The image of Piers Morgan with his face between Donald Trump's buttocks from this week's Mash Report has gone viral thanks to both Piers Morgan and Piers Morgan's critics.
Morgan himself initially tweeted the image – spoofing his recent ITV1 interview with the US President, to lambast the BBC, writing: "If the BBC broadcast an image like this after a female journalist interviewed @theresa_may - all hell would break loose & people would be fired. Gender equality shouldn't just apply to pay - should it?"
But then Morgan's critics - many of them comedians – also tweeted the image. In England Richard Herring retweeted it and wrote: "I feel affronted by this too. Please do RT this image to ensure this scandal gets the exposure it deserves."
Mash Report host Nish Kumar who has history with Morgan, changed his Twitter profile pic to the illustration and tweeted this: "U shouldn't have eaten his ass bro"
Ricky Gervais tweeted too: "@piersmorgan I've seen this picture retweeted thousands of times now with absolutely no credit to the photographer."*
When America got wind of it they retweeted it too. Nick Offerman of Parks and Recreation posted it on social media, simply saying: ".@piersmorgan have u seen this"
Bridesmaids director Paul Feig put the image in context be tweeting a link to the segment of the satirical BBC series the image originally came from: "Thanks to @piersmorgan for inspiring me to find this great segment of #TheMashReport that this drawing is from. Please enjoy. And @rachelparris, you are hilarious."
There have been some people, however, who do not support Piers Morgan but felt there was a homophobic element to the image. @DubiousCA tweeted: "As much as I am deeply loathe to ever agree with Piers Morgan on anything? ‘Satirical’ attacks on conservative figures, where the punchline is ‘they are gross because they are probably having gay sex with each other’ is cheap, crass homophobia, devoid of any merit."
*It's Ben Blease.
Watch the full clip below:
