General TV History

Yes, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore and Dave Allen were famously banned from live television by the Australian Broadcasting Control Board in 1971. On The Dave Allen Show on Channel 9, Cook and Moore said bum and piss, and performed a skit Gospel Truth about the reporting of the birth of Jesus, and according to the ABCB there was a “blatantly offensive reference to homosexuality and masturbation”.

More here, page from a Biography of Peter Cook Biography Of Peter Cook - Estate of Harry Thompson, Harry Thompson - Google Books and a page from a book about Cook and Moore. One Leg Too Few: The Adventures of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore - William Cook - Google Books

Part of the Gospel sketch, as seen in the UK.

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