Mock the Week rapped over Adlington joke
A "bad taste" joke made by comedian Frankie Boyle on Mock The Week
about the Queen did not breach editorial guidelines, the BBC Trust found
today.
The Trust's Editorial Standards Committee (ESC) found that, while the joke had
sexist and ageist
Boyle's 'sexist' joke about Queen cleared
The BBC Trust has dismissed complaints about what it accepted was a "sexist and ageist" joke by comedian Frankie Boyle about the Queen on BBC2's Mock the Week.
The episode had in fact first been shown in 2007 but was repeated in October 2008, at the
