Fired for tsunami joke
Audience fury at comic's remark
Stand-up Will Andrews has lost his job hosting a comedy night after enraging punters with a joke about the tsunami disaster.
Bottles were hurled at the comic after he flippantly referred to the song The Tide Is High as the "tsunami song" – while asking for funds for the disaster appeal.
Now he’s been told he’s not welcome back at Edinburgh’s Liquid Room, where he made the remarks last month.
The 29-year-old - who appeared in the guise of New Deal comic Tony Carter at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe – told today’s Edinburgh Evening News: "It got blown out of proportion. Things I said were poorly timed and, in the context of a late-night club, were poorly judged.
“I’d used the same jokes at The Stand in Glasgow a few days earlier and they went down really well.
"I was fired from Liquid Room as a result, but I hope, given a bit of time, they’ll let me back.”
Student Harriet Salomomsen, who was at the gig, told the paper: "I think they removed the compere from the stage to avoid some of the flying bottles intended for him.
"The DJs made an apology to the crowd, but it wasn’t very convincing."
Andrews’s comments came at the Snatch Club, a regular student variety night he co-hosted with former Perrier newcomer Garth Cruickshank, based on the ‘holiday camp from hell’.
Published: 2 Feb 2005
