RTÉ complaints part of Church ‘agenda’: Rosenstock

Comedian Mario Rosenstock has hit back at the Catholic Communications Office after the Church’s press office lodged a formal complaint with RTÉ over a sketch in Rosenstock’s television show.

In the sketch, a man is shown in a church spitting into a bucket. Mr Rosenstock has claimed the joke was not aimed at the Catholic Church but was a reference to the phenomenon of Irish Olympic gold medallist Katie Taylor and her boxing success.

The Catholic Communications Office did not see the funny side, however, and wrote to RTÉ’s managing director of television Glen Killane.