Especially the show which aired immediately after the BBC issued strict instructions that no programme was to raise the matter of Peter Mandelson's private life in any way (including having Mandelson as a choice in all four Odd One Outs, the first of which also featured Michael Jackson, Jason Donovan and the Queen). Eventually one of that week's guests, who just happened to be Jackie Mason, called them out on it.
The News Quiz, a radio programme from which Have I Got News for You was originally adapted, did a similar gag stating that "We are unable to say that (classical music fragment) is (another classical music fragment). As the BBC were very much locking the stable door after the horse had bolted (and possibly mounted another horse along the way), everyone knew exactly what was being said.
Hislop also managed to call Mandelson a "friend of John Birt" (the BBC boss who made the decision) in a way that suggested it was an Unusual Euphemism.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Too Soon is no longer a trope, but perhaps some of these subentries would fit into other tropes:
- Too Soon:
- Especially the show which aired immediately after the BBC issued strict instructions that no programme was to raise the matter of Peter Mandelson's private life in any way (including having Mandelson as a choice in all four Odd One Outs, the first of which also featured Michael Jackson, Jason Donovan and the Queen). Eventually one of that week's guests, who just happened to be Jackie Mason, called them out on it.
- The News Quiz, a radio programme from which Have I Got News for You was originally adapted, did a similar gag stating that "We are unable to say that (classical music fragment) is (another classical music fragment). As the BBC were very much locking the stable door after the horse had bolted (and possibly mounted another horse along the way), everyone knew exactly what was being said.
- Hislop also managed to call Mandelson a "friend of John Birt" (the BBC boss who made the decision) in a way that suggested it was an Unusual Euphemism.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman