A Tourette's syndrome charity has criticised a 'rubbish' and 'unsophisticated' joke by comedian Olaf Falafel that won a top award at this year's Edinburgh Festival
The charity added that it had also been contacted by people in the community to express weariness at hearing the condition being used repeatedly as the punchline for"cheap gags".
The charity's chief executive Suzanne Dobson told the BBC that she found the joke"rubbish" and thought it had brought"shame on Dave". He added:"There's a really difficult side to Tourette's, sometimes a really dark and lonely side. It is often extremely physically painful, exhausting, limiting and a million miles from funny. It's also often funny."
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