Vice Ganda Gets Another Reprimand For Jokes With Sexual Undertones

LAST YEAR, Vice Ganda was put in hot water last year when he made jokes about rape, even making fun of Jessica Soho. He was criticized severely by the public for his insensitivity and he apologized. He’s now in hot water once again, due to public complaints about things he did in his regular shows, ‘It’s Showtime’ and ‘Gandang Gabi Vice’. One complaint said Vice used “words with sexual undertones and did other non-verbal acts with double sexual meaning” while interviewing actor Piolo Pascual and his personal assistant, Yaya Moi Marcampo, in an episode of “Gandang Gabi Vice.”

Another complaint said he made fun of a male dancer on whose face he used a towel he earlier used in wiping the “kili-kili” of a male contestant. You can do these acts on stage in a comedy bar where the kind of humor can be risqué and anything goes, but on national TV, it can offend some sensibilities.

The Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) is now requiring ABS-CBN to submit to them some self regulatory recommendations for Vice Ganda to follow. MTRCB has also told ABS-CBN to undergo “close collaboration with the Board” for three months; this, in addition to “the implementation of other self-regulatory measures.” The board also recommended that Vice Ganda take a seminar in “media and the legal profession in the context of both audience-sensitivity and the administration of justice.”

Vice Ganda has yet to issue his own reaction and statement about this latest controversial issue involving him.