The humour acquired a real edge with jokes that were both risqué and controversial, as homosexuality was still a crime punishable by imprisonment at the time in the UK.

" Another feature of his humour was to feign innocence about his obvious and risqué double entendres while mockingly censuring the audience for finding them funny.

When the media were not present, his humour was equally caustic but more risqué: " These fallacies ' phalluses ' are rising up everywhere ", he retorted at a meeting of Leeds University Labour Society.

It is hard to say exactly where it started but The Underground in Melville Johannesburg was known for its risqué humour proliferated by founder John Vlismas.

During those ten years, it gained a cult following of up to 1. 5 million readers at points, who lauded the magazine for its constant use of surreal humour, which was often risqué, as well as its games coverage, which-while lacking the screenshots afforded by its paper-based rivals-could be some of the most accurate, informed, and up-to-date to be found anywhere.

The reaction of various elves as the team attempts to strip them naked is a primary basis for much of the show's humour, and are more ridiculous than risqué.

A handful of circuses regularly toured the country ; dime museums appealed to the curious ; amusement parks, riverboats, and town halls often featured " cleaner " presentations of variety entertainment ; and saloons, music halls and burlesque houses catered to those with a taste for the risqué.

Writer Dick DeBartolo, a veteran of the original show, created funnier and often risqué questions (" After being hit by a steamroller, Norman had to slide his ____________ under the door.

Often the first ( more obvious ) meaning is straightforward, while the second meaning is less so: often risqué or ironic.

It is often the subject of criticism by some staff for risqué and tasteless content, and was described by the Master, Professor Badger, as " an unholy cross between the Sun and Private Eye ".

Gilbert, Sullivan, Carte and other Victorian era British composers, librettists and producers, as well as the contemporary British press and literature, called works of this kind " comic operas " to distinguish their content and style from that of the often risqué continental European operettas that they wished to displace.

Although true crime books often center on sensational, shocking, or strange events, a secondary part of their appeal is social realism, which describes events too mundane, risqué, or deviant for other non-fiction media, including descriptions of the lifestyles of working-class or socially marginal people.

It took the form of musical theatre parody in which a well-known opera, play or ballet was adapted into a broad comic play, usually a musical play, often risqué in style, mocking the theatrical and musical conventions and styles of the original work, and quoting or pastiching text or music from the original work.

She moved to Paris where she shared an apartment with singer Grace Jones ( who at that time was also a model ) and immersed herself in the Parisian nightlife, often performing risqué cabaret acts in clubs and parties with Jones.

He was known for his flamboyant suits, his wicked charm, and his risqué jokes, which often got him into trouble with the censors.

Viewers submit newspaper headlines from all over the world, and the headlines usually contain a misspelled word or badly structured sentences that comically ( and often in an unintentionally risqué way ) completely change the meaning of what the writer is trying to say.

The subject matter of the former was often quite risqué for its time, though generally based on multiple misunderstandings or innuendo, rather than sexual misconduct as such.

Moronobu's print qualifies as an ' abuna-e ' (" risqué print "), a non-explicit erotic design of a type often found as the frontispiece to ' shunga ' sets or occasionally interspersed among the explicit sheets.

This version featured much more risqué content and stunts than the children's version, often involving crude college gross-out humor and games that required lewd bodily movements among the participants.

He released several LPs and EPs of his own material, often featuring what were, for the time, slightly risqué lyrics.

The producers often received racy or risqué videos that couldn't be included into the program due to its family-friendly nature ; however, since the show's policy stated that videos sent in by viewers couldn't be sent back, videos that didn't make it to the program were still kept by the station.

Bizet began the music in the summer of 1873, but the Opéra-Comique's management was concerned about the suitability of this risqué story for a theatre that generally provided wholesome entertainment, and work was suspended.

His fine historical romance Vor dem Sturm ( 1878 ) was followed by a series of novels of modern life, notably L ' Adultera ( 1882 ), a book about adultery which was considered so risqué that it took Fontane two years to find a publisher.

The plot was a little more provocative and risqué than most of those seen previously ( including a debate about the ethics of procuring a fifteen-year-old as a sexual partner for a visiting dignitary, a proposition which Claire suggested might be spun in the national interest as a " euro-job ") and included some stronger expletives ( reflecting perhaps their widely reported use among New Labour's hierarchy between 1997 and 2010 ).

The Barrison Sisters were a risqué Vaudeville act which performed in the United States and Europe from about 1891 to 1900 ; they were advertised as The Wickedest Girls In the World.

Blue comedy is comedy that is off-color, risqué, indecent or profane, largely about sex.

Emma generally preferred center stage .” Goldman planned on preserving her place in the spotlight as an American anarchist laureate by shoving risqué sexual and kinship discourse into “ the center of a perennial debate among anarchists about the relative importance of such personal issues ”.

In 1973 it was moved to a prime-time slot as an emergency replacement for a Leslie Phillips sitcom, Casanova ' 73, which had been moved to a later time following complaints about its risqué content.

All nine American network soaps began to impose an unwritten rule of avoiding any sort of risqué adult scenes, and in the months following, soap opera periodical Soap Opera Digest editors wrote about how daytime television was losing its steam.

She reveled in dropping risqué double entendres and making frequent jokes about her display of cleavage.

in which he would speak to the camera, feigning innocence about an obvious and risqué double entendre while mockingly censuring the audience for finding it funny.

According to an article about reggaeton in Cuba, some youngsters see this risqué dance as a way to grow and learn about sex.

Appearing as herself, West flirted with Charlie McCarthy, Bergen's dummy, using her usual brand of wit and risqué sexual references.

Advertisers objected to some of the new show's content, particularly that of the risqué episode " Naked Beach Frenzy " ( which was finished in 2003, but hasn't aired on American television due to scenes of extensive nudity and heavy sexual innuendo ), and, along with the network's entire animation block, the show was taken off the air.

While there is no doubt an element of ( the then especially influential and risqué ) Freudianism in this, as well as perhaps the sexual and emotional claustrophobia of a society with strong Catholic and martial traditions, it also has a distinct originality.

Marcus tells Nelson, who's very creative but also very risqué and overtly sexual with his style, that he must re-edit the ad, as some of the material may be offensive to women.

His eventual fame would come mostly from his risqué material.

The song culminates in orgasm sounds by Birkin: mostly because of this, it was banned from radio in Spain, Sweden, Brazil, the UK, Italy, Poland, and Portugal, banned before 11pm in France, not played by many radio stations in the United States because it was deemed too risqué, and denounced by the Vatican and the L ' Osservatore Romano ; the Vatican excommunicated the record executive who released it in Italy.

Kenneth Horne would find these two characters usually by looking in selection of rather risqué magazines, which he would insist he bought for innocent reasons.

* Among the funniest of S. J. Perelman's writings is his series of pieces Cloudland Revisited in which as a middle-aged man, he re-reads and describes the risqué novels that had thrilled him as a youth.

The Queen encouraged his writing, but Harington was inclined to overstep the mark in his somewhat Rabelaisian and occasionally risqué pieces.