Peter Helliar had his colleagues blushing on The Project after busting out a joke about circumcision during a discussion about potatoes.
The Project panel was left red faced and shifting awkwardly in their seats on Monday night after Peter Helliar made a wildly risque joke about circumcision.
Presenting his “Wide World of Pete” segment, the 46-year-old comedian shared a story about an unusual potato sculpture in Cyprus bearing a strong resemblance to a male appendage.
The “big potato” stands four metres tall and was commissioned by the village’s mayor to honour the region’s ancient tradition of potato harvesting, he explained.
“In Cyprus, a new sculpture attempting to acknowledge the region’s famous elongated potatoes looked very much like …. well, a wang,” Helliar began as Carrie made an embarrassed expression.
But it didn’t stop there.
“It’s been dubbed Potato Penis. Don’t the locals love it? The potato has been circumcised – “peeled” is the correct term, I believe,” he said as the panel went quiet.
Attempting to break the ice, Carrie weighed in: “I didn’t realise there was such thing as an elongated potato,” before moving the conversation along as panellists Waleed Aly and Steve Price laughed uncomfortably.
It certainly wasn’t the first time Helliar has elicited awkward laughter on the nightly program, with a segment about “anal swabbing” in relation to Covid testing giving everyone the giggles earlier this year.
And last year, it was guest Lisa McCune that led an X-rated conversation about pubic hair.
Circumcision is the surgical removal of the foreskin that covers the tip of the penis. In the most common procedure the foreskin is extended with forceps.
According to ABC News, an estimated 10 to 20 per cent of boys in Australia are circumcised, down from about 80 per cent in the 1950s.
Nowadays, the debate around circumcision is divided, with family tradition, religious beliefs, health and hygiene motivators commonly cited by parents.
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2021-10-18 09:22:09Z
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