Royal Wedding Satirical Humor
Buckingham Palace is demanding "respectful and lighthearted" coverage of the Royal Wedding. This is bad news for the award-winning Australian comedy group "The Chaser", who had plans for spoofing the big gig with their unique brand of satirical humor.
The Windsors have effectively banned "The Chaser" with a threat from the BBC who was acting on their behalf. The BBC threatened ABC with no access to wedding coverage if they went ahead and aired "The Chaser" wedding spoof episode. So although ABC said they were surprised and disappointed about being threatened at the last minute, and that it was against their editorial policy, they did back down and can the episode. Even Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd commented publicly that he thinks the BBC "needs to lighten up and just get a bit of a sense of humor."