He may have deleted it, but funnyman Basketmouth’s ‘rape’ joke posted on his Facebook fan page yesterday may yet cost him far more than he could have ever imagined. See screenshot of post below.
Reactions to the clearly ill-conceived joke have been pouring in, mostly channeled through Twitter. A sampling of tweeted opinions (and one blog post that has itself gone viral) indicates that a majority think the comedian’s misguided humour to be in bad taste.
5 days in, 2014 already has its grand act of idiocy. A rape joke by Nigerian comedian Basketmouth. Will be hard to top that…
— tolu ogunlesi (@toluogunlesi) January 5, 2014
This Basketmouth is a disgrace.
— tolu ogunlesi (@toluogunlesi) January 5, 2014
Man I just saw that Basketmouth’s rape ‘joke’. Oh my gosh! Clearly he is a rapist. As are the 7000 people who ‘liked’ the post. No words.
— Chioma Ogwuegbu (@AfricanCeleb) January 5, 2014
When a mouth like basketmouth begins to leak with idiocy such as his dry joke about rape, it sure his end time. Smh!
— Jackson Ude (@jacksonpbn) January 5, 2014
Basketmouth’s joke was so so stupid. Then he apologised in a foolish manner!
— Mojisola Showunmi (@rosieemjay) January 5, 2014
Hello @globacomlimited, one of your ambassadors Basket Mouth (Bright Okpocha) has ENDORSED Date Rape. Are you aware?
— Nana M. Nwachukwu★ (@PUREHAIRE) January 5, 2014
And it isn’t Basketmouth’s first ‘rape’ joke either. Last Valentine’s Day at the African Kings of Comedy show in Manchester’s The Birdcage nightclub, the now repeat offender made an elaborate joke about grandmothers wanting to get raped by armed robbers. Video’s below if you can stomach it.
Basketmouth has since apologised (see tweet below), but this is definitely not the end of the matter.
Ok guys,I’m sorry bout the rape joke,I won’t crack such jokes again,I’ll just stick to jokes bout Men being … http://t.co/eIJ8KbkJsb
— Basketmouth (@basket_mouth) January 5, 2014
Screenshot via Jaguda
