脱口秀用失联客机当笑料被批！演员竟称：对待笑话太严肃

Malaysian social media erupted in fury on Wednesday at Singaporean stand-up comedian Jocelyn Chia after a skit she performed at a New York comedy club featuring gags about missing Malaysian jets and the country's poor economic performance was uploaded to TikTok and Instagram.

Framing the Malaysia-Singapore split in 1965 as two people who broke up from a relationship, Chia joked about how Malaysians cannot visit Singapore because their "aeroplanes cannot fly", a remark she clarified was a reference to the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

"What? Malaysian Airlines plane going missing not funny huh?" Chia asked after getting mixed reactions from the audience.

Chia then doubled down on her bit by delivering more unsubtle double entendres such as "some jokes don't land" and "this joke kills in Singapore".

When the host jumped in telling her she was going to get a bad review from Malaysians, she replied saying Malaysians "don't have internet".

Initially after the video went viral, Chia had appeared defiant in the face of the backlash, even going lengths to argue on her Instagram profile that it had been long enough since the MH370 tragedy for people to still feel irked by jokes about the matter. In her response to some of these comments, Chia cited the maxim of comedy being "tragedy plus time"."It's been long enough man," she said.

Following the backlash, the video appeared to have been removed from some of Chia's social media. Her comments were later inaccessible.

Flight MH370 was carrying 239 people from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing when it vanished on March 8, 2014, and is presumed to have crashed in the far southern Indian Ocean.

Malaysian Foreign Minister Zambry Abdul Kadir said Chia's act "showed a total lack of sensitivity and empathy" toward Malaysians and the victims' families.

Singapore Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan took to Twitter on Thursday to apologize. He said he was appalled by Chia's "horrendous statements" and that Chia doesn't speak for Singaporeans. "We treasure our ties with family and friends in Malaysia, and are sorry for the offense and hurt caused to all Malaysians," he said. Singapore officials said Chia was no longer a citizen.