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Originally Posted by RWood
It is quite refreshing to listen to comedy from the depths of the Great Depression and realize how constrained (read PC) today's comedy is while the sexual aspect has been blown wide open. (Pun not intended.)
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An old-time comic called Max Miller was banned for years by the BBC. The story is disputed, but apparently he told an unscripted joke on the radio about going up a mountain path which was very narrow, a sheer cliff on one side and a vertiginous drop on the other. As he's going up, a beautiful blonde girl comes round the corner going down. Max told the audience he was in a quandary, he didn't know whether to toss himself off or block her passage.
He got a five year ban for that one!
