Frankie Boyle has come below hearth for making a joke about raping and killing television star Holly Willoughby.
The Scottish comic, 49, made a sequence of maximum jokes in a set on the Latitude Competition in Sussex.
Certainly one of these included a recreation he described as "killing and sh******" individuals, the place he remarked about Holly Willoughby: "I’d clearly kill her and rape her afterwards. I’m joking – I’d rape her first."
Showing at a Waterstones to launch his new guide Meantime, Boyle was quizzed by an viewers member on the joke.
He responded with: "‘Can I simply say, my routine about raping and f*****g Holly Willoughby was a part of a really lengthy routine about whether or not or not it’s okay to do a joke about that, and I take a look at it from each side, there are pluses and minuses."
A spokeswoman for the feminist marketing campaign group FiLiA stated: ‘We're horrified that some males within the leisure business proceed to think about the abuse of ladies to be comedy materials.
"Searching for low-cost applause on the expense of traumatising ladies speaks of low-quality materials.
"There's nothing humorous about male violence. Ladies and ladies across the nation are usually not laughing.
"As an alternative, ladies are indignant and scared for his or her security."
Boyle has beforehand been criticised for joking about Harvey Worth, and the BBC needed to reduce a part of his set which contained what it deemed as offensive jokes about Kate Middleton.
He lately advised Katherine Ryan that he's now afraid to tweet his offensive jokes for concern of social media backlash
However in 2020, Boyle known as out Ricky Gervais for what he noticed as "lazy" jokes about transgender individuals.
Boyle urged the Afterlife star to have the identical respect for trans individuals as he has for animals.
Caroline Nokes, who went to the identical college as Boyle, additionally advised The Mail on Sunday: ‘The Frankie Boyle I used to be at college with wouldn’t have discovered rape humorous.
"It by no means is, and I’m upset that anybody would attempt to make a joke out of male sexual violence."
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