Those Madeleine McCann Jokes
MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
IRISH INDEPENDENT: “Much has been made of Tommy Tiernan mentioning Madeleine McCann on Friday night.”
Much has been made of it in the Irish Independent, here and here.
Both Sean Hughes [“You’ve got kids? What’d you do, tell them you were off to a tapas bar?”] and Patrick Kielty [“If the McCanns wanted to dispose of the body of their daughter, they should have checked her in as luggage on a Ryanair flight”] have already gone down this road, making the subsequent tabloid frenzy rather ridiculous. Tiernan made no mention of the offensive gag at the show I caught on the Saturday.
Want to know what the joke was? Want to use one to get publicity for your act? The Irish Independent will not dignify it with a mention. But on the paper’s message boards, we learn:
He was talking about his new baby daughter and mentioned that now, when he wants to have séx with his wife, he gives the child a half bottle of Calpol to shut her up – a tip he learned from the McCanns.
DAILY RECORD: “Charity boss facing sack over Madeleine McCann joke”
A CHARITY boss is facing the sack over a sick joke about Madeleine McCann.
Senior manager Lynn McBain has been suspended after referring in a staff newsletter to “McCann oven chips” disappearing from her oven after she left them there for 20 minutes .
More tabloid outrage and jokes – here, here and – the one decent joke – here…
Posted: 6th, June 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann, Tabloids Comments (175) | TrackBack | Permalink
