No he should not have been sacked. It is a joke about class and I find it a bit of a stretch to think Baker is a closet racist.

From someone else maybe, you cannot deny using monkies and chimps in jokes has often been racist. It's not like idiots who demand the right to reinstate gollywogs and insist they are not racist or the stupid 'oh his grandad was black' etc, and he has black friends so he can't be racist.

The racism from Asians often takes my breath away, in fact you have to laugh at the stupidity of it.