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The IT Crowd - Piracy warning (www.youtube.com)

submitted 10 months ago by 1984@lemmy.today to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Sorry to link to YouTube for this, but it's just such a great example of actual humor from the decades where it was allowed to joke about it.

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[-] WallEx@feddit.de 46 points 10 months ago

So in your opinion you can't make yokes about piracy nowerdays? How did you get to that conclusion?

I honestly don't even think this is that edgy of a sketch ...

[-] Swarfega@lemm.ee 23 points 10 months ago

I don't get where OP is going with this either?

[-] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Perhaps some overzealous reference to the fact that Graham Linehan is a massive wanker, butthurt transphobe. The way you "can't really make rape/racist/sexist/transphobic jokes anymore". He doesn't really make TV anymore. This skit on the other hand, as well as most of Father Ted and The IT Crowd, is perfectly PG.

[-] XEAL@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago

The episode came out over 15 years ago...

[-] WallEx@feddit.de 21 points 10 months ago

So? My point was, that you could easily make this joke today, why not?

[-] Evkob@lemmy.ca 25 points 10 months ago

Vaguely conservative people love to claim that "you can't joke about anything nowadays!!" but everytime I ask for an example it's either completely banal stuff like this sketch, or it's just straight up bigotry with the thinnest veneer of "a joke".

Like, sorry that calling a trans woman a guy or saying weird shit about Muslims isn't funny in 2023, but good god get some fucking actual material.