© Fox Another Jackson gag censored
29/06/2009 … Family Guy has become the latest comedy to fall victim to sensitivity over Michael Jackson jokes.
2009 News
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Mon 29 June 2009
© Fox
Making obesity seem 'normal'
Expert hits out at Gavin & Stacey stars
29/06/2009 … James Corden and Ruth Jones have been blamed for making obesity seem ‘normal’.
Sun 28 June 2009
Boyle quits over Michael Jackson jokes
Paper wouldn't publish his gags
28/06/2009 … Frankie Boyle has quit writing his column for Scotland’s Daily Record – because they wouldn’t print his Michael Jackson jokes.
Jackson joke cut from Bruno
28/06/2009 … A Michael Jackson gag has been cut from Sacha Baron Cohen’s new Bruno film less than two weeks before its release.
Fri 26 June 2009
© BBC More wine?
Longest-running sitcom recommissioned
26/06/2009 … The BBC is to make another six episodes of Last Of The Summer Wine, quashing rumours it was set to be axed.
C4 pulls Jackson gag
Revealed: Why TNT Show was cut short
26/06/2009 … Channel 4 pulled the plug on its new topical comedy programme The TNT Show last night – because it contained a gag about Michael Jackson.
I was a Wimbledon security threat
26/06/2009 … Dom Joly has revealed that he was once considered as a security threat at the Wimbledon tennis tournament.
Booky Wooky is latey watey
Delay for Russell Brand's new memoirs
26/06/2009 … Russell Brand's My Booky Wook 2 has been pulled from release this autumn.