10 of the best double-entendres ever aired on British TV and radio

[Triggaaar]

Ah.. the joys of live broadcasting.

Thanks for those, excellent stuff.

 

[The Sock of Poskett]

What was the one about someone opening up their legs and showing their class?

David Coleman or Ron Pickering, I reckon ...

 

[Spun Cuppa]

Sarah Cox years ago on Radio1...

'My producer has a bit of a cough. I swear by a salty throat wash for that. Oh dear, my producer is looking at me strangely now...'

 

[papajaff]

Carry On Up The Khyber................

Fakir, off!!

 

[Publius Ovidius]

What was the one about someone opening up thier legs and showing their class?

quantorina the Cuban athlete....famous colemanballs that one!

 

[Seagull27]

"Tired Gay succumbs to Dix in 200 meters" - An actual headline, http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/07/03/us-athletics-diamond-idUSTRE6622I420100703

Also, after a certain ex-England keeper had made a string of good saves:

"There's Seaman all over the pitch!"

 

[brakespear]

The bowlers Holding the batsmen's Willey

iirc this may actually have never been said.

 

[Grassman]

iirc this may actually have never been said.

It's funny because I would almost swear that I've actually heard it, but I think it's my mind playing tricks. Similarly, not sure Max Miller ever said the immortal line, re: crossing a narrow bridge when a fat woman walks the other way: "I didn't know whether to block her passage or toss myself off."

 

[Spun Cuppa]

One that should have been said...

'...and Nayim has lobbed Seaman from fifty yards...'

 

[Fef]

Or just recently...
BBC News - Commentator Edward Bevan hit by cricket ball at Taunton

edit: Sorry, not really a double entendre, but while we're talking cricket.

 

[Robdinho]

Any excuse to post this again:

 

[Frutos]

Any excuse to post this again:

I believe that was actually something put together for a Thames TV Christmas party rather than ever actually being broadcast, but it's still very amusing.