Hackles raised at Cat’s Laughs as comic booed off stage after controversial Mr A gag

IT wasn’t so much a case of the cat laughing as the cat scratching at last weekend’s Kilkenny Cat Laughs Festival after a controversial comic was booed off stage after making a reference to the Mr A underage sex case.

Audience hackles were raised during a performance by American comedian Doug Stanhope which included provocative remarks about statutory rape laws.

Stanhope was performing in Langton’s, in Kilkenny, last Friday, when he made his comments about statutory rape laws and child abuse.