😂 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!