Can I just say, my routine about raping and f*****g Holly Willoughby was part of a very long routine about whether or not it's OK to do a joke about that, and I look at it from both sides, there are pluses and minuses.

Audience members of his show at the Latitude Festival, also in Suffolk, had insisted Boyle commented about Willoughby during his act: "I'd obviously kill her and rape her afterwards. I'm joking - I'd rape her first." In an earlier rape-related comment, Boyle said of Olympic cyclist Victoria Pendleton in 2012: "Victoria can lift twice her own bodyweight. Sexy, as it means she still wouldn't be able to throw me off."