COMEDIAN Joe Lycett had the police called on him after an audience member found one of his jokes offensive. The 33-year-old opened up how he thought the joke was "one of the best" he'd ever written but still was forced to defend it to investigating officers.
Joe had to write a letter "explaining the context" of the gag after an audience member dobbed him in to cops after watching him perform live. "So someone came to my tour show a few weeks back and was offended by one of the jokes.
And their perfectly understandable response to this was… to call the f***ing police," Joe revealed on his social media. "This involved me writing a statement explaining the context of the joke for them; I particularly enjoyed putting the words ‘giant donkey d**k’ into a message to a police detective. “Charmed, and hopefully amused, the rozzers have since closed the matter. "You’ll be pleased to know that the joke - which I consider to be one of the best I’ve ever written - remains firmly and proudly in the show.
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