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NBC News goes after all British comedy from the early 2000's

Kevork Djansezian

NBC News has made no secret of where they stand on the accusations against Russell Brand. A few days ago they had an article claiming that Brand had 'attacked the British government' by questioning their use of an online safety bill to try to get his channels demonetized on several social networking platforms. 

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Today they're out with their latest hot-take on the whole kerfuffle: Not only is Brand bad, but ALL popular British comedy from the early part of the 21st century is bad too.

From the NBC News:

...it’s not just Brand’s career or his former employers that are facing new scrutiny, but the ’00s as a whole, with Britain confronting the reality that this ugliness may lurk much closer to the surface of public life than many realized or admitted.

These sorts of navel-gazing pieces are common these days whenever accusations of any kind are made against someone. Nothing is ever the actions of one bad person (assuming one takes the accusations against Brand at face value that is), everything is 'systematic' and proof of 'ugly truths'. 

There can be no doubt that British humor in that period was 'edgy, but much of British humor has always been bifurcated between stodgy very dry humor and off-the-wall shock humor. It is what it is, as even the article itself notes before handwaving that 'this time it was different'.

Britain has always had its own particular brand of risqué humor, often exporting it to the States, where stars like Brand, who had a brief stint in Hollywood movies, shocked its traditionally more puritanical audiences.

“British comedy has always been bawdy, raunchy and winking,” said Wynter Mitchell-Rohrbaugh, a cultural commentator and podcaster based in Los Angeles. “The audience takes it in, they don’t think too much of it, but then when you get into real-life consequences, real-life allegations,” such as those leveled at Brand, “it pivots and changes things a lot.”

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The replies were not kind to the NBC piece, as one might expect.

Funny how these things always seem to be timed, huh?

Excellent point, if NBC is looking to air out cultural issues maybe they should air out some of the issues in their own workplace culture.

When you're not sure you have the goods on the man the safest plan is surely to damn the ethos from which he sprung. A lot of the names listed as Brand's co-troublemakers, like Noel Fielding and Danny Dyer, may not be familiar names to American audiences but they're very well known to British audiences. Trying to drag them down along with Brand to air out the sins against liberal pieties committed 10-20 years ago will, one hopes, blow up in NBC's face.

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