Andrew Lawrence Twitter spat with Dara O Briain and Frankie Boyle

There's been a huge fall out from a blog post stand-up Andrew Lawrence shared on Facebook about comedians joking about the political party UKIP. It's resulted in Lawrence trading insults with both Dara O Briain and Frankie Boyle on Twitter. We've tried to summarise things here...

It started when Andrew Lawrence posted this Facebook post, in which he spoke his views on topics including the "out of touch, smug, superannuated, overpaid TV comics with their cosy lives in their west-London ivory towers taking a supercilious, moralising tone, pandering to the ever-creeping militant political correctness of the BBC with their frankly surreal diversity targets."

It seems the paragraph in which Lawrence states there's "too much moronic, liberal back-slapping on panel shows like Mock The Week where aging, balding, fat men, ethnic comedians and women-posing-as-comedians, sit congratulating themselves on how enlightened they are about the fact that UKIP are ridiculous and pathetic" caught the attention of the show's host, Dara O Briain...

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Josh Widdicombe and Richard Herring messaged back O Briain first, before Lawrence then got involved directly...

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It soon carried on...

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Meanwhile UKIP leader Nigel Farage had picked up on a Metro story about the original Facebook post yesterday:

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Which Frankie Boyle spotted and replied to the next afternoon, when Lawrence and O Briain were half way through their 'discussion'...

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That's all the direct exchanges at the time of writing between the three comedians, however further discussion between the acts, other comedians and interested comedy fans very much continues.

It's worth noting that Lawrence has clarified some of the comments about what he meant in regards to the phrases 'ethnic comedian' and 'women-posing-as-comics' in a follow-up Facebook blog post

We sense this isn't over yet.

Saturday 1st November Update: Lawrence has posted a reflective blog. "Many people were not able to challenge the truth of the views I expressed and so resorted to belittling my professional reputation as a comedian." Facebook

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