Irish comedian Andrew Stanley has described the fallout he endured for telling a joke about the 9/11 terror attacks on TV3.
Stanley stated that while the TV station received no complaints about the joke, TV3 still felt it necessary to issue an official apology for it. The joke itself revolves around two young bar goers asking for an "Irish Car Bomb" shot but instead receiving two shots of flaming sambucca which the barman dubs, "The Twin Towers". Stanley subsequently suffered some backlash in the national media for the joke.
The media attention hasn't affected his career however as Stanley went on to discuss his international stand up tours including shows in the US and a five week run in Australia earlier this year. Catch Andrew Stanley performing MC duties all weekend at the comedy stage at Forbidden Fruit 2016.