Popular comedian Arj Barker kicked a mother and baby out of his Melbourne International Comedy Festival show on Saturday night.demanded my 7 month old cousin — who relies on her mum for milk , my mother, and my Aunty’s friend to leave his show, claiming the he/she was ‘ruining his train of thought’”In a follow-up post, the user thanked crowd members who left in solidarity.
The account was backed up by a 3AW listener, David, who said he was was in attendance at the Athenaum Theatre. “He stopped the show and said ‘can you take this baby outside’ and the crowd wasn’t sure whether he was serious,” he told“The baby was just being a baby, wasn’t doing anything above and beyond.”
Barker on Monday morning provided a statement to ABC Radio: “The show is strictly age 15-plus, as clearly stated on the ticket site. She had an infant with her, the baby was disrupting my performance. On behalf of the other 700 people who paid to see the gig, I politely told her the baby couldn’t stay. She thought I was kidding, which made the exchange a bit awkward. I felt bad about the whole situation and stated this on the night more than once. I offered her a refund.
The Melbourne International Comedy Festival told this masthead that Barker is independently produced in a festival-managed venue, but that they had received approximately 10 complaints on Sunday., at the Athenaeum for the past three weeks, in which he “sets out to answer some of life’s biggest questions” according to promotional material.More to come
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