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- Comedian Vittorio Angelone has been slammed after making a “joke” about the sexual assault of OnlyFans star Rebecca Goodwin
- Angelone and fellow comedians present during the joke, Daniel Sloss, Adam Rowe and Freddy Quinne, have apologised to Goodwin
- Goodwin called the use of her name as a “punchline” “malicious”
TRIGGER WARNING: This article discusses sexual assault.
Comedy has a misogyny problem, and it isn’t going away. Comedian Vittorio Angelone has been slammed after making a “joke” about an ongoing sexual assault case involving Rebecca Goodwin during an episode of the Have A Word podcast with fellow comedians Daniel Sloss, Adam Rowe and Freddy Quinne.
In the episode, Angelone asked Quinne, “If you’re here, who’s raping Rebecca Goodwin?”
Just months prior, in June 2025, the OnlyFans model and influencer reported that she had been raped to Police, before speaking publicly about her experience.
The podcast’s “roast episode” was originally recorded in late 2025 but was behind a paywall until recently. Goodwin learned of the “joke” only after it was publicly released, her distress visible in a video to followers where she addressed the “malicious” remarks.
Fighting back tears, she said it will “forever live with me that it was allowed for my name to be used as the punchline of a malicious ‘joke’ about such a serious issue.”
“I am grateful I never saw it sooner because it would’ve been just weeks after [the assault] happened and I was in a different mental state to what I am now,” she said.
All four comedians have reportedly since apologised to Goodwin over the harmful remarks. Sloss also took to Instagram to issue a statement that read: “I’ve spoken to Rebecca privately and apologised, but I also want to acknowledge my part in this publicly.
“I’ve spent years talking about the importance of calling out this kind of behaviour, yet when it happened in front of me, I didn’t. I recognise the immense hypocrisy in that, and I’m not going to make excuses for it. I failed.”
It’s the second time in as many weeks that a male comedian has used humour to normalise misogynistic and violent behaviour, turning comedy into a weapon against women.
On the October 10th episode of Saturday Night Live, Shane Gillis used his opening monologue to make a crude attempt at a joke about women dressing “like whores” at the gym for simply wearing shorts.
“Have you seen it? I’ve seen it. You’ve seen the shorts?” he asked the audience before comparing the colours of their gym shorts to “artificial bait-coloured”, as though women are intentionally asking to be ogled, objectified and harassed.
The link between misogynistic humour and a normalisation of sexist attitudes towards women is well documented.
A 2008 study, More Than ‘Just a Joke’: The Prejudice-Releasing Function of Sexist Humour, found that “sexist humour creates a context in which men with sexist attitudes can defend the gender status quo.”
So, if you think it’s just a joke, it’s not.
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