Woke madness as ‘humourless’ Channel 4 slap trigger warning on ‘offensive’ Father Ted episode

WOKE Channel 4 bosses have issued trigger warnings on classic sitcom Father Ted on its streaming service.

They fear 1998 episode Are You Right There, Father Ted could upset today’s viewers because of its language and scenes of racial impersonation.

It includes a sequence where Ted, played by Dermot Morgan, appears to mock the Chinese wearing a lampshade on his head and later looks like Hitler thanks to some furious arm gestures and a well-placed mark on the window.

The misunderstanding sees the priest spend the rest of the episode trying to convince the island he was not “a bit of a racist”.

The hilarious plot point was deemed triggering by Channel 4’s streaming service, with a warning reading: “This episode was made in 1998 and contains language and racial impersonation which some viewers may find offensive.”

Free Speech Union leader Toby Young said: “The language and behaviour was ‘offensive’ in 1998 — that was the point.

“This episode was mocking the hyper-sensitivity of our age, something that was already apparent 27 years ago.

“For Channel 4 to attach a trigger warning shows that nothing has changed.

“The scolds and finger-waggers are as humourless as ever.”

Father Ted creator Graham Linehan, who was cancelled for speaking out against pro-trans activists, previously said of the lampshade gag: “We wrote that episode partly to shame racist idiots.”

Channel 4 was asked to comment.

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