diff --git a/ircbot/bot.py b/ircbot/bot.py
index 4a8f553..07d6343 100644
--- a/ircbot/bot.py
+++ b/ircbot/bot.py
@@ -901,6 +901,8 @@ class IRCBot(irc.client.SimpleIRCClient):
         if self.connection.server_config.replace_irc_control_with_markdown:
             log.debug("old replystr: %s", replystr)
             replystr = replystr.replace('\x02', '**')
+            replystr = replystr.replace('\x0F', '')
+            replystr = re.sub('\x03..', '', replystr)
             log.debug("new replystr: %s", replystr)
 
         log.debug("replypath: %s", replypath)