Comedy producer David Johnson strikes again!

Producer David Johnson is to ban Daily Telegraph comedy critics from his gigs after the website covered a charity gig by printing the top 5 jokes out of any context.

The Telegraph, under editor-in-chief Jason Seiken, has been prioritising web traffic over its newspapers – but the clickbait-style coverage of the Laughing Point gig for homeless charity Centrepoint has enraged Johnson.

The paper struggled to capture the humour in even those five gags without mentioning the background. For example it quoted Josh Widdicombe saying: 'Turns out A Few Good Men was a documentary because some people can't handle the truth.'

And Widdicombe's publicist has since contacted Chortle to state that 'gag' isn't even one of his. 'He's never said that before in his life,' she told us.

Comedy producer Johnson – who stages shows for Stewart Lee, Fascinating Aida and the Rubberbandits among many others – wrote on Facebook: 'If the Daily Telegraph is going to continue with this kind of crap they should be banned from all comedy shows until they whimper for forgiveness.

'Publicists and venues should stop all comps to the Telegraph comedy critics immediately. They are excluded until further notice from all my shows.

'I'm banning the lot of them until they acknowledge how terribly terribly naughty they have been and make at least one human sacrifice.'

Johnson was hailed this summer after railing against the practises of the Ambassador Theatre Group, after his response to their request for free tickets to one of his Edinburgh Fringe shows went viral.

Published: 16 Oct 2014