https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/censored-script-of-look-back-in-anger-by-john-osborne
Comedians especially had to have their scripts gone through and any line with a blue pencil mark struck through meant the line had to go.
Jack Warner, the actor, mentioned here once I believe who played the avuncular bobby in Dixon of Dock Green actually started his career as a somewhat risqué music hall comedian whose act drew so much attention from the authorities he ended up being billed as Jack "Blue Pencil" Warner.
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