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ABC comedy is again in trouble over taste after a new TV show featured star host John Safran acting out a sex scene to an image of US President Barack Obama.
'John Safran's Race Relations' shows the skit involving the presenter simulating a sex scene to an image of US President Barack Obama.
The segment in the first episode of the show depicts Safran masturbating to President Obama inside a Palestinian sperm bank, and also encourages a Palestinian film crew member to do the same inside an Israeli sperm bank.
Australian Family Association spokesman John Morrissey described the show as "filth".
"It's offensive and its in bad taste and its certainly not something that kids should be exposed to," Mr Morrissey said.
The ABC says the scenes underwent checks through its new internal processes.
An ABC spokesman told the Herald Sun newspaper Safran's show was "edgy comedy.
"The sperm bank story is an edgy comedy sequence about the ideal of cross-cultural harmony," the spokesman said.
The criticism comes after a string of complaints about ABC comedy.
In June a controversial skit on The Chaser's War on Everything was taken off the air for two weeks after the top rating program's Make A Realistic Wish skit about dying children caused widespread public outrage.
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'John Safran's Race Relations' shows the skit involving the presenter simulating a sex scene to an image of US President Barack Obama.
The segment in the first episode of the show depicts Safran masturbating to President Obama inside a Palestinian sperm bank, and also encourages a Palestinian film crew member to do the same inside an Israeli sperm bank.
Australian Family Association spokesman John Morrissey described the show as "filth".
"It's offensive and its in bad taste and its certainly not something that kids should be exposed to," Mr Morrissey said.
The ABC says the scenes underwent checks through its new internal processes.
An ABC spokesman told the Herald Sun newspaper Safran's show was "edgy comedy.
"The sperm bank story is an edgy comedy sequence about the ideal of cross-cultural harmony," the spokesman said.
The criticism comes after a string of complaints about ABC comedy.
In June a controversial skit on The Chaser's War on Everything was taken off the air for two weeks after the top rating program's Make A Realistic Wish skit about dying children caused widespread public outrage.
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