Dark Side of the Poon comedian Pete Jonas attacks critic Julia Chamberlain
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Comedian Pete Jonas, whose show has Dark side of the Poon has become one of the most talked about shows at the Edinburgh Fringe after being slated by comedy website Chortle, has penned an open letter to his critical nemesis Julia Chamberlain.
Entitled ‘Dickhead D: Julia Chamberlain - “Comedy arbiter”’, Jonas has questioned his reviewers mental state, asking Chamberlain whether she is suffering from a menopausal mid-life crisis before asking whether she remained unbiased in her reviews of other shows at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe.
Also in the note, which is almost certain to enflame the feud between the two further, Jonas asks “Perhaps now isn't the time to be drinking heavily and writing reviews. There are people out there that care about you.
“For your sake and their's, you must find the strength to focus on what your life needs right now - anal shotgun suicide.”
Defending his own show Jonas says “How could you possibly find my pathetic tales of 'headbutting women in the vagina' entertaining when mere foreplay for you must entail someone putting on a Viking’s helmut and firing themselves out of a cannon at your anus.”
Chamberlain heavily criticised Jonas in her review of Dark Side of the Poon, which she states is ‘a cynical and ill-judged career suicide note without any redeeming features’.
Giving the show a zero-star rating Chamberlain has urged people to avoid seeing the show at all costs.
Jonas has however managed to turn the low rating on its head by printing out five blank stars to use as advertising on his posters.
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