Kyle Sandilands blasts US TV star Eric Andre for Aussie airport rant: ‘Whingeing piece of s**t’

An irate Kyle Sandilands has called out an American actor and comedian over his claims about an Australian Airport.

Kyle Sandilands has called out an American actor and comedian who claimed he was “racially profiled” at Melbourne Airport.

The radio host was not impressed with Eric Andre’s post on Instagram on Monday, in which he said he was stopped by airport security after being in transit for 25 hours from New York to Los Angeles and then on to Melbourne and Brisbane.

Andre claimed that while he was in Melbourne making his connecting flight to Brisbane for work, he was “detained” and “put in a special line” during an airport security check before being “sniffed throughly” by a police dog.

This morning on The Kyle & Jackie O Show, Sandilands took a swipe at the American star, slamming his claims that the practice was racially motivated.

Kyle Sandilands has slammed Eric Andre for ranting about Melbourne Airport.

The comedian claims he was “racially profiled” while at the airport travelling for work.

“What a whingeing piece of s**t,” he said on-air. “You were pulled out of a line with many others, which is quite common for all airports, for the random sniff search. No one gives a s**t you’re black.”

“We don’t roll over here [Australia] like that. We don’t care what colour you are,” Sandilands continued. “You’re a human and being human, you get no special privileges in an airport. Whether you’re brown, white, black, Chinese. We don’t give a rat’s arse. Everyone gets checked randomly.”

In his rant, Andre, – whose self-titled sketch comedy TV series is nominated for an Emmy Award next month – insisted staff zeroed in on him because of the colour of his skin.

“It’s one of the many times I’ve been racially profiled at the airport,” he claimed, before issuing this warning: “So this is a message for all Black, brown and Indigenous people travelling through Melbourne today. They are searching Black, brown and Indigenous people.”

He then requested that anyone hiring him for any future appearances in Australia not make him go through Melbourne Airport alone and provide him with an escort.

“Please provide a police escort or some type of security escort for me or have me fly into Brisbane or Sydney directly,” he added.

“I do not feel safe in the Melbourne Airport. I do not want to be humiliated or racially discriminated against anymore at these airports. I don’t want to cut my hair and wear a three-piece suit so that I’m treated like a first class citizen.

The comedian says he intends to contact a lawyer and take action against the airport. Picture: Corey Nickols/Getty Images

“I shouldn’t be made to feel that I am not accepted by entering a country. Shame on the people at the Melbourne Airport that have this cockamamie procedure. I doubt it yields any safer world for anybody in Melbourne or Australia. I’d love to dig up the statistics on what is coming out of that program.”

He added: “It has nothing to do with safety. It has everything to do with racial harassment.”

A spokesman for Melbourne Airport has since left a comment on Andre’s video post, saying that the organisation “does not tolerate” racism.

“We are following up your complaint with the Australian Border Force (ABF) and the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) who are in charge of processing all international arrivals at Melbourne Airport and other Australian international gateways,” the comment read.

“Melbourne Airport is proudly the gateway to one of the most multicultural cities in the world. We welcome ALL passengers to Melbourne, and we expect everyone to be treated equally.”

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