"I'm today's comedy racist" says Gawain Towler

Gawain Towler, chief press officer for UKIP and fucking terrible human being.

Gawain Towler, the chief press officer for UKIP, was forced to apologise yesterday after referring to a journalist as "some form of ethnic extraction" in a text he accidentally sent to the wrong person. 

In a statement to the Evening Standard Gawain Towler said, "if in any way Kiran is upset, I'm terribly sorry." Towler went on to say, "I'm finding this absolutely absurd because it is evidently alien to who I am and what I am. Some people will see racism wherever they wish to find it. That does not make it so." He added, "I'm today's comedy racist."

With his comments Gawain Towler almost certainly wins the top spot for comedy racist over favourites like Donald Trump, Godfrey Bloom, and Viv Lewis.

Donald Trump, best known for wearing a dead squirrel on his head.

Donald Trump is of course famous for demanding Barack Obama release his long-form birth certificate during last year's election because there are no black people born in America, while Godfrey Bloom has been in the press most recently for referring to Africa as 'bongo-bongo land' and hitting Michael Crick over the head and calling him a 'racist' before running off down the street.

Godfrey Bloom, your embarrassing old racist grandfather who is somehow allowed to go around influencing politics.

UKIP Councillor Viv Lewis, in a classic example of comedy racism, said in a TV interview last week, "I have been to the West Indies. I have sampled their hospitality. I like coloured people."

 Out of all these comments, however, I believe Mr. Gawain Towler is most deserving of the award for today's comedy racist, especially as he tried to defend his comments by telling reporters his wife is Indian. 

Gawain Towler said his comments weren't racist because his wife is Indian, like how Robin Thicke said he's a feminist because he's married to a woman. If that isn't funny, I don't know what is.