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Watch: Seven Classic ‘Saturday Night Live’ Sketches That Would Be Banned in Today’s Woke Climate

posted 5 years ago by TMC-4 (19408)
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https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/09/16/saturday-night-live-sketches-that-would-be-banned-in-woke-climate/

John Belushi as a Japanese samurai. Julia Sweeney as the gender-ambiguous Pat. “Jane, you ignorant slut.” These memorable Saturday Night Live sketches challenged the boundaries of taste and political correctness to become TV classics. But would they survive today’s cancel culture in which woke identity politics has become the ultimate arbiter of comedy?

[–] Roguemail (1562) 5 years ago

The job interview with Chevy Chase and Richard Pryor, with the word association bit. That would never fly today.

But it's still as funny as f**k though...

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[–] Martoto (4122) 5 years ago

They wouldn't be banned because they wouldn't be done in the first place. People in general have moved on. Not everyone. And some slower than others. But attitudes have changed for the better. So the sketches mentioned would never be considered for today's audience. And rightly so. The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there. Bloody foreigners.