 How was the reaction toward Lloyd and Irvin different than that toward Tynan?
Iwatched those episodes, and, incongruous as it may sound, I thought of Kenneth Tynan. Thirty years earlier, almost to the week, Tynan was interviewed on BBC television in his capacity as literary director of Britain's National Theater and asked if he would allow the theater to present a play in which sex took place on stage. Within 24 hours, resolutions had been introduced in the House of Commons calling for his prosecution on charges of obscenity, for his removal as a theater official, and for censure of the network for allowing an obscene word to go out on the airwaves. Tynan escaped punishment, but he acquired a public reputation for tastelessness that he carried for the rest his life. Neither Greg Lloyd nor Michael Irvin was so stigmatized.
 Lloyd and Irvin received limited backlash while Tynan was reputationally destroyed
 Lloyd and Irvin were forgiven after apologizing while Tynan was ignored  Lloyd and Irvin were applauded while Tynan was reproached  Lloyd and Irvin were vilified while Tynan was honored  Lloyd and Irvin received limited backlash while Tynan was reputationally destroyed