C4's Full English outrages Daily Mail

If there was ever a comedy scene designed to incense the tabloid press, it would be a sketch in which the ghosts of Princess Diana and Jade Goody got involved in a foul-mouthed brawl.

And true enough, that very incident in Channel 4’s new animated series Full English has duly been branded ‘the sickest cartoon ever’ by the Daily Mail.

The scene shows the paid trying to strangle each other in a row over who was the real 'People's Princess'.

And it contains sick jokes, such as Diana calling her rival ‘baldy’ after saying: 'Sorry I'm late everyone. Had some car trouble, the traffic was absolute murder. Get it?'

For slower readers, the Mail helpfully explains the joke was a ‘reference to the Paris crash in 1997 which killed Princess Diana’.

The newspaper thought the footage – shown very late on Monday night – was so appallingly sick that it has included it on its website to be viewed at all hours.

Regulator Ofcom confirmed it had received ‘a number’ of complaints about the cartoon.

The newspaper said some viewers took to Twitter ‘to vent their anger’ and quoted a man called Adam saying: ‘'I do not really like this Full English show.’

A C4 spokesperson said: 'Appropriate warnings flagged that the show contained humour of an adult nature and the content was within viewers expectations of those tuning in to a comedy at this time.'

The episode came as the BBC deleted all mention of Princess Diana from a 16-year-old episode of Lee & Herring’s Fist Of Fun for its DVD release.

Here is the Full English scene:

Published: 22 Nov 2012