I’m a comedian – here’s where Peter Kay went wrong in ‘garlic bread’ row
Put simply, this isn’t how comedy was meant to be performed.
You don’t have to look too far on Elon Musk’s X to find people claiming that, in ’Two-Tier-Kier’ Starmer’s Britain, people are being locked up just for speaking their minds (or usually, to be fair, for being racist).
And now this free speech culture war has even infiltrated our comedy shows, with a man from Manchester claiming that he was ’treated like a terrorist’ for being asked to leave a Peter Kay gig after he repeatedly shouted the words ‘Garlic Bread’ to the point Kay asked for him to be removed.
Maybe we really do live under a police state?
The man, Philip Peters, told the Daily Mail he couldn’t understand being removed from Manchester’s AO arena, and is now demanding an apology from Peter Kay himself after he was apparently left bruised by the door staff who evicted him on the car share star’s instruction.
As a working comedian myself, you might expect me to be instinctively on the side of Kay, that I was cheering him on as he urged security to kick Mr Peters in the face and calling him a ‘p***k’.
Peter Kay is selling out venues of thousands of people (Picture: supplied)But I’ll be honest, on my own tour, where I’m playing to venues of a couple of hundred and still flogging spare tickets on the day, I can only empathise so much.
Now many will see my name as the writer of this piece and think ‘WHO?!’, but that’s the point – I see comedy at the sharp end, and that’s why I’m offering this perspective.
While most of you might never have heard of me, Peter Kay is selling out hundreds of shows at venues that host 20,000 people.
