Ben Elton on whether "political correctness" has "killed" comedy

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  • Опубліковано 11 вер 2024

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  • @666THEMARK666
    @666THEMARK666 Рік тому +5

    You reap what you sow my friend. Calling for censorship back in the 80's/90's was the nails in your own coffin.

  • @xr6lad
    @xr6lad 2 роки тому +11

    Ben Elton is and always was a wnk. He can backtrack all he wants. The damage he did and those he did it to remains.

  • @Toracube
    @Toracube Рік тому +4

    Never heard of a comedian censored on stage, Ben ? Sadowitz? And more…. Talk about selling out…

  • @AlucardArkaine
    @AlucardArkaine 3 роки тому +14

    Markus "Count Dankula" Meechan.
    A comedian who was arrested for a joke.

    • @speedmastermarkiii
      @speedmastermarkiii 2 роки тому

      Lol...Same people who support sacking university professors for being too "pro-Palestinian" champion some dweeb's nazi jokes. You know what was funny? that supposedly non-nazi supporter Meechan became pals with actual nazi Tommy Robinson.

    • @AlucardArkaine
      @AlucardArkaine 2 роки тому +2

      @@speedmastermarkiii He met up with Tommy Robinson to talk with him, in the same way an interviewer does a celebrity.
      Does not mean they are friends.
      They were two people in a similar situation, doesn't go further than that.

    • @speedmastermarkiii
      @speedmastermarkiii 2 роки тому

      @@AlucardArkaine Lol...first he's a comedian; now he's an interviewer...make up your mind.

  • @h.upmann
    @h.upmann 2 роки тому +16

    This man is nothing more than a confused joke himself. He was all for censorship by means of restrictions for comedians 30 years ago!
    Yet he contradicted himself with everything he wrote but continued with his sorrid venture to have censorship in the way of enforcing restrictions.
    Now he sits here and says this. This is just one element of his hypocritical character.
    Is there any wonder why he is hated in the U.K and now lives in Australia?

    • @jennifergilbert-potts645
      @jennifergilbert-potts645 Рік тому

      30 years ago? You don't think maybe he has evolved some of his ideas? I'd be surprised and disappointed by anyone who has exactly the same views in their 50s as in their 20s.

    • @mikebarkersvideoshop7932
      @mikebarkersvideoshop7932 9 місяців тому

      Could you explain what he did regarding means of restriction for comedians?

  • @blackdogbarking
    @blackdogbarking 4 місяці тому

    We need people like Ben in parliament. However the institution would have to be reformed and made a more adult and sensible setting.

  • @marknoble980
    @marknoble980 3 роки тому +21

    He brought down Benny Hill and ruined his life what a hypocrite. History will remember who was a better comedian Benny Hill or Ben what's his name

    • @christopherstarr8050
      @christopherstarr8050 3 роки тому +4

      not even close ,, he couldn't tie Benny Hills shoes

    • @rajnirvan3336
      @rajnirvan3336 3 роки тому +1

      Benny Hill legend Ben Elton wtf

    • @griffinhennelly6796
      @griffinhennelly6796 3 роки тому

      horse shit. Benny Hill will be remembered for chasing scantily clad women to sax music.

    • @davidmackenzie1936
      @davidmackenzie1936 3 роки тому +5

      He wrote the Young Ones and Blackadder whilst Benny Hill just played a literal wanker.

    • @JoeRivermanSongwriter
      @JoeRivermanSongwriter 2 роки тому +2

      No he didn't bring down Benny Hill. BH was worth £10m when he died. A lot of dosh in 92.

  • @glitchra
    @glitchra 3 роки тому +14

    You didn't invent PC, but you did ride it into the ground. Nothing you ever did was funny. How someone like you ever had anything to do with entertainment is unfathomable. You are the Kardashians of humor.

    • @jes79a
      @jes79a 3 роки тому +6

      He wrote Blackadder. That's an achievement way beyond anything any of his critics were ever capable of.

    • @griffinhennelly6796
      @griffinhennelly6796 3 роки тому

      what about young ones?

    • @pipoo1
      @pipoo1 Рік тому

      Blackadder. Mr Bean. The Young Ones. Yes nothing he did was funny. 😂 While we’re at it he wrote the script for We Will Rock You, the musical based on Queens Greatest Hits, an absolutely massive box office smash.

  • @jimmycricket7385
    @jimmycricket7385 2 роки тому +6

    Before I clicked on this video I asked myself what answer I thought he'd give and this is what I guessed he'd say. ''No political correctness hasn't killed comedy but caveat, caveat, caveat.''

  • @christopherstarr8050
    @christopherstarr8050 3 роки тому +8

    people like him have ruined comedy , comedy is to make us laugh , not for political left wing bS

    • @speedmastermarkiii
      @speedmastermarkiii 2 роки тому +3

      Yes, the writer of The Young Ones and the good seasons of Blackadder ruined comedy.

    • @xr6lad
      @xr6lad 2 роки тому

      The Young Ones which I admit did like at the time; is awfully dated. Violent and just as sexist with puerile bottom and scatological jokes like a 5 year old laughing at willy (and he dared criticise Benny Hill at the time). And it was nothing more than a huge wnk fest anti-Thatcher rant. Elton is your typical Champagne Socialist; all for the workers as long as they don’t live next to him and they don’t tax his high income outrageously.

    • @xr6lad
      @xr6lad 2 роки тому +3

      @@speedmastermarkiii the Young Ones HASN’T stood the test of time and Blackadder only had 2 good seasons out of 4. So he wasn’t that good. Benny Hill’s show was popular enough to last 20+ years.

    • @speedmastermarkiii
      @speedmastermarkiii 2 роки тому

      @@xr6lad Lol. The Young Ones is immortal, and Seasons 2, 3 and 4 of Blackadder are as funny as ever. Hardly surprising you still fap off to Benny Hill, since you aren't even aware that Ben Elton had nothing to do with the mediocre season one of Blackadder.

  • @cameronhesketh6814
    @cameronhesketh6814 3 роки тому +10

    He’s gone woke, tragic.

    • @speedmastermarkiii
      @speedmastermarkiii 2 роки тому

      Ben Elton was born "woke", dimwit. You obviously know nothing about Ben Elton.

  • @stevelawson911
    @stevelawson911 Рік тому +9

    Ben Elton killed comedy

    • @johnforde7735
      @johnforde7735 Рік тому +1

      Like Blackadder? Have you seen it? One of the best British comedies ever.

    • @stevelawson911
      @stevelawson911 Рік тому

      @@johnforde7735
      I saw some
      Wasnt funny ..only rowen Atkinsons droll sarcasm made it ok

    • @johnforde7735
      @johnforde7735 Рік тому

      @@stevelawson911 Yeah, and that droll sarcasm was written by Ben Elton.

    • @stevelawson911
      @stevelawson911 Рік тому +1

      @@johnforde7735
      Yep i found it boring
      It was only Rowans delivery that made it popular
      Sarcasm is the sense of humour of the self entitled lefty

    • @johnforde7735
      @johnforde7735 Рік тому

      @@stevelawson911 HAHAHAHA. First, you say you only like Atkinson's sarcasm, and when I point out was written by Ben, you change and say, it wasn't the sarcasm, but Atkinson's delivery of it. You've completely tied yourself in knots.

  • @billyburgess3912
    @billyburgess3912 2 роки тому +2

    Be like watching paint dry

  • @hugolindum7728
    @hugolindum7728 6 місяців тому

    Elton is a blatant liar. He knows damn well that a lot of comedy is censored. He just doesn’t object to it because it’s ideas opposed to his that are being censored.

  • @peterwakeman9930
    @peterwakeman9930 2 роки тому

    Anyone seen Queen the play with music writing by Ben?

  • @jonathanbellini3047
    @jonathanbellini3047 2 роки тому

    Yes I agree 😊💗 Ben you're a different creature 😉🙂 to the rest.
    Can you sing do yo like your porridge?Do you like the song I've got a lovely bunch a coconut .
    Roll out the barrel.Your great repartee as good as mine **

  • @andyscott6315
    @andyscott6315 2 роки тому +2

    only good point he made was the world is dying and we are having petty conversations.

  • @MichaelSheffield-ox8yd
    @MichaelSheffield-ox8yd 4 місяці тому

    Elton is a comic genius but also stupid. "Upstart Crow" is genius. What he says here is stupid. He buys the lines of fanatics.

  • @MrGlewYouTubeChangedMyHandle
    @MrGlewYouTubeChangedMyHandle 5 років тому +4

    Oh dear.

  • @budway1942
    @budway1942 5 років тому +2

    Someone wrote it for him like someone wrote for shakespear...lol

  • @johnforde7735
    @johnforde7735 2 роки тому +2

    Love Ben Elton. A legend.

    • @garethmurray5901
      @garethmurray5901 Рік тому

      I can't believe how beautiful he is. He's a golden Angel here. He is insane beautiful. Guys like him make you feel sick and make you feel like your brain is shutting down. He is absolutely beautiful as literal Hell and then some and then some.

    • @stevelawson911
      @stevelawson911 Рік тому +2

      Only in your woke mind

    • @stevelawson911
      @stevelawson911 Рік тому

      @@garethmurray5901
      Get your dirty tongue out of his arse

  • @iamisaid2295
    @iamisaid2295 4 роки тому +2

    oh dear.

  • @ZERO-mt1lv
    @ZERO-mt1lv 2 роки тому

    He is right

  • @peterwakeman9930
    @peterwakeman9930 2 роки тому

    Climate change yes