Comedian Eric André says he was racially profiled at the airport. ‘I don’t feel safe.’

Actor and comedian Eric André says he was racially profiled when traveling through Melbourne Airport in Australia.

André, the Emmy-nominated host of “The Eric André Show,” said in a video on Instagram early Monday morning that he had been traveling for work when he was stopped at the airport.

“I got detained,” André, 41, said in the video. “I got pulled out of a lineup and put in a special line in Melbourne where I was sniffed throughly by a dog.”

He said he had been traveling by plane for 25 hours — from New York to Los Angeles and on to Melbourne and Brisbane.

“It’s one of the many times I’ve been racially profiled at the airport,” André continued, speaking of the Melbourne experience. “So this is a message for all Black, brown and Indigenous people traveling through Melbourne today, especially if you’re traveling Qantas International by Terminal 2, please be careful. They are searching Black, brown and Indigenous people.”

André put a call out to ask for the names of the officers using dogs at the airport “or what that program is.” He also sought a lawyer in Australia to handle a discrimination case and information on how many people of color and white people are stopped for the dog-sniffing line.

“I’m assuming it doesn’t reflect the percentage of white passengers vs. POC passengers at any given time at that airport,” André said.

He also requested that anyone hiring him in Australia not make him go through Melbourne Airport alone.

“Please provide a police escort or some type of security escort for me or have me fly into Brisbane or Sydney directly,” André said. “I don’t feel safe in the Melbourne Airport. I do not want to be humiliated or racially discriminated against anymore at these airports. I don’t want to cut my hair and wear a three-piece suit so that I’m treated like a first class citizen. I shouldn’t be made to feel that I am unaccepted by entering a country. Shame on the people at the Melbourne Airport that have this cockamamie procedure. I doubt it yields any safer world for anyone in Melbourne or Australia. I’d love to dig up the statistics on what is coming out of that program.”

The comedian called the airport’s approach unethical — a “Giuliani stop-and-frisk-esque nonsense program.”

“It has nothing to do with safety,” he said. “It has everything to do with racial harassment.”

André included a photo from the airport showing one of the officers with a dog.

Representatives of Melbourne Airport responded with a comment on his Instagram video.

“Melbourne Airport does not tolerate racism in any form,” their message said. “We are following up your complaint with the Australian Border Force (ABF) and the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) who are in charge of processing all international arrivals at Melbourne Airport and other Australian international gateways. Melbourne Airport is proudly the gateway to one of the most multicultural cities in the world. We welcome ALL passengers to Melbourne, and we expect everyone to be treated equally.”

André, who has hosted Adult Swim’s “The Eric André Show” since 2012, received his first Emmy nomination this year for outstanding performer in a short form comedy or drama series. (The show’s runtime is 11 minutes per episode.)

In 2022, André and comedian Clayton English took legal action in federal court after they said they were both racially profiled by Clayton County Police when they were stopped by officers in separate incidents at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. In January, they appealed the dismissal of the case.

André starred in the 2021 hidden camera film “Bad Trip” and has appeared in the movies “Jackass Forever” and “Jackass 4.5” (both 2022).

He has had voice roles in the movies “The Mitchells vs. the Machines” (2021), “Sing 2″ (2021) and “Trolls Band Together” (2023) as well as the Netflix series “Disenchantment.”

André’s other TV roles include appearances on HBO’s “The Righteous Gemstones,” Netflix’s “Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities,” FXX’s “Man Seeking Woman” and ABC’s “Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23.”