The BBC head of comedy is behind the current joke of a series that features modern remakes of Are You Being Served?, Porridge, Till Death Us Do Part, Steptoe & Son, and Up Pompeii!
Allen said it was “insulting” to suggest the BBC’s new comedies were not as good as the past… So where are they? What are they? Name one that is as good as Till Death, Porridge or Steptoe… Does he mean crap like Miranda, Gavin and Stacey, Mrs Brown’s Cunts and Citizen Khan? He’s having a laugh, the fucking prick…

On his remakes monstrosity, he said: “This is a chance to say these are titles and writers and pieces of work that are proven, and hallowed, and it’s a chance to introduce them to a new generation…”. What he means is that the BBC haven’t got the guts to show the originals (for fear of offending some left wing tosspot!) and they want to remake someone else’s work into a load of PC, touchy-feely, sanitised bollocks…

The Steptoe remake looks especially shite… Albert is now bigger than Harold and Harold is now a skinny, pasty gimp with none of the presence or comic timing of Harry .H. Corbett… And I’m dreading the Porridge one… Fletch’s grandson in for cybercrime? With John Bishop? Fuck off!

I think I’ll stick to the originals on DVD… And Allen and ‘Auntie Beeb’ can stick their ‘New Comedy World Order’ up their arses…

Nominated by: Norman