Australian comedian Vince Sorrenti has been slammed for singing an 'outdated and unacceptable' song about Maori live on the radio - and the shame-faced star agrees.
Mr Sorrenti, 60, was being introduced on the 2GB show, Saturday Night With Rob Duckworth, when he launched a string of puns based on the old song, That's Amore.
But after a couple of innocent gags about Moray eels and tuna mornay, the humour took a twist with the Sydney stand-up funnyman's final joke.
To the tune of the 1953 Dean Martin hit, Mr Sorrenti sang: 'When you're hit by a thug, in a tough Kiwi pub, that's a Maori.'
The studio can be heard bursting into laughter in the background as Rob Duckworth - standing in for regular host Bill Woods - tries to move quickly on.
Australian comedian Vince Sorrenti (pictured)has sparked a row after singing an offensive song against Maori live on the radio
'There you go, Vince Sorrenti, he's on fire already,' he said, before asking the comic actor - who was one of the stars of Fat Pizza and Housos - about his latest gigs.
Mr Sorrenti is a patron of Immigration Place Australia but was previously embroiled in a race row when a 2011 TV advert he did for Tyreright mocked the Chinese accent.
Now fuming Maori have told the Sydney stand-up comedian to bring his act into the 21st century after the gag was branded outdated and unacceptable.
'In today's day and age, that's definitely not acceptable,' said a member of Sydney's Maori Wardens community. 'He needs to reconsider his material in the future.
'Maybe in his day it was acceptable. Back in the dark ages maybe it would have been fine, but nowadays you have to consider things other than people's ethnicity.
