JRT,

I'm definitely with you on that. It was indeed funny and the cast that took part did so voluntarily with no notions of stereotype. Every stereotype has a prototype, some basis in fact, but needs more than one example on which to build and exaggerate salient characteristics. It seems to grow from an unconcious assessment of things as they were and which gradually become common enough to be perpetuated even by those who are the butt of latterly perceived injustices. It's easy to look back and say this and that shouldn't have happened. It may be right to say so but certainly not to smother it behind the taboo of political correctness.