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Letter: VOICE OF THE NORTH - No humour in a hackneyed word.
(From The Journal)
Byline: DON HENDERSON
COMICS should "push the envelope", they say.
Great comics now departed, doubtless used bad language in private, like most of us, but they didn't have statues erected to them for on-stage obscenity.
Taste in humour varies: folk who'd tear paedophiles to pieces roar at vulgarity from gay so-called ...
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