Controversies
An incident during a live edition of the The Des O'Connor Show (Thames) in the mid-1980s gained publicity at the time. A joke – about the Second World War reminiscences of a Polish pilot who flew in the Royal Air Force – made great play on the word "Fokker", referring not only to the German Focke-Wulf aeroplanes.
Boardman's alleged racism has led to controversy several times; after telling racist jokes at a Leeds United Player-of-the-Year-Award dinner in 2002 (months after two Leeds players had been arrested for assaulting an Asian student), the club withheld his fee, describing his act as "inappropriate and unacceptable" and barred him from performing at the club in future. This led to a planned appearance at a Leicester City event being cancelled.
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