Periodically, this time of the year, I write a column about the Second Sunday in the Easter season. Also known as “Bright” or “Laughter” Sunday, its observance goes back to the days of the early ...

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Producers of The Repair Shop decided material in late comedian’s joke books too racially offensive for a contemporary audience Craig Simpson is Arts Correspondent for The Telegraph covering the major ...

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The hardback archives of Bob Monkhouse's handwritten joke books dating as far back as the 1960s were brought in for repair by the late comic's adopted daughter Abigail Williams and his old writing ...

The BBC have pulled an episode of The Repair Shop that was set to feature jokes by late comedian Bob Monkhouse over fears some of the gags would be deemed "sexist" by viewers. The hit series, which ...

An item on BBC’s The Repair Shop did not feature in an episode after a TV production employee objected to a ‘sexist joke’. Comedian Bob Monkhouse’s handwritten joke books, which date as far back as ...

Repair work on Bob Monkhouse’s old joke books, famously at the centre of a 1990s theft, was halted on BBC show The Repair Shop due to the discovery of inappropriate gags, The Independent has learnt.

A SEGMENT of BBC’s The Repair Shop was pulled after a TV production worker got offended by a “sexist” Bob Monkhouse gag. An employee took offence at material in the late comic genius’ volumes of ...

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