Comedian Adam Hills has apologised for a tweet in which he suggested politician Pauline Hanson should be “hung” from the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
“Australia would send a better message to the world if we just hung Pauline Hanson from the Sydney Harbour Bridge,” Hills tweeted.
It followed a comment Hanson made on Channel Nine’s The Today Show after the Paris terrorist attacks.
Hanson said that “not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslim”.
Taking to his Facebook page, Hills acknowledged that he had “upset” some people.
“I do not think Pauline Hanson, or anyone, should be executed, and hanged from any Australian icon, let alone the Sydney Harbour Bridge. I do not condone violence against women. I do not support the shitheads that call themselves Isis,” he wrote.
“Jeez I’m not seriously suggesting we hang Pauline Hanson … I genuinely find the idea of Pauline Hanson, dangling, alive, maybe in a hijab, to be funny.”
Despite the backlash he received, it’s not going to stop him from making similar jokes in the future.
“I’ll still aim to ridicule anyone else who speaks narrow-minded bigotry and falsehoods. I’ll just aim to do it with better jokes,” he concluded.
