BBC Breakfast viewers were left unimpressed with a segment during Tuesday’s (11 February) episode. The morning TV show was back on screens with Jon Kay and at the helm, with the duo delivering the latest news to viewers.
During the show, Jon and Sally interviewed Will Bicknell-Found, who won the UK Pun Championships at the Leicester Comedy Festival. This prompted the hosts to ask TV fans to send in their best jokes to be read live on-air.
While Jon and Sally were amused by viewers’ contributions, some viewers insisted the show needed a “revamp” and took to social media to complain about it on Tuesday.
“No more jokes. Sorry, #BBCBreakfast, you lost me at ‘send in your own jokes’. Really scraping the bottom of the barrel this morning – the full gamut from gloom & doom news to mindless trivia. Time for a complete revamp,” one unhappy viewer wrote on X.
Jon and Sally asked BBC viewers to contribute their best jokes to the show (Image: BBC)
A second said: “#BBCBreakfast We haven’t done any journalism today so please send in your favourite puns..,” while a third joked: “@BBCBreakfast As you’re covering jokes today – My dog was doing so well in the tour de France til the chien came off.”
Another Breakfast viewer commented: “Seriously!!! Farmers protest yesterday and no mention of it but make a thing about a couple of bad jokes at its best.”
“Jokes are normally only read out when the Edinburgh festival is on. Now they’re used anytime as filler for this joke of a programme. #bbcbreakfast,” somebody else penned.
BBC viewers complained about the show on Tuesday (Image: BBC)
Elsewhere in Tuesday’s instalment of Breakfast, Jon and Sally spoke to MP Kim Leadbeater as well as MP Sarah Olney.
The show also featured Dr Rebecca Foljambe, GP and founder of Health Professionals for Safer Screens, speech and language consultant Nicky West and a segment about the importance of bein trained in CPR.
Breakfast airs on weekdays from 6am on One