By Debbie Emery - Breaking Celebrity News Reporter

The disgust at comedian Daniel Tosh's joke about rape during a stand up act has escalated since his performance last Friday night, and Breaking Celebrity News has exclusive insight from a crisis support group explaining why his actions had such wide-reaching outrage.

"When you look in a room full of people at a Daniel Tosh show, the chances are one of them has been a victim of rape and they are being affected by what he says and the laughter, so its more impactful than you think,"  Rick Gipprich Jr., Communications Director of the Texas Association Against Sexual Assault, told Breaking Celebrity News in an exclusive interview.

As Breaking Celebrity News previously reported, the Comedy Central star has now apologized for the offensive joke he made toward a female audience member during a gig at The Laugh Factory in Hollywood.

"Tosh (started) making some very generalizing, declarative statements about rape jokes always being funny, how can a rape joke not be funny, rape is hilarious," an audience member complained about the incident on Tumblr.

"Did he mean it intentionally, probably not? But we should never try to get a laugh at the expense of a rape victim because it is never funny. What he did was highly