Sky has edited the UK broadcast of the satirical news show Last Week Tonight with John Oliver to remove jokes about the Queen’s death. The latest episode, which aired on HBO in the US on Monday night, featured a number of attempts to wring comedy from the monarch dying.
The material cut from the broadcast saw the comic poking fun at tonally odd tributes to Queen Elizabeth II from companies such as Domino’s Pizza and the likes of the cartoon character Crazy Frog. He referred to the UK as “reeling from the shocking death of a 96-year-old woman of natural causes” and mocked the pizza chain for its inconsistent response between UK and US Twitter accounts by saying: “Get your house in order Domino’s, a lady is dead!”
