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During last night’s episode of The Chaser’s War on Everything Andrew Hansen sang an, according to the Tele, “tasteless” ditty called “The Eulogy Song”, the general thrust of which is that even scumbags will get remembered as being good people after they’ve died.

Some of the people lambasted were clearly done in jest - Princess Di did little to earn anyone’s ire, other than her ex-husband, of course. Others, such as Stan Zemanek, were done with a bit more bite.

The song ended with the rest of the cast interrupting when Hansen was supposedly about to make a crack about the death of Belinda Emmett, but as Chris Taylor explained:

By stopping the song at the mention of Belinda Emmett’s name is, I suppose, The Chaser’s way of saying that’s where we draw the line.”We weren’t making a joke about Belinda Emmett. We were making a joke about the inappropriateness of making a joke about Belinda Emmett.

As usual, this is just another whine from people who ought to know better than to watch The Chaser in the first place as they are notorious for exactly this sort of behaviour.

However, the Telegraph bears mentioning in particular when it comes to this latest farce. They’re so badly offended, so terribly outraged… That they’re providing a link to The Chaser’s website to let people watch this terribly offensive video.

I know it’s best to let people judge for themselves, but I found it very peculiar the way they’ve carried on about how terribly offensive the song was, but are proudly trumpeting the fact that you can go to their website to watch the video for yourself!

[Link: Offensive Chaser defends song war on dead celebs - yes, that's really their clunky-ass headline. Ordinarily I would just link it from "The Daily Telegraph" but that's such a monstrosity it needs to be preserved for posterity.]

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