"I do so hope Bindi Irwin gets laid," Deveny wrote. Today, Deveny stood by her comment about the 11-year-old, saying she was using satire "to expose celebrity raunch culture and the sexual objectification of women, which is rife on the red carpet". "It was just passing notes in class, but suddenly these notes are being projected into the sky and taken out of context," she said. "This [the Bindi Irwin comment] was a ludicrous remark that was as ridiculous as me saying I hope the dog that Molly Meldrum brought with him got drunk." Deveny was not the only comic using Twitter to vent on Logies night, with Wil Anderson tweeting jibes from his table at the awards night.

He wrote: "In front row for John Mayer. I may not take home gold logie but now have herpes." Deveny, who faced a backlash last week for her "Anzac Day Shits Me" Twitter rant, today said humour was "deeply subjective". "People who are offended by tweets are probably the same people who find Hey Hey funny, a show that I find deeply offensive." Deveny also said she did not feel compelled to apologise for her Logies tweet about Tasma Walton, the wife of media personality Rove McManus. "Rove and Tasma look so cute ... hope she doesn't die, too," she posted. McManus's first wife, Belinda Emmett, lost her battle with cancer in 2006.

"I meant every single word," Deveny said today. "I love Rove. I worked for Rove for five years. I've publicly said and printed I would take a bullet for him. He endorsed my first book on the front cover. "They looked really sweet. I do hope that Tasma doesn't die and I hope that Rove doesn't die ... I absolutely meant it." Deveny said many people did not understand Twitter. She said it "is not a news source, but it is starting to be used as one". "Six months ago Twitter was just people saying 'Oh my God, I'm so hung-over,'" she said.

"Now really serious people are using Twitter to communicate, people like Richard Dawkins, Peter Singer, the New Scientist. "It's about everyone assessing the information for themselves. This is a great challenge for us, to have a sophisticated response to the evolution of communication." Today, readers took to Twitter to air their disgust over Deveny's remarks, which one described as "moronic". Loading "Catherine Deveny's

NorthSteve wrote: "Catherine Deveny - a blemish on the face of everything good."



Another calling themselves LacqueredStudio said: "I'd like to know what sort of people were prepared to pay good money to go and watch Catherine Deveny at the Comedy Festival."