Joyce Ilg explains the gag about the photo with Luke Mockridge and gets even more criticism

Photo with Luke Mockridge
Joyce Ilg defends the rape gag – and also gets criticism from celebrities

The criticism of an Instagram post by the influencer and comedian Joyce Ilg does not stop. For a photo of herself and Luke Mockridge, the 28-year-old wrote on the Easter weekend: “Did any of you find eggs here? I only got a few KO drops.” An allusion to the allegations against Mockridge and a stage joke from him in which he addressed knockout drops. The comedian withdrew from public life for a short time last year after an ex-girlfriend made allegations of rape public. Now he’s touring again.

The joke was sharply criticized by thousands on Twitter and Instagram, and celebrities also got involved in the debate. For example, model Stefanie Giesinger wrote: “Just awesome, I have no idea who tells you that it’s funny, smart or cool to post something like that.” Aljosha Muttardi, doctor and currently on “Queer Eye Germany” on Netflix, only commented “Ok, wow” and then used the occasion to explicitly explain the dangers of knockout drops on his account.

Joyce Ilg sees the problem with the critics

The criticism left its mark on Joyce Ilg. She wanted to comment on this, she announced in an Instagram story and then added a paragraph to the original post. “This wasn’t supposed to be a joke at the expense of KO-drop victims, but an allusion to the fact that Luke had this KO-drop gag in his program at the time and that was subsequently interpreted as supposed ‘proof of guilt’. He has but never gave anyone knockout drops,” Ilg tried to explain her joke.

You realize that not everyone finds it funny. “My humor has few limits and I stand by that. It was just a casual saying. If you interpret more of my statement, it’s up to personal perception,” she continued. This only fueled the criticism even more. “Your ‘joke’ is bad enough, but reacting with so little empathy to the completely justified criticism just makes me sad,” commented entertainer Ricardo Simonetti.

And author Sophie Passmann said in an Instagram story: “You can joke about anything, even about KO drops and rapes, but the joke has to be good enough. If you’re going to make a joke about something where you potentially have a lot People hurt, then you should at least make a joke that is at least surprising, has a good twist or is at least well written. The joke is really that bad, that’s a reason for termination.” In addition, Joyce Ilg does not exactly stand for having a particularly black sense of humor.

The post has since been commented on more than 17,000 times, mostly negatively. However, Ilg also collected over 26,000 “likes”.

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