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TIL that in 1992, an Australian comedy show called "Australia's Naughtiest Home Videos" was pulled from TV midway through the broadcast after Kerry Packer, the owner of Nine Network, phoned the studio operators and angrily shouted at them to "get that shit off the air!"

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