More fun reading in the latest report from the Broadcasting Standards Commission with regards complaints made over TV and radio shows.
Firstly BBC Radio 4's News Quiz got into trouble for making fun on the word "pansy" during a question about a National Trust/Royal Horticultural Society report. The BBC claimed the derogatory use of the word "pansy" by the show's panel was a "light reference to effeminacy" - but one listener felt the comments were homophobic, and the BSC agreed.
SM:TV are in trouble again, this time for an innuendo filled sketch based around a comedy marrow. Granada TV argued the show was known for using innuendo in its sketches so that there are two jokes - a straightforward one for younger children and leaving open interpretation for the older ones. The TV company said marrows were "not commonly used in a vulgar sense" and, given the context, "it did not consider the words prick and knobs were used gratuitously or offensively". The BSC upheld the complaint against the show.
Complaints were also upheld against Jonathan Ross for comments he made during one of his Radio 2 shows, though a complaint about an episode of the CBeebies' Basil Brush where a woman put money down her top and a man stripped to his boxer shorts was not upheld because, the BSC argued, neither scene was intended as a sexual gesture.