Outrage after controversial comedian Biddy O’Loughlin posts ‘racist’ stand-up mocking Aboriginal culture
Controversial Adelaide comedian Biddy O’Loughlin has found herself in hot water once again, this time accused of racism.
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Cancelled Adelaide comedian Biddy O’Loughlin has found herself in hot water once again after comparing Aboriginal culture to alcoholism, sparking fury and accusations of racism online.
Earlier this week, O’Loughlin posted a video from a recent stand-up routine, describing alcoholism as part of Aboriginal culture and making fun of traditional place names.
The video, which has 130,000 views on Instagram, caught the attention of popular Indigenous musician and reality TV star Isaac Compton who called her out for “recycling” racist stereotypes.
“Here we go again. Another ‘comedian’ thinking they’re being edgy. But instead they’re just recycling the racist narrative that Aboriginal people are alcoholics,” said Compton, who was crowned the winner of Channel 9’s The Summit.
“Her jokes aren’t new, same s**t we’ve heard before. Just a new f**kwit saying them.”
This sparked a back-and-forth between the pair on Monday night with O’Loughlin defending her comments as a joke about wokeness, saying Compton was a “brown man (calling) for a pile on over a cancelled comedian because he doesn’t have a sense of humour”.
Their clash caught the eye of Sydney pub The Lord Gladstone who took to its social media to encourage other venues to blacklist her.
“If you’re a venue in Sydney and this racist, dumb dawg ever tries to book a show at your venue just bookmark this name for future reference so you can tell her to unequivocally go fk herself and that her lowest common denominator, absolute rubbish excuse for comedy is reserved solely for racist Reddit threads and not in any of our beautiful venues in Sydney,” the post read.
The post sparked a heavy backlash, which O’Loughlin described as “out of line” in a text exchange with Compton, whom she accused of laughing at threats made against her.
“He can’t take a joke about wokeness but laughs at threats to a single mother and her daughter,” she said.
Compton later clarified that he didn’t condone the threats and said she had created the backlash for herself.
“You didn’t make a ‘joke’ about wokeness. You were outright racist,” he said.
Taking to Threads, O’Loughlin called out people for bringing up her daughter, who is Indigenous, in their criticism of her.
“I appealed to (Compton) to ask them maybe not do that because I never talked about my daughter who happens to have Indigenous blood,” she said.
“And he was just like, nup, not my problem, you f**king did this with your racist video.
“So there’s a little Aboriginal girl asleep over there and he doesn’t give a f**k about her wellbeing, so that’s pretty full on.”
The exchange continued on Tuesday with Compton sharing a screenshot of text messages with O’Loughlin where she accused him of setting people against her.
“Nobody was crying over jokes until wokeness,” she wrote. “I didn’t have hundreds of haters in my inbox until you set them on me. I did not put that out there to get this.”
Compton said it wasn’t about being “woke” but calling out racism and holding people accountable for their actions.
“Just because you have a Blak daughter doesn’t excuse you from being a racist,” he said.
The latest controversy comes after her gig was axed at the Crown and Anchor over her views about trans and gender identity in September.
The daughter of well-known comedian Fiona O’Loughlin regularly posts about gender identity on her Instagram which has about 6400 followers, including posting in a red hat with the words: Make Women Female Again – a play on Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again slogan.
She has also spoken out against cancel culture, which she described as a “vicious, cowardly way to silence and intimidate your opponents”.
Both Compton and O’Loughlin have been contacted for comment.
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