Politicians are cut from the same rotting cloth everywhere you look

Clare Blumer writes about what happened when a comedian gave a performance to the Australian House of Parliament.

 ....It wasn’t until the next day   that he found out how explosive the joke had been. Coy went into media lock-down as Manic Studios fielded questions from media outlets about the joke.

The Prime Minister had left the dinner straight before Coy’s performance, but after hearing of the joke about Tony Abbott, she called the National Secretary of the CFMEU first thing in the morning to say she found the content offensive......

.....He says he is confounded by the reaction, and the personal attacks on him by media, and politicians, who have sought to distance themselves from the joke.

“I’d never experienced that kind of vitriol in my life,” says Coy, who has been an actor for three decades.
“There’s a side of me that’s pleased people think Allan [Billison] is real. But when I’m called a sexist buffoon and politicians are falling over each other to say they’d wished they’d rushed the exits during my performance, surely they’re missing the point,” says Coy.

Coy says people have started to invent the content of the joke in order to support the view that the act was sexist.

“There was no sexist joke, that’s the big story,” says Coy. “The character challenged every MP in the room about hypocrisy — someone tell me the sexist joke!.....