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BBC for not stopping him and David Baddiel poking fun at footie player Jason Lee - who they mocked for having a ‘pineapple on his head’.The 65-year-old joker, famed for his stand-up shows and presenting TV shows Fantasy Football League and Room 101, said the sketches for the 90s show were in bad taste. He said that when fellow host David Baddiel performed a skit in ‘blackface’ as the Nottingham Forest player they should have been stopped by BBC bosses.Jason Lee, who retired from playing footy in 2011, scored 118 career goals - including 14 for Forest - was known for wearing his hair in a ‘distinctive’ way, resembling a ‘pineapple’.READ MORE: Win 2 tickets to watch England vs Germany in Nations League action at Wembley Stadium Speaking recently, Frank said: “It was bad...I spoke to Dave about it recently, from a ‘how the-f**k did that ever happen’ point of view.

Frank Skinner has been forced to cancel his Edinburgh Fringe run because of a family health issue. The comedian was set to kick off a run of his new show 30 Years of Dirt at Assembly Roxy tonight (Thursday) but has pulled out.

The Lightning Seeds could be “put to bed” after the England Women’s team’s Euro 2022 victory.The comedian said in a new interview that the song, which had become part of the fabric of English football culture after decades without an international tournament win, could be less of a staple in cheering on players in future fixtures.“The women have reset the clock,” Baddiel told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme (via The Guardian) after the win, which erased 56 years of England failing to secure a trophy.‘Three Lions (Football’s Coming Home)’ was released in May 1996 to mark that year’s UEFA European Championship (aka the Euros), which England was hosting.The lyric “30 years of hurt” in the chorus was a reflection on the fact that England hadn’t won a trophy since triumphing against West Germany in the 1966 FIFA World Cup.When asked if it was now time to retire the song as well as decades of gloomy expectations, Baddiel said: “I’m very happy to think the song would, in a way, be put to bed.” He added, however, that fans may feel differently the next time England loses.“It was beautiful to hear it sung out of Wembley [on Sunday] as we finally clinched a final, I really did think that would never happen,” Baddiel added. “It’s so amazing to actually think, ‘Oh, we’ve won, this doesn’t happen, it’s actually happened.’”The England Women’s football team gatecrashed their coach Sarina Wiegman’s press conference after the match on Sunday (July 31), singing the anthem as they danced about and climbed on top of tables.

England's Lionesses have been denied a bus parade despite winning England's first major trophy in football since 1966. Chloe Kelly's extra-time winner against Germany on Sunday evening saw England win Euro 2022, after being forced into 30 more minutes like in 1966.

David Baddiel confirmed, after the England squad knocked out Germany in the Women’s European Championship on Sunday (31 July). Baddiel, who co-wrote the popular England football anthem “Three Lions” with fellow comedian Frank Skinner and The Lightning Seeds in 1996, tweeted the song’s chorus line after the match. “It’s.

England's record-breaking Lionesses were filmed partying on their hotel lawn as celebrations ran long into the night following a 2-1 win over Germany in the European Championships final.Chloe Kelly's extra-time winner prompted bedlam around Wembley Stadium with the Manchester City forward prodding home from inside the six-yard box to hand England their first major trophy since 1966. 12 months on from European Championships heartbreak, when the men's team suffered defeat via a penalty shootout to Italy, the women's team finally brought football home after a 56-year wait.

England women’s team celebrated their Euro 2022 victory by gatecrashing their coach’s post-match press conference and chanting “football’s coming home.”The Lionesses defeated Germany 2-1 at Wembley to mark the nation’s first major trophy since 1966. Ella Toone came off the bench to score the opener in normal time before Germany's Lina Magull levelled, sending the final into extra-time.Chloe Kelly, who came on as a substitute, put the side 2-1 ahead late in the extended period as England came out on top.

The Lightning Seeds have sent a good luck message to Lionesses as they prepare to take on Germany in the Euro final today (July 31).Yesterday, Baddiel and The Lightning Seeds gave a special performance of ‘Three Lions’ at Camden’s Electric Ballroom. They were joined on stage by singer-songwriter Chelcee Grimes and women’s players of the past to sing ‘Three Lions (Football’s Coming Home)’ ahead of the final.Fara Williams, Rachel Yankey and Faye White, who share more than 390 caps between them for England, were among those former players joining the band and Baddiel on stage.Now, Baddiel, Skinner and The Lightning Seeds have sent a special ‘good luck’ message to The Lionesses, which you can see below.

Fantasy Football League from 1994 to 1996 alongside David Baddiel, and used a pineapple to mock Lee’s hairstyle in one sketch while Baddiel donned blackface in another.“It was bad, yeah,” Skinned said in a recent interview with The Guardian. “I spoke to Dave about it recently, from a how-the-fuck-did-that-ever-happen point of view. I still don’t know how it happened.“I know why we took the piss out of him, because I’d watched him on Match Of The Day missing several goals, so a sketch about him being unable to put a piece of paper into a bin worked.

The clip began circulating on social media shortly after the special was released. Several MPs and the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust condemned Carr for the joke.They also called on Netflix to take down the special. On the 5th of February, David shared why he thought the joke was offensive and deserving of criticism on Twitter.He wrote: “You can obviously tell a Holocaust joke that is cruel and inhumane and mean-spirited and racist. “Or you can tell one that targets the oppressors, or draws attention to the fundamental evil of it, or shines a light on the humanity of the victims.”David added to his followers: “I said this every night during my Trolls: Not The Dolls tour as part of a bit arguing that it’s not the subject matter of a joke that counts.“Instead, it’s the specifics of the individual joke.

David Baddiel and Frank Skinner.Instead, new hosts Matt Lucas and Elis James will be taking up the hot-seat in what will be a 16-episode series.Sky confirmed that the series will be aired later this year, following on from Lucas and James’ non-broadcast pilot. The producers said via comedy.co.uk: "After 18 years off our screens, Sky are bringing back Fantasy Football League, the iconic comedy football show blending football fanaticism with celebrity chat.""The duo will be passing the ball to brand new hosts, Matt Lucas and Elis James.

HOUSE of Games viewers have called out a big problem with this week's episodes. The BBC show is hosted by Richard Osman and this week he is joined by Good Morning Britain's Charlotte Hawkins, comedians David Baddiel and Sophie Duker and The Last Leg's Alex Brooker.

HOUSE of Games fans were all left saying the same thing yesterday about one of the guests. Good Morning Britain star Charlotte Hawkins was on the BBC show as a contestant and it was her shirt that caught everyone's attention.

HOUSE of Games viewers were left seriously distracted by Good Morning Britain star Charlotte Hawkins' figure-hugging outfit last night. Monday's instalment of the BBC programme, hosted by Richard Osman, saw four new famous faces show off their general knowledge.

Is Three Lions arrogant? It's been a debate among readers after the FA has quashed rumours yesterday (May 5) claiming that the song was in danger of being dropped from England games.

Stephen Fry and David Baddiel are among those who have ridiculed the claim made by Tory MP Neil Parish that he was ‘trying to look at tractors’ after being caught watching porn in the House of Commons.Yesterday, the member of parliament for Tiverton & Honiton was identified as the previously unnamed politician who was allegedly spotted watching adult content twice by two female colleagues during a meeting.After being suspended from the parliamentary party, Mr Parish confirmed that he was going to resign from his position, saying he was ‘not proud’ of what happened.Speaking to BBC News, he said: ‘The situation was that – funnily enough it was tractors I was looking at. I did get into another website that had a very similar name and I watched it for a bit which I shouldn’t have done.

attend Academy events for 10 years after he slapped Chris Rock onstage at the 2022 ceremony.Responding to the ban, 50 Cent tweeted: ‘Got Damn they doing Will dirty, This is too harsh so he cant come back till he 63 years old. And the law suit ain’t even hit yet.

English football team anthem, the 1996 smash hit by comedians David Baddiel and Frank Skinner with band The Lightning Seeds, 'Three Lions'. The unexpected success of the men's England team - which saw the Lions qualify for the finals of a major international tournament for the first time since 1966 - saw joy across the country, with football fans bursting into renditions of the chorus throughout the month of June. READ MORE: Brilliant but scary forgotten photos show Prince Charles and Camilla almost getting wiped out by a bald eagleThe song has also found itself a new fan in perhaps the most unexpected of iconic British establishments; the royal family itself.

Jimmy Carr's 'racist' joke removed from his Netflix special His Dark Material.The stand-up show dropped to the streaming service in December but last week, Jimmy faced strong backlash when a clip from the special went viral for all the wrong reasons.A clip shared by Facebook user Alfie Best sees the 49-year-old comedian make light of the 'thousands of Gypsies that were killed by the Nazis', jokingly referring to the deaths as "the positives" of the Holocaust.Jimmy said: "When people talk about the Holocaust, they talk about the tragedy and horror of 6 million Jewish lives being lost to the Nazi war machine."But they never mention the thousands of Gypsies that were killed by the Nazis."No one ever wants to talk about that, because no one ever wants to talk about the positives."The 8 Out of 10 Cats presenter has since been condemned by anti-hate groups including the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, the Auschwitz Memorial and Hope Not Hate.His words have been additionally criticised by British prime minister Boris Johnson, health secretary Sajid Javid, comedian David Baddiel and My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding's Paddy Doherty.Pleas for Netflix to take down the special or edit out the joke have also gone unanswered, leading The Traveller Movement to create an online petition.The ActionStorm petition, titled 'Jimmy Carr: The Genocide of Roma is Not a Laughing Matter', pleads with the streamer to remove the offending His Dark Material clip.Arguing that Jimmy's joke was "nothing short of a celebration of genocide", the petition has already been signed by over 16,000 people - with an overall target of 25,000 signatures.A description reads: "We appreciate that comedy is subjective but in our view when punchlines are indistinguishable from

Netflix special His Dark Material, comic Jimmy Carr made an offensive joke about the massacre of "gypsies" which led to accusations he was "celebrating" the murder of "one of the most marginalised groups in society". Addressing his potentially "career-ending" blunder poking fun at the victims of Nazi war crimes, Jimmy took to the stage last night and announced his belief that he would be "cancelled".The 8 Out of 10 Cats host had earlier joked on Netflix: "When people talk about the Holocaust, they talk about the tragedy and horror of six million Jewish lives being lost to the Nazi war machine, but they never mention the thousands of gypsies that were killed by the Nazis.“No one ever talks about that because no one wants to talk about the positives.”Horrified viewers saw the boundary-breaking joke as off-limits because it targeted the tragic genocide of several million people - both the Jewish community and the Romani and Sinti members of the travelling community.The aftermath of the joke's release was a tense time that saw even his friends in the celebrity world turn against him, with David Baddiel describing him as "indefensible".However, Jimmy showed up as planned for a performance at the Whitley Bay Playhouse near Newcastle, and let rip about cancel culture.One heckler in the audience keen for him to address the disastrous Netflix show called out: "Are we going to talk about the holocaust?" only for Jimmy to respond: "We are going to talk about cancel culture, the whole thing."We are going to talk about f***ing everything people.

David Baddiel has described Jimmy Carr’s joke about Roma and Sinti people being murdered in the Holocaust as ‘indefensible’.Baddiel, 57, spoke out against his ‘close friend’ after Carr’s Holocaust joke, taken from his Netflix special, went viral in recent days.In the special, which was released on Christmas Day 2021, Carr says people ‘never mention the thousands of Gypsies that were killed by the Nazis’ in the Holocaust, because ‘no one ever wants to talk about the positives’.Carr, 49, who himself described the joke as a ‘career-ender’, has faced severe backlash from Traveller and Roma charities, anti-fascist organisations and even several MPs.Now fellow stand-up comedian Baddiel, who is Jewish, says Carr’s joke was ‘cruel and inhumane’.Writing on Twitter, Baddiel recalled telling audiences during his Trolls: Not The Dolls Tour: ‘You can obviously tell a Holocaust joke that is cruel and inhumane and mean-spirited and racist.‘Or you can tell one that targets the oppressors, or draws attention to the fundamental evil of it, or shines a light on the humanity of the victims.’He added: ‘Clearly, Jimmy’s was the former.’In the Twitter thread, he described Jimmy as ‘a close friend of mine and a brilliant stand-up in general’.However, he said, how he feels about Jimmy ‘makes no difference to how I feel or think about this specific joke’.Baddiel argued that ‘it’s not the subject matter of a joke’ that causes it to be indefensible but ‘the specifics of the individual joke’.He referred to an old joke by comedian Devorah Baum on a Holocaust survivor meeting God after their death, and said, ‘unlike Jimmy’s I think [it is] defensible]’.This is the joke I was leading to, which is, unlike Jimmy’s, I think defensible.