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American comedian Arj Barker has sparked a furore after asking a breastfeeding mother and her baby to leave his show. His decision, while performing at the Melbourne Comedy Festival on Saturday night, reportedly prompted others in the audience to walk out of the Athenaeum Theatre.
Arj Barker divides after asked breastfeeding mother and baby to leave show. It was not immediately clear whether the baby had been crying before Barker told the audience that the woman had been “disrupting” his “train of thought” during the show. The new mother’s relative, Danielle, took to X to call out Barker on the decision.
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