Piers Morgan responds to 'inappropriate' Roy Keane joke at Jill Scott's expense

Roy Keane had Paul Scholes, Gary Neville, Ian Wright and Jill Scott roaring with laughter aft dropping a naughty gag connected The Overlap which has since gone viral

Piers Morgan has expressed his delight astatine Roy Keane aft his rude gag astir Jill Scott went viral connected societal media.

The ex-Manchester United skipper was renowned for his fierce competitiveness during his playing days, but has shown a softer broadside since becoming a regular beingness connected our screens. His enactment arsenic a pundit for ITV and connected The Overlap person revealed a crisp wit which helium isn’t acrophobic to usage astatine the disbursal of others.

While filming the latest occurrence of the Stick to Football podcast with Scott, Paul Scholes, Gary Neville and Ian Wright, Keane dropped a risque gag which had the country successful stitches. And, thankfully for Keane, erstwhile England midfielder Scott took it successful the lighthearted mode that it was intended.

"I was playing a foundation crippled astatine the play and Marlon Harewood perfectly smashed us, he's a large guy," Scott told the room. Scholes said "he's a large guy" and Neville added "he was a large aged thing, aged Marlon," earlier Keane stopped the speech dormant with a one-liner: "And what was the crippled like?"

Keane played dumb, pretending helium hadn’t meant his remark successful the mode everyone had taken it portion bursting into laughter. Stifling laughter, Wright said: "Roy, you can't accidental that! That's got to go!" But Scott pleaded with the producers: "Please support that in..."

The clip of the gag has gone down a tempest connected societal media, racking up 2.7million views connected Twitter, wherever Morgan gave his instrumentality connected the situation.

He tweeted: “This is precise ‘inappropriate’, and volition profoundly offend each subordinate of the joyless over-sensitive snowflake woke brigade, who volition each present request Roy Keane beryllium cancelled (good luck with that… ) - and I laughed my caput off.”

It doesn’t look apt that Keane is going to get ‘cancelled’ arsenic Morgan suggests. But his gag surely derailed the conversation, with Wright stating: "It's specified a almighty image! I can't unsee it!"

If helium did really mean it, Keane did yet get the reply to his question, with Scott saying the lucifer ended 7-6. He picked up plentifulness of comments beneath the line, too, with viewers hailing his consciousness of humour.

“Roy Keane has to beryllium hands down the astir unintentionally comic pundit connected the planet,” 1 idiosyncratic wrote. A 2nd added: “Keane needs his ain show. Comedy gold.” Another idiosyncratic felt the gag was genuinely intended, writing: “Keane is truthful deadpan substance of fact, I deliberation helium genuinely was funny successful the existent shot score”.

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