British TV Network Cuts John Oliver’s Jokes About Queen Elizabeth

The Comcast-owned British TV network Sky edited out John Oliver's "jokes" about Queen Elizabeth while airing his program on Sunday.

Here's how Oliver opened his show on HBO in the United States:

His jokes are not exactly funny or clever, but they are jokes nonetheless. And that's where Comcast pulled the plug.

On the Sky airing, the broadcast begins with Oliver's jab at the Chilean President and then cuts to the point in which he makes fun of Truss. Comcast cut the opening jokes about Elizabeth on both the live airing and the streaming service Sky NOW, which offers the program on-demand.

While Oliver's creativity continues to wane, he does hosts a satire show and thus attempts to inject humor into the biggest current events in the world.

He's not a professor wishing the Queen an "excruciating" death or spreading hate, like other media pundits.

Oliver's British viewers, as shallow as some may be, are able to take a joke. A mention of Dominos with the Queen shall not scar them.

And they are rightfully annoyed with the edit:

For at least today, we have John Oliver's back. We support his right to attempt satire. We hope he repays the favor by actually making funny jokes again.

"Margaret Thatcher if she were high on glue," that's the best you could come up with?