More than 3,000 complaints about comedian Nabil Abdulrashid's routines on Britain's Got Talent have been rejected by media watchdog Ofcom.Ofcom said it took freedom of expression into account when deciding not to launch an investigation.
Almost 1,000 people complained about Abdulrashid's performance in the semi-final on 3 October, in which he joked about police treatment of black people, and about what "angry far-right guys" would think about someone joking about being black and Muslim.Ofcom will not investigate Diversity performance
"They complained because we said black lives matter - thousands of complaints," he said. "To be honest I'm shocked that many of them know how to write. He also joked that Winston Churchill was black, because "when was the last time you met a white man called Winston?" and "What colour is his statue? Eh?"
So all the complaints came from black muslims
Unfunny black Muslim uses himself as a joke...oh the hilarity
I don't watch this show cos it's extremely bad, but had I known! Where can I find his tape? Keeping Ofcom staff in work!😆😆😆
But of course they did
I thought he was funny.
someone wearinga Niqab looks like a post box, Country goes into meltdown. Humour (racist) at the expense of White people. No need for Ofcom to investigate. Where is this Equality everyone shouts about?
Are they attempting to provoke reaction
Now imagine in an alternate universe, a clinically obese, White 'comedian', coming on stage and insulting a black audience? Do you think Ofcom would be swatting it away then? BlackPrivilege BlackLiesMatter
As a mixed race person I find it uncomfortable when ethnic comedians resort to the colour of their skin to get laughs. Its not funny.Comedians of old used to do it ,and it wasnt right .To be funny don't make your skin colour the topic for laughter. It's boring.
He was not funny at all but a racist
He is so racist big time I watched him oh he is racist too white
Good...I thought he was funny...
Yes was quite funny ...but I have the capacity to to laugh at it where others would not..if it was reversed it would be called racist
Well what a surprise!
The sad thing is that people still watch Britain's Got Talent.
Ofcom rejects the complaints, but the UK audience rejected him. He wasn’t in the top 3. His face looked very bewildered when the results came through. Comedians, even if they are controversial, still need to be funny. He wasn’t despite the big push from ITV, Alesha Dixon & Banjo.
You know what’s funnier than Nabil, and he’s funny, is the fact that people complained. What a bunch of wasters! Tell it like it is Nabil
But if it was a white comedian joking about being Muslim.........
Nope, me neither
If 3 million had complained they would have been ignored ... this is a racist country ...
Ofcom are clearly not fit for purpose. Can you see the sheer hypocrisy here OliverDowden Sort it out BorisJohnson, failing to address this massively obvious inequality will cost the Tories big time.
People got nothing better to do😔
Comedy is ment to be funny, not all people can be expected to think its funny and frankly your always going to offend someone. Offence is never given its taken
Well done Nabil and well done Ofcom
I felt his awful act was racist. If a white comedian done what he did and referenced a race there would be hell to pay!!
Exactlly, so fuk, bring back chubby brown👍🏻 tit for tat
3000 complaints. How many ppl watched it. I think that is a tiny percentage. Not newsworthy. Just shit stirring.
The guy was funny af....bunch of soft idiots out there complaining....get a grip man...we need people like him nowadays with all the shite thats going on
I can bet Ofcom would accept all complaints if he were white and Christian.
Typical from the 'FREE SPEECH' (as long as it doesn't offend me) crowd!
It's not funny that people abandon their duty to get a job, to spend their lives trashing British tradition, and waiting to become a TV superstar on a game show. Get a job. ToryForAnHour
Probably why he didnt win as he wouldve been seen as too controversial for this ‘woke’ world we seem to live in nowadays. What’s laughable (excuse the pun) is some of the jokes took the mick outta himself. The worlds sanitised enough with all the hand gel usage don’t need anymore
Quite right too. As ever, it was a bunch of professionally offended types who didn't watch the show, but heard he spoke against racism. It's the same bunch of whingers who claimed to be upset by a dance suggesting racism was bad...
'They sent in thousands of angry letters. Hopefully if I annoy them today they can progress onto words.' Say what you will but this is a bloody tremendous joke.
I watched him perform and thought that his second act was no where as good as his first and that’s because his first act was more general jokes
He looks well fed.
the british boomers are so oblivious to their racism they don’t think they being racist. they think as long as they’re being polite while stereotyping they are safe from scrutiny. the tories have helped fuel this culture of hatred and division
It seems racism is one way only. Ofcom
Is this what the gammon say is PC gone mad
Ofcom probably rejected the complaints because he is black and a Muslim so don't want to offend.
Nabil Abdulrashid is simple the black version of Bernard Manning..
My only complaint was that he wasn't funny.
You’ve got to be a sad git to complain about this
Im writing a a complaint to complain about the people sad enough to write a complaint to ofcom
It's only one way and we should know this by now
I'm laughing in pidgin English🤣🤣. I know racists complicit people who hate good comedy by a hugely talented Nabilu will fail. Na people dey work for Ofcom!
I'll pretty much laugh at anything if it's funny, jokes about whites, blacks, Muslims, your wife, my mother, it's a joke, it's meant to lighten the mood & make people smile. Let whites, blacks & muslims take the piss out of each other, as long as its in jest where's the harm?
Ofcom should be shut down and a new complaints system needs setting up.. That man was a racist through and through, not once did I laugh while he was on BGT, he was an offensive idiot who should not have been allowed on this family show.
I wonder how much a Gammon phone bill is? They seem the complain about everything.
2,999 wouldn't have made a complaint other than to make a point about double standards in our Woke infested, unfunny world of tv 'comedy'.
Boring
Maybe people who complained did it due to white English people not being allowed to say anything IDK i dont even watch it and dont know what he even said but I can guess if it was the other way around you would have one almighty backlash
Snowflakes.
Why is everyone so offended these days,the world we live in is not a nice place anymore. He was a breath of fresh air and I for one wouldn't care if he took the Mick out of me. Lighten up people,we only live once.
What’s the point of Ofcom?
Racist SNOWFLAKES 😂😂😂😂😂😂
These people need to get out and about more than sitting at home complaining about this.
Ahahahhaha and they call us Left snowflakes and yet here the Right are complaining to OFCOM over a joke 😭😭🤣🤣🤣🤣
Brilliant. Those 3000 didn't actually watch it
Free speech....
Racists don't like to be told they're racist.
I can't believe 3000 people actually watch BGT 🤷🏻♂️
The eternal victim
3000 white supremacists who mist be re-educated. If I’m should only have to deal with complaints from non racists!
Good. And 3000 ppl need to wise the fk up.
3,000 pathetic viewers? surely theres more
Who are the real snowflakes again lol
Bet none were from Muslims
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