The Project host told off by producers over X-rated joke

He’s one of the most controversial comedians on The Project and now Tommy Little has let slip that he doesn’t always get away with his quick jibes behind the scenes.

Speaking on the podcast Survivor's Guide to Coronavirus with fellow comedian Nazeem Hussain, Tommy revealed he was scolded by producers over one X-rated joke.

The pair were laughing about what the title of the show should have been called when Tommy Little said Nazeem should have named it ‘The Clap with Nazeem Hussain’.

When Nazeem asked Tommy if the clap is an acronym for Chlamydia, Tommy launched into a story about being told off on The Project for bringing the word up live on air.

“You know we have earpieces in on The Project right?” Tommy asked Nazeem, before explaining that they’d had ‘news story after news story about coronavirus’ on the show and one of the producers asked him to ‘lighten it up a bit’.

“I came off the back of a news story and the title was ‘Clap for carers’ and it was people coming out of their house and clapping,” Tommy said.

“I made a joke and I said: ‘Oh thank God guys, it’s so nice that that’s what that story was about because when I saw the headline ‘Clap for carers’ I thought we had to get the clap to help carers out and that’s going to do but exacerbate the toll on an already strained healthcare system’ .”

Tommy said straight away a producer told him off in his ear, saying, ‘stop talking’.

Last week, Tommy revealed that he’ll be doing a lockdown comedy special on Stan which will air later this year.

Speaking to The Sydney Morning Herald about how he’s coping in isolation, the star said he’s been “drinking a lot”.

“Just so I can be hungover because that’s something to do. It means I can complain about something that isn’t corona, so it just kind of mixes up my day,” Tommy said.

“For the last 10 or 11 years, I gig probably five nights a week. So I’ve never spent nights at home sitting on the couch and cooking and … it sucks.”

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