Karl’s comedy under fire
Updated: It wasn't Karl Stefanovic that Bra Boys' Macario De Souza was talking about at all, but Kyle Sandilands.
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There are some who love Karl Stefanovic for his wayward sense of humour, but Bra Boys co-director and surfer Macario De Souza isn’t one of them, labelling the Today show host a “W****r” after an on-air gag.
During a giveaway segment on the show yesterday Stefanovic telephoned a viewer and rewarded her with $5000 when she correctly answered with the catch phrase, “I wake up with Today”.
When the caller said she lived in Maroubra, Stefanovic responded: “The boys will be around to take their fair share a little bit later”.
DeSouza told the Southern Courier the remark was disrespectful to the band of locals.
“I think the worst part about it is that it paints a bad picture of us that some of the younger kids then try and mimic, so people don’t know how much damage it really does,” he said.
“Also a lot of the older guys are busy with their lives and families and work… times have changed and we are moving on and this sort of thing can make that tough.”
UPDATED: An odd footnote to this story….. A later report says Macario De Souza believed the comment had been made by Kyle Sandilands, whom he was referring to as a “W*****r.” Embarrassed, he now says of Karl Stefanovic, “Knowing he’s a joker and a friend of ours, I don’t think it’s too bad.”
Source: Southern Courier, Daily Telegraph
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Karl was the one spot on, if anyone has actually dealt with them they are stand over merchants who are not what they are portrayed in the “documentary” BraBoys
Carl’s a funny guy- not every one gets his sense of humour…i like him.
I have NFI what the issue at hand is… Must be a Sydney thing?
I don’t care about that idiot, as far as i’m concerened, Today sucks and Sunrise rules
Pot calling the kettle black?
Yeah Karl should issue an apology for hurting the Bra Boys feelings….poor guys just out there trying to make an honest living, keeping to themselves (aside from a bit of self-glorifying filmmaking) and a big bully like Karl comes along and makes some nasty insensitive joke, that could really damage their community.
Those poor bra boys… such soft, sensitive souls.
You said it @GuanoLad. Isn’t anyone allowed to make a joke anymore? Lame or otherwise.
Truth hurts sometimes, way to go Karl!
Oh come on that is funny.
And agreed with steele if you don’t like comments like that it would’ve helped to not make a film documentary which played that very card.
All i’ll say is they are spot on in calling him that.
Maybe don’t make a documentary glorifying it then?
Karl speaks the truth, and the truth hurts.
Karl was more likeable before he decided his opinions were worth sharing with the rest of the nation. Sorry, Karl, but we really don’t care what you think.
It’s true!
At least Karl is a man of honour which is more than what I can say for any of the “Bra” boys.
Nobody who works in TV should ever make any jokes in any context ever again ever, even in private at their home with nobody else in the room, because somebody, somewhere, will take unnecessary offence and will contact the newspaper and they’ll be forced to apologise for the rest of the world’s stupidity.
Well, at least he’s not boring like his fellow colleagues at Today…
So De Souza’s a Sunrise fan…?
That was a brilliant line from Karl, he’s a classic sometimes.
Whole heartidy agree with Macario. Arrogant and condesending. Poor Lisa!
I’m all for bashing Karl but I have to side with him this time. Better than Kochies ‘gags’.
when has he ever been funny. he has gone past steve leiberman as the worst host for the today show. but no one will ever be as bad as kochie
But it’s true. Karl is a w**ker.
De Souza’s response to Stefanovic is hardly the that of those who say “we are moving on”.