not have been heard before, that comedy is more monitored and policed than ever before, and that s changing all the time. so, who decides? it probably is the case, and that probably is kind of a good thing that before, there was a kind of top down thing, where it was producers and tv people and i guess of those people. and now it is more this notion of a mass, largely democratic response. but my issue with that is that ignores the madness of crowds. cause you did get it wrong, didn t you? cause you ve basically said sorry for one particular funny sketch you wrote back in the mid 90s when you had a very popular sort of football comedy show in the uk, and you portrayed then a sort of middle ranking black footballer who actually was having a bad patch, not scoring many goals, and you sort of blacked up. i did. i performed in blackface. i ve said sorry for that. i know. i feel it was racist and i shouldn t have done it. and, you know, obviously, i m not always going to get it right. iju
not have been heard before, that comedy is more monitored and policed than ever before, and that s changing all the time. so, who decides? it probably is the case, and that probably is kind of a good thing that before, there was a kind of top down thing, where it was producers and tv people and i guess comedians, although they re always at the mercy of those people. and now it is more this notion of a mass, largely democratic response. but my issue with that is that ignores the madness of crowds. cos you did get it wrong, didn t you? cos you ve basically said sorry for one particular funny sketch you wrote back in the mid 90s when you had a very popular sort of football comedy show in the uk, and you portrayed then a sort of middle ranking black footballer who actually was having a bad patch, not scoring many goals, and you sort of blacked up. idid. i performed in blackface. i ve said sorry for that. i know. i feel it was racist and i shouldn t have done it. and, you know, obviously,
quickly triggered and there is an issue with anger and rage and offence and trying to, you know, hear voices that may not have been heard before, that comedy is more monitored and policed than ever before, and that s changing all the time. so, who decides? it probably is the case, and that probably is kind of a good thing that before, there was a kind of top down thing, where it was producers and tv people and i guess comedians, although they re always at the mercy of those people. and now it is more this notion of a mass, largely democratic response. but my issue with that is that ignores the madness of crowds. cause you did get it wrong, didn t you? cause you ve basically said sorry for one particular funny sketch you wrote back in the mid 90s when you had a very popular sort of football comedy show in the uk, and you portrayed then a sort of middle ranking black footballer who actually was having a bad patch, not scoring many goals, and you sort of blacked up. i did. i performed
for one particularfunny sketch you wrote back in the mid 90s when you had a very popular sort of football comedy show in the uk, and you portrayed then a sort of middle ranking black footballer who actually was having a bad patch, not scoring many goals, and you sort of blacked up. idid. i performed in blackface. i ve said sorry for that. i know. i feel it was racist and i shouldn t have done it. and, you know, obviously, i m not always going to get it right. ijust wonder, when you look back on that whole episode, what went wrong? you know, was there no filter, either from yourself orfrom the producers, the commissioners, the people who were responsible for that show? i think at the time it was, you know, a wrong thing that was going on in comedy in general, which was not enough attention being paid to the whole notion of performing in blackface. so, a lot of comedians did it, and that s no excuse. and the problem with you asking me about that is i m already hearing people on social m