It's absolutely right to say that we all have control over what we see and hear, and we all have the ability to change channels or switch off - and I do those two things very often.

But the real issue seems to have been clouded here. It's not about whether the BBC should, or should not, transmit 'edgy material' - that's something they need to challenge themselves and their consciences over.

The real issue is that two unbelievably highly paid people used their position to commit a dirty and abusive, and almost certainly criminal, act. It wasn't comedy, even 'edgy comedy' (whatever the fuck that is), it was simply two louts getting a hard-on by abusing a young woman and her grandfather.

Their behaviour fell into the same category as 'heavy-breathing phone calls' - if you I subjected a lady to phone calls asking what colour knickers she was wearing, or telling her I was playing with myself, we'd very quickly find our collars being felt by the Boys In Blue (and very rightly so). What those two did is exactly the same thing - they were dirty and abusive telephone calls, and they should get the same treatment as any other dirty-telephone-caller.

That's the issue, IMHO.

And they should be utterly ashamed of themselves.