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Comedian Russell Kane ‘fears’ more comedian attacks after Will Smith Oscars slap

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Will Smith’s Oscars outburst will lead to more funnymen being attacked on stage.The 46-year-old, who presents segments twice a week on Channel 4’s Bafta-nominated Steph’s Packed Lunch, vows comedy is alive and offending on stage – despite attempts to water it down.He says: “It’s like going to a nudist beach and complaining because you saw a willy.

As soon as you pay your money, you’ve consented for a theatrical exchange of boundary pushing – within the law.“How absurd to go to a comedy gig and complain you got offended.“The problem is when someone films it and puts it online, the people who haven’t consented see an edgy joke.“I’m a people pleaser and like to be liked, but in the theatre if there was a gasp I would go over the top and start miming masturbation and go, ‘Shut up you b****’ and keep going because there’s consent there.”Russell expects his job to become harder after American comic Chris Rock was whacked by Best Actor winner Will at the Oscars in March for a gag about his wife Jada Pinkett-Smith’s shaved head.

Then last month a man with a replica gun charged and tackled David Chappelle at the Netflix Is A Joke festival in LA.Before lockdown at a corporate gig a disgruntled audience member tried to punch him twice.

Russell says: “It happened to me so I’m qualified to comment on it.“What Will did was wrong and made my job harder.“It’s given permission to drunks to punch some guy around the head.“He was a d***head for what he did and deserves the ban but personally if I see a woman with no hair in the front row I’m not going to gamble that’s a fashion choice.

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