BBC ‘Sorry For Everything’

Oh, the poor old BBC.

Having finished last year apologising for broadcasting an advert featuring a scary Giant Face Monster, you’d have thought that the BBC would want to enter 2006 with a slightly less apologetic gait to it’s gander.

No such luck.

Following what’s being solemnly referred to in higher BBC echelons as ‘The Giant Face Monster Incident’, the BBC has now found itself in hot water after it’s Radio 4 show Loose Ends featured a complaint-churning remark by ‘comedian’ Jimmy Carr.

Carr - a Michelin-Man-dressed-as-Hitler lookalike who believes that swathing his Jim-Davidson-lite bigotry in layers of ‘irony’ somehow makes everything just fine and dandy - ignited a furious response from the Gypsy Council of Great Britain after telling listeners:

"The male gypsy moth can smell the female gypsy moth up to seven miles
away - and that fact also works if you remove the word ‘moth’."

The BBC - responding to those peculiar types who took offence at the implication that all gypsy women apparently stink to high heaven - later said:

"This joke should never have been transmitted. We apologise for any offence caused."

Carr has yet to spew a comment from his smug ex-oil-salesman mouth. Not that the BBC care - no sooner had they finished deflecting the missiles from this little debacle when their very own staff turned on them.

BBC employees - already roped in to work over Christmas - were apparently a teeny bit miffed that they were unable to get anything to eat at company headquarters. The Beeb had decided that feeding their staff over the holiday season was a bit of a stretch, so elected to close down their on-site restaurant.

A BBC spokeswoman responded:

"We are very sorry some people could not get a hot meal over the Christmas period. Lessons have been learned."

Wow - all this and it’s only January. hecklerspray has to wonder what other things the BBC may have to apologise for later this year.

Perhaps they’ll realise that My Family was rubbish all along and immediately delete every trace of its existence? Perhaps they’ll have to say sorry for ruining David Cronenberg’s The Fly by showing it every other Tuesday (to the point where even the most casual viewer can find themselves reciting lines of dialogue)? Or maybe they’ll have to issue a preemptive apology for when Terry Wogan finally flips and screams "shitting pissing Christ-wank" at a sobbing crowd of disabled nuns?

What are your predictions? Leave ‘em below ….

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[story by C J Davies]