When will the Daily Mail shut up? More whinging at the BBC
Discussion
Daily Wail said:
Even as Russell Brand row raged, BBC 'comedians' were insulting the Queen
While fury against the BBC over Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross was at its peak, the corporation
brazenly aired a highly offensive remark about the Queen.
During the comedy show Mock The Week on Wednesday evening, Scottish comedian Frankie Boyle made a 'disgracefully foul' so-called joke.
Asked to think of something the Queen would not say in her Christmas speech, he put on a high voice and said: 'I have had a few medical issues this year - I'm now so old that my p**** is haunted.'
The decision to allow the 'joke' to be aired on the show at 10pm, hours after Brand resigned, has led to renewed anger among viewers.
Boyle's 'gag', in a Mock The Week repeat, is just one example of the depths to which the BBC has fallen.
The Daily Mail has uncovered further examples of bad language and degrading remarks given airtime by the corporation.
John Beyer, of Mediawatch UK, said of the Mock The Week remark: 'It is very offensive and should not have been broadcast. It is indicative of the sloppy way in which this kind of thing gets on air.
'There is a great deal of respect for the Queen and people do feel very strongly about any kind of disrespectful comments about her. It compounds what is going on at the moment.
'One has to acknowledge that the BBC is in the frontline of producing really excellent material, but when it comes to lapses of judgment like this you really have to look at the way things go on air.
'Clearly, there needs to be an assessment as to whether the chain of command that has been referred to time and again over the Ross and Brand affair is actually functioning.
David Davies, Tory MP for Monmouth, urged BBC viewers who were offended to hold off from paying their licence fee until the last possible moment in protest.
'If the BBC wishes to continue to take taxpayers' money it is going to have to become accountable to the people it serves,' he said.
'Ordinary, decent people who are struggling to pay their mortgages must wonder why overpaid buffoons are being rewarded for making foul comments about elderly people who have always behaved with the utmost decorum.
'It was a disgracefully foul comment to make about any lady.
'Just because the Queen is the Queen, it doesn't mean she doesn't have feelings, and she should not be subjected to that kind of comment on a national TV programme.'
The comedians in the programme, which claims to take a satirical view of current affairs, were asked to come up with ideas of what the Queen would not have said in her Christmas message
While some of the suggestions were simply 'humorous', others verged on the offensive.
Hugh Dennis wiped his lips and said: 'Yum yum, I've just eaten a swan' before suggesting the Queen was sharing a cave with Osama bin Laden.
Boyle, who is known for his below-the-belt quirky humour, also suggested Prince Charles was not Prince Harry's father, while Russell Howard pretended to be the Queen doing an impression of reggae singer Shaggy.
Three minutes after the programme ended, a discussion forum about Boyle's offensive comment was started on the Internet. One upset viewer said: 'It frustrates me as a licence payer that on a day when other BBC people resign over comedy content, that this programme and comments about the Queen are put out.
'Just smacks of hypocrisy as far as I can see.'
A spokesman for the BBC said: 'Mock The Week is a well-established satirical comedy series whose audience has very clear expectations of its bold and sometimes provocative humour.
'This edition was first shown 21 months ago and is part of a run of repeated editions.'
Buckingham Palace declined to comment
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While fury against the BBC over Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross was at its peak, the corporation
brazenly aired a highly offensive remark about the Queen.
During the comedy show Mock The Week on Wednesday evening, Scottish comedian Frankie Boyle made a 'disgracefully foul' so-called joke.
Asked to think of something the Queen would not say in her Christmas speech, he put on a high voice and said: 'I have had a few medical issues this year - I'm now so old that my p**** is haunted.'
The decision to allow the 'joke' to be aired on the show at 10pm, hours after Brand resigned, has led to renewed anger among viewers.
Boyle's 'gag', in a Mock The Week repeat, is just one example of the depths to which the BBC has fallen.
The Daily Mail has uncovered further examples of bad language and degrading remarks given airtime by the corporation.
John Beyer, of Mediawatch UK, said of the Mock The Week remark: 'It is very offensive and should not have been broadcast. It is indicative of the sloppy way in which this kind of thing gets on air.
'There is a great deal of respect for the Queen and people do feel very strongly about any kind of disrespectful comments about her. It compounds what is going on at the moment.
'One has to acknowledge that the BBC is in the frontline of producing really excellent material, but when it comes to lapses of judgment like this you really have to look at the way things go on air.
'Clearly, there needs to be an assessment as to whether the chain of command that has been referred to time and again over the Ross and Brand affair is actually functioning.
David Davies, Tory MP for Monmouth, urged BBC viewers who were offended to hold off from paying their licence fee until the last possible moment in protest.
'If the BBC wishes to continue to take taxpayers' money it is going to have to become accountable to the people it serves,' he said.
'Ordinary, decent people who are struggling to pay their mortgages must wonder why overpaid buffoons are being rewarded for making foul comments about elderly people who have always behaved with the utmost decorum.
'It was a disgracefully foul comment to make about any lady.
'Just because the Queen is the Queen, it doesn't mean she doesn't have feelings, and she should not be subjected to that kind of comment on a national TV programme.'
The comedians in the programme, which claims to take a satirical view of current affairs, were asked to come up with ideas of what the Queen would not have said in her Christmas message
While some of the suggestions were simply 'humorous', others verged on the offensive.
Hugh Dennis wiped his lips and said: 'Yum yum, I've just eaten a swan' before suggesting the Queen was sharing a cave with Osama bin Laden.
Boyle, who is known for his below-the-belt quirky humour, also suggested Prince Charles was not Prince Harry's father, while Russell Howard pretended to be the Queen doing an impression of reggae singer Shaggy.
Three minutes after the programme ended, a discussion forum about Boyle's offensive comment was started on the Internet. One upset viewer said: 'It frustrates me as a licence payer that on a day when other BBC people resign over comedy content, that this programme and comments about the Queen are put out.
'Just smacks of hypocrisy as far as I can see.'
A spokesman for the BBC said: 'Mock The Week is a well-established satirical comedy series whose audience has very clear expectations of its bold and sometimes provocative humour.
'This edition was first shown 21 months ago and is part of a run of repeated editions.'
Buckingham Palace declined to comment
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daily wail said:
The BBC fills our living rooms with more smutty and degrading obscenities
Here the Daily Mail prints some recent extracts.
We apologise to readers who may be offended. Laughing
The Graham Norton Show, BBC2, October 23, 10pm. Repeated Sunday
Norton asked his guests Thandie Newton and Ricky Gervais to read a pretend film script in which Sarah Palin - America's Republican candidate for vice president - is made out to be a porn star.
Norton (reading the part of narrator): Sarah unbuttons her blouse.
Newton (reading the part of Sarah Palin): Why don't you feast your eyes on Mama's jugs?
Norton: She lifts her skirt and starts rubbing herself.
Newton: It's time to drill baby. Drill hard and deep. Come on you tree-hugging hippy. What are you waiting for? Congressional approval?
Norton: The business partner wakes up and unzips his pants. Sarah licks her lips and grabs his p***s.
That Mitchell And Webb Look, BBC4, Tuesday, 9pm
The second in a series of short comic sketches in the comedy shows a group of characters pretending to rehearse for a Christmas pantomime in a village hall. The scene starts with a young blonde woman 'raping' the panto Dame using a sex toy.
Dame: Oh nooooo. Oh nooooo, stop it.
Messenger: Guys, guys, listen up. It's bad news. I've just been talking to the parish council and they strongly feel we should drop the Dame rape from this year's panto. 'Rapist': But it's traditional.
Dame: It's everybody's favourite bit.
Director: What? What next? I suppose they are going to tell us that we can't have Cinderella s***ing off the panto horse.
Messenger: Well, they did voice some concerns.
The Chris Moyles Show, BBC Radio One, yesterday, 9.20am
A young couple have been on a date organised by the breakfast show team. Moyles and his co-presenters are discussing the date and quizzing the couple about whether they liked each other. Moyles says to girl, who admits she doesn't see the boy as boyfriend material, 'couldn't you at least have done it with him once, a sympathy one, anything.'
During this sketch show set in a parallel universe, a girl called Sue is abducted by aliens.
The Wrong Door: Smutty Aliens, BBC3, September 11, 10.30pm
Alien 1: Behold! The fastest ship in the whole world. The hyperian w*** sock.
Sue: It looks like a giant c***. [Two Aliens and Sue board a space ship in the shape of the male genitalia.]
Alien 2: Engaging the lesbolian c*** drive. [The alien makes sexually suggestive movements with his hand.] The dialogue becomes even more crude and explicit in the subsequent exchanges.
Love Soup, BBC1, April, 9.20pm
The 'comedy' portrayed an extremely violent and realistic suicide of a woman leaping from a ten-storey building and smashing into the concrete pavement.
It transpired that the woman had left behind a dog which was then adopted by Milly - played by Montserrat Lombard.
Viewers were then treated to a scene of this young woman, kneeling naked in the bathroom to retrieve a contact lens, apparently being raped by the dog. Viewers were shown the labrador passing the bathroom door and then a pair of dog paws on the woman's naked shoulders in the scene lasting seconds.
Viewers learned that the suicide victim had been having sex with her dog for many years - and the animal had effectively been trained to target a kneeling woman. Laughing about the incident around a canteen table, one of the characters quips: 'There is love and attention - and [there is] being rogered by a dog'.
Here the Daily Mail prints some recent extracts.
We apologise to readers who may be offended. Laughing
The Graham Norton Show, BBC2, October 23, 10pm. Repeated Sunday
Norton asked his guests Thandie Newton and Ricky Gervais to read a pretend film script in which Sarah Palin - America's Republican candidate for vice president - is made out to be a porn star.
Norton (reading the part of narrator): Sarah unbuttons her blouse.
Newton (reading the part of Sarah Palin): Why don't you feast your eyes on Mama's jugs?
Norton: She lifts her skirt and starts rubbing herself.
Newton: It's time to drill baby. Drill hard and deep. Come on you tree-hugging hippy. What are you waiting for? Congressional approval?
Norton: The business partner wakes up and unzips his pants. Sarah licks her lips and grabs his p***s.
That Mitchell And Webb Look, BBC4, Tuesday, 9pm
The second in a series of short comic sketches in the comedy shows a group of characters pretending to rehearse for a Christmas pantomime in a village hall. The scene starts with a young blonde woman 'raping' the panto Dame using a sex toy.
Dame: Oh nooooo. Oh nooooo, stop it.
Messenger: Guys, guys, listen up. It's bad news. I've just been talking to the parish council and they strongly feel we should drop the Dame rape from this year's panto. 'Rapist': But it's traditional.
Dame: It's everybody's favourite bit.
Director: What? What next? I suppose they are going to tell us that we can't have Cinderella s***ing off the panto horse.
Messenger: Well, they did voice some concerns.
The Chris Moyles Show, BBC Radio One, yesterday, 9.20am
A young couple have been on a date organised by the breakfast show team. Moyles and his co-presenters are discussing the date and quizzing the couple about whether they liked each other. Moyles says to girl, who admits she doesn't see the boy as boyfriend material, 'couldn't you at least have done it with him once, a sympathy one, anything.'
During this sketch show set in a parallel universe, a girl called Sue is abducted by aliens.
The Wrong Door: Smutty Aliens, BBC3, September 11, 10.30pm
Alien 1: Behold! The fastest ship in the whole world. The hyperian w*** sock.
Sue: It looks like a giant c***. [Two Aliens and Sue board a space ship in the shape of the male genitalia.]
Alien 2: Engaging the lesbolian c*** drive. [The alien makes sexually suggestive movements with his hand.] The dialogue becomes even more crude and explicit in the subsequent exchanges.
Love Soup, BBC1, April, 9.20pm
The 'comedy' portrayed an extremely violent and realistic suicide of a woman leaping from a ten-storey building and smashing into the concrete pavement.
It transpired that the woman had left behind a dog which was then adopted by Milly - played by Montserrat Lombard.
Viewers were then treated to a scene of this young woman, kneeling naked in the bathroom to retrieve a contact lens, apparently being raped by the dog. Viewers were shown the labrador passing the bathroom door and then a pair of dog paws on the woman's naked shoulders in the scene lasting seconds.
Viewers learned that the suicide victim had been having sex with her dog for many years - and the animal had effectively been trained to target a kneeling woman. Laughing about the incident around a canteen table, one of the characters quips: 'There is love and attention - and [there is] being rogered by a dog'.
Edited by BJG1 on Friday 31st October 10:47
Its the new 'phone-in scandal'
We now have massively long winded T&Cs read out on every on-air competition (see ITV F1 coverage for a great example) because a couple of TV shows were unscrupulous in their behaviour.
Look forward to a written or spoken disclaimer in front of every 'edgy' TV or radio show coming to a TV near you soon.
We now have massively long winded T&Cs read out on every on-air competition (see ITV F1 coverage for a great example) because a couple of TV shows were unscrupulous in their behaviour.
Look forward to a written or spoken disclaimer in front of every 'edgy' TV or radio show coming to a TV near you soon.
Oh FFS will somebody do something to take the media's little minds onto something else this really is getting boring.
Shock news - comedy offends !! christ they should go to a working mens club when jim davis or bernard manning perform I am sure that would have them with plenty of material to plaster accross the front pages.
I suppose it does make a change from recession looms etc etc, this is one of the reasons I don't normally buy papers !!
Shock news - comedy offends !! christ they should go to a working mens club when jim davis or bernard manning perform I am sure that would have them with plenty of material to plaster accross the front pages.
I suppose it does make a change from recession looms etc etc, this is one of the reasons I don't normally buy papers !!
I'd join a campaign against the newspapers (and the TV news) offending me with their cheap journalism and banging on about s
te that really really doesn't matter.
They can shove Brand and Ross, Climate Change, Credit Crunch, and whatever's the next soup of the day up their collective lazy overpaid arse.
te that really really doesn't matter.They can shove Brand and Ross, Climate Change, Credit Crunch, and whatever's the next soup of the day up their collective lazy overpaid arse.
The Walrus said:
christ they should go to a working mens club when jim davis or bernard manning perform I am sure that would have them with plenty of material to plaster accross the front pages.
Quite. "Dead comedian in unlikely comeback", or somesuch.TBH I agree, the Mail's excessive piousness is grating, but it has always been such. Do what I do and don't read it. That'll show 'em!
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