📺 Precisely what made Absolutely Fabulous mould-breaking was its outrageous indifference to mainstream sensibilities. But in the age of trumped-up outrage and cancel culture, this sort of territory has become off-limits. Read more:
“I remember jokes,” said Jennifer Saunders with a nostalgic lilt at a talk at a West End theatre earlier this week. She was describing how, in the current climate, most of the gags in her classic sitcom Absolutely Fabulous would simply not make the cut. The potential for controversy, she said, has rendered comedy sterile. “I think people do talk themselves out of stuff now because everything is sensitive.
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