I always knew I could depend on the BBC to go out of its way not to offend Muslims.

Stobo and the rest of them should wake up and stop takin the mick oot of everything around them!

Remember the fuss that was created by the sexed up dossire. Well that was true. The Blair company took this hook line and sinker. Anf=drew Giligan with other resigned and BBC had the HEADLINERS.Many a times I thought BBC was a very unbiased media. After the Israel war coverage, I this I hav cahnged my mind and radio and TV.
Alas BBC is biased as Blair is towards Bush. And to think that BBC was the best? No i think there are some that are catching up.

"Their idea of taste, decency and what's funny isn't the same as the people at the BBC".

Having listened to the first series, I can only thank the BBC for not wasting any more of my licence fee on perhaps the least funny excuse for a show that I have ever had the misfortune to hear.

I think it is fair to say that their idea of what's funny isn't the same as anyone elses.

having been fortunate enough to hear all the 5 shows in question, i really can't see what the fuss is about. certainly the cow into one of the towers one could be misconstrued as referring to the WTC and not, perhaps, being the twin water towers in Craigend, Glasgow (a landmark, clearly visible from the M8). The re-working of 'the candyman' song is part of a longer multi-segemnt that quote " ... in todays politically correct culture that we are terrified of offending anybody, everything we do has to be covered in a veneer of palatability so people don't think that what we're doing is actually bad, for example..." all they have don, in essence, is to dumb down the dumbing down to such an extent where the ridiculous seems the norm.

Also, in response to true Scot's comment above, it's not that they're offending Muslim's, on the contrary, they're having a go at everyone. And yes, Muslims have a sense of humour. As do Catholics, Protestants, Buddhists and so on, although the presbyterians may find that the compilation album featuring hits like 'you've got to fight for your right to keep the sabbath sacred' and 'hebridean rhapsody' a bit too much.

now, if they're not going to broadcast in this form, let me know and i'll pop these on ebay . . .

As someone lucky enough to have heard the uncut second series, I would like to say how disappointed I am with the BBC for losing their nerve. Descriptions of some sketches give a certain impression that is not there and can be quickly dispelled by actually listening to the material.

Comedy has always been something that not everyone will like or understand and I think it is short sighted of some to suggest that because they don’t like it, it shouldn’t exist. The BBC seem to know that they lack programming for people under fifty (who also pay a licence fee) yet when they have it they chicken out or attempt to water it down.

Ultimately, another broadcaster will come along and capitalise on what should have been a BBC discovery - a pattern that seems to happen with some frequency.

Yet again the BBC show their true colours. A company which is promoted as cutting edge is then axed as too controversial - could our recent dabblings in more warfare have something to do with the so called impartial Beebs attitude.

So how far has political correctness gone, as a wise man once said not only should the twin towers by JJR Tolkien be banned but twins should not be allowed to walk into tower records.

You can always count on the BBC (Bigger Better Craven)

Tie me kangaroo down sport!

Why be so bashful about cartoons of the Prophet? You wouldn't pull the show if they had been cartoons of Jesus Christ

er, actually in the rolf segments all the names are beeped out as are the expletives, if that is really what they are. there's someone in a turban, someone on a donkey and a fat man sitting. it's all down to interpretation.
is it muhammed? is it rangi ram from it aint half hot mum?
is it jesus on the donkey or that dodgy looking geezer on blackpool beach
and as for the fat man could be buddha? might be the late giant haystacks ?

the fact that there is rolf and bleeps leaves it up to interpretaion.

however their sketch about an arts correspondant from a glasgow broadsheet job-swapping with a wooden spoon really does expose a few truths...

Never mind, you can catch it as a repeat!

Having been lucky enough to hear a preview of the sketches, I can say categorically that they didn't offend me in the slightest. I pay my licence fee, and I want challenging stuff like this on the radio.

Then again, I suppose there weren't many sketches satirising left-leaning liberal humanists (so come on FKBB, step up)... But if there were then I know that I am strong enough in my beliefs to be able laugh at them.

Out of interest, I canvassed a few (admittedly moderate) muslim colleagues and none of them were remotely troubled by the sketches when given in their full context.

These radio shows mock pompous idiocy and fanaticism of all flavours, not just religion. The sort of people likely to be offended by this stuff will already be in the raving bampot extremist category, and quite frankly they deserve it.

Anyone remember an eejit Presbyterian fanatic from a few years back called Pastor Jack Glass? Had a go at Robbie Coltrane as I remember (mebbe no a bad thing right enough...). The press rightly criticised him for infringing free speech.

Other religions do not merit special treatment just because our idiot politicians are still embroiled in Iraq. The BBC's assumption that they are not capable of taking a joke smacks of paternalism and makes a mockery of our cosmopolitan society.

I take it that the BBC will now be deleting the entire Dave Allen Show recordings? I hope that they do not. However, this is the only natural conclusion from this hypersensitivity. Don't they realise that such actions actually increase tension from the majoirty to what is a minority of our population.

this is most inconvenient, because my grandfather, currently a small spoon located within a underwater cheesemongery, was considering taking leave from his current position, to make time for this, which if

political correcteness? shame on BBC!