Anger as BBC turns Red Nose Day blue with explicit sexual references in sketches broadcast before 8am Friday night's Comic Relief on BBC1 pulled in a record £75million for charity. But many parents were left fuming over explicit sexual references in sketches broadcast before 8pm. In one, Rowan Atkinson, playing the Archbishop of Canterbury, told viewers that Jesus said love your neighbours 'but it doesn't mean sh*g your neighbours'. Complaints: Rowan Atkinson as the Archbishop of Canterbury filming of his sketch for Comic Relief 2013 In the face of a 'significant' number of complaints, the BBC yesterday removed the sketch from its iPlayer service, after the lapses provoked anger on social networking sites. A BBC spokesman said there had been a 'surge of feeling' that the sketch had not 'struck the right note' and a decision had been taken to pull it from iPlayer. Simon Cowell married himself in a sketch shown during the live telethon