[Liam-]

The perp should be found and arrested for attempting to assault free speech, comedy is sacred after all!

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

No just good slightly right wing cricket people desperate to help those less fortunate

Well they should have sent those bread rolls off to a homeless shelter or something instead of wasting them

[LeatherTrumpet]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Well they should have sent those bread rolls off to a homeless shelter or something instead of wasting them

or to Africa as i heard on the radio that its Where nothing ever grows
No rain or rivers flow, and they wont get snow this Christmas


Bloody climate emergency

[James]

I remember reading a while ago how some comedians were reporting a bad reception to Brexit jokes when they took their shows outside London,

Comedians claim anti-Brexit jokes are damaging their careers as audiences outside London walk out in offence

By Rozina Sabur
4 APRIL 2017


Comedian Marcus Brigstocke said Brexit jokes were the equivalent of 'comedic poison' Credit: Jay Williams

Comedians have told how anti-Brexit jokes are harming their careers as audiences outside of London walk out in offence.

A number of comedians have described scripting their take on Britain leaving the European Union for Left-wing audiences in London, only to face unamused audiences when they take their acts out to the rest of the country.

Marcus Brigstocke, who has been touring the country with a set that includes 20 minutes of material on Brexit, said members of the audience had been walking out "every night" in anger.

He said that a number of his fans were unlikely to return to his shows in future, as a result of the jokes.


"People have been angry; people have walked out of shows and people have booed.

"A lot of the people that I think of as my audience will not be back - they won't come again - they're that angry," he told BBC Radio 4.


Writing on Facebook, Brigstocke said he did not want to turn his audience off, but said: "For the first time ever on tour I have people walking out every night ‑ not hordes, but some. That's unsettling.

"I have never before dealt with a subject as divisive and upsetting (including passionate criticisms of religion etc). It's a challenge I would usually enjoy but (perhaps because I'm not doing it well enough) it is proving to be a nightmare.

"It seems that for the most part Brexit is not just the hideous social and political turn we have taken as a country but is also comedic poison."

However a spokeswoman for comedian Stewart Lee, who has 20 minutes of anti-Brexit material at the start of his show, said "his career has only been strengthened by Brexit".


Aaron Brown, editor of the British Comedy Guide, said: "I consume a lot of comedy – mostly TV, also some live – and would say the comedy world’s reaction has been almost exclusively negative.

"Many jokes essentially paraphrase as 'shooting ourselves in the foot', and the rest rely on lazily branding 52 per cent of the voters as racist.


"One would have hoped comedians would be able to find comic mileage in their evident disengagement from half of the public, but there instead seems to be little to no such acceptance and analysis of the referendum result, instead merely anger and lashing out at stupid people making the wrong decision, as they see it.

"As far as audience reaction goes, it tends to be fairly warm with television studio audiences as most such recordings take place in the resolutely pro-remain London, but in the rest of the country – England and Wales, at very least – one can only begin to imagine how alienated and offended some audiences must feel."

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...sas-audiences/

[Tom4784]

Originally Posted by Liam-

That would be considered assault against a right wing person, can’t wait to hear the condemnation from Farage and the like

That will never happen, the comedian's not White Wing- I mean, Right Wing.

It's okay to abuse people who don't like Brexit, just make sure you don't do it to a white person- I mean, a brexiter.

[Tom4784]

Originally Posted by James

I remember reading a while ago how some comedians were reporting a bad reception to Brexit jokes when they took their shows outside London,



https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...sas-audiences/

Even though they are quick to call others snowflakes and the like, there is often none more fragile and prone to outrage and offense than Brexit Boomers.

[LeatherTrumpet]

They should have booked an actual funny comedian like Jim Davidson

[Tom4784]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

They should have booked an actual funny comedian like Jim Davidson

You mean they should have booked a racist and a homophobe, well, if that's your humour...

[Oliver_W]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

or to Africa as i heard on the radio that its Where nothing ever grows
No rain or rivers flow, and they wont get snow this Christmas


Bloody climate emergency

That song is so bloody stupid, the biggest river in the world is in Africa

[LeatherTrumpet]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

You mean they should have booked a racist and a homophobe, well, if that's your humour...

How dare you Jim is a family comedian and a national treasure

[Oliver_W]

Anyway there's no excuse for throwing things at people.

You're allowed to think it's bloody boring when all comedians have to say is "Trump" or "Brexit", and you're allowed to boo. You're not allowed to lay your hands on another person, or throw projectiles at them.

[The Slim Reaper]

Couldn't they have just sent him a yeast and desist letter instead?

[Tom4784]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

How dare you Jim is a family comedian and a national treasure

And that has no bearing on the fact that he's a racist homophobe.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

Anyway there's no excuse for throwing things at people.

You're allowed to think it's bloody boring when all comedians have to say is "Trump" or "Brexit", and you're allowed to boo. You're not allowed to lay your hands on another person, or throw projectiles at them.

Exactly.

[LeatherTrumpet]

Originally Posted by The Slim Reaper

Couldn't they have just sent him a yeast and desist letter instead?

yes that would have been a butter alternative

[The Slim Reaper]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

yes that would have been a butter alternative

He was only going against the grain. Probably a load of old bloomers with a cob on in the audience

[smudgie]

Aww, no more throwing rotten tomatoes at unfunny comedians then.

[Liam-]

‘Right wingers: ‘offensive comedy should be cherished as the last form of free speech, no matter how many minorities get offended, jokes are jokes! #snowflakes’

Also right wingers: ‘I am horrified that ‘comedians’, if you can call them that, are making jokes at MY expense, I demand an apology and a public enquiry into my hurt feelings #endrightwingbias #backboris’

[parmnion]

What a dick.

[parmnion]

It's about time these left leaning arseholes learnt they are in the minority

[Oliver_W]

Originally Posted by Liam-

‘Right wingers: ‘offensive comedy should be cherished as the last form of free speech, no matter how many minorities get offended, jokes are jokes! #snowflakes’

Also right wingers: ‘I am horrified that ‘comedians’, if you can call them that, are making jokes at MY expense, I demand an apology and a public enquiry into my hurt feelings #endrightwingbias #backboris’

Nice fanfiction. Where's it saved - next to Sonic the Hedgehog?!

Unless you're gonna link or quote people, you're completely making that up, I've not seen anyone expressing the sentiment you posted.

[Nicky91]

Originally Posted by parmnion

It's about time these left leaning arseholes learnt they are in the minority

thank you for the insult (which is also towards me, since i'm also left wing)

[Oliver_W]

Originally Posted by parmnion

It's about time these left leaning arseholes learnt they are in the minority

You can't use a cricket club as an example of the general population not being left

[Cherie]

A charity event like that is no place for politics, not surprised they wanted him off

[Tom4784]

Originally Posted by Cherie

A charity event like that is no place for politics, not surprised they wanted him off

Let's be real, Cherie, if it was some pro-brexit comedian then he would have been cheered on and beloved by that crowd. It's not that it's 'no place for politics', it's that the crowd can only tolerate views that they approve of.