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Andrew Lawrence (comedian) is being cancelled but doubling down (trigger warning)

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AdultHumanF · 01/06/2025 15:57

TW: Liverpool crash

Andrew Lawrence is a comedian. He made a joke about the Liverpool crash earlier this week and is now being “cancelled” by many comedy venues and so on. Instead of apologizing, he’s doubling down and continuing to make jokes.

Im interested to hear peoples thoughts on this. Personally, I think it’s far too soon for jokes, and jokes about people being injured are rarely funny anyway. That said, I don’t know if it’s right to police jokes in this way?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq69zdpr0r5o.amp

Ginger haired man looks to camera. He seems to be staring. He is wearing a red T-shirt with a blue top over it. There is a bush and green grass behind him.

Comedian Andrew Lawrence's show axed after Liverpool parade joke - BBC News

Andrew Lawrence's social media post prompts an angry response, with one user calling it "horrific".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq69zdpr0r5o.amp

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TheWisePlumDuck · 02/06/2025 15:00

ShellieAnn · 02/06/2025 14:57

Imagine being the parent of one of the injured children and reading that. It's literally just happened and he's made a " joke" in poor taste. It's a free country and he can say what he wants but he has to expect backlash and deal with it.

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Backlash is fine. A person changing their mind about being a fan is fine. Someone not buying tickets to their show anymore is fine.

Venues cancelling them because some people were offended about a joke is not. Can you really not see the difference?

Humour has always been used by people to deal with dark situations and events. It doesn't always land, and some people have always been upset by this coping mechanism, but this people can choose not to watch or read anymore material from those they are offended by.

MammaTo · 02/06/2025 16:28

FancyLilacHare · 01/06/2025 21:40

It's incredibly illiberal to believe that the consequences of saying something you don't agree with should be the withdrawal of the right to earn your living.

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It’s a widely recognised policy that things you post online can impact your employment. If my social media profile showed where I work for eg NHS, large PLC company, a local business etc - if I said negative things online, I could essentially be dismissed for it.

RafaistheKingofClay · 02/06/2025 20:20

I don’t think it was the venue itself that cancelled was it? It was the tour organiser. It’s the last date on the tour looking at his website so I wonder whether it was just a convenient excuse. Or so many people returned their tickets it wasn’t profitable any more.

vincettenoir · 02/06/2025 20:22

Wasn’t that fella already cancelled about 15 years ago?

RafaistheKingofClay · 02/06/2025 20:25

"The event organisers who had hired our Comedy Club for the Andrew Lawrence night, have cancelled the event.
"We do not condone or support the comment that has been made online, and we send everyone impacted by the tragic events in Liverpool our support and prayers."

This seems to be the complete statement that caddies made. I’m not sure it’s entirely accurate for Lawrence and the press to be quoting only the second part and saying that the venue lost their bottle.

mellymoop · 03/06/2025 03:10

RafaistheKingofClay · 01/06/2025 17:16

If the jokes just being unfunny had been the problem I doubt they’d have booked him in the first place. They clearly don’t have a problem with his usual ‘humour’ but places are allowed to take a moral stand and decide that things are not what they want to be associated with.

The fact that it managed to generate outrage on Twitter this days is a good marker of how poorly timed the ‘joke’ was.

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Creating 'outrage' on Twitter is hardly a marker for what constitutes outrage in reality.

As soon as you start taking 'moral' positions on comedy you have lost the point of comedy in the first place.

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