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Star says BBC needed to stand ground over joke that calls out racist views Meghan TV pal axed in race storm

Towers once that extra guidance has been added, which we expect will be in the coming days.”

Monty Python star Cleese added: “One of the things I’ve learned in the last 180 years is that people have very different senses of humour.

“Some of them understand that if you put nonsense words into the mouth of someone you want to make fun of you’re not broadcasting their views, you’re making fun of them.”

Speaking from Los Angeles, he was critical of TV bosses for bowing to pressure in the wake of global Black Lives Matter protests.

“A lot of the people in charge now at the BBC just want to hang on to their jobs,” he said. “If a few people get excited they pacify them rather than standing their ground as they would have done 30 or 40 years ago.”

Other titles removed include Little Britain from BBC iplayer and Britbox, Netflix has removed Come Fly With Me, The League of Gentlemen and The Mighty Boosh and HBO Max temporarily removed Gone With The Wind over its “racial depictions”.

Last week Ant and Dec apologised for impersonating black people on Saturday Night Takeaway, and comedian Leigh Francis issued an apology for doing the same on Bo’ Selecta!.

But Harry Enfield has stood by his depiction of Nelson Mandela as a drug dealer, arguing that the aim was to subvert the stereotype.

The BBC said it did not intend to remove any further classic comedies, but would be ramping up warnings.

MEGHAN Markle’s “closest friend” Jessica Mulroney was fired from her reality TV job hours after apologising for a row with a black social media influencer.

Blogger Sasha Exeter claimed Mulroney, 40, had threatened to damage her career and had shown “textbook white privilege” during a backstage argument over race riots sweeping the US.

Mulroney, who was at Meghan’s wedding, has also been fired as a store chain’s bridal stylist.

She apologised, saying: “I can’t change the past but I can do my part to do better in the future.”

She added that being Meghan’s closest friend had “deeply educated” her about race.

Canadian broadcaster CTV said the presenter’s actions conflicted with their “commitment to diversity and equality”.

Churchill statue is boxed up COVERED George Washington statue in Trafalgar Square UNDER THREAT Cenotaph in Whitehall MARCHING ON Protesters at Nelson’s Column yesterday CLOSE Jessica & Meghan

REMOVED The scene in sitcom in which the Major regales Basil about West Indian cricket