Hot on the heels of news that the Cambridge Footlights Commitee will be offering student scriptwriters a sensitivity reading service, the BBC has announced a new kind of comedy show entitled: That Was the Script That Was.
The new show will take a novel approach to comedy.
Each scene or 'sketch' will be shown twice: first using the script from after a suitably 'inclusive and welcoming' sensitivity reading and then - following a 'trigger' warning aimed at more sensitive viewers - with the original, presumably 'politically incorrect', script.
So as an example of what to expect, the famous 'Don't mention the war' scene from Fawlty Towers would first be shown with a calm hotel manager suggesting quietly that guests don't mention Brexit and then shown again with a goosestepping Hitler impersonator shouting 'Don't mention the war' and beating a Spanish waiter.
Peter Cook could not be reached for comment.