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The BBC Trust has ruled that popular satirical gameshow Mock The Week breached guidelines over comments broadcast about swimmer Rebecca Adlington.
Panellist Frankie Boyle's remarks were branded "humiliating" and "risked offending the audience" by the body.
The show in question originally aired in August 2008.
It followed the Olympic champion's success at the Beijing Olympics. "The thing that nobody really said about Rebecca Adlington is that she looks pretty weird. She looks like someone who's looking at themselves in the back of a spoon," Frankie Boyle had said.
He went on to make another remark about the swimmer's appearance: "When she arrived back on the flight she met her boyfriend. Did you see her boyfriend? He was really attractive. He was like a male model. So from that I have deduced that Rebecca Adlington is very dirty."
The BBC received 75 complaints from viewers. Its producer apologised, admitting: "The ribbing may have gone a tad too far on this occasion".
Conversely, the BBC Trust found that Frankie Boyle's joke about the Queen did not breach editorial guidelines. Centring around what Her Majesty didn't say during her Christmas broadcast: Frankie Boyle offered: "I'm now so old that my p**** is haunted."
Richard Tait, BBC Trustee and ESC chair, said it was in "bad taste" and had "sexist and ageist overtones" but added: "However, it was well after the watershed, well signposted and within audience expectations for the show. As a result, this was not a breach."
Frankie Boyle is not the only comedian judged to have overstepped the comedy line as our gallery illustrates.
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Oh by the way, I'm being sarcastic. Bloody hell the BBC needs to lighten up! Paramount comedy show South Park, and that's properly insulted just about everyone on the whole f***ing planet!!
Has everyone forgot that "Mock the week" is a show that is there to entertain veiwers, make jokes and "mock" the news and people within that news.
If veiwers don't like what they hear, then why in the hell do they watch it.
At the end of the day, a joke is a joke, so everyone needs to lighten up and laugh once in their sad, pathetic and non-jokey lives.
Frankie is a great comedian and if people don't want to hear his jokes then shut your ears or turn the channel over!!!
COME ON GUYS! . . . Frankie Boyle is a COMEDIAN!
Why can't people just grow up and stop being so pathetic!? Christ!
I mean, I'm a Geordie and how much crap do we get from comedians? Loads! . . . Am I bothered? No! Because comedians are there for a reason! They make people laugh!
It's the same for racial jokes! I couldn't care less if a black comedian makes a joke about a white person, or a white comedian makes a joke about a black person! . . . I am white and some of the stuff Chris Rock comes out with is so funny you just can't not laugh! And that's when he's ribbing us white boys! . . .
GROW UP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
IF YOU CAN'T LAUGH THEN DON'T WATCH IT !!!!!!!!!
HAHAHA Frankie Boyle is amazing, besides which he was joking, and when you consider the fact he is easily the most popular guy on mock the week, you have to think, maybe a lot of people did find that joke funny.
I certainly did, go Frankie