to say it’s however many years old or whatever and therefor not ok by todays standards.

You being offended is your problem. Stop trying to make it everyone else's. I don't want YOU to decide what I should or shouldn't listen to or what's good for me. I'll decide for myself, thanks very much.

No one forced you to listen to this. You chose to do so and then chose to get all up in arms about it, make a fuss and try to get it cancelled. You know what most people do when they find themselves listening to something they don't like? Not that.

"how to hit them so the bruises don't show".

Again, context.

You know Tony Hancock isn't being portrayed as as an Oracle in this show OP? Nobody is supposed to listen/watch and think the act he puts on is something people should aspire to behave like. Hancock was a pompous idiot who constantly looked this way...you laugh at him and his failures. As others have said, it's of it's time. I've seen worse modern day comedy.

It’s on radio four (it seems like) constantly. I always think of John le mesurier (sp) who was Wilson in dads army and best friend of hancock in real life , mrs le m was having an affair with Hancock until his suicide, at which point john l m took her back. Pointless trivia but must have been difficult to know that and have to act together!

Are you also going to complain to the RSC about King Lear because of it's negative portal of blindness, Macbeth because of the fact that the evil witches are all women, The Merchant of Venice because of it's stereotypical portrayal of Jews? How about the Archer's because Jennifer was pilloried for getting pregnant whist unmarried?
Get a sense of proportion OP the man's been dead for more than 50 years. Different Times, Different Mores!

Any modern day comedy I've seen has been complete rubbish and I haven't stuck around for long enough to check its offensiveness.
I guess I'm living in a sheltered bubble.