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An Australian wannabe funnyman has been cancelled on his debut performance at a comedy club after he sparked uproar with vile jokes about domestic violence.
Sydney rapper Fortay’s new stand-up career crashed on Saturday when he took to the stage of the Drop Bear Comedy Club in Brisbane to read his script off his phone.
To wild cheers of fans in the audience, Fortay launched into a sickening routine about NRL star Ben Barba’s alleged attack on childhood sweetheart Ainslie Currie in 2019.
Barba, then 29, grabbed her by the throat, pinned her against the wall and ‘charged her to the ground’ at Townsville’s Ville Casino, Mackay Magistrates Court was told.
He also used a shoe to hit her head and threw rocks near her when she tried to walk into swampland near the venue’s staff carpark during a 30-minute ordeal, the court heard.
Ms Currie, the mother of his four children, did not press charges, but Barba was sentenced to community service after pleading guilty to a public nuisance charge.
Barba’s lawyer told the court the star admitted his behaviour was ‘abhorrent’ but Fortay thought the incident was prime comedy material when he hit the stage.
‘Ben Barba, his fairytale NRL return was cut short after the former Dally M medallist was banned,’ he said, before launching into a series of defamatory comments.
Sydney rapper Fortay’s new stand-up career crashed on Saturday when he took to the stage of the Drop Bear Comedy Club in Brisbane to read his script off his phone
Ben Barba (pictured with martner Ainslie Currie) admitted his behaviour was ‘abhorrent’, his lawyer told a court, but Fortay thought the incident was prime comedy material
The misogynist remarks are too extreme and disgusting to publish.
He briefly appeared to be backtracking before instead launching into a lame punchline about DV thugs getting caught on CCTV.
‘But hang on a second, I want to say hitting woman in an RSL is completely wrong and unacceptable,’ he added.
‘There is way too many cameras in that place. Could have waited for a blind spot in the carpark.’
Barba, the former high-flying footy star who played for Canterbury Bulldogs, Brisbane Broncos and Cronulla Sharks before ending his career in the UK with St Helens in 2018, hit back at the sick humour on Thursday.
‘DV should be taken seriously and is not a joke,’ he told Daily Mail Australia.
‘But I’d rather not comment on it. I have moved on and am trying to live my life.’
Anti-DV campaigner Sherele Moody posted Fortay’s clip to her Facebook page and asked: ‘What sort of man jokes about bashing woman?’
In the wake of the outrage, Fortay’s upcoming gigs at a comedy club in Western Australia were promptly cancelled
Fortay said he was only sorry to let down his west coast fans, and appeared to imply they should launch reprisal attacks on the club
The comment section of the clip was immediately flooded with people condemning the sick jokes.
‘This is vile, anyone who jokes about DV is absolutely sick,’ posted one user. ‘I don’t care what anyone says.
‘If that’s the only thing you can joke about maybe you are not funny.’
Others branded it ‘putrid behaviour’ and another added: ‘Absolutely disgusting. I feel sick.’
In the wake of the outrage, Fortay’s upcoming gigs at a comedy club in Western Australia were promptly cancelled.
But Fortay said he was only sorry to let down his west coast fans, and appeared to imply they should launch reprisal attacks on the club.
‘Sorry Perth the sad c***s at Jack Rabbits Slims buckled under pressure,’ he said.
‘What I do is I’m an artist, comedy is an art, music is an art and they want to censor our art. We don’t want to work at their venues.
Anti-DV campaigner Sherele Moody posted Fortay’s clip to her Facebook page and asked: ‘What sort of man jokes about bashing woman?’
The incident comes just a month after Triple M axed host Marty Sheargold (pictured) over comments about the Matildas that was blasted for being sexist and disgusting
‘So look, I’m not telling you to go down there and smash windows and graffiti the place because that wouldn’t be very nice, but if that happens it happens.’
Daily Mail Australia has contacted Fortay for comment.
The incident comes just a month after Triple M axed host Marty Sheargold over comments about the Matildas which were blasted for being sexist and disgusting.
The comedian, 53, made the remarks on his radio show in March as he reacted to the team’s 2-1 loss to the USA at the SheBelieves Cup, which came on the heels of their 4-0 loss to Japan to open the tournament.
Sheargold compared the team to ‘Year 10 girls’ and asked if superstar striker Sam Kerr and her fiancée Kristie Mewis ‘play the same position’.
When his co-hosts tried to continue discussing the SheBelieves Cup, Sheargold jumped in, exclaiming: ‘Oh, she believes? In what? It better be men.’
Triple M acted swiftly in the face of the outrage and released a statement saying it had ‘mutually agreed to part ways’ with the radio star after four years on air.
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