Frankie Boyle had the best response to Jo Brand’s ‘battery acid’ joke
As you can’t possibly failed to have seen by now, Jo Brand has caused something of a kerfuffle/outrage (delete depending on your point of view) with this joke on a Radio 4 series called Heresy.
Brand joked about throwing battery acid at “unpleasant characters” instead of milkshakes.
“Why bother with a milkshake when you could get some battery acid?”
The BBC said jokes made on Heresy were “deliberately provocative as the title implies”, and they were “not intended to be taken seriously”.
But lots of people – very possibly you might be able to guess one or two of them – were very angry indeed.
Disgusting. This is an incitement for people to throw acid at politicians. Shame on you, Jo Brand. https://t.co/P5XSF1Nq3r
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) June 12, 2019
If you think it’s ok for Jo Brand to joke about throwing acid at Nigel Farage then you also have to accept it’s ok for other people (whose views you don’t agree with) to also make crass jokes that you don’t find funny. You can’t have it both ways. Live with the consequences.
— Julia Hartley-Brewer (@JuliaHB1) June 12, 2019
Left-wing comedian Jo Brand 'fantasizes' about acid attacks on right-wing politicians.
"They’re very, very easy to hate, and I’m kind of thinking, why bother with a milkshake when you could get some battery acid?"
I can feel the progressivism and tolerance from here. pic.twitter.com/fpidFjIl8J
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) June 12, 2019
But the best response came from Frankie Boyle.
If I was trying to incite violence, I don't know that the first people I'd try to radicalise would be the listeners of Radio 4
— Frankie Boyle (@frankieboyle) June 12, 2019
And this reply was pretty good too.
They will have already recycled their batteries
— Steve Burnett (@SteveBurnett_) June 12, 2019
Haha
— Frankie Boyle (@frankieboyle) June 12, 2019