'Distress' over Apollo reruns

Comedy Central has apologised after it aired jokes about Amy Winehouse being dead in a rerun of Live At The Apollo.

On Monday, the digital channel showed a four-year-old episode of the stand-up show featuring Patrick Kielty joking about the troubled singer being ‘just a bit dirty.. and I don’t mean dirty in a good way. Amy looks like she has pissed in more sinks than she has washed in.’

And he added: ‘Shouldn’t speak ill of the dead. I know what you’re thinking, “Amy isn’t dead”, but this show isn’t going out for a few weeks and you’ve got to keep your material up to date.’

Following the broadcast, Comedy Central released a statement saying: 'We would like to apologise for any distress caused.

'The airing of this episode was an oversight and all future transmissions of the content have been cancelled.'

Here is the offending footage:

Published: 5 Aug 2011