British show under fire for off-color jokes

The Queen is nothing but a low down scrounging self centered Bitch,, cant wait till someone out there designes toilet paper with her head on it so every time i take a dump i can wipe my arse on her face , .

Just a UK tabloid newspaper trying to make a big scandal out of nothing to sell some more copies. No one in the UK is buying into it.

I swear, Brits treat the royal family like they're fucking deities. Not all, but certainly the media are the prime culprits for propagating the perception that they aren't human like the rest of us. I abhor that attitude. It's the same reason why no one will take the Catholic Church to task for all their bullshit - because I'm supposed to respect them because they're elevated above the rest of us. It's idolatry and there's no room for that in a sane society. If you're going to get in a huff about something, it should at least involve actual victims, not some puffed up, better-than-thou lot who got lucky by being born into a certain bloodline.

The Queen doesn't "deserve" anything. This sounds like a big deal about nothing.

I can see why people are complaining about what was said about the Queen...it was in *very* poor taste and, even though the Monarchy isn't what it once was, the Queen deserves to be treated with respect and reverence.  But the others?  Pfft.  They aren't anything special, so they aren't off-limits for jokes...after all, the late-night talk show hosts make fun of celebrities like those listed all the time.  Unless it was the *content* of the jokes that is what was being complained about.  Satire is one thing, but rudeness and crudeness isn't necessary.