About that Chaser Royal wedding prohibition

I came to understand that the Royal wedding broadcast was not to be used for satire in any way shape or form. Well, that is not what I saw (for a limited time today) on spiegel online, it was pure satire and sarcasm from their commentators Martin Sonneborn and Matthias Matussek, both comedians, Sonneborn the chief editor of Titanic, a satirical magazine in Germany in a similar vein to what the Chaser newspaper used to be. It was a genuine piss take.

Both myself and my coworker were laughing ourselves silly at some of the commentary, for example: "Prinz Phillips Anzug mag ziemlich prächtig sein, aber hat nichts im Vergleich mit der Mainzerranzengarde." So, evidently, spiegel online must have signed on to the contract with the BBC promising not to take the piss, but then hired a couple of comedians and just went and did it anyway.

So tell me ABC, why didn't you just say, "sure, we'll treat the wedding with the dignity it deserves (wink wink)," and then just bring the Chaser boys in to spite our idiotic rulers???