Quote: Nogget @ October 13 2012, 2:16 PM BST
I think there's been a lot of over-sensitively toward the Savile case. His crimes, though disgusting, aren't comparable to Ian Huntley's, or Joseph Fritzl's crimes, yet Boyle got laughs making Fritzl jokes on national TV.
They've made Huntley and Fritzl (sounds like a lovely brand of biscuits) gags on HIGNFY previously.
From this here BCG on the History of HIGNFY -
When the series moved channels, there was some fear that this move to a more mainstream channel would result in a change of the show's content and the programme 'dumbing down'. Deayton made reference to this at the start of the first BBC One show, saying that the content would not be affected, after which a parade of Tiller Girls danced onto the set and Deayton continued: "Good evening, I'm Carol Smillie."
This was prophetically true and I think that now that the show is so mainstream and watched by people who get offended by just about everything, it's reflected in the content. No doubt, there was an army of viewers poised by their keyboards last night ready to send off 'outraged' emails of complaint.
Can we not build a new death camp especially for these whingers?