Alan Partridge has been criticised by viewers for a joke made about Ukrainian refugees.The Steve Coogan character was part of a Comic Relief sketch on Friday (March 15), where he and Sidekick Simon (Tim Key) read out callers’ most and least charitable things done.Revealing one, Simon declared: “Grant in Briston says his most charitable act was taking in a family of Ukrainians for a year.”Partridge then asked: “And the least charitable?”, before Simon replied: “Turfing them out, he’s got rid.”“Marvellous, well actually a friend of mine did that for a family of Ukrainians,” Partridge added. “Still friends with them, they still wash his cars.”The sketch has since received criticism on social media amid the ongoing war in Ukraine, one viewer writing on X (formerly Twitter): “WHAT was that Ukraine joke on the Alan Partridge sketch…?
Come on BBC.”“Alan Partridge sketch was awful,” another added. “Especially the stupid comments about #Ukraine refugees. Not impressed.”A third said: “On the day when 20 Ukrainians killed in a missile attack in Odesa, jokes about Ukrainian refugees not really that funny.”“I’ve never ‘got’ Alan Partridge but this is particularly unfunny tonight…,” another said.WHAT was that Ukraine joke on the Alan Partridge sketch…?.
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