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The Project's Sam Taunton left red-faced after Senator Bridget McKenzie cuts him down to size live on air


The Project's Sam Taunton was left red-faced during Wednesday night's show after a joke to Senator Bridget McKenzie fell flat live on air.

The Project's Sam Taunton (pictured) was left red-faced during Wednesday night's show after a joke to Senator Bridget McKenzie fell flat live on air Ms McKenzie (pictured) was discussing Liberal party leader Peter Dutton 's proposed plan to introduce seven nuclear reactors across Australia, when funnyman Taunton decided to crack a gag Taunton's awkward TV suggestion referred to the 2019 HBO miniseries Chernobyl, which dramatised the real life 1986 tragedy in Ukraine where a Nuclear Power Plant exploded, resulting in the deaths of 30 people

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