Adele drops X-rated joke after temporary blackout during Adelaide show

ADELE made light of a power blackout at her Adelaide gig with an X-rated joke last night. WARNING: Graphic content.

WARNING: Graphic content

ADELE has shocked fans with an X-rated joke at her concert in Adelaide, after the show was temporarily halted by a major power failure.

The powerhouse singer, who is nearing the end of her first ever tour Down Under, was left adlibbing for about four minutes when the lights and backing music suddenly stopped working during last night’s show at Adelaide Oval.

adele's revolving stage spun too far which pulled out the electricity cable therefore her poor band had no power for 10 mins! #adeleadelaide

— jordz / adele💜 (@michelesadele) March 13, 2017

However, Adele didn’t let it faze her — instead, she pulled out her filthiest gag.

“Shall I tell you my filthy joke despite all the children here? I need more applause than that because I might offend someone,” she asked the crowd.

“What do you call a blonde standing on her head? A brunette with bad breath.”

The star apologised for the technical issue before performing her final song.

Hmmm so @Adele says power has gone out under stage at Adelaide Oval. Now telling jokes while it's fixed. How apt...

— Michael Owen (@mjowen) March 13, 2017

“I’m sorry about the power cut tonight. You’ll never guess what it was? So you know the band’s stage starts revolving after a little while, well as the stage revolved it pulled the power plug out so all the instruments went off,” she explained.

“I won’t be revolving that stage again, will I? Thank you for your patience with my absolutely useless banter and thank you for putting up with some terrible jokes.”

The timing of the power outage — though not the fault of electricity providers — was perfect, given South Australia’s ongoing problems with power supply.

The state government will today announce “dramatic” new measures to address SA’s energy crisis, after billionaire Elon Musk yesterday said he could fix the problem in 100 days with batteries.