Laws on public obscenity were allegedly broken by messers Ross and Brand. Why are the police not taking action on this ?

Richard Lewis, Aberdeen, Scotland

Why all the drama?

Yes, JR did a stupid and peurile thing, and I'm sure he knows that.
The BBC knee-jerked and suspended him, a stupid move on their part, I feel.

Let him get back to what he does best.

Leave the man alone.

Martyn Taylor, Swindon, England

When Ross stated that he was worth 1000 journalists, that did it for me. It was a time of mass sackings in the BBC and they got rid of so many good journalists to keep this foul mouthed, arrogant, fool on the airwaves. By all means, keep Ross if you have to but give us a choice of paying the license

Marcus, London, England

Please sir,
Can I have my money back?

Ronald, Blackheath, London

Six million - thought eighteen million was closer to the actual salary Wossy commands? And after all this furore, the DG still considers he's worth that ludicrous amount does he? Vivian is correct - it is high time the monstrous TV licence fee was scrapped - once and for all!

Phillip, Poole, England

Typical! It's always the system that's at fault. The truth of course is that it boils down to personal responsibility and JR is the primary culprit and should face punishment accordingly.

Richard, Wellington , New Zealand

A cop out. At 47 years of age Ross should act like an adult. He shd know that his behaviour was completely unacceptable & not rely on other to take the rap for him. I have more respect for Brand, who accepted responsibility & resigned. Ross should go. He has no place on a publicly funded broadcaster

Donna Walker, Effingham, England

The BBC should be allowed to push the boundaries. It overstepped the mark here but the baby mustn't be thrown out with the bathwater. The nonsense that is being talked right now about swearing being banned from television is totally outmoded - it's over forty years since Tynan used the f-word.

jim, manchester,

You have been duped by this publicity stunt.Why elavate the profile of a female who performs blood letting and throat slitting acts in public.Performers express their talents to earn a living and entertain.Why would we want to promote bad taste and why would a women need to promote knife violence.

mike , Swansea,

I used to like Ross and listen to his BBCR2 show as often as possible before he started using people for his comedy.
I think BBC could find someone to replace him.

Phill, Cheshire, UK

I think it was disgraceful to pay him that much in the first place, and to keep him on now is beyond disgraceful.

Ellen, New York, New York,

We've heard nothing about any police investigations into the matter. Apart from the arguments surrounding the BBC broadcasting this, there is the very obvious matter that an offence has probably been committed by these two so-called broadcasters.

Rob, Amersham, UK

the BBC should not be allowed to continue with tax payers hard earned money to pay such obscene people. the licence fee now must be abolished and the BBC disbanded let them try to work in the real world, we as tax payers deserve better than the trash that prevails at the moment

vivian, valencia, espana

The pursuit of " youf " by organisations such as the B.B.C has been the downfall of some high profile names .
Entrusting censorship to someone with a more juvenile sense of humour than Ross and Brand , is fraught with danger .
Try someone with a few life skills next time instead of a degree .

Nick Dixon, Sutton Coldfield, England

What bothers me is that my Saturday morning car journeys from London to Lancashire to visit my grandchildren have been ruined because i can no longer listen to the sharp wit and humour of JR. I am 68 yrs old and detest the pious pomposity of BBC govs, Daily Mail & their ilke.

David Hooper, Chafford Hundred, UK

We all fail to understand the deplorable depths to which they sunk to do this 'as a joke' but surely the question should be why on earth did they think this would be funny?

Where are their morals/ethics? Why would this be entertaining?

Sue Taylor, Banbury, England

Sorry,where's the logic here? People further up the food chain (though not the immediate boy producer) go, but not one of the two oiks who actually committed the offence - and if the other one had not jumped he would probably not have been pushed.

Ross must go - it's very, very simple.

Graham Howells, Brasília,

Now that the adolescent filth peddler is to keep his job it will be interesting to see whether any top flight
stars will be willing to appear on his show. I suppose that only those on the slide and desperate for publicity will be prepared to be associated with him - `touch pitch` etc.

David, Wolverhampton, UK

I bet the BBC, acting in the license payers best interests of course, negotiated a contract that would likely pay Ross more than 6 million a year if it were terminated for anything other than wilful gross negligence. He could say that as the editorial management allowed the show to be broadcast, there was no negligence involved, rather the show was condoned by that same management....

Matthew, Bucks, UK