From SMH's
Spike Fat a four-letter word
All the cuss words made it past the censors during Sunday's telecast of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Gala, but there was one seemingly innocuous song lyric that Channel Ten smothered with bleeps.
In a song by the trio GUD about someone called "Rene(e)", Paul McDermott and his musical henchmen swore like pirates and accused their subject of being "fat" more than 10 times.
But in one line, three of their words were clumsily censored even though a lip-reading audience could see they weren't swearing.
The offending lyric, according to GUD's keyboard player, Cameron Bruce, related to Gordon Wood and the untimely death of his model girlfriend Caroline Byrne. But the boys weren't sure what all the fuss was about. The stockbroker Rene Rivkin has never been part of the investigation into Byrne's death, Bruce said, and the song was not about him, anyway, but "an ode to Renee Zellweger".