Producers of The Repair Shop decided material in late comedian’s joke books too racially offensive for a contemporary audience ...

Repair work on Bob Monkhouse’s old joke books, famously at the centre of a 1990s theft, was halted on BBC show The Repair Shop due to the discovery of inappropriate gags, The Independent has learnt.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BBC show The Repair Shop scrapped plans to fix a joke book belonging to Bob Monkhouse after the contents were deemed “not ...

The book "contained many jokes that were not appropriate for a programme", the show's producers say.

Repair work on Bob Monkhouse’s old joke books, famously at the centre of a 1990s theft, was halted on BBC show The Repair Shop due to the discovery of inappropriate gags, The Independent has learnt.

A planned episode of The Repair Shop featuring Bob Monkhouse’s handwritten joke books has been pulled after concerns were raised about “sexist” material. The BBC programme had filmed a segment on the ...

Paul O'Grady presents a three part retrospective celebrating the extraordinary career of joke machine Bob Monkhouse. Features Paul O'Grady, Colin Edmonds and Bob Monkhouse.

BBC show The Repair Shop scrapped a segment that was set to feature a joke book belonging to late comedian Bob Monkhouse after the contents were deemed inappropriate. According to the Sun, the book ...