Evidence Canada is full of PC budy bodies.

[Boges]

Tosh.0 is a pretty edgy show. But if you have any sense of humour, you can't watch it and not laugh. Well some idiot found Tosh.0 not funny.

And he had to complain.

http://www.cbsc.ca/english/decisions/2012/120411.php

Tosh.O is an American comedy program on which host Daniel Tosh presents video-clips taken from online sources and makes humorous comments about them. The Comedy Network aired a promotional spot for its broadcast of the program. The 10-second promo aired at 6:46 pm on August 6, 2011.

The promo began with Tosh saying, “Here’s something I’m sure we’ve all wanted to do”. There was then a video-clip showing a car driving fairly quickly through a crowd of bicyclists on a city street. Tosh then said “And that was the year a car won the Tour de France”. The promo concluded with words on the screen indicating the time at which The Comedy Network would be broadcasting the program.

On August 11, the CBSC received a complaint about the promo from a viewer who expressed concern that “There can be no reliable assurance that no one was seriously hurt under the circumstances and it is completely inappropriate to expect the audience to derive genuine amusement from this scenario”. The complainant suggested that the broadcast demonstrated an “appalling lack of judgment”. The Comedy Network responded to the complainant on September 20. Its letter explained that Tosh.O features “clips found on YouTube.com and which could also be featured on the nightly news. The producers of the series would not be allowed to use a clip that featured fatalities.” The station also pointed out that comedy is subjective and that it acknowledges that some irreverent humour is distasteful to some viewers. The complainant filed his Ruling Request on November 8 (the full text of all correspondence can be found in the Appendix).

The Decision

The CBSC National Specialty Services Panel examined the complaint under Article 1.0 of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters’ (CAB) Violence Code which reads as follows:

Article 1.0 – Content

1.1 Canadian broadcasters shall not air programming which:

o contains gratuitous violence in any form*

o sanctions, promotes or glamorizes violence

(*“Gratuitous” means material which does not play an integral role in developing the plot, character or theme of the material as a whole).

The Panel Adjudicators read all of the correspondence and viewed the promo in question. The Panel concludes that the broadcast violated Article 1.1 of the CAB Violence Code.

Here's the video in question.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgA6Uo1n17w

You have to be a compulsive busy-body to actually spend time to complain about a TV programming that mocked that video, thinking that people would actually try and do it themselves.

Edited April 13, 2012 by Boges

[DogOnPorch]

Tosh.0 is a pretty edgy show. But if you have any sense of humour, you can't watch it and not laugh. Well some idiot found Tosh.0 not funny.

And he had to complain.

http://www.cbsc.ca/english/decisions/2012/120411.php

Here's the video in question.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgA6Uo1n17w

You have to be a compulsive busy-body to actually spend time to complain about a TV programming that mocked that video, thinking that people would actually try and do it themselves.

I get the same squeals and yells everytime I post a link to the YNC.

Edited April 13, 2012 by DogOnPorch