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'Allo 'Allo! wouldn't be made today because jokes about Nazis 'wouldn't fly' with modern viewers, says Ross Noble
Standup comedian and actor, Ross Noble, has said that he doesn't believe some of the joked would 'fly' in the same way and believed that the attitude was 'mad'.
Each episode saw Rene and his merry band of French Resistance fighters outwit their bumbling German captors, delivering plenty of laughs and mischief along the way. 'Good Moaning', uttered completely straight by French policeman Officer Crabtree, is still widely offered as a greeting nearly 30 years after Cafe René closed its doors for the last time. Rumours also began to circulate of a remake five years ago, but there were reportedly concerns within the BBC that characters such as Herr Flick, an officer in the Gestapo, could cause offence.
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