Tommy Cooper has been slapped with a tv set off warning over his feedback by ITV, it has been reported. It comes after one other warning was made for Carry On Star Kenneth Williams’ repeated innuendo. In response to The Solar, the fez-wearing magician finest recognized for the catchphrase ‘Identical to that’ is the most recent individual ITV has warned viewers about.

Many many years in the past, the late comic’s antics had been watched by hundreds of thousands of viewers, and he was a family title. Nevertheless, after being uploaded to ITVX, episodes of The Better of Tommy Cooper have been given alerts warning of “grownup humour and outdated attitudes.”

One skit reveals Tommy joking about his spouse, Gwen, telling the viewers: “She’s at all times on a weight loss program, my spouse. She eats nothing however coconuts and bananas all day lengthy.

“She hasn’t misplaced any weight, however you wish to see her climb bushes.” Tommy then quipped: “Somebody rang my spouse and mentioned they’d seen her husband on the seashore with a blonde on his arm. My spouse mentioned, ‘What do you anticipate at his age? A bucket and a spade?’”

One other episode sees the funnyman carry out as Rely Dracula and ­Frankenstein in a one-man play.

Free Speech Union head Lord Toby Younger mentioned of the warning: “Aren’t ‘outdated attitudes’ exactly why individuals watch Tommy Cooper? That’s code for humour unconstrained by woke virtue-signalling.”

ITV has been contacted for remark by Specific.co.uk.

Tommy died in 1984, aged 63, after struggling a coronary heart assault on stage in entrance of 12 million viewers throughout his act on the London Weekend Tv selection present.

Makes an attempt had been made backstage to revive him as one other act treaded the boards, however he sadly died.