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Mary Whitehouse
Mary Whitehouse

Mary Whitehouse

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Press clippings

Commercial Breakdown With Jimmy Carr is the same as Commercial Breakdown With Rory McGrath, Commercial Breakdown With Jo Brand, Commerical Breakdown With Ruby Wax, and whoever else has done it: laughing at funny advertisements from abroad - and some from here. It may have been amusing back in the 1880s when Jasper Carrrot started it, but it's wearing a bit thin now. You can have a much more amusing 40 minutes on YouTube.

Carr tries to bring it into the modern age with some risque gags about mentally ill people, and adventurous bedroom practices, but there's no disguising the fact it's still laughing at funny foreign ads. And actually, Jimmy, call me Mary Whitehouse if you like, but I'm not sure that national television, in the form of BBC1 on a Sunday night, is the correct forum to ask your girlfriend to have anal sex with you.

Sam Wollaston, The Guardian, 16th June 2008

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