Harry Enfield was one of the guests on Tuesday night's The One Show, which was presented by Alex Jones and Roman Kemp. However, the legendary comedian ended up getting into trouble with the hosts.
While speaking about his upcoming one-man show, No Chums, the star relayed a story about the father of an ex-girlfriend who wasn't fond of him. "Well, I had a girlfriend once whose father didn't like me. I was only about 18, but he used to call me the 'b word fool'," Harry said. "Everything I did was sort of wrong.
"He was actually really nice, but I was a bit younger than his daughter by six years, and he thought, 'Oh no, I'm not having that.' Once do you know what he did? The worst thing. He got me up one morning and said, 'Come on, Harry, you're coming with me. ' Out to the pigs.
"He had some piglets, and it was the day the piglets were going to be castrated. He put plastic bags around their hem hems. He picked them up…"
At this point, Roman intervened to make sure that the story would be appropriate for the teatime audience, but Harry insisted that the rest of the story was fine, concluding: "I had to hold the piglet then he'd get his knife, look into my eyes, and go woosh, like that."
Roman was quick to apologise to viewers, saying: "Apologies if you are eating dinner or anything like that." However, Harry appeared confused and later said he was "scared" to say anything else on the show.
Fan response
Viewers were quick to defend the 64-year-old comedian, with one commenting: "I love Harry Enfield. Roman Kemp was rude there. Harry didn't say anything wrong and it ruined the interview."
© BBCA second posted: "Harry Enfield was brilliant. So unpredictably funny," while a third penned: "Harry Enfield on the One Show saying stuff that has all us of the right age rolling around laughing, but everyone on the #oneshow is in absolute panic of him saying something 'off'. Even poor Harry said at the end, 'oh I'm scared to say anything now'."
However, one felt that Roman had taken the right action, as they noted: "Harry Enfield describing in detail how he was once given piglets to hold and then watched as they were castrated. I'm glad I'd had my tea."
