"Or is it just a lot of tasteless adolescent humor?"

The programme was replete with cheap jibes, tasteless humour and lacked cultural sensitivity.

He objected to its "tasteless" humor, which included an impersonation of his daughter and the show's lead actress Tori Spelling exclaiming "I can do that because it's Daddy's show."

A reviewer on French Yahoo called it "a pathetic attempt at commercial recycling," a "film-suppository" with the "secret ambition" to outdo its American equivalent in tasteless humor.

There is no tasteless humor, no toilets, no expletives, no nudity and no guns pointed at hapless victims.

As a registered nurse, I find that Callahan's so-called tasteless humor can be the best medicine both for patients and health-care workers.

The site's general consensus is that its "premise suggests brazenly tasteless humour, but Four Lions is actually a smart, pitch-black comedy that carries the unmistakable ring of truth."

Others recalled a man of mordant wit who reveled in tasteless humor about roadkill cuisine and off-color puns about the Lone Ranger and Tonto.

The Heuristic Squelch has also received disapproval for what critics see as tasteless humor.