People are getting silly ...... haven't they got better things to do with their time!
Wednesday, 21. January 2009, 12:20:38
The BBC has expressed regret over jokes by DJ Chris Moyles about Auschwitz concentration camp and gay singer Will Young.
The 34-year-old DJ told listeners on his breakfast show that he had gone to film in Ireland as part of research into his family history for the BBC1 series Who Do You Think You Are?.
He said: "Unlike a lot of the Who Do You Think You Are? shows I didn't go to Auschwitz ... pretty much everybody goes there, whether or not they're Jewish... they always kind of end up there, you know, if they just pass through on their way to Florida or something."
He also joked about Young, celebrating the singer's birthday by singing to the tune of his song Evergreen in a camp voice. He warbled: "It's my birthday, gonna wear my new dress tonight."
Auschwitz-Birkenau, in Poland, was the largest Nazi concentration camp, and more than a million people died there, around 90% were Jewish.
Moyles' remarks on Tuesday came as the national commemoration for Holocaust Memorial Day is due to take place in Coventry on Sunday.
A spokeswoman for the BBC said no complaints had been received about the Auschwitz joke but there had been five complaints about the joke cracked at Young's expense.
She said: "Anyone who listens to the Chris Moyles Show will know he has an irreverent style.
"However, we regret that on this occasion his comments were misjudged and we are speaking to Chris and his team about them."
OK, the guy is a clown and sometimes he's a tad annoying but when that happens I just turn off. Why don't folk just do the same, rather that wasting the BBC's time (and money) by complaining about the silliest thing - not that I'm saying that Nazi concentration camps are silly, just the nature of people constantly complaining about the BBC
! Get a life people!
The 34-year-old DJ told listeners on his breakfast show that he had gone to film in Ireland as part of research into his family history for the BBC1 series Who Do You Think You Are?.
He said: "Unlike a lot of the Who Do You Think You Are? shows I didn't go to Auschwitz ... pretty much everybody goes there, whether or not they're Jewish... they always kind of end up there, you know, if they just pass through on their way to Florida or something."
He also joked about Young, celebrating the singer's birthday by singing to the tune of his song Evergreen in a camp voice. He warbled: "It's my birthday, gonna wear my new dress tonight."
Auschwitz-Birkenau, in Poland, was the largest Nazi concentration camp, and more than a million people died there, around 90% were Jewish.
Moyles' remarks on Tuesday came as the national commemoration for Holocaust Memorial Day is due to take place in Coventry on Sunday.
A spokeswoman for the BBC said no complaints had been received about the Auschwitz joke but there had been five complaints about the joke cracked at Young's expense.
She said: "Anyone who listens to the Chris Moyles Show will know he has an irreverent style.
"However, we regret that on this occasion his comments were misjudged and we are speaking to Chris and his team about them."
OK, the guy is a clown and sometimes he's a tad annoying but when that happens I just turn off. Why don't folk just do the same, rather that wasting the BBC's time (and money) by complaining about the silliest thing - not that I'm saying that Nazi concentration camps are silly, just the nature of people constantly complaining about the BBC
! Get a life people!
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