Barry Humphries defends right to make anti-trans comments
Crossdressing comedian Barry Humphries has defended his right to make anti-trans comments.
Humphries鈥� name was earlier this month removed from the Melbourne International Comedy Festival鈥檚 top award over a series of against the community.
Speaking on the matter at a comedy question and answer session in London on Sunday night, he defended not being 鈥渘ice鈥� about LGBTI people, has reported.
鈥淐omedians aren鈥檛 always terribly nice,鈥� he said.
鈥淲e don鈥檛 have to be nice, do we. We鈥檙e not obliged to be nice, we鈥檙e generally pretty unsavoury.鈥�
In 2016, Humphries called Caitlyn Jenner a 鈥渕utilated man鈥� and referred to transition as 鈥渟elf-mutilation鈥�.
He later called being transgender 鈥渁 fashion鈥� and commented 鈥淗ow many different kinds of lavatory can you have? And it鈥檚 pretty evil when it鈥檚 preached to children by crazy teachers.鈥�
He referred to calls for transphobia to be treated as a form of assault as 鈥渢errible ratbaggery鈥�.
At Sunday night鈥檚 event, Humphries made a joke about marriage and gender, in telling a story about complaining to a director about wearing tights onstage.
鈥淗e said, your legs are good, according to my wife, and it was the old days鈥攈is wife was a woman,鈥� said Humphries.
The former Barry Award for the best show at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival is now known as the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Award.
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