Mick Molloy threatens to cancel The Front Bar’s Adelaide show after South Australia’s ‘dumb and stupid’ MP blew up in parliament over his VERY innocent prank on the hit show
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Comedian Mick Molloy nonchalantly threatened to cancel The Front Bar’s Adelaide show after a “dumb and stupid” politician criticized a joke he made about smuggling fruit into the state to celebrate the AFL’s inaugural Gather Round.
Molloy, Andy Maher and Sam Pang plan to record their hit show from Adelaide Oval next month, but the move has not gone down well with the South Australian parliament.
Last week, Molloy announced how excited he was to make the trip to Adelaide.
“Keep it under your hat, there may be some outstanding warrants for my arrest there,” Molloy quipped.
“I love traveling to South Australia. I’ll be bringing fruit in my boot anyway, so that’s a good excuse to watch some football, too.
Comedian Mick Molloy has gleefully threatened to cancel The Front Bar’s Adelaide show after a politician took one of his jokes the wrong way.
Mick Molloy, 56, Andy Maher, 58, and Sam Pang, 49, plan to put on their hit football show at Adelaide Oval next month, but that has been put in jeopardy due to a harmless gag.
Frank Pangallo MP for the SA Best party failed to see the funny side of Molly’s comment and criticized the comedian in parliament for the “jolly jab at our biosecurity border checks”.
“Mick may be a funny chap but it seems he has dropped the ball as to the consequences of his reckless prank,” he told fellow MPs.
‘Should others take it literally and bring fruit in their trunks and expose our state to another costly fruit fly outbreak, jeopardizing fruit fly-free status?’
Strict laws prevent vegetables and fruit from being brought into South Australia in an effort to protect the state’s huge horticultural industry.
Molloy responded Thursday, saying he will not apologize for the statement “because it’s a joke and I’m a comedian,” calling Mr. Pangallo’s argument “silly and stupid.”
‘I have not had joy in this state,’ he said in Triple M’s mick and mg in the morning show.
‘I think it was a quiet news day in Adelaide, is my official comment.
‘Look, you know what, I haven’t been there for a while. In fact I haven’t been there since the Crazy Horse [strip club] it has closed.
SA politician Frank Pangallo (centre in photo) didn’t see the humor in Molly’s comments.
The Adelaide Advertiser conducted an online poll which found that three quarters of people believed that Molloy was only joking.
‘See if the weight of opinion in Adelaide is that they would not like me to attend, the [Front Bar] show will not go.’
It seems like a silly and stupid argument to me. I don’t know if he [Mr Pangallo] he seeks attention and feels that everyone is a fool, as he obviously is.
But I’m happy not to be distracted from what should be a great weekend and a celebration of football. But I find the whole thing a bit stupid.
‘Wouldn’t it be great to be deported, stopped at the border or turned around at the airport, again?’
The Adelaide Advertiser conducted an online poll which found that three-quarters of people believed Molloy was joking.
The Richmond Tigers tragically thanked the Adelaide people who took part in the survey, saying they ‘always had faith’ in them.