Followers of James Acaster have been greater than keen to coach Piers Morgan on who the comic is after he told Lorraine Kelly off last night for defending the Good Morning Britain host.
James appeared alongside Lorraine on The Final Leg, when Adam Hills requested the morning TV presenter who her hero of 2020 was.
When requested to call an individual who had made an enormous distinction over the previous 12 months, the tv presenter had an surprising reply: ‘Stick with me on this one – Piers Morgan.’
As quickly as she mentioned it, her fellow visitor James replied: ‘Go f**okay your self!’
Whereas James’s response didn’t frazzle Lorraine within the slightest, Piers (who has been praised by many for his protection of the pandemic) wished to take a dig on the comic as he reacted to the second right this moment.
Sharing a tweet, Piers thanked Lorraine for her sentiment earlier than citing James.
He mused: ‘Who’s James Acaster? (real query).’
Fortuitously for Piers, many an individual was keen to step in and reward the comic as top-of-the-line within the UK on the minute.
One very useful punter proferred: ‘James Acaster is among the finest comedians within the Nation. He isn’t everybody’s cup of tea however he had 4 Netflix Specials and so they’re excellent!’
That was echoed by one other who wrote: ‘Everybody else appears to know who he’s, Piers. Discover it exhausting to consider you don’t, really.’
That is James Acaster, in case you didn’t know (Image: RMV/REX)
As one chimed in, noting James is ‘Argubly the best comic working in Britain proper now,’ one other replied: ‘A extremely good comic who makes folks chortle as an alternative of intentionally pissing folks off for a dwelling.’
Piers had his supporters although, with one who additionally hadn’t been updated with James’s comedy, writing: ‘Piers, I simply seemed James Acaster up as I didn’t know who he was both. Apparently, he’s a comic. It simply reveals you Wikipedia can get some issues unsuitable.’
Nonetheless, different followers have been additionally eager to counsel to Piers that he did, actually, know who James was, after having a Twitter spat with the comic in 2019 when James was nonetheless on Twitter.
Piers was concerned in a backwards and forwards with playwright Bola Agbaje, who known as him out after he invited 15-year-old Alex Mann onto the present after his efficiency with grime star Dave at Glastonbury that 12 months and shared a meme suggesting Piers solely preferred black music when white folks carried out it.
Wanting to point out that wasn’t the case, he shared images of himself alongside artists Kanye West, Snoop Dogg, Jay-Z and 50 Cent.
James responded: ‘With out googling it title ONE tune by every of these artists. Additionally, shut up.’
Exhibiting Piers knew who he was on the time, he responded, sharing the now-defunct tweet from James, who doesn’t use Twitter: ‘Oh pipe down you virtue-signalling little tw*t. I can’t title ONE humorous joke you’ve ever cracked, that’s for certain.’
After James requested whether or not that was a lyric by ‘snap diggy digg’, Piers replied: ‘That’s hilarious! No marvel you’re on Mock The Week each six months when somebody drops out.’
One remembered this second and wrote: ‘It’s not a real query @piersmorgan you had a spat with him again in 2019 and clearly knew who he was!’
One other joined that brigade and reminded Piers: ‘Real query but you’ve gotten engaged with him previous?’
Whether or not Piers remembers their Twitter backwards and forwards or he’s merely attempting to have a dig on the comic stays to be seen, however one factor’s for certain and that’s James’s feedback on final evening’s programme tickled viewers as they celebrated the New Yr.
‘James Acaster telling Lorraine Kelly to ‘go f**okay your self’ is my fav second of 2020,’ one mentioned, as one other added: ‘[The Last Leg] retaining me laughing by way of a primary ever New Years on my ones! James Acaster telling Lorraine Kelly to f**okay herself is certainly the spotlight.’
