David Tennant’s Donald Trump-Beetlejuice Joke Cut From BBC BAFTAs Broadcast
variety.comEllise Shafer Some of David Tennant’s Donald Trump jokes during his BAFTAs monologue ended up on the BBC’s cutting room floor.
Several of the host’s quips — one of which compared the U.S. president to Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice character — were cut from the BBC’s broadcast of the British awards ceremony on Sunday night, which is pre-recorded two hours before it airs in the U.K.
The event ran for three hours and is typically cut down to two, so it’s not out of the ordinary for certain bits to be axed.
Though Tennant’s bit about Trump in relation to “The Brutalist” was left in (“It’s the boldest architecture in film this year, apart from Donald Trump’s hair in ‘The Apprentice'”), it cuts off there and does not include the following: “Donald Trump, he says he hasn’t seen ‘The Apprentice’ because it’s a 15 [referring to the U.K.
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