TIL the BBC released a 'Green Book' in 1949 to define comedy guidelines. Among some of the banned topics were jokes about fig leaves and vulgar use of the word 'basket'. en.wikipedia.org Submitted by morecharts t3_xtddeq on October 2, 2022 at 2:41 AM in todayilearned 79 comments 700
ketjap-manis t1_iqq8zw8 wrote on October 2, 2022 at 9:02 AM There's lots of things like this at the BBC including a pronunciations internal website for broadcasters etc. Ex beeb. Permalink 13
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