AMY WINEHOUSE: PATRICK KIELTY FACES BACKLASH OVER AMY GAGS

AMY Winehouse fans have blasted TV bosses for screening sick jokes about their tragic idol.

Patrick Kielty, the Irish stand-up comedian, riled Amy Winehouse fans when his rants, including branding Amy a smelly tramp, were broadcast.


In an old routine Kielty, 40, slammed the tragic songbird as “dirty”.


And his disgusting one-liners included: “She looks like she has pissed in more sinks than she’s washed in.”

Kielty made the string of cruel jibes in a show filmed several years ago for the Live At The Apollo series.


But fans and friends of Amy slammed cable station Comedy Central for repeating the episode. Bosses aired the show just days after Amy, 27, was found dead at her £2.5million home in Camden, north London.


A close pal of the Back To Black singer fumed: “It’s unbelievably distasteful timing. Her family could easily have tuned in. What a shambles."


One fan ranted online: “This is sick, sick, sick. Arseholes for showing this.”


A spokesman for Comedy Central said: “We would like to apologise. The airing of the episode was an oversight.”


The outrage came as Amy’s family announced her 10-room home will be used as the base for a rehab foundation in her memory.