Billy Connolly has said that he thinks all this fuss about whether comedians' jokes are appropriate or not is just not cricket. Well, he didn't quite put it that way, as you might expect.

As you may have noticed, quite a lot of high profile comedians have lately been criticised for their jokes/antics, including former 'Mock The Week' regular Frankie Boyle, Jimmy Carr, and Jonathan Ross (if you can call him a 'comedian'). Connolly himself came under fire back in 2004 when he made a joke about late British hostage Ken Bigley (prior to the news that he had been murdered).

Connolly told Radio 5 Live this week: "There's a lot of deep and desperate unfairness been going on. I think it was George Carlin who said, 'the job of a comedian is to know where the line is and to step over it'. We will dictate where that line is and where it should be".

He added: "If you swear in a book, you're some kind of clever guy, if you swear in a poem, oh how dangerous he is, you swear in a song - oh my God, what a groundbreaker! You swear as a comedian, and you're a vulgarian and foul mouthed. When did this happen? Who's doing the judging?"