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Katherine Ryan says offended viewers
were ‘too thick’ to understand Rosie
Jones’ Greta Thunberg joke
22 people complained to Ofcom after joke on episode of ‘The Last Leg’
Adam White @__adamwhite
Monday 20 January 2020 09:57
Katherine Ryan has defended a controversial joke made by comedian Rosie
Jones about the climate activist Greta Thunberg.
In January, Jones sparked outrage during an appearance on the New Year’s
Eve edition of The Last Leg. She joked that Thunberg, who she described as
“amazing”, “needs to live a little”.
“She’s only 16,” Jones said. “She should be doing two things: drinking
Lambrini and getting fingered.”
Ryan has since claimed that offended viewers were “too thick” to understand
Jones’ humour.
“I think they don’t have a position to be outraged,” she told Metro. “She was
just relating her own experience. The truth is what a lot of us were doing
when we were 16. It’s just getting off with boys behind the bins – we weren’t
fighting climate change. That was the joke. People just misunderstood.
