[DiapDealer]

Regardless of everything else: what can be defined as libel, and what has even a remote possibility of being prosecuted as (let alone legally proclaimed) such are very, very different things.

To suggest that someone without a formal audience of some type (or at least a very large informal one) needs to worry about being smacked for off-the-cuff remarks about someone in the news is quite a stretch.

I suspect some people's respect for Sir Pratchett (and those who he entrusted to protect his legacy) has clouded their sense of anything-can-be-poked-fun-of and/or nothing-is-truly-sacred.