PETALING JAYA: Stand-up comedian Jocelyn Chia has deactivated her social media accounts following backlash received for a joke she made about the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370
Checks on Chia’s social pages on Twitter and Instagram found them inaccessible, with users seeing blank pages in their stead.
Prior to tthis, the comedian’s Instagram page in particular had been flooded with comments condemning her poor choice of joke material.Chia - who was performing at a comedy club in the United States - first joked about Malaysia being a developing country that was far behind Singapore, 40 years after the island nation was"dumped" by Malaysia in 1965.
"My country, Singapore, after we gained independence from the British, we were a struggling little nation."When my prime minister went on TV to announce that you guys had dumped us, he cried because he thought we were not going to survive without you."And you guys? Malaysia, what are you now? Still a developing country," she says sarcastically in a video shared on her Instagram account.
Chia then crudely references the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 tragedy in a joke about Malaysia seeking to re-establish ties with Singapore.In another voice, she replies:"I tried, but you know, our airplanes can't fly," she says as a graphic of a Malaysia Airlines plane flashes on the screen."What, Malaysia Airlines going missing is not funny, huh?
"Some jokes don't land," she says in an apparent reference to Flight MH370, which vanished on March 8, 2014 while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, China.to our Premium Plan for an ad-free and unlimited reading experience!
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