TV & VIDEO - Sept. 25, 1990

Jokes ‘Censored’: Fox erased the audio from two racy jokes in Sunday’s season premiere of the Emmy-winning “In Living Color,” leaving the audience watching at home in the dark while the in-studio audience roared with laughter. Both of the silenced comments came during a parody of Siskel & Ebert-type film criticism shows that feature two men who review films. One of offending jokes made reference to “Dick Tracy’s” genitalia. A source with the show, which was recently moved up to an 8 p.m. time slot, called it “network censorship.” A Fox spokesman did not immediately return phone calls from The Times.