It wasn't particularly funny, granted, but then it wouldn't have been allowed to be.

To be satirically funny would be impossible nowadays.

Something like Monty Python could never happen now, and recently an attempt was made to bar one of the episodes from being shown.

Mash was also fronted by a mixed race man with a beard, hardly John Cleese.

The overall decline in mainstream comedy is across the board now.

We really need a specific TV company that only produces offensive material. Make it clear from the onset that if you are likely to be offended then don't watch it. That simple.

Accross the board now it appears that people metaphorically bend the knee to anybody who takes offence and it is getting beyond ludicrous.

Naturally, I lay the blame for this pathetic state of affairs at the doors of the Left but the Right are becoming just as bad now, by way of a response.

The only organisation that I feel has a duty of care not to be offensive is, oddly enough, the BBC. If we are forced to pay for something then it is only right that it seeks to ensure that its content is as harmless as possible. And probably, a bloody good reason to abolish it along with dozens of others.

But other than that, the more offensive the better.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - 1984 - George Orwell.

I suppose what people find funny will always depend on the individual but I found the Mash Report hilariously funny and often very telling as it mercilessly exposed hypocrisy.

It was particularly good at showing Trump to be the false prophet that he undoubtedly is and for that alone I will always be grateful.

I think it's really sad that such a refreshingly unrestrained show as this is being withdrawn. I will miss it and hope that it will be replaced by something even better. We need programmes like this to mock those who preach to us.

The thing about the Mash Report was it didn't just attack everything from a political perspective. It attacked hypocrisy, wherever it was found and offered praise where it was due. That it found more hypocrisy in Trump and Johnson is simply because they were the ones making the running and being hypocritical.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

Tom Lehrer said satire died when Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize - 48 years later they’re still hacking out the same old tropes.
The trouble with satire now is that are too many subjects everyone is afraid to touch which kind of defeats it’s purpose.

If its such a great show & Kumar owns the rights to it, then he'll have absolutely no problem selling it to
CH4, CH5 or Netflix then will he?
That's the beauty of the free market.

Pro USA & Israel

I gotta admit, that one still makes me chuckle.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)