Scene Analysis

The Women's Insitute

• Setting- a local food and games faie somewhere in Britain
• Characters- two, elderly, white women judging jam. Both with RP accents.
• Costumes- stereotypical elderly women's clothing with cardigans, long skirts, purses and glasses.
• Music- classical

The scene with these women shows them judging jam and not realising who made it, one tastes it and then they find out who made it. Being very offensive to a number of groups, the characters manage to insult lesbians, black people and Asian people. The character complements the jam first then finds out who made it and throw-up numerous times.

Socially this sketch gives Britain an overview of how some people see ethnicity and diversity in this nation, but shows how rediculous it is to have such beliefs about certain people as we see from these characters. In a way it challenges some beliefs some racist people have but also reinforces the stereotype about some possible racist groups.

"Please Judy, no more lesbian jam. I can't keep it down".

Considering they refered to black people, on a personal note I wasn't actually offended, but found it funny because of the context in which it was made. Also by being so obvious about it with other groups as well you really feel you can just laugh at it as they don't target one group but every possible group you can think of, and that's considering the whole show.