Comic back on air after he was linked to racist posts

Comic Leo Kearse was back on GB News last night, for the first time since being accused of anonymously posting vile racist comments on social media.

The ‘anti-woke’ stand-up not been making his  regular appearances on the channel since Hope Not Hate claimed he was behind a Telegram account that regularly sends hateful messages.

However, he was back on the newspaper review programme Headliners last night for the first time in two weeks, with no mention made of the controversy around him.

GB News has not responded to questions about his absence and his reappearance, nor has Kearse responded to a request for comment on the allegations he was behind the offensive ‘Neo Glave’ account on Telegram.

Hope Not Hate campaigners found the user often used the racial slur ‘street-shitter’ to describe people across Asia and Central Europe, called Chinese people as  ‘tiny cocked submissive cunts’,  claimed Chechnya is ‘full of backwards street shitting goat fuckers’ and Russia is a ‘backwards shithole country full of street shitting sister fucking peasants’.

After the Islamist terror attack on  the Crocus City Hall theatre in Moscow, which left more than 130 people dead, ‘Glave’ posted: ‘I knew those guys would come good eventually.’

At one point, ‘Glave’ used a pseudoscientific theory to suggest that people who live in northern latitudes had a ‘genetic trend towards increased intelligence’ than elsewhere.

‘Dogs are all one species, but there are huge differences in physicality and temperament between different breeds,’ he wrote. ‘[People] who live in northern latitudes with seasons had to develop ways to store food during winter, and develop housing/clothing. Hence the culture and the genetic trend towards increased intelligence.’

The account disappeared from GB News three days after Hope Not Hate made their claims on March 25.

His absence was noted by The Times and picked up by several national newspapers, but Kearse has not addressed the issue on his social media channels.

The campaign group also revealed how the Glave account made juvenile boasts about ‘getting lots of pussy’, boasted he got  STDs but off  ‘hot chicks not fucking bog monsters’, and called one detractor a ‘gay cunt’.

In 2021, Kearse stood for the Scottish parliament for Laurence Fox’s party, Reclaim. He got 114 votes and lost his deposit.

His 2019 show Right Wing Comedian was cancelled by Perth’s Fringe World festival in Australia after his material was accused of being transphobic. At the time he told Chortle he accepted the ban so marginalised groups could feel safe, but denied the bigotry charge, instead saying he conceived the routine with a transgender woman he was dating,  after getting ‘annoyed at some mainstream comedians like Ricky Gervais and Dave Chappelle who were doing openly transphobic and really quite nasty material.'

Published: 9 Apr 2024