Comment on Discussion Thread 🦜 Wednesday 5 November 2025
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Today’s weird opshop LP finds. I buy every comedy record I find except Bill Cosby.
first up, The Best of the Two Ronnies. These were a very famous comedy duo who in their sketch comedy show satirised the worst of popular culture
First track, a perfect rendition of treacly post war Scottish husband wife folk music duos, it was so spot on so ickle pretty sweet with perfect accents I had to check the disc to see if it was really them. God it was awful …lol
Why was the Black and White Minstrel Show still a thing in 60s and 70s? Anyway, Corbett and Barker do “The Short and Fat Minstrel Show.” I hope it offended fat and short racists and racists and sexists in general. Because what the fuck why the black and white minstrel show even exist
the satire really is shocking , people forget how harsh and impolite we had to be to stop racism ( and it still hasn’t stopped .) Every single racist trope is mentioned.
I am just 😧 😲 😲
click at your own peril, to be antiracist you had to make commentary on racism and show examples www.youtube.com/watch?v=32ePC-uVKFI
Catfish@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Oh yikes! That makeup is horrific. My clearest memory of them is treasure map knickers up a flagpole.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 day ago
black face is always horrific
listening to the whole album
so much that went over my head when i was a teen I get now,
I’m now, Gees, the two ronnies are really championing all these equality causes plus they were contemporaries of Monty Python in the Civil Rights Era