Quote: DeathbyMonkey @ March 13 2012, 11:30 PM GMTI know I'm trying to justify a mistake, but as I said I wouldn't dare make fun of a poor soul, and up to this point I didn't think I was - though I am depressingly aware that despite my good intentions that's probably how it read.
Don't beat yourself up about it.
Think of two circles, one labelled "Things I Find Funny" and the other "Things That Will Get On Newsjack".
The two should overlap like a Venn Diagram (for some, the two circles overlap completely, for others, they manage to get as close to each other as Jupiter and Venus) and in the middle you have the bit labelled "Things I Find Funny That Will Get On Newsjack".
The first circle, only you know. The second circle just needs some basic research. If you listen to Newsjack, or The Now Show, or The News Quiz, or old episodes of Weekending, or The News Huddlines you'll be hard pushed to find a single joke about murder, or anything shocking at all. You should get the terms 'gently mocking' and 'tasteful' tattooed on your knuckles to remind you of this when you are at the keyboard.
I suppose it could be called 'self-censorship' but it's really just tailoring your work to a specific market. You wouldn't send a sketch about a recent murder to CBBC, and now you've realised you shouldn't send it to anything with the letters 'BBC' in it!