United Kingdom: : Dwarf joke in breach of Broadcasting Code

• Autores: David Goldberg
• Localización: IRIS: Legal Observations of the European Audiovisual Observatory, ISSN-e 1023-8565, Nº. 3, 2016
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • A well-known UK comedian (Jimmy Carr) was interviewed on an early-evening (7 p.m.) magazine show on BBC1 on 4 November 2015 to promote his new touring show. In the course of the interview, he retold a joke which he described as his “shortest”-ever joke - “in two words Dwarf shortage”. And he then said, “if you’re a dwarf and are offended by that - Grow up!” Towards the end of the programme, the anchor said that “we” are sorry if anything had been said on the show which might have been “close to the mark”. The comedian had also before that repeated a joke about a Welsh man which implied he had sexual relations with sheep.