“They don’t want too many women on the bill.” Update: Mirth Control, the company who does booking for the venue that canceled the comic’s performance, has issued an apology.

"It's safe to say we have ended our ties with Hemingway's," he said. "We won't be putting any shows into that venue."

Hemingway's owner has seemed to Whiting like he is "not awfully keen on women," Whiting said, "which I've ignored, because I'm pro-female comedians."

Whiting seemed upset at the incident, mentioning that 1 in 15 comics in the U.K. are female and he prides himself that the last show at Hemingway's was 33% women, with 3 out of 9 female comedians.

"I'm known among comics as being an absolutely proactive female comic booker," he said.

Whiting, a comedian himself who books shows at 106 venues, said this is "probably the only time a female comic has been canceled specifically for being a female comic" that he knows of in his 17 years as a booker. "This is a pinprick in my career," he added.

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In response to the cancelation of comic Jen Collier's performance at Hemingway's in Haslemere, England, because they had booked "too many women," Mirth said they "apologise [sic] unreservedly for any offence [sic] caused."

The show in question had booked three female comics in a show of five people, but Hemingway's insisted that "female clients did not suit their audience." Mirth wrote, "[T]his request was not to place any 'ban' on female comics only to temper the numbers in order to suit their clientele," adding that a February show with three female comics was "well received."

"We then elected to take a measured approach which was to remove one female act on that specific line up, leaving the two others in place." The statement went on to say that Mirth Control books "more female acts on the UK comedy circuit than any other agent."

The email Collier received was worded "perhaps a little too frankly," the statement said, adding that they will offer her a "large number of gig opportunities" at other clubs "in order to redress this oversight."

Although the company released the statement, a female employee at Mirth seemingly hung up on a BuzzFeed reporter after being reached Saturday afternoon. After calling back, the phone quickly went to a voicemail for Comedy Club Team member Suzy Simmons. Paul, a manager at Hemingway's, also declined to comment.