😂 This Harry Hill’s TV Burp clip on “Muslim Driving School” is brilliant.
Harry mercilessly takes the mickey out of the entire premise and a few Muslim traditions while he’s at it.
First he zeros in on an 18-year-old, born and bred British girl who was married off in an arranged marriage to a man her parents chose in Pakistan.
Harry, completely deadpan:
“Hmm… the arranged marriage. How’s it going?”
Cut straight to the narrator:
“As an 18-year-old divorcee…”
😭 The audience loses it. Harry just pulls that classic awkward face and goes, “Sorry to hear that. Oh well… plenty more fish in the sea.”
Then later, with a different woman whose husband is “very confident” she’ll pass her test, Harry gets ready to crack open the champagne… only to be disappointed when she fails, but quickly adds:”
“It’s non-alcoholic… yeah, I’m sensitive.” 😂
Little polite jab at Muslims and alcohol. Nothing vicious, just lighthearted teasing.
This was mainstream television. ITV. Peak-time. And there was no outrage. People took it exactly as it was meant: good-natured, sharp British jesting.
That was just over a decade ago.
No way on earth you’d see a clip like this on mainstream TV today.
Times really have changed… and not for the better when it comes to being allowed to laugh at things.
Bring back TV Burp!
@afneil No. Brexit did not involve leaving the WTO GPA. In fact, the Tory government enacted the Procurement Act s90 in 2023 making it a domestic legal obligation to give fair treatment to treaty states (i.e “Buy British” is unlawful in many circumstances).
Someone has made a Boriswave game where you have to surf all the immigration waves from 1925 to 2026.
I'm terrible and couldn't make it past 1964.
Can anyone reach the end and beat it?
If India was blocking the return of illegal migrants, then Priti Patel should have introduced a visa ban.
Instead she created an immigration system that saw 850,000 Indians arrive in Britain between 2021 and 2024.
https://t.co/eskPdd1xOq
People forget that controlling immigration to protect the labour market was a centre-left to leftist idea for most of history. Now it’s apparently fascist.
What we don’t want is the way the Tory Party governed us for 14 years.
Consistent Tax increases
Unlimited legal and illegal Immigration
DEI
Savage cuts to the Army, Police and Prison Service
Education system in tatters.
Uncontrolled rise in Civil
NHS out of control.
No Mrs Badenoch we don’t want you and your failed bunch of Politicians in charge again.
We need a proper Right of Centre Government led by Nigel Farage.