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Disability jokes 'should not be a taboo'

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The mother of a five-year-old girl with Down's Syndrome has criticised comedian Frankie Boyle for poking fun at people with the condition during a live show in Reading.

Lizz Carr, a disabled comic, gives her opinion of whether comics' jokes about disability can go too far.

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