[Ammi]

... Bake Off comes to Serious Debates and only Matt Lucas’ first day on the job...


The Great British Bake Off has apparently been hit with over 180 complaints following Matt Lucas’s impression of Boris Johnson.

The comedian – the programme’s newest member – kicked off the new series of the Channel 4 show with an impersonation of the prime minister at a COVID-19 briefing.

While sporting a floppy blond wig and standing behind a lectern with the slogan ‘Stay Alert, Protect Cake, Save Loaves’, Lucas poked fun at what some people believe can be confusing messages coming from the government’s coronavirus press briefings.

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It was particularly timely, as the show’s start time was put back by 15 minutes to 8.15pm due to Johnson addressing the nation about the pandemic.

Many viewers were thoroughly amused by Lucas’s antics, but it has been reported that the skit also triggered complaints to Ofcom.

According to the Manchester Evening News, the broadcasting watchdog has received 181 complaints about the episode, with most relating to Lucas’s sketch.

There were doubts as to whether GBBO would go ahead this year due to social distancing measures, but Channel 4 and the programme's makers Love Productions managed to make it happen through major production changes.

The hold-up did not quell viewers’ appetite for the show, with its peak of almost 8 million viewers when it returned on Tuesday night marking the channel’s biggest broadcast of 2020 to date.

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Judges Prue Leith and Paul Hollywood returned to judge the contestants’ bakes, with Noel Fielding also back as a host.

Lucas joined the series this year after Fielding’s former co-host Sandi Toksvig announced she was leaving the tent.

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[Strictly Jake]

People just need to get a bloody grip !

[arista]

Yes I thought some would get angry

[Niamh.]

Why were people angry?

[bitontheslide]

I mentioned the fact that I didn't think it was appropriate in that other thread Ammi although I wasn't one of those who wrote in .... honest

[Mystic Mock]

I personally thought that it was funny.

But even if I didn't I personally don't believe that people should be complaining to Ofcom just because they don't like content in a programme, people should only be complaining to Ofcom when something really extreme has happened on a TV Show, not because something doesn't fit with your (not you specifically Ammi) political agenda, the Internet and your friends and family are there for moaning about stuff such as this if you have issues with it, not Ofcom.

[Dogeatdog]

The people who complain to Ofcom over stuff like this are a menace to society and must be dealt with.

[Cherie]

people are angry at everything, complaining has become a pasttime for some

just read some trip advisor 'reviews' they moan about everything

[Liam-]

Can’t mock our great overlord, he might set the army on us, then change his mind!

[The Slim Reaper]

Gallahads and free speech warriors at it again

[LukeB]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Why were people angry?

They said it’s disrespectful to those who died of corona I would understand if he did a death scene but he didn’t it was just a baking announcement lmao

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by LukeB

They said it’s disrespectful to those who died of corona I would understand if he did a death scene but he didn’t it was just a baking announcement lmao

Oh fgs, he's poking fun at the PM and the confusion of the rules not the virus itself or it's victims. We need to laugh a bit in times like these

[Liam-]

As if Boris backers actually care about Corona victims

[Toy Soldier]

He wasn't making light of Covid-19 he was lampooning Boris Johnson's shambolic public speaking...

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by LukeB

They said it’s disrespectful to those who died of corona I would understand if he did a death scene but he didn’t it was just a baking announcement lmao

...we could get into a whole huge thing about how disrespectful the person he’s imitating has been to those who have dies and their families...and how many lives have been lost because of his many ‘leadership’ errors ..but we won’t go there, Luke...

[Mitchell]

Lol I thought it was brilliant

[LeatherTrumpet]

Bread
Loaves
Matter

Defund the PruLeith

[Kizzy]

Snowflakes with zero sense of humour.

[Kazanne]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Bread
Loaves
Matter

Define the PruLeith

And here we all are complaining about complainers ,lol, the irony,I never watch BO anyway .

[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by Kazanne

As if Tibb isn't a place full of people complaining about something, ,lol, the irony,I never watch BO anyway .

there's a bit of a difference between whinging in conversation, and putting in an official complaint.

[Kazanne]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

there's a bit of a difference between whinging in conversation, and putting in an official complaint.

Complaining is complaining,lol, if people want to take it that far that's up to them ,although why bother, it doesn't change anything.

[Shaun]

Probably the best opening they've had, his impression was eerily accurate

[thesheriff443]

Originally Posted by Shaun

Probably the best opening they've had, his impression was eerily accurate

Agree it was top draw

[Tom4784]

Originally Posted by The Slim Reaper

Gallahads and free speech warriors at it again

Pretty much. Right wing snowflakes upset at the world because they can't be as racist as they want to be but are triggered as hell as soon as someone says something bad about their lord and saviour, Boris.

[Cherie]

Not watched it yet