An audience member called the police to report Joe Lycett after being offended by one of his jokes, the comedian has said. The incident is reported to have happened following a recent tour show.
Lycett said on Twitter today (Tuesday, June 21): "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 police." BirminghamLive reports that he added: "To be fair to them the fuzz were very nice about it all but felt they had a duty to investigate.
"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. Charmed, and hopefully amused, the rozzers have decided to since close 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. The tour continues til September unless I am jailed."
A Twitter user called David replied: "Hahahahahaha! People are wild! Just know that you’re now in an exclusive club with Lenny Bruce." Another named Tash said: "In fairness, the coppers were more than likely stoked to meet you , and it would have been the most amusing investigation they’ve been involved in!"
