ADC chairman condemns comedian’s execution ‘joke’

Anti-Defamation Commission (ADC) chairman Dvir Abramovich has condemned comedy platform YeahMad for the second time in as many months after a video surfaced showing comedian Kat Andrews delivering a “joke” about executing Jews.

The controversy comes just a week after an arson attack on the East Melbourne Synagogue, with Abramovich describing the timing as particularly offensive.

In the video, Andrews asks: “What does a bad joke and a Jew have in common?” before delivering the punchline: “They can both be executed better.”

“This is not a joke. This is a wink to extermination,” Abramovich said, calling it an “ugly trivialisation of violence against Jews”.

Describing the joke was “cold, deliberate, and venomous”, Abramovich also criticised the audience’s reaction. “A woman joked about killing Jews, and the room thought it was hilarious,” he said.

He questioned what message the content sends to young viewers who might encounter it online. “What are we becoming, when the public murder of Jews is reduced to a social media bit?,” Abramovich asked.

He suggested the response would be different if the joke had targeted other minority groups. “If this ‘joke’ had targeted any other minority group, the outrage would be swift, loud, and unforgiving. But when it’s Jews, the silence is thunderous,” Abramovich said.

The ADC chairman called on Little Me Media Pty Ltd and platforms broadcasting YeahMad content to remove the material. “You are complicit. You are accomplices in this descent,” he said. “This is not humour. This is the normalisation of hatred.”

It is not the first time YeahMad has faced criticism for antisemitic content. In June, Abramovich condemned a Holocaust “joke” made by the same comedian, Katherine Andrew, who asked: “What’s the difference between me in Year 8 and a Jew?” The punchline was: “I came home from camp.”

Abramovich had described that segment as “moral vomit dressed up as content” and said the group had “crossed into uncharted territory of cruelty” by trivialising the murder of six million Jews. He had called on Little Me Media Pty Ltd, which owns the YeahMad Facebook page, to remove the content and issue a full apology following the earlier incident.

The AJN contacted Little Me Media Pty Ltd for comment at that time but did not receive a response.