Stone shocks comedy audience with Ripper joke
Hollywood film-maker Oliver Stone shocked the audience at the British Comedy Awards with a bad-taste gag about the Suffolk serial killer.
The director of Platoon and Born On The Fourth Of July was attending the ceremony to present the best comedy film prize to Wallace and Gromit creator Nick Park.
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Taking the stage, he quipped: "It's great to be back in England. I feel like Jack The Ripper days are back. Nothing ever changes here."
But his attempt at comedy was met with jeers and gasps of horror from the celebrity audience.
Realising his joke had bombed, Stone sneered: "You're a lovely crowd."
One audience member said: "If he was trying to be funny, then he failed.
"To make a joke like that when five young women have been murdered and the killer is still on the loose was in unbelievably bad taste."
