The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #95857   Message #1875961
Posted By: The Fooles Troupe
04-Nov-06 - 07:02 AM
Thread Name: Open Letter to Min
Subject: RE: Open Letter to Min
"Out here in the Colonies ( viz. Australia, New Zealand, South Africa etc) in the 1950s, the Goon Show was edited. The BBC removed all the risque comedy to protect our sensiblities"

Fortunately, having led a very sheltered life - i.e. not having been in the ranks of the military - the posh upper (officer) class BBC censors let slip thru a lot of lines that they did recognise as being the punch lines of certain 'risque' jokes (very popular among the ranks - read "real people") - thus lines such as

"It's your turn in the the barrel"

made it thru...

:-)