Lighten up! says Joanna to her Bafta bash critics
JOANNA LUMLEY, who played boozy fashionista Patsy Stone in Absolutely Fabulous, has discovered that comedy is no laughing matter these days.
After being criticised for making a joke about the Ku Klux Klan when she hosted the Baftas last month, she has now felt the need to apologise.
‘I did what I have to do, which is read out the stuff that I am given, and I am so sorry,’ says Lumley of her crack about the BlacKkKlansman movie doing ‘so well at the Klan film festival’.
But the actress, speaking from Down Under, goes on to suggest that our PC culture is too quick to take offence. ‘We have gotten a little bit strange and sensitive. I think you are allowed to say Klan without being locked up in jail for being a racist. Maybe we are just getting a bit soft.’