Comedian has apologised for joke and pulled it from his set
“Prejudice of any kind towards taxi drivers is unacceptable. We decided to conclude our sponsorship of the show last week but will continue to work with RTÉ on other projects going forward.”
“He starts the joke, and he starts talking about penguins looking like nuns with the rosary beads and I thought ‘nice one’ and I’m laughing,” she said. She added: “I just thought ‘please don’t do this to me’. I’m literally one of the only people of colour sitting here full of a room of white people’. And then came the savannah and taxi drivers.”The mother of two said the comedian later emailed and spoke with her over the phone to apologise for the joke, acknowledging it was offensive.
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