Olivia Jones also finds Luke Mockridge’s jokes about disabled people in the podcast “Die Deutschen” unacceptable. She welcomes the fact that they have consequences.
More and more celebrities are turning against comedian Luke Mockridge after he made discriminatory jokes about disabled athletes at the Paralympics in the podcast “Die Deutschen”. Drag queen Olivia Jones spoke out on the sidelines of the “Bild100” event, as the German Press Agency reports.
Olivia Jones shoots against Luke Mockridge
“It’s an absolute no-go,” said Jones. “These are people who have been discriminated against their whole lives.” As a celebrity, you don’t have to harp on about it “with such cheap jokes,” said the drag queen. According to Jones, it was right that a broadcaster like Sat.1 had drawn consequences from Mockridge’s behavior.
Above all, former competitive athlete Kristina Vogel, who is herself paraplegic, got the ball rolling and pilloried the comedian. “Attention and advance warning for the question of why people talk themselves hoarse, because there are still people who say such inhumane shit and just put down disabled people! Here is just one example… it is unbelievable!” she wrote on Instagram after seeing the scenes from the podcast herself.
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She then launched a petition directed at Sat.1, demanding that the broadcaster end its collaboration with Mockridge. This happened shortly afterwards.
The 35-year-old apologized to the athletes, but the comments still had consequences. After Sat.1 canceled one of the comedian’s shows, Mockridge himself canceled the opening shows of his planned “Funny Times” tour “due to the current situation,” the organizer announced.
source: German Press Agency
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