"So it isn't just one BBC joker - it's a phenomenon, one that unfortunately coincides with the whole "Holocaust didn't happen" thing. Both seem to have gotten underway around 1980."

No as I posted above, I remember Holocaust jokes in the 50s among school children. Nor is it a phenomenom - black humor has been around forever.

I am with Spaw on this one. Feel free to be offended. Your lectures are falling on deaf ears just as are our explanations of black humor.