Reginald D Hunter, who is from Albany, Georgia, but has lived in the UK since 1997, has insisted that he is 'staunchly anti-war and anti-bully' after the backlash he has received following the incident.
A comedian has apologised after his Edinburgh Fringe show 'hounded out' and mocked two Israeli audience members.
Now Hunter has taken to X to apologise for his part in the incident, claiming it is part of his job as a comedian to 'push boundaries'. In a statement the group said: 'Reginald D Hunter has laughed off his Holocaust jokes and another supposed joke about 'typical f***ing Jews' in the past, but watching on and cracking jokes as Jews are hounded out of your show is a sickening low that cannot be disguised as comedy.
As a woman told her story of how she was ill-treated by her husband, the comedian revealed that he thought to himself: 'My God, it's like being married to Israel.' Rather than pulling the audience up for their animosity towards the unwitting hecklers, Hunter apparently instead said to them: 'You can say it's not funny to you, but if you say it to a room full of people who laughed, you look foolish.'
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