{"id":440839,"date":"2026-01-27T14:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T14:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/440839\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T14:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T14:12:10","slug":"dave-hughes-reveals-bizarre-moment-audience-member-attempted-to-censor-part-of-his-act-during-live-comedy-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/440839\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Hughes reveals \u2018bizarre\u2019 moment audience member attempted to \u2018censor\u2019 part of his act during live comedy show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Hughes has spoken out about a \u201cbizarre\u201d incident that occurred during a recent live comedy show, revealing a member of the audience attempted to \u201ccensor\u201d part of his act.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian comedian <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DT98vybEVS4\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">took to Instagram<\/a> on Monday night, posting a short clip showing a woman in the front row standing up to confront Hughsey before turning around to address the audience as venue staff arrive to escort her out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the first time in my 33 year stand up comedy career, an audience member in the front row attempted to censor my act,\u201d the comedian wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Hughesy said the show had been \u201cgoing great\u201d until about 20 minutes, when the woman stood up to object to him joking about his teenage son.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe stood up, yelled \u2018Stop\u2019, then turned to face audience and said that I must not ever make fun of my son on stage,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI tried explaining to her that he gives me a hard time too, and we mock each other constantly, and it\u2019s all love, and I\u2019m proud of him, but she wasn\u2019t having it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The woman left the venue after the incident and the comedian said he found out after the show she had only been there because she was a \u201ccarer for another bloke\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe probably had no idea what my act was,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe bloke she was a carer for also had to leave a few mins after she walked out, cos she was giving him a lift home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I\u2019d known that while on stage, I would have told him to stay and that I would give him a lift home in my hire car.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The comedian was happy to provide the man with a refund or free tickets to another show.<\/p>\n<p>The father of three regularly uses his family life as material for his comedy, and fellow Australian comedian Lindsay Webb noted in the comments of the Instagram post that plenty of people knew \u201chow good you are to Raf mate\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Webb then noted that if the heckler\u2019s standards were to apply across comedy, he would have to take \u201call the material about my kids\u201d out of his act, despite them having seen it and thought it was \u201cgood comedy\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dave Hughes has spoken out about a \u201cbizarre\u201d incident that occurred during a recent live comedy show, revealing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,205717,9785,9771,74785,134,229359,11632,701],"class_list":["post-440839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-censor","tag-censorship","tag-comedy","tag-dave-hughes","tag-entertainment","tag-hughsey","tag-noosa","tag-queensland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}