Peter recently kicked two people out of a show in Manchester’s AO Arena
Jimmy Carr has fired a brutal dig at fellow comic Peter Kay on The One Show over a heckling controversy that emerged last month.
Comedy veteran Peter made headlines on February 8, when he kicked a man out of the gig after he reportedly shouted ‘garlic’ bread repeatedly at him.
Following this, Peter kicked another woman out after she was heard shouting ‘we love you, Peter’ during the performance at the AO Arena.
Appearing on a star-studded edition of BBC’s The One Show, which also featured Severance creator Ben Stiller and its star Adam Scott, Jimmy was interviewed about his new Amazon Prime Video series Last One Laughing.
Jimmy was asked by Vernon Kay about how he deals with hecklers, with many clips from his shows of him engaging in back-and-forths with audience members going viral on social media
“I like it when people join in. Sometimes it gets out of hand and we have to kick people out of the show, but I’m not like Peter Kay. I don’t care.
“I don’t care, we have great security, I’m all mouth,” he said to a stunned silence in the studio.
Visibly unsure of how to handle the joke, Vernon bluntly replied: “Fair enough.”
Following Myar Curran being kicked out of the show, which she attended with her family, best friend and boyfriend, she said on Good Morning Britain that she felt ‘a bit humiliated’ by the incident.
“I didn’t mean to cause any harm, I was just showing my love because he kicked someone out, so I was like ‘oh I’ll stand up and say we love you Peter’, but he obviously didn’t like it,’ she said.
Myar added: “I feel like what I said was not abusive, wasn’t aggressive, it wasn’t anti-social, I wasn’t drunk.
‘I was just standing up chanting ‘we love you Peter, we do’ and I feel like it’s just been taken a bit overboard and a bit over the top, his reaction.”
Peter’s current tour, which began back in 2022, is the comic’s first in 12 years after he cancelled his previously announced tour in 2018.
Issuing a statement about the incident, Peter claimed the members of the audience who were evicted from the venue were ‘disrupting from the very start” and he did his ‘best to address the situation and made light of it’.
He explained: “I then tried to ignore them, hoping they’d settle down, but when the disruption persisted into the second half of the show, I asked the audience around them if they were being bothered by the noise. They all shouted ‘yes,’ and when I asked for a show of hands, at least 40 people raised theirs.
“At that point, I had no choice but to take action. The lady who was escorted out did bear a striking resemblance to Lisa Riley, though I don’t see how that’s an insult.”
