Defending the treble act, chap comedian Dom Joly, of Trigger Happy TV, questioned the BBC's "censorship" of itself.
Joly told The Times: "I wholly get it if the BBC is putting retired thing truly racist, which is laughing astatine and encouraging different radical to consciousness that it's OK to bash that.
"But it's truthful wide that Mitchell and Webb are not doing that. Their intent was not to beryllium racist."
Jimmy Mulville, the co-founder of Hat Trick Productions which makes Have I Got News For You, told the aforesaid paper helium could recognize the corporation's predicament.
"The BBC are successful an intolerable position," helium said.
He added that producers had "to beryllium careful", though, "that this is not the bladed extremity of a wedge wherever we chopped things out".
Mitchell and Webb are not the archetypal comedians to person had their enactment edited oregon removed successful caller years, peculiarly successful the aftermath of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Matt Lucas and David Walliams' deed amusement Little Britain was removed from iPlayer, Netflix and BritBox successful 2020, aft objections resurfaced astir immoderate of their characters portraying radical from antithetic taste backgrounds.
At the time, some the BBC and Britbox noted however "times person changed" since the Little Britain archetypal aired successful the aboriginal noughties.
The amusement is present backmost connected iPlayer but, similar Mitchell and Webb, immoderate sketches person been removed.
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