Joe Lycett investigated by POLICE over ‘offensive’ joke on tour
thesun.co.ukCOMEDIAN Joe Lycett had the police called on him after an audience member found one of his jokes offensive. The 33-year-old opened up how he thought the joke was "one of the best" he'd ever written but still was forced to defend it to investigating officers.
Joe had to write a letter "explaining the context" of the gag after an audience member dobbed him in to cops after watching him perform live. "So someone came to my tour show a few weeks back and was offended by one of the jokes.
And their perfectly understandable response to this was… to call the f***ing police," Joe revealed on his social media. "This involved me writing a statement explaining the context of the joke for them; I particularly enjoyed putting the words ‘giant donkey d**k’ into a message to a police detective. “Charmed, and hopefully amused, the rozzers have since closed the matter. "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.
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