Senior YouTube exec dies after following company policies

Steve Sawgrass, a 55 year-old YouTube senior manager has sadly passed-away after company policies prevented, and some have claimed, accelerated his demise.

'Steve suffered a minor heart tremor yesterday evening,' said his fifth-wife Sarah, 'and we turned immediately to the YouTube app on how best to help him. Unfortunately a two minute ad on the benefits of life insurance, followed by an ad on no-risk off-plan property investments in Dubai further impacted his health'

'The final straw", "or nail in his coffin" joked his brother-in-law Dave, was when the screen displayed "Skip in 2"... with that Steve jumped-up and reached for his skipping rope.'

His wife Sarah remembered how Steve's life ended: 'It was a mess of tangled skipping ropes, dismembered bodies and mis-placed adverts. A bit like GB News.'

Sky's daytime channels to stop broadcasting regular shows from next month

Sky has announced the ending of regular programming on its daytime channels from the start of next month.

Instead, they will show wall-to-wall adverts for funeral plans mixed with others featuring pointless gadgets for that drawer in your kitchen that's specially reserved for unused useless stuff - old washers, odd chopsticks and the pack of playing cards you take away on holiday, despite it only having 51 cards.

Trevor Harper, a channel spokesman, said. 'This is the future of daytime content. We're riding the crest of a new wave. No more repeats of Homes Under The Hammer or Bargain Hunt for the 30th time. We're giving our viewers what they really want. Extensive research showed 99.99% of our audience doesn't care for actual traditional programming at all. Funeral plan ads are what they like in particular. Can't get enough of them. And now there are so many companies in the stiffs game, fitting actual programming in has become really difficult.' 

One couple cock-a-hoop at the news are Albert and Gladys Pethridge from Cheam. Albert tells us, 'I'm sick to the back teeth seeing that effing Alan Titchmarsh geezer or Del Boy and Rodney. So I couldn't wait to get signed up for my final journey. It'll make me the happiest man dead to know that Glad and all the family will have a blinding knees-up when I go. Gives me a nice warm feeling. Though I hope that's not an omen. Har har.

'I couldn't decide if I wanted toasted then scattered, or stuck down a hole. So I signed up for the "surprise send-off" which will add a bit of spice to the big day. Whatever I get, you can be sure I'll be smiling down... or maybe up...  at them all from wherever I am.'

Gladys, busily crocheting a new poncho for granddaughter, River, looks up briefly, gives an enigmatic smile and asks, 'Now, just in case, remember to show me where you've put the life insurance documents, won't you? Oh and do hurry up and drink your Bovril before it goes cold. Funny taste indeed. Really, Albert. Sometimes I wonder about you.'

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