Radio 2 controller has resigned

[MacdogOnElmStreet]

Lesley Douglas has resigned
No link yet, just on ticker on bbc site

MP - do you really think that this routine was not remotely as offensive as that quote from MTW? I don't think there are many who would agree with you.

See MP that might be funny in the right context just not imo in writing on an internet forum.

Its really hard to define humour and sometimes it can really push all the wrong buttons but still be funny.

Jeez give me a MINUTE I've not got all the transcripts from the show in my HEAD. That was just the first quote I came across from the show! Jeeez

ok one spisode aired jokes about:
Gordon Brown being blind in one eye
David Blunkett being blind
and
Jack Straw being partially deaf

OK? The Queen's vagina and hilarious disabled people

I'll find more

Its really hard to define humour and sometimes it can really push all the wrong buttons but still be funny.

'zactly

MP I think you are making your point clear.

Well, as I say I have not heared the
messages in full but little quips like Andrew Sachs wanting to hang himself as a result of hearing the stuff about his granddaughter- 'might' - be subjectively funny if you think you would rather kill yourself than have your GD sleep with RB.???? Dunno just a thought!

"Olympic gymnastics is just paedophelia for cowards."

Mock the Week

Different when it is spontaneous humour, with panellists bouncing off each other. There was an opportunity to review, and an opportunity to regret, thinking "oh, we've gone a bit far, here". But they didn't, and neither did the team who allowed its broadcast.

Is it different tho' Lou? I dunno I think the error was in lack of care with the editing but.....humour eh? It depends how 'cleverly' it was done. Sometimes I think JR and RB can be very clever I dont know about this case.

MP - I am pretty sure that when I have heard them in the context of the show I've found most of those quotes very funny - tis said in jest. And for all its nonsense that show does make you look again at current events in all their sublime absurdity.

The RB&JR stunt was utterly different, it targeted named individuals who were really non-celebrities. It was really nasty and explicit, even to the level of suggesting that they should break into Andrew Sach's home to molest him while he slept. Did you, or anyone else actually get a laugh out of that?

"Viagra is overrated. You know, it takes at least half an hour for Viagra to take effect. By that time, the woman has usually managed to wriggle free."

Frankie Boyle, Mock the Week

UW Depends on whether you think a member of the burlesque dance troupe is a non-celeb -GB will probably be most put out by that insinuation I would think!

"Statements that would change the atmosphere at a dinner party":

"Ignore the banging, she's been in there for 24 years!"

Andy Parsons, Mock the Week (after Josef Fritzl news reports of kidnapping and raping his won daughters)

(Am a big fan of Mock The Week BTW. Am just pointing out that it goes MUCH further than Ross/Brand in the Bad Taste stakes)

mp - I feel blugeoned by your humour cudgel now

JEEZ Guess what happened to me?

I was just looking for Mock the Week offensive quotes on Google and it threw up THIS THREAD WITH ME TALKING ON IT

I've like, written the whole internet

I thught she said she would leave if any of her production team were scapegoated. May be wrong though.

mp crikey so you're responsible!

"I thught she said she would leave if any of her production team were scapegoated"

I thought that too, struck me as an extraordinarily odd thing for someone in senior management to say. She herself should have dealt with this as soon as Andrew Sachs complained (he was one of the two who did so immediately). If she signed off the episode, which seems unlikely, she should have said so straight away and taken full responsibility.

Maybe she is taking full responsibility without actually saying it? Buck stops with her I guess. She's supposed to be managing things and something she didn't do led all the way down the chain to the junior producer. Fair play to her for not scapegoating anyone herself, I guess?

MP, looks like the DM may have picked you up off Google

Can of worms, anyone?

Are Olinka Koster or Arthur Martin other pen names for "morningpaper"

Emily Maitlis quoted the Mock the Week "haunted pussy" line last night on Newsnight, just hours after morningpaper's post. Does the entire UK news world defer to mp now?