Piers Morgan has expressed his delight at Roy Keane after his rude joke about Jill Scott went viral on social media.
The ex-Manchester United captain was renowned for his fierce competitiveness during his playing days, but has shown a softer side since becoming a regular presence on our screens. His work as a pundit for ITV and on The Overlap have revealed a sharp wit which he isn’t afraid to use at the expense of others.
While filming the latest episode of the Stick to Football podcast with Scott, Paul Scholes, Gary Neville and Ian Wright, Keane dropped a risque gag which had the room in stitches. And, thankfully for Keane, former England midfielder Scott took it in the lighthearted manner that it was intended.
"I was playing a charity game at the weekend and Marlon Harewood absolutely smashed us, he's a big guy," Scott told the room. Scholes said "he's a big guy" and Neville added "he was a big old thing, old Marlon," before Keane stopped the conversation dead with a one-liner: "And what was the game like?"
Keane played dumb, pretending he hadn’t meant his comment in the way everyone had taken it while bursting into laughter. Stifling laughter, Wright said: "Roy, you can't say that! That's got to go!" But Scott pleaded with the producers: "Please keep that in..."
The clip of the gag has gone down a storm on social media, racking up 2.7million views on Twitter, where Morgan gave his take on the situation.
He tweeted: “This is very ‘inappropriate’, and will deeply offend every member of the joyless over-sensitive snowflake woke brigade, who will all now demand Roy Keane be cancelled (good luck with that… ) - and I laughed my head off.”
It doesn’t seem likely that Keane is going to get ‘cancelled’ as Morgan suggests. But his joke certainly derailed the conversation, with Wright stating: "It's such a powerful image! I can't unsee it!"
If he did actually mean it, Keane did eventually get the answer to his question, with Scott saying the match ended 7-6. He picked up plenty of comments below the line, too, with viewers hailing his sense of humour.
“Roy Keane has to be hands down the most unintentionally funny pundit on the planet,” one person wrote. A second added: “Keane needs his own show. Comedy gold.” Another person felt the joke was genuinely intended, writing: “Keane is so deadpan matter of fact, I think he genuinely was interested in the actual football score”.
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