David Walliams ‚Nazi -Gruß an würde ich dich inakzeptabel anlügen, sagt BBC
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg59q1xgv8o
Von OdinForce22
David Walliams ‚Nazi -Gruß an würde ich dich inakzeptabel anlügen, sagt BBC
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg59q1xgv8o
Von OdinForce22
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Sounds like the joke wasn’t very funny, but it’s interesting that the BBC will happily air the „Are we the baddies?“ sketch but say this is unacceptable. Wasn’t there a salute in Fawlty Towers as well?
I don’t want to be the guy supporting Walliams, but reading this, I honestly don’t see the problem. The salute IS the joke as it is absurd and plays on the fact that you can’t hurt your wrist waving that way.
The guy has more than enough stuff to really go to town on him for (and I’m amazed some of the alleged stuff still hasn’t been leaked) but this one doesn’t feel that bad. You are in the audience for a late night comedy show, I suspect there will be bad language and crude jokes.
> „It was immediately acknowledged during the recording that this segment would not be broadcast under any circumstances and we apologise to those who were at the recording for any offence caused.“
That’ll show him, trying to make a joke… who does he think he is?
If it was unacceptable and they decided not to broadcast it to not cause offence. Then why did they feel the need to put out a statement about it. We would never have known
>One part of the show saw Call The Midwife actress Helen George, who took part in Strictly Come Dancing in 2015, being given a prompt to suggest she had sprained her wrist „from waving too much during the Strictly tour“.
>She then had to try to convince the opposing team that her anecdote was true.
>After demonstrating the wave, which purportedly left her with an injury, she was told that it was „too little“ and was encouraged to make a bigger gesture.
>“Some other panellist was talking when David Walliams started doing the Nazi salute,“ Topan told the BBC. „I was shocked at what I had seen.“
>There were „patches of quietened gasps and awkward half-laughs and broken clapping“ in the audience, they said.
>The show’s host, Gavin & Stacey star Rob Brydon, then told Walliams the show would be broadcast before the 9pm watershed, effectively suggesting his behaviour was not suitable for a family TV audience.
>However, as the discussion about George’s experience continued, Walliams made the gesture again, adding a sexual gesture with his other hand.
Bit hard to tell from a written description, but it certainly sounds like this was just an attempt at a joke that didn’t land?
I’m all for cancelling anyone that is an actual Nazi; but trying (and apparently failing) to take the piss out of them doesn’t make someone Nazi, and it’s a bit absurd to react as if he is?
The best thing to do would be to just cut the segment, which sounds like what they’re going to do anyway.
I think this was a joke that didn’t land, and they wouldn’t have broadcast it anyway before 9, but the article mentions a journalist in the crowd so wonder if this is purely pre-empting any article that could emerge from it.
Carry on this route and comedy will wind up being some underground thing that people do in secret, so as not to be at risk.
As a reminder, somebody literally went to jail for making (very poor taste) jokes on Facebook
I don’t find him funny myself, but I can see that it’s a joke he’s not some kind of Nazi supporting whopper.
For a country that prides ourselves on our sense of humour and ability to have a laugh, we certainly have gotten a tad frigid in recent years.
In good news the BBC will now be unable to ever show *Allo Allo* again.
He’s a bellend but this is such a non issue. Attack him for the things that actually make him a piece of shit
Yes, yes, he’s clearly a Nazi. 🙄
People seriously need to pull their heads out of their arses. Not *everything* has to be offensive.
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This guy is an idiot, and it sounds like it’s not worth broadcasting this incident because it wasn’t funny. But it’s absurd to say you can’t use a Nazi salute in comedy – there are other BBC shows that do, Fawlty Towers comes straight to mind. Why do these people feel a need to lie?
David Walliams‘ ~~Nazi salute on Would I Lie To You~~ unacceptable, BBC says
What’s the problem? Doing the salute as a mock gesture has been standard fare in British comedy for donkey’s years. Are we worried about offending Nazis now?
>There were „patches of quietened gasps and awkward half-laughs and broken clapping“ in the audience, they said.
> „The atmosphere was uncomfortable and weird,“ Topan said.
>“I think Rob Brydon wanted to get past it as quickly as he could. David Walliams‘ team-mates looked unsure what to do and were not laughing… It was like an elephant in the room after that as the incident was early on in the recording and so the remainder of the show felt weird.“
I always struggle to believe these accounts. People who take issue in this way seem to love making the reaction as a whole sound much worse than it actually was. I really doubt it lingered that much.
The stupidest thing about this is how tame and obviously non-topical the joke sounds like it was. Russell T Davies was bang on the money when he said that the BBC are too meek and ought to stand up for themselves more. In trying to head off a scandal that I don’t believe would have ever actually been a scandal, they’ve perfectly engineered a situation whereby everyone will now kick off at them for censoring humour, completely able to point at the beloved Fawlty Towers and say „you couldn’t do that anymore on the bloody woke BBC!“
Can’t wait to see how Alton Towers responds, considering The David Walliams World and associated rides stand in the back corner of the park.
Gangsta Granny: The Ride! (Now with added nazi saluting from the book’s author!)
The person who made his career out of being edgy was caught being edgy?
One day, the BBC might grow a pair and say something like „We have reviewed Mr Wallliams’s actions and concluded they were part of an impromptu response to an ongoing sequence. This was at the show’s recording and since the makers routinely edit bad language and gestures your kids won’t be seeing this at Christmas. Shit happens, get over yourselves“.
Why is making a joke about Nazis considered worse than a serious dramatisation of them?
Or doing a Trump impression doesn’t endorse him.
Plenty of comedians will do jokes about racists, it doesn’t mean they support them, just seems like people are trying to find reasons to be offended
Christmas Special being filmed in June???!!! I’m shocked
We can’t take the piss out of nazis now? Not a hill I would choose to die on but each to their own.
He’s a tool but the general problem of overreaction to risky jokes that don’t land is what people are talking about when they mention cancel culture and the chilling effect it has. You have to be spontaneous and funny on camera, hard to do that while constantly second guessing what you are doing. Hitler has been a legitimate target for mockery ever since his rise to power, this isn’t sympathetising.
When I was growing up, men who had fought nazis for real instead of at a keyboard would use nazi salutes to mock trumped up idiots. Walliams is a person I dislike intensely, but criticism of this is idiotic.