Chris Morris - Bishop Slips

A rehash of Princess Diana's funeral by comic genius Chris Morris . Here's the Wikipedia text about it.
In a 'sketch' commencing approximately thirteen minutes into the sixth episode of the first series of Blue Jam, Morris re-edited the Archbishop of Canterbury's speech at Diana, Princess of Wales's funeral to make it appear that he was making inappropriate comments regarding AIDS and the British Royal Family. The broadcast of this episode was faded into the first episode in the middle of the edited speech, which was "broadcast almost in its entirety before being faded by a transmission engineer" [1]. It is unknown who ordered this, either a BBC employee receiving complaints (before the sketch had ended?), or Chris Morris himself as a stunt. The same episode was later rebroadcast as the first episode of the second series, with "Bishopslips" omitted.
In "The Nation's Favourite," a book by Simon Garfield chronicling the transformation of Radio 1 under Matthew Bannister, one sequence describes a meeting in which the difficulties surrounding the management of Chris Morris were made clear. Morris had begun deliberately leaving the delivery of the show masters as late as possible - often so late that there was not sufficient time to play through the show before broadcast to check for libel or obscenity. As a result it is likely that compliance was enforced in real-time and a manager was on-hand to order the fading down of the Bishopslips sketch without any complaints being received.
However this contradicts claims that Bishopslips was included as a deliberate compromise by Morris, who submitted a wildly libellous and offensive sketch called "Christ's Cock and Balls" in which a doctor prescribes Christ's genitalia to a patient suffering from a minor ailment after discovering them shat out by the Archbishop of Canterbury. This latter sketch was made available by Warp Records [2] but is no longer present on their site.

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  Comedy

[CrixMakin]

Absolute brilliance. Beeb totally unable to take a joke and too afraid to broadcast 'offensive' material. Know what's really offensive? Prime-time television.

[Christian45000]

top quality stuff, we need more of this not more talentless x factor wanks with a 2 minute shelf life and even less talent.

[slannmage]

Sadly because when they do thousands of people who never actually watched it jump on the hate band wagon and complain.

[ZombieLincoln666]

This is basically youtube poop before youtube existed

[KTrandomstuff]

the intro doesn't sound like susan's house to me and the rest is clearly soul coughing; video is here youtube.com/watch?v=mR9WJSX9pn­U

[MNc99]

2:03 background noise is the intro to "susan's house" by eels. (lC3MH-U6yDk)

don't know if they were both sampled from the same source.

[Diamond Song]

Me too - from the part that actually aired at least, Diana's name wasn't even mentioned once.

[Diamond Song]

It was faded out towards the end, and the show cut short. That's what this means by "banned". The next episode was the same episode, but with this sketch cut out of it.

[flaxonx3]

I heard and recorded this when it was first broadcast so it can't have been banned.

[MrAntihollywood]

"Cum Muffin"...... HAHAHAHAHA! That's ace.

[szqsk8]

This sux!

[joebstarsurfer]

yes yes yes lol.Off with there heads.