Am discovering that writers are a little strange - and yes, I'm aware of the irony...
One of the group shared some scenes of a sitcom he was working on. Some of it was fine, some quite good stuff, but then we got to the 'comedy black character'. Oh dear. Well, there was a debate... No, if you made them Scottish that wouldn't be better...
Actually, to his credit he did accept our point - the ethnicity was completely irrelevant - and he agreed to change the character. Talking it over with someone else they commented "well, he is writing for a type of market."
"What?" I replied, "1978?"
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