Joe Lycett joke

Comedian Joe Lycett has revealed that a member of the audience at one of his Belfast shows reported a joke he told to the PSNI.

Outlining the incident in a statement on his social media he said: "So someone came to my show a few weeks ago and was offended by one of the jokes. A PSNI spokesperson said: "Police received one complaint following a show in Belfast on June 8th. For all the latest news, visit the Belfast Live homepage here.

Joe Lycett has police called on him over 'offensive' joke about a 'giant donkey d***'

“To be fair to them, the fuzz were very nice about it all but felt they had a duty to investigate. Lycett continued: “Charmed, and hopefully amused, the rozzers have since closed the matter. to call the f***ing police.

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The PSNI confirmed to UTV on Wednesday morning that a complaint was made following the June 8 show and they investigated but, "no offences were detected". The former host of the Great British Sewing Bee had to write "a statement explaining the context of the joke" for the police. The comedian said that "the fuzz were very nice about it all" and that he felt "the rozzers" were "charmed and hopefully amused". He also said that he stood by the joke and believed that his current stand-up show is "one of the best I've ever written."

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“The tour continues until September, unless I am jailed.” “This involved me writing a statement explaining the context of the joke for them; I particularly enjoyed putting the words ‘giant donkey dick’ into a message to a police detective. “To be fair to them the fuzz were very nice about it all but felt they had a duty to investigate.

An audience member who attended one of comedian Joe Lycett's recent Belfast shows reported the star to the police for a joke he made.

He added: “You’ll be pleased to know that the joke – which I consider to be one of the best I’ve ever written – remains firmly and proudly in the show. He said that the joke will remain “firmly and proudly” in his stand-up routine for the remainder of his UK and Ireland tour dates. Mr Lycett took the report on the chin and shared in a social media post that the police had now closed the case after he explained the context of the quip, which he said “hopefully amused” them.

Joe Lycett revealed he was investigated by police after an 'offended' fan reported him over one of his stand-up jokes.

The comedian continued: “To be fair to them the fuzz were very nice about it all but felt they had a duty to investigate. The tour continues until September, unless I am jailed.” to call the f****** police.”

We risk sleepwalking into a situation where only professional comedians are given the benefit of the doubt.

And we should make no distinction between censoring one and censoring the other. In 2018, Scottish YouTuber Mark Meechan was fined £800 for uploading a ‘grossly offensive’ comedy skit of him teaching a dog to do a Hitler salute – the joke being that he was trying to annoy his girlfriend by turning her cute pug into the worst thing imaginable. They had filmed a video of themselves mockingly re-enacting the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police. Now, Lycett is a noted wind-up merchant: he recently ‘caused chaos’ in Westminster by ‘leaking’ an obviously and comically fake summary of the Sue Gray report. This involved me writing a statement explaining the context of the joke for them; I particularly enjoyed putting the words 'giant donkey d***' into a message to a police detective. The stand-up comic and former Great British Sewing Bee host says he was contacted by the cops over a joke in his new show, referring to a donkey’s genitalia.

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“To be fair to them, the fuzz were very nice about it and all but felt that had a duty to investigate. The tour continues until September, unless I am jailed.” And their perfectly understandable response to this was...

Attendees of comedian Joe Lycett's recent Belfast show have revealed that a joke he told which was subsequently reported to the PSNI, centred around a clip ...

Plus, before you see the clip he has a build-up of what it’s going to be and he says it is the crudest thing that is in the show. But he even says before that he’d checked and it’s definitely fine to do because it is his own penis and that it had been covered over, and therefore not a child’s penis beforehand. He said that the joke will remain “firmly and proudly” in his stand-up routine for the remainder of his UK and Ireland tour dates. Mr Lycett took the report on the chin and shared in a social media post that the police had now closed the case after he explained the context of the quip, which he said “hopefully amused” them. Another man said he regretted going to the show and that the joke in question “actually caused several people to leave”. "And the punchline to it was that he mailed the editing guy to ask was it definitely big and obvious enough, as he didn't really know how big a child's penis should be,” the source continued.