BANNED HARRY ENFIELD CHURCHILL MADASAFISH ADVERT DEEMED OFFENSIVE

Banned Madasafish broadband advert with Harry Enfield and Churchill Deemed offensive by the censors

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• minister
• offensive

[codnchips]

Fully agree with CoolDudeClem.

[Bilston77]

@codnchips

The reasons to yours and CoolDudeClem's point of "Whats Offensive about this?

The answers are detailed in 3 parts by myself.

I hope that this explains all.

[CoolDudeClem]

What was offensive about this?

[Bilston77]

@CoolDudeClem

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A TV commercial for a UK ISP featuring comedian Harry Enfield and Winston Churchill has been banned because it is "grossly offensive to the public and the wartime leader's surviving family", reporta the Sunday Telegraph.

The ad - one of three for ISP Madasafish - feature's Enfield's thuggish Frank Doberman character who shouts: "Oi, Winston, No" before calling him a "porky Prime Minister".

[Bilston77]

@CoolDudeClem

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This, and a reference to the wartime leader downloading "saucy pictures of Monty from El Alamein using a dial-up connection" was too strong for the Broadcasting Advertising Clearance Centre (BACC), which banned the ad.

But the intervention of the BACC has angered the ISP's boss, David Laurie, who said the ad was not intended to cause offence. He described the ban as "absurd and an affront to the British sense of humour.

[Bilston77]

@CoolDudeClem

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I can hardly believe the Nanny State has come to the point of blocking the kind of ironic mockery for which we are world-famous.

"Of course Madasafish recognises Churchill for the hero he was, but he was also a politician and would certainly have been thick-skinned enough to laugh this off."

[Rantomon]

@310sucks He was so much more than just a PM, He was a hugely successful wartime leader, a hugely successful drunk and he was a big fat.

[Rantomon]

@CounterNerd Britain didn't ban the ad... some old stuffy ball-bags in grey suits did...

[BunnaySango]

I'm kind of shocked at how oversensitive British people have become. You know you can get fucked over by the law just for having a random boner in public? Heaven forbid there's kids around or you'd get charged as being a pedophile. They moan and complain about every little thing and Fat people are now entitled to disability while old and dieing relatives are dumped on their families even if they can't afford to care for them properly. Of course if they don't the law fucks them again.

[CounterNerd]

I have 1 thing to say to Boring Britain about BANNING this from television. Take a fucking joke.

[310sucks]

Churchill was a PM, not a god. Silly poms!

[whowantsabighug]

Oi! People who banned this... NO!

[rankingtrevor]

You porky prime minister LOL

[rabblue]

CHURCHILL would have had a laugh at this