Shame

1954, he told one about the Jewish barber. It got a laugh from everyone but the guy running the show, who was Jewish.

1972, Christmas TV specials: Eric and Ernie, Mike Yarwood, the Black and White Minstrels, prime-time, real paint'em up Sambos. Yeah massah! After genteel sherry burping through the Queen's Speech, someone, “Like the Roman”, sees “'The River Tiber foaming with much blood.'”
Alas
This puppet will dance again for years to comes: coal-black eyes,
battered trilby. We wrote him as much as he wrote his jokes. From the GlasgowEmpire to the Royal Variety
he wanted
to please
so very much
and
so he did.

1984: Look, the oven is warming up for the big one. “Eeeh, but he's funny for an ol'bloke.” Sack cloth stretches badly across gorse. Sight-lines set for 1977. Do you like me washboard? Do you like me washboard