Racist?

[Zardnaar]

The following is NZ comedy from the 1980's.

Billy T James was a Maori comedian who was very popular. Critics say he played into stereotypes about the Maori.

His history of NZ skits were popular and covered a variety of 1980's contemporary issues.

Contexts about skits.

NZ nuclear free now but that dates from the 80's.

Steinlager is an NZ beer (not very good now)

Fosters is an Aussie beer.

Basically he is mocking the British who are depicted as pompous, clueless, soft idiots. 1980's British comedy that we grew up on mocked the Germans/French/Spanish, the Aussies mocked everyone including us (was also popular here).

And we had the popular US sitcoms of the time as well which weren't that funny by comparison.

They also play into the Maori warrior culture thing. They didn't (willingly) sell their land for beads and blankets and at the height of the land wars 1/3rd of the British army was here.

I quite like the sophisticated Maori weapon skit vs sophisticated British weapon.

 

[Bugfatty300]

Comedy based on ethnic and regional differences?... It's genius... What fantastic NZ cultural breakthrough will you shoehorn into nasty race politics next?

 

[Zardnaar]

Comedy based on ethnic and regional differences?... It's genius... What fantastic NZ cultural breakthrough will you shoehorn into nasty race politics next?

35 years ago. It's a PoC punching up though.

Videos there make up your own mind. Funny, offensive, both, not funny?

 

[Valka D'Ur]

The following is NZ comedy from the 1980's.

Billy T James was a Maori comedian who was very popular. Critics say he played into stereotypes about the Maori.

His history of NZ skits were popular and covered a variety of 1980's contemporary issues.

Contexts about skits.

NZ nuclear free now but that dates from the 80's.

Steinlager is an NZ beer (not very good now)

Fosters is an Aussie beer.

Basically he is mocking the British who are depicted as pompous, clueless, soft idiots. 1980's British comedy that we grew up on mocked the Germans/French/Spanish, the Aussies mocked everyone including us (was also popular here).

And we had the popular US sitcoms of the time as well which weren't that funny by comparison.

They also play into the Maori warrior culture thing. They didn't (willingly) sell their land for beads and blankets and at the height of the land wars 1/3rd of the British army was here.

I quite like the sophisticated Maori weapon skit vs sophisticated British weapon.

35 years ago. It's a PoC punching up though.

Videos there make up your own mind. Funny, offensive, both, not funny?

It's political satire that mocks the British. I laughed in a couple of places. Of course there was some of it where the humor escapes me because I lack the cultural context.

 

[Zardnaar]

Trr

It's political satire that mocks the British. I laughed in a couple of places. Of course there was some of it where the humor escapes me because I lack the cultural context.

Yeah there's a few things in it you might not get if you're not an NZer or from the 80's.

Quite like this one.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

The following is NZ comedy from the 1980's.

Billy T James was a Maori comedian who was very popular. Critics say he played into stereotypes about the Maori.

His history of NZ skits were popular and covered a variety of 1980's contemporary issues.

Contexts about skits.

NZ nuclear free now but that dates from the 80's.

Steinlager is an NZ beer (not very good now)

Fosters is an Aussie beer.

Basically he is mocking the British who are depicted as pompous, clueless, soft idiots. 1980's British comedy that we grew up on mocked the Germans/French/Spanish, the Aussies mocked everyone including us (was also popular here).

And we had the popular US sitcoms of the time as well which weren't that funny by comparison.

They also play into the Maori warrior culture thing. They didn't (willingly) sell their land for beads and blankets and at the height of the land wars 1/3rd of the British army was here.

I quite like the sophisticated Maori weapon skit vs sophisticated British weapon.

35 years ago. It's a PoC punching up though.

Videos there make up your own mind. Funny, offensive, both, not funny?

It's political satire that mocks the British. I laughed in a couple of places. Of course there was some of it where the humor escapes me because I lack the cultural context.

Trr


Yeah there's a few things in it you might not get if you're not an NZer or from the 80's.

Quite like this one.

Okay, I don't get it. Is it that the secret is out, or that the secret is illegal?

And I'm not only from the '80s, but earlier decades as well.

There's a lot of really funny material that Wayne & Shuster did in the '70s and early '80s that people don't get now because they weren't around when Pierre Trudeau was Prime Minister of Canada. There's humor from that time sprinkled throughout their spoof of Star Trek (I wonder if our current PM ever knew that he was part of a punchline in "Star Schtick" - even though he was a child at the time).

 

[Zardnaar]

It's political satire that mocks the British. I laughed in a couple of places. Of course there was some of it where the humor escapes me because I lack the cultural context.

Okay, I don't get it. Is it that the secret is out, or that the secret is illegal?

And I'm not only from the '80s, but earlier decades as well.

There's a lot of really funny material that Wayne & Shuster did in the '70s and early '80s that people don't get now because they weren't around when Pierre Trudeau was Prime Minister of Canada. There's humor from that time sprinkled throughout their spoof of Star Trek (I wonder if our current PM ever knew that he was part of a punchline in "Star Schtick" - even though he was a child at the time).

The joke is there's something illegal in the 11 herbs and spices so the cops are going in.

 

[Kyriakos]

I didn't notice anything racist (taking into account this was from the 80s), but I didn't find it funny either

 

[Zardnaar]

I didn't notice anything racist (taking into account this was from the 80s), but I didn't find it funny either

Some of the things he is doing plays into the stereotypes of Maori.

Eg the skits involving beer. Or pot.

Watching Blackadder the Third atm. There's a few dated jokes in that hence the idea for this.