For some comedy fans, watching Jennifer Saunders behead Dawn French in a
parody of Kill Bill would be pure genius.
However, the parody was shown on the BBC a mere three weeks after the death
of Iraq hostage Ken Bigley, and the BBC has upheld the five complaints it got,
saying it had been 'a mistake' to show the sketch at the time.
The complaints unit said: "It had been made clear from the start that the
sequence was a parody of Quentin Tarantino's film Kill Bill, which contains
extreme and highly stylised violence.
"In normal circumstances it would have been acceptable in the context of the
series."
My own personal opinion is that since I remember French and Saunders getting
viewers of around 4 or 5 million, possibly more, it seems odd that five people
complaining sparks a formal response like this. I can fully sympathise with
those complaining, but surely pepole can accept that a sketch is intended for
comedy purposes and not aimed at them?
