Comedian Arj Barker kicks breastfeeding mother, baby out of his show: ‘A bit awkward’
nypost.comtold 3AW Melbourne. “The equivalent if someone was coughing.”Faranda claimed that Barker stopped and acknowledged the baby before he cracked a few jokes about the situation.“At the end of this skit of a little baby in the room, he said I speak baby and she said “Take me outside.” At that point, I was like I don’t think he was joking about that,” she recalled.
The mother claimed her child made a “little noise” again, but was “just being a baby.”Barker approached Trish for a second time due to the disturbance.“I was actually breastfeeding when he came and stood in front of me and he was basically telling me to leave,’ Trish said. “People were laughing and I don’t think he was joking.
So I said to him, do you actually want me to leave? And he said, “Yes I do.”A group of “ten or 12 people” — including one man — walked out of the 863-seat auditorium over the “humiliated” mother’s departure.
The woman’s family member claimed on X that Barker said the pair were “ruining his train of thought.”“Thanks to the countless women, and one grandfather, who left in protest.
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