Komiek Russell Howard moest ‘grap’ herschrijven van BBC, want kwetsend voor ISIS.
27 January 2019
10:37
Nervous BBC chiefs once forced Russell Howard to rewrite a joke – in case it offended fundamentalist Islamist terrorists.
The comic has revealed that executives asked that he change a routine in which he attacked Isis as ‘not being Muslims’ following the 2015 Paris attacks that killed at least 130 people.
Speaking on his Sky One show The Russell Howard Hour, the stand-up said: ‘A while back I worked for the BBC and I did a piece about the Paris attacks when I said Isis weren’t Muslims, they were terrorists – and the crowd cheered.
‘And then, at the end of the show, the BBC lost their mind, [saying] “You need to re-record it! You need to say Isis aren’t *devout* Muslims.”
