Andrew Lawrence is cancelled over racist tweets

Venues pull gigs after he mocked black footballers

Andrew Lawrence has been slammed for making a racist joke about England’s black footballers.

Venus have pulled his gigs in the wake of his offensive tweets following last night’s penalty shoot-out, and the comic has since deleted his Twitter account.

Bukayo Saka,  19, Marcus Rashford, 23, and Jadon Sancho, 21, have been subject to racist abuse after they failed to score in the 3-2 shootout loss.

And Lawrence piled on this morning, tweeting: ‘All I’m saying is, the white guys scored’, which he quickly followed up with: ‘Equality, diversity, shit penalties.’

Later on, he doubled down by adding: ‘I can see that this has offended a lot of people, and I’m sorry that black guys are bad at penalties.’

Lawrence later admitted he was ‘getting a lot of abuse’ for the tweet, saying ‘Hate won’t win guys’.

Fellow comics quickly condemned his outburst, and several venues cancelled his forthcoming tour, including the Hanger Farm Arts Centre in Hampshire, Worcester’s Huntingdon Hall and Rosehill Theatre in Cumbria. No tickets for any show appear to be on sale any more.

Many clubs also said they have blacklisted him.

Scallywags Comedy Club in Gloucestershire said: ‘We today, like many others I’m sure, Have pulled  Andrew Lawrence from a show he was set to do for us.  Racism isn’t expectable in any form.’

And Chesham Comedy Club in Buckinghamshire tweeted to him: ‘I know you won’t particularly care, but we at Chesham Comedy club will not tolerate racism in any form so please consider your booking with us cancelled.’

Lawrence has made a career out of attacking ‘woke libtards’ since becoming something of a pariah in the comedy world seven years ago for a notorious social media posts that called immigration an ‘unmitigated disaster of immigration’ .

He also slammed panel shows for using ‘ethnic comedians and women-posing-as-comedians…  taking a supercilious, moralising tone, pandering to the ever-creeping militant political correctness of the BBC with their frankly surreal diversity targets.’

The Metropolitan Police is investigating racist abuse directed at England players, saying  ’It will not be tolerated’. Governing body Uefa has also condemned the ‘disgusting racist abuse’ and England manager Gareth Southgate said: ‘t’s just not what we stand for… We have shown the power our country has when it does come together and has that energy and positivity together.’

Chortle has approached Lawrence’s agent for comment.

Published: 12 Jul 2021