The UK's BBC has come under fire from viewers after airing a comedy skit titled 'Real Housewives of ISIS' that featured women in hijabs modelling suicide vests and celebrating beheadings.

The skit was part of Revolting, a new sketch comedy show from the team behind the BAFTA-winning satire The Revolution Will Be Televised, which aired on the publicly-funded BBC2.

"It's only three days till the beheading, and I've got no idea what I'm going to wear," one character in the skit – a spoof of the never-ending Real Housewives series, which recently stretched to Melbourne and Sydney - says, while her friends Instagram photos of fashionable suicide vests using the hashtags "Death To The West" and "ISIS emojis".

Another scene depicts a woman chained to a kitchen stove by her husband.