The ‘impartial’ BBC has dropped a show after jokes were made about the Queen’s sex life.
BBC Radio 4 axed a show hosted by David Baddiel following complaints over jokes about the Queen’s sex life on her 90th birthday.
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Baddiel’s ‘Don’t Make Me Laugh’ featured a segment in which comedians discussed the monarch’s sex life.
“I’m hoping maybe to pitch it again once we get past the 1960s. Oh no, wait a minute, it’s 2016,” Baddiel tweeted following the news.
‘Fraid so. I’m hoping maybe to pitch it again once we get past the 1960s. Oh no wait a minute, it’s 2016. https://t.co/qxg5qTxoj3
— David Baddiel (@Baddiel) October 5, 2016
RT reports:
The radio show challenges comedians not to make a live audience laugh while talking about a topic selected for them.
In the controversial episode, aired in April, the comedians were challenged to “Tell us why there is nothing funny about the fact that the Queen must have had sex at least four times.”
The segment was described as “personal, intrusive and demeaning” by the BBC Trust, who received 120 complaints following the episode.
Initially moving the show to a later timeslot the BBC have now dropped the show completely. They have not cited whether the Queen episode was related to the cancellation despite Baddiel’s outrage.
In 2009 a joke made on BBC television show Mock the Week in which the Queen was said to say “I’m now so old that my p***y is haunted.” was deemed “sexist and ageist” by the BBC Trust, but “it would not have gone beyond audience expectations for the programme.” The broadcaster’s editorial standards claim to “treat controversial subjects with due impartiality.”
BBC cancelling shows because of jokes about the Queen is something the Americans would write in a sitcom, but never believe in #baddiel
— Josh Bax (@jjbax) October 5, 2016
In Britain, you can effectively get sacked if you make an on air joke about our Head of State having had sexhttps://t.co/lPFDIOXYqa
— richard bacon (@richardpbacon) October 5, 2016
Last year, the broadcaster refused to cover David Cameron’s #PigGate incident, despite the story making headlines internationally.
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