Editing The League of Gentlemen (section)

==Reception==

In 2003, its creators were listed in ''[[The Observer]]'' as among the 50 funniest acts in British comedy. In 2004, ''[[Radio Times]]'' listed [[Papa Lazarou]] as the 8th funniest comedy sketch of all time.{{citation needed|date=December 2024}}

The series was cited as an inspiration for the later [[Television in Canada|Canadian television]] series ''[[Death Comes to Town]]'', a reunion project for the Canadian sketch comedy troupe [[The Kids in the Hall]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://twitchfilm.net/reviews/2010/01/the-kids-in-the-hall-death-comes-to-town-review.php |title=The Kids in the Hall: Death Comes to Town |date=12 January 2010 |website=Twitch |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100117185422/http://twitchfilm.net/reviews/2010/01/the-kids-in-the-hall-death-comes-to-town-review.php |archive-date=17 January 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

In June 2020, during the [[George Floyd protests]], the show was withdrawn from distribution on [[Netflix]] due to the character [[Papa Lazarou]]'s makeup resembling [[blackface]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2020/06/10/46288/netflix_pulls_league_of_gentlemen_in_blackface_row|title=Netflix pulls League of Gentlemen in blackface row|date=10 June 2020|newspaper=[[Chortle]]|access-date=10 June 2020}}</ref> The series was kept on the [[BBC iPlayer]] streaming service but a content warning was added before each episode.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-07-02 |title=BBC iPlayer adds warnings to classic comedies removed from Netflix |url=https://www.nme.com/news/tv/bbc-iplayer-adds-warnings-to-classic-comedies-removed-from-netflix-2700045 |access-date=2023-08-13 |website=[[NME]] |language=en}}</ref>

===Accolades===

*[[British Academy Television Awards|BAFTA]] award
*[[Royal Television Society]] award
*[[Rose d'Or|Golden Rose of Montreux]]