Bread? It was mouldy
COMEDY has become too middle-class, according to the new BBC1 Controller, Danny Cohen. He wants more working-class humour on the lines of Bread and Birds of a Feather, writes Peter Rhodes.
COMEDY has become too middle-class, according to the new BBC1 Controller, Danny Cohen. He wants more working-class humour on the lines of Bread and Birds of a Feather, writes Peter Rhodes.
No-one can deny that comedy is steadily moving upmarket. Becoming a comedian is the career of choice for the sons of gentlefolk who were once expected to become doctors or lawyers.
But does anyone really fancy turning the clock back to the dire days of Bread when we were expected to laugh at a bunch of Scousers fiddling their benefits and the mere mention of "Lilo Lil" reduced the canned-laughter audience to hysterics?
We have moved on. As that great advertiser of insurance policies John Prescott reminded us, we are all middle class now.
Bread = unfunny. Miranda = very funny.
Get it, Mr Cohen?
