article_snippet.sent: Comics at the BBC must go through a lengthy process to get some jokes on air because the Corporation is extra-wary about causing offence, an editor at Corporation has claimed.
article_snippet.sent: Chris Sussman, executive editor for comedy, revealed particular jokes have to go through 'quite a lot of layers' to be approved.
article_snippet.sent: Some jokes even have to be looked over by director general Lord Hall - alongside editorial policy advisers, the channel and legal advisers - before Some jokes are aired, he said.
article_snippet.sent: Comics at the BBC must go through a lengthy process to get jokes on air, including some being looked over by director general Lord Hall (left), an editor at Corporation claimed.
article_snippet.sent: To get a certain joke on air, to get a joke approved, we have to go through quite a lot of layers. '
highlights_snippet.sent: Chris Sussman said particular jokes must go through 'a lot of layers'
  Cautiousness comes after a 'difficult few years' at the BBC, Chris Sussman added .
  