‘It’s actually a great joke’: Kate Langbroek breaks silence on awkward Logies joke that fell flat

Kate Langbroek has broken her silence on that awkward Logies joke that fell flat with the audience and left her co-presenter baffled.

Kate Langbroek has broken her silence on that awkward Logies joke that fell flat with the audience and left her co-presenter baffled.

At the star-studded TV Week Logie Awards last Sunday night, the beloved radio host was presenting an award alongside Utopia star Dave Lawson, who is also the husband of Aussie actress and Succession star Sarah Snook.

In case you missed, it this is what was said onstage as they presented Best Reality Program:

“Dave Lawson. I didn’t think you’d agree to do this because I didn’t think you liked strong women,” Langbroek said in front of the audience, who went dead silent.

“I’m very happy here, Kate. Thank you for that,” Lawson replied, appearing just as confused as those in the room.

Now in a new episode of her podcast The Buck Up, which she hosts with Nath Valvo, Langbroek said she believes the joke failed to land because not many knew Lawson was the husband of Snook, who plays ultra-feisty feminist Shiv Roy on the hit HBO series.

“Let me be the first person to say, I just assumed because everybody in the room was showbiz that people would have a knowledge of showbiz and who his wife is,” Langbroek told Valvo in the episode.

“Shiv Roy is the badasses female character I can recall [and] Sarah snook has taken the world by storm,” Langbroek said. “So my joke was, it’s a double joke, really – one, is that people always talk about strong women, as though there are weak women. Like, why don’t the people ever talk about the weak women. It’s alway like, ‘I’m a strong woman, you’re strong woman...’

“It was partly that, but it was also a joke because he’s married to Shiv Roy and that’s a funny joke,” she explained.

Kate Langbroek's comment triggered confusion in the room and with co-presenter Ben Lawson.

“It’s actually a great joke, but a terrible joke because I think three people got it and the rest of the room literally went, ‘Huh??’ Not their fault obviously, but how do showbiz people not know?!”

The whole debacle could have been avoided, however, had Langbroek not ad-libbed on stage. A script for her and Lawson was had already been written and all they needed to do was read from the teleprompter, but Langbroek decided to go rogue.

Langbroek said she thought more people would understand her joke. Picture: James Gourley/Getty Images

“I said to Dave beforehand because the script they had given us was a real straighty-180 script,” she recalled. “My joke wasn’t written. What was written in was something about how competitive reality contestants have a really hard time from deceit to blah, blah, to dealing with real estate agents, so that was the joke.

Lawson is married to Succession star Sarah Snook, who was referenced in the joke. Picture: Asanka Ratnayake/Getty Images

“I said to Dave when we were backstage, ‘Listen, I’ve got this idea for a cute little joke but tell me if you’re on-board with it. He chuckles and he goes, ‘Maybe I can say strong women are everywhere these days or something like that?’ But then he thought, ‘Oh no, I better not say that – I’ll get cancelled.’ And I thought, I don’t think you will.”

“So when I went out there, I knew he was on board and he was going to say something, but then he didn’t say anything.”

However, Lawson did open up to news.com.au’s Andrew Bucklow shortly after he left the stage that evening.

“I didn’t know how to respond to that. I have no problem being near strong women!” he said. “More strong women around me please.”

Originally published as ‘It’s actually a great joke’: Kate Langbroek breaks silence on awkward Logies joke that fell flat