Friday, November 27, 2015
UK: Must not joke about dwarves
When Jimmy Carr warned The One Show that his jokes might get them into trouble, the presenters probably took it as just another quip. But yesterday the BBC1 programme found itself at the centre of a formal probe by the broadcasting watchdog, after a risque comment about dwarves backfired.
Mr Carr, who was on the show to promote his Greatest Hits tour, told viewers that he had once come up with a two-word gag. He said: 'I tried to write the shortest joke possible. So, I wrote a two-word joke which was: 'Dwarf shortage.' It's just so I could pack more jokes into the show.'
He then looked directly at the camera and added: 'If you're a dwarf and you're offended by that, grow up.' Fellow guest Rod Stewart looked uncharacteristically stony-faced at the gag, while Alex Jones, one of the hosts of the show, shook her head and grimaced.
Now two viewers have complained to Ofcom, which is looking into whether the programme on November 4 broke television rules. 'We're investigating whether potentially discriminatory comments in this programme met generally accepted standards,' a spokesman said.
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When I was in college a long time ago, there was an annual campaign for Campus Mayor. One year one of the candidates was very small and he campaigned with the slogan that a vote for him was a vote for the little people.
FFS. When will the grown ups stand up and take charge of society. There are criminals in court who have committed far worse crime getting more lenient judgements than are handed out in the court of public opinion for imagined offendedness. Time tell ignore the PC generation and get on with life. To imagine that some group is going to be scarred for life by a bad joke is a worse crime than assault or rape is carrying the PC flag to ridiculous extremes.
"There's a rumor going around that the dwarf and the elephant were lovers......."
https://youtu.be/3qqE_WmagjY?list=PLvISu4ns9LJzrlrC7u96dyIYs6xfbyRO6
The shortest joke in the world: Dwarf Shortage.
That is so funny. I needed the laugh. I wish I could tell that joke at work.
Humor seems to be in short supply among the Dwarf Community.
A dwarf, a clown, and a bearded lady walk into a bar and the bartender says, "is this some kind of joke?"
I have to wonder if those crybullies found that joke a little funny.
Yes, I know that puns are the lowest form of humor, but in this case it was easy to walk under that bar.
SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN LITTLE UNDERSIZED MINE WORKERS
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