Dara Ó Briain has hit back at fellow comedian Andrew Lawrence on Twitter, branding him "bitter" and "self-delusional".
The Mock the Week host was responding to posts made on Facebook this week, in which Lawrence labelled comedians who make jokes about Ukip "moronic" and "liberal".
Lawrence, who has previously appeared on shows such as Live at the Apollo and Ask Rhod Gilbert, had written online: "Can't help but notice increasingly, a lot 'political' comedians cracking cheap and easy gags about Ukip, to the extent that it's got hack, boring and lazy very quickly.
"Particularly too much moronic, liberal back-slapping on panel shows like Mock the Week where ageing, balding, fat men, ethnic comedians and women-posing-as-comedians, sit congratulating themselves on how enlightened they are about the fact that Ukip are ridiculous and pathetic.
"Yet the Clacton by-election victory and what looks to be a likely victory in the Rochester by-election goes...
The Mock the Week host was responding to posts made on Facebook this week, in which Lawrence labelled comedians who make jokes about Ukip "moronic" and "liberal".
Lawrence, who has previously appeared on shows such as Live at the Apollo and Ask Rhod Gilbert, had written online: "Can't help but notice increasingly, a lot 'political' comedians cracking cheap and easy gags about Ukip, to the extent that it's got hack, boring and lazy very quickly.
"Particularly too much moronic, liberal back-slapping on panel shows like Mock the Week where ageing, balding, fat men, ethnic comedians and women-posing-as-comedians, sit congratulating themselves on how enlightened they are about the fact that Ukip are ridiculous and pathetic.
"Yet the Clacton by-election victory and what looks to be a likely victory in the Rochester by-election goes...
- 10/28/2014
- Digital Spy
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