When the Bravo channel used to show good movies, and sometimes made the clean up for the R rated ones unintentionally funny
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Unfortunately ‘Talking Pictures’, the best movie channel in the UK, also censors content these days, even when it’s in context for the time period or setting.
Anything to do with racial slurs etc is normally faded out or re-dubbed with some background audio.
Even though the channel show a warning about possibly offensive language at the beginning of the program, they still edit. Very frustrating, and in fact pointless. 
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Sometimes I wonder if it’s them or the source material they have bought. I watched the Hot Rock this week on TPTV and Zero Mostel saying “bastard” was dubbed out silent. I presume like you that this is TPTV’s doing but it seems completely unnecessary considering that language is now pretty much no holds barred on UK television. If C**t is ok on the Frankie Boyle show why would they blank out something as innocuous as bastard?
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I believe it is ‘Talking Pictures’ themselves … as a few years back there was a ‘problem’ with the course racial slur language from some of the 1970s TV programs being shown on the channel - There were even threats made to take them off air … Since then they have displayed the warning or disclaimer that some viewers maybe offended etc
I would have assumed that was sufficient, but unfortunately swearing, even of a non racist type are often altered, and it seems rather arbitrary … some movies, like the 70’s Blacksploitation film ‘The Hit’ had all the motherfuckers and ‘N’ words intact.
We all know what this is about, but it serves no purpose … it’s not protecting anyone with extremely sensitive sensibilities, and it’s doing a disservice to the film and TV makers, who are almost certainly not promoting racism, but rather reflecting the realities of life … people did and do use these offensive terms and making edits to these shows is missing the point of why they were originally included.
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SW Lego’s sounds cool. Love it 
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Wish I’d found these last year, during the early days of lock-down…
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Nicola Sturgeon was touring Perthshire in the First Minister’s chauffeur driven car. Suddenly a cow jumped out into the road. They hit it full on and the car comes to a stop.
Nicola in her usual jaunty manner, says to the chauffeur, “You get out and check - you were driving.” The chauffeur gets out, checks and reports that the animal is dead.
"You were driving, go and tell the farmer," says Nicola, ”I can’t afford to be blamed for anything.” The chauffeur walks up the drive to the farmhouse and returns five hours later totally plastered, his hair ruffled and with a big grin on his face.
"My goodness, what happened to you?" asks Nicola.
The chauffeur replies : "When I got there, the farmer opened his best bottle of single malt whisky, the wife gave me a slap-up meal and the daughter made love to me."
"What on earth did you say to them?" asks Nicola.
"I knocked on the door and when it was answered, I said, ‘I’m Nicola Sturgeon’s chauffeur and I’ve just killed the cow!’”
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Block Heads. Good film. Only watched it a couple of Sundays ago. I mean I’ve seen all those old L&H DVDs before but they tend to blur into each other. I looked up Block Heads and a couple of others specifically because I was going to list my favourite pre-50s movies and it transpires that I’ve seen/own far fewer than I thought I did, so I thought I’d better crack back through my Stan & Ollies.
I’m going to stick one on now, in fact. Saps at Sea, probably.
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I was raised on both Stan & Ollie and The Three Stooges growing up. My Dad grew up loving them himself and that love passed to me. Some of my best childhood times.
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Really in the Stan and Ollie mode… 
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Not crazy about pic 1, but I love pic 2 to pieces.
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Some Christmas comedy tunes, hope they brighten up everyone’s Holidays
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n-D5djkMiI
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Unlucky Alf…
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Some Monty Python goodness
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I absolutely adore the Pythons. So many timeless gags. Some of my favourites:
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Good choices @makesthemovie and @Max! I’ve been re-visiting John Cleese at Fawlty Towers on Britbox the past couple of weeks so some Monty Python is definitely welcome.
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