NETFLIX aired a trailer on social media this week for Ricky Gervais’s latest stand-up show, Armageddon, and it was so edgy even he had to pipe up.
The man for whom rattling cages is a full time job Tweeted: “Netflix told me the ‘first look’ clip should be the safest, most family friendly one they could find. Nothing too offensive. I said ‘fine’.
“Yesterday I asked them what they had decided to go with. They said ‘The bit where you call the snail a c**t’.”
Ooh, wash your mouth out you naughty TV streaming service!
Netflix likes controversy and winding people up.
So it’s no wonder so many of us pay ever increasing amounts to watch it.
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We like edgy TV, us Brits.
We want to see comedians slagging off molluscs in the most caustic way possible.
‘Overly politically correct’
This week, communications regulator Ofcom confirmed this in a report that took aim at the BBC for failing working-class audiences by being, as Ricky might say, a bunch of posh, woke, cowardly, unfunny, overpaid c***s.
In the report, it slammed the corporation for churning out “dry and serious” and “cringey” telly that was drenched in woke issues and had no edge.
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“BBC content was also seen as increasingly ‘safe’ and, by some, overly politically correct,” it sighed.
It has also become a, er, laughing stock where comedy was concerned, the report said, adding: “Many . . . felt the BBC used to produce world-leading comedy but that this is now often seen as not edgy enough for modern tastes.
“They miss the ‘fun’ element of BBC’s programming.”
The regulator said those surveyed thought the BBC should offer more “unvarnished opinion”, from people such as Jeremy Clarkson and — him again — Ricky Gervais, whose perfect BBC show The Office would never be commissioned by the nervous Nigellas who now run the place.
Instead, we have to put up with lazy rubbish like game show Picture Slam, in which Alan Carr looks visibly embarrassed to be hosting, and cringey “yoof” channel BBC3.
Ofcom surveyed people from working-class and low-income households after it emerged in another survey (!) that only 55 per cent of them thought the BBC was any good.
Working-class licence fee payers complained there was little representation of their lives on the BBC other than patronising and “extreme stereotypes” such as ghastly drug and drink-fuelled criminals, who were often broke.
Long gone are the decent, funny, warm and often hard-working folk so beautifully portrayed in shows such as Gavin And Stacey and The Royle Family.
BBC salaries also took a beating, with those surveyed saying “upper-class” staff were paid “disproportionately high salaries”.
Last year, 220 Beeb employees earned more than £150k.
Devastating stuff.
Not least, coming off the back of a drubbing from Radio 5 Live radio presenter Nihal Arthanayake, who is of Sri Lankan descent.
He took the corporation to task this week over its lack of diversity, complaining: “The hardest thing is to walk into a room, look around and nobody looks like you.”
But the BBC never learns — its recruiters love to talk about representing all walks of life and, according to a recent freedom of information request, spent up to a MILLION POUNDS on just 15 “diversity and inclusion” staff, some earning £85k.
Yet still they somehow manage to recruit the same middle-class, overly confident cretins.
People for whom £100k a year is something to fritter away in Notting Hill wine bars, while mummy and daddy prop up their lifestyle with trust funds.
They sneer at the working class as “chavs” and “thickos”, who are only worth including on screen to make gritty dramas feel authentic.
Misery porn, nothing more.
Last year, data revealed a fifth of BBC staff earning more than £150k were privately educated, despite only seven per cent of the general population going to fee-paying schools.
And it’s not just the entitled and well off dragging the BBC into irrelevance.
The right-on brigade, drunk on the nectar of political correctness, are even worse.
This is why we end up with shows like Waterloo Road and EastEnders, which are less about entertainment and more about shoving left-wing agendas at us.
Humourless halfwits
The corporation is full of people hard-wired to hate the Tories, state their pronouns and pretend to be offended as often as possible.
How can you recapture “fun” when these humourless halfwits are running riot?
The kind of people who would rather demand on social media someone “check their privilege” than pen a funny joke.
Even if you are something of a maverick you will be stamped on by petrified commissioners whose number one priority is to not offend anyone.
You’ll be told: “Haven’t you got a smug gameshow Victoria Coren can front instead?”
Yes, there are good people at the BBC, as much as there are great programmes being produced.
And this is always what the BBC points to when it is caught out letting down licence fee payers, who are becoming increasingly fed up of coughing up £159 a year (500,000 stopped paying last year).
“We will continue to work hard to deliver a mix of brilliant content . . .”, blah blah blah, it said in a statement, adding it “welcomed” the report.
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Well I’m glad they welcome the report.
Now read the bloody thing.
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Colin Robertson
