Telegraph– Comedian Jon Holmes claims he was axed from BBC Radio 4 for being “white and male”.
Speaking out about the BBC’s decision not to renew his contract, he wrote in The Mail on Sunday: “Should I, as a white man (through no fault of my own), be fired from my job because I am a white man?
“I mean, I know it’s a big ask and yes we’ll have to agree to draw a line under much that has gone on before, but what if we’re all just ‘people’, judged on merit? Call me crazy but what if, regardless of skin colour, or anything else, the best candidate gets the job?
“I’m not even asking for mine back. That’s not the point. I just wonder, what with all the pressure about being seen to ‘get it right’, we’re actually getting it a bit wrong.”
He added: “I don’t think that discrimination of any kind is ever positive, however well intentioned everyone thinks they are, because someone is always going to lose out based on something they can’t help.
“Personally I want equal opportunities for all, irrespective of who or what they are. So maybe we should open up the debate.”
Holmes has won two Baftas, eight Sony awards and two British Comedy awards. He co-created Radio 4’s Dead Ringers, which later transferred to BBC Two, and has been a co-writer of the Horrible Histories series for CBBC.
He revealed in the newspaper how colleagues had contacted him and shared similar experiences, including one woman who was offered a job and later had it withdrawn for being “too white and middle class”.
Pretty damn funny
When all the comedians are replaced with islamic savages it’s gonna be hysterical!
“I don’t think that discrimination of any kind is ever positive,”
what an asinine statement,
everyone discriminates everyday whenever they make a decision about anything, that’s called commonsense.
making blanket statements like the one above to deny people the right to discriminate in their decisions because it might be about skin color is fascist!
get over it.
some people don’t like black people not because of the color of their skin but the content of their character and culture.
It is radio, dude. Try doing an Indian (dot, not feather) accent next time…
Can’t he just say he identifies as being a n̶i̶ ̶c̶o̶l̶o̶ ̶b̶l̶a̶ ̶a̶f̶r̶ non-Caucasian person?
😉
Irony – – and if you don’t applaud for them you’ll be guilty of a hate crime.
Change of sex and skin color are not unreasonable job requirements. [sarcasm]
Maybe after 18 years his jokes are old and tired?
Nah, more like the blacks and muslims running the beeb are too stupid to get his jokes.
There is no fun in pisslam.
Ayatollah Khomeini, 1979
“Allah did not create man so that he could have fun. The aim of creation was for mankind to be put to the test through hardship and prayer. An Islamic regime must be serious in every field. There are no jokes in Islam. There is no humor in Islam. There is no fun in Islam. There can be no fun and joy in whatever is serious.”