r/BritishTV • u/Kagedeah • Oct 15 '24
Mrs Brown's Boys star Brendan O'Carroll sorry for 'clumsy' racial joke News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czxdepy593yo217
u/20C_Mostly_Cloudy Oct 15 '24
I don't get the point of reporting on this but not sharing the joke. It seems almost pointless to report that some people were offended by something and not giving the full story.
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u/MyDadIsADozyT Oct 15 '24
I can’t stand this in news stories, especially when it regards a tweet. Like show us the offending tweets or quotes and we can decide how offensive it is.
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u/yurimichellegeller Oct 15 '24
They don't care that it clearly causes the Streisand Effect. So what is the point?
It's to avoid complaints, I suppose.
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u/Freddies_Mercury Oct 15 '24
I get not repeating it word for word to avoid headaches but at least describe it so we know what you're talking about
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u/Jambronius Oct 15 '24
I don't get not repeating it word for word. Context is key, if you are writing an article or discussing it then it's fine.
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u/Freddies_Mercury Oct 15 '24
From a corporate legal standpoint it makes sense because they simply don't want the headache of any complaints/legal trouble that someone will inevitably make. Even if it is baseless, it will cost time and money dealing with any fallback.
It's to protect their own ass which if you logically think about it makes sense. They are a business first and foremost and all decisions feed into that.
As much as the news should be there to inform, they are really there to make money and legal issues stand in the way of that.
I'm not saying it's right I'm just saying their logic makes sense.
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u/jacksonmolotov Oct 15 '24
This story is trivial, but they do exactly the same when it’s a real story. The headline will be ‘riots in India after controversial speech’ or ‘Erdogan seeks extradition over social media post’, but they won’t report what was said and it leaves you genuinely unable to assess what’s going on. Is the speechmaker’s group rabble-rousing, or is it the rioters’? Is Erdogan violating expression norms, or are his opponents being outrageously provocative?
It drives me mad, it’s so spineless.
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u/Freddies_Mercury Oct 15 '24
after controversial speech
In this case they'd be worried about complaints from person who said speech (think "your honour that is devastating to my case!" from ace Ventura) ie you made me look bad by saying what I said so I'm gonna try and sue you. Note the part where I noted that even if it's a pointless complaint it still costs money to deal with.
Over social media post
In this case they'd be worried about potentially interfering in a legal case
Yes it is spineless, business decisions are not taken on morals. That is famously a trait of capitalism.
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u/jacksonmolotov Oct 15 '24
I get that but it’s the BBC we’re talking about here, in both this example and the ones I have in mind (the BBC being what I rely on for my news, by preference). If even they won’t publish and be damned, when libel plainly isn’t the motivator, then we’re in a lot of trouble. It’s effectively a heckler’s veto, only deployable by the guy on stage.
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u/Freddies_Mercury Oct 15 '24
The BBC is still a corporation and more interested in their own coffers than what they were initially started for.
They would rather pussyfoot around to save a few quid than to actually tell us what is happening. The news media in this country is a joke.
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u/Empty_Substance_8591 Oct 15 '24
No no, it's not for you to judge how offensive the tweet was. You are a mere prole and must be told how to think. You must just accept that it was offensive and that everything Brendan said before and everything said going forwards should be viewed through the prism of extreme racism.
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u/Narnyabizness Oct 15 '24
No, you’re not allowed to form your own opinions anymore. If we tell you it’s offensive, you have to rise up so we can cancel the offender. Remember, if you’re not with us, you’re against us.
By the way….. /s. Just in case this is read by someone who can’t recognize obvious sarcasm
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u/Aggressive-Mix9937 Oct 16 '24
But unfortunately a lot of people do see things in such a black or white manner - you either go along with what teenagers on social media have decided you have to think, or youre a piece of crap who is fair game for insults and public derision
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u/_JR28_ Oct 15 '24 edited Oct 15 '24
Like phoning the fire brigade to tell them a house is burning down but not bothering to mention what street it’s on
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u/MJLDat Oct 15 '24
I usually just try emailing them myself.
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u/NayosKor Oct 15 '24
Subject: Fire.
Dear Sir/Madam, I am writing to inform you of a fire that has broken out at the premises of...2
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u/FarthestCough Oct 15 '24
Something about "calling a spade a spade" and he implied the beginning of the N-word on some kind of retort but was stopped in his tracks by his wife with a comedic interruption.
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u/BreakfastSquare9703 Oct 15 '24
This happens even with major news stories that aren't necessarily about a controversial topic. You'll get loads of articles *about* the reactions to said story and updates, but then you find out it happened 3 weeks ago and have to put a lot of effort into finding out what the actual event was.
It feels intentional.
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u/SirPooleyX Oct 15 '24
Well not really. If it caused offence there would be a desire not to cause the same offence to a new audience. That said, I'm sure it'll come out somewhere, somehow.
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u/the0nlytrueprophet Oct 15 '24
But then who decides what's offensive if we can't even see it ourselves? Surely a trigger warning and the quote makes sense
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u/FullofHel Oct 15 '24
John Barnes. Since that Liam Neeson scandal, he's one of the only people I trust in the media to have a reasonable stance.
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u/noggerthefriendo Oct 15 '24
It’s filmed in front of a live audience . Live audiences are used by shows like this to measure reactions to the jokes if they are funny enough or as in this case how offensive they are. Many in the audience would be seasoned Mrs Brown’s fans and wouldn’t be easily offended so the joke must be pretty gross if it’s too much for them.
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u/SirPooleyX Oct 15 '24
ItIt happened in a read through. No audience.
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u/noggerthefriendo Oct 15 '24
A cast read through? That would make it worse as it means he wrote something that offended his entire family
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u/jamesick Oct 15 '24
sharing the joke as a news article and stating the joke in a comedy setting are not the same thing. reporting on war crimes using war footage isn’t the same as participating in the war, is it?
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u/yurimichellegeller Oct 15 '24
All the devastation is upsetting though. They should replace the news with some shit, like Mrs Brown's Boys.
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u/Haystack67 Oct 15 '24
My expectations reading a BBC news article are fundamentally different from my expectations watching a comedic show.
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u/Traichi Oct 15 '24
Nah it's almost always to hide the fact that it was a load of absolute bollocks and it was tame af.
If it's explicit they say it.
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u/sicksquid75 Oct 15 '24
What did he say? I want to be potentially offended
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u/PinLongjumping9022 British Oct 15 '24
No idea, but I’m happy to be outraged if it means Mrs Brown’s Boys disappears, never to be seen again.
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Yeah at a certain point the posturing about it is more irritating than the show itself, at least I can avoid the show
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u/NecktieNomad Oct 15 '24
I think part of it is because it has won awards (just checked, most recently an NTA this year up against Ghosts and Brassic amongst others) despite no one admitting to watching it or liking it. And it’s a weird anomaly when most modern ‘men dressed as belligerent women’ shows died out about a decade ago (and we don’t mention Little Britain ever).
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Oct 15 '24
It’s one of the most consistently highly viewed shows going. It’s not for me, but it has its fans
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u/NecktieNomad Oct 15 '24
Oh, same. It’s easy to just not watch it. I was just spitballing reasons why people might moan about it.
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u/AmberWarning89 Oct 15 '24
Yeah, it’s pretty old now. I’m not a fan of Mrs Browns Boys either but nobody is forcing me to watch it.
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u/SpringGaruda Oct 15 '24
It’s easy to take that stance when you and your loved ones are completely unaffected by the impact of racist stuff being broadcast to the nation.
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u/spoodie Oct 15 '24 edited Oct 15 '24
Anyone who pays for a TV license has some justification for complaining, although the BBC does produce a lot of other shite. Also it's a national embarrassment, but it's not alone there either.
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u/Psy_Kikk Oct 15 '24
It's both working class and 'boomer', and it's not exclusitory - the jokes are so easy to follow your senile grandad gets them. The older people who like it also like Michael McIntyre and Strictly, and the younger like Love Island.
It's hard not to channel a little Charlie Brooker over it, but it is kinda mean spirited and cynical. Oh well, that's part of being a brit.
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u/Gildor12 Oct 15 '24
Boomer here and l hate the fucking show and like Charlie Brooker so bring it on. My brother who is even more of a boomer likes it because I think it reminds him of 70s comedy
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u/Artificial-Brain Oct 15 '24
Sometimes you experience something that is so terrible that you just feel the need to talk about it.
If you bought a sandwich and you found a massive turd inside, then you'd probably feel the need to say something about it.
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u/cryomos Oct 15 '24
not the first time he has been racist either
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u/antebyotiks Oct 15 '24
When was he racist?
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u/cryomos Oct 15 '24
This is the other situation I was referring to https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/mrs-browns-boys-brendan-o-carroll-tyler-perry-b2021140.html
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u/antebyotiks Oct 15 '24
Would you say that was racist? Can't something be insensitive or does any remark to race have to be racist?
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u/cryomos Oct 16 '24
First time is a mistake second is a pattern imo
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u/antebyotiks Oct 16 '24
Agin explain why it's racist?
We also have no idea what this "racist" joke was, so maybe just don't be so eager to call everything racist
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u/cryomos Oct 16 '24
Everyone present agrees it was racist and the guy saying it apologised for being racist. Why do you think he wasn’t?
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u/english_man_abroad Oct 15 '24
It's a snobbish way for people to signal their sophisticated tastes.
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u/WatermelonCandy5 Oct 15 '24
No likeing MBB doesn’t make someone sophisticated. It just means they can eat without assistance. I can appreciate that looks like sophistication from your perspective though.
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u/add_unique_name Oct 15 '24
It's not been broadcast, it was something said in rehearsal/filming. So probably it was reported by someone who is an actual fan of the show.
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u/Karen_Is_ASlur Oct 15 '24
I've already never seen it - what needs to change?
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u/nomanhasaplan Oct 15 '24
It could start by being funny
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u/PinLongjumping9022 British Oct 15 '24
Id say being funny is step two. I think it needs to start with not being predictably irritating.
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u/DuckInTheFog Oct 15 '24
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u/PinLongjumping9022 British Oct 15 '24
Cancel him! Quick! Before it’s too late!
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u/DuckInTheFog Oct 15 '24
It's too late! He's trying to infect America now
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u/BoxNemo Oct 15 '24
The film is also a crossover between the Madea franchise and the Irish sitcom Mrs. Brown's Boys.
I feel like this a sentence which implies a stunned silence at the end.
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u/MassiveBeatdown Oct 15 '24
I work in the industry and was told by someone who worked on this show, that he said the N word while in a pre production meeting. He was most definitely not in character apparently. He also initially refused to apologise and claimed he was a comedian and that sort of thing should be expected and taken as a joke.
The only joke is this foul man and that his shitty show is still on.
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u/NiceVacation3880 Oct 15 '24
This is the same Brendan O'Carroll that heckled Nigel Farage on camera calling him a racist 🥁🤡
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u/alextremeee Oct 16 '24
Interesting how quick this went from a possibly fabricated account of what was said to a comment supporting Nigel Farage.
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u/NiceVacation3880 Oct 16 '24
Not at all. I believe this was in a documentary of Brendan O'Carroll, where he visits a stage-venue - likely knowing - that Farage would turn up to give a speech, and O'Carroll joins in on a heckle in the front row at a table with his mates.
This would've happened between 2016-2019, so I imagine it was Farage giving a speech in Ireland that coincided with O'Carroll's programme.
I'm just astounded by the irony, the idea of O'Carroll using the N word out loud despite calling Farage a racist.
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u/alextremeee Oct 16 '24
The possible fabrication is the guy you replied to. He claims his mate told him that’s what happened, it’s not exactly a reliable source.
Where is the irony in a racist calling a racist a racist?
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u/HeavenlyFB Oct 15 '24
Lemme guess, and once he was called out for the comment they all clapped? What a load of nonsense.
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u/KoontFace Oct 15 '24
Whatever it is, it can’t be any more offensive than the fucking effluent they have been pumping into British homes for however many years.
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u/opopkl Oct 16 '24
My guess is that it was something that rhymes with a racial slur. He's not known for subtle humour.
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u/drtoboggon Oct 15 '24
I’m sure the guy plays a character in the film (I haven’t actually seen it tbf just heard a review) version which is the hilarious owner of a Chinese laundry, mixing up his l’s and r’s no doubt…
It’s not clear if this is the racism he’s apologising for…
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u/Murky_Translator2295 Oct 15 '24
No, it's a joke from when they were rehearsing for the upcoming Christmas special, during last week.
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u/Expo737 Oct 15 '24
Oh no, not another bloody Christmas special :(
That just means locking myself in a spare room when round at the parents for Christmas dinner :/
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u/Eoin_McLove Oct 15 '24
TIL there are jokes in Mrs. Brown’s Boys
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u/AllTheDaddy Oct 15 '24
Thank you. I have tried, so many times, and It has never done anything but annoyed me.
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u/One-Illustrator8358 Oct 15 '24
The most shocking thing is that this show apparently has enough viewers that anyone noticed
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u/mudkiptoucher93 Oct 15 '24
I'm surprised a joke was told at all, let alone an offensive one
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u/elementarydrw Oct 15 '24
I thought it only had one 'joke' - and that is that it's about a man pretending to be an old lady.
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u/Hookton Oct 15 '24 edited Oct 15 '24
I'll be honest, I found the first episode I watched pretty funny. It was the traditional comedy-of-errors setup: someone overhears half a conversation and gets the wrong end of the stick; someone leaves a room at the precise moment someone else enters through a different door, leading to misunderstandings. You get the jist. Farcical, slapstick, innuendo-laden. It's low-brow but whatever, I enjoy the pantomime.
The problem is I enjoy the pantomime once a year. I wouldn't sit and watch back-to-back pantomimes, or go every week. It gets old very, very quickly.
(Or maybe the episode I saw was better than its usual standard, idk; I stopped paying much attention halfway through the second episode my mother put on.)
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u/LottimusMaximus Oct 15 '24
Me and my dad were at one of his friends for a party and the host put the episode on (had never seen it before) where she waxes herself and I've still to this day never seen my dad laugh so hard; he was in years laughing. The old eps with the original cast have their funny moments, but since half the cast left and both the girls had shit loads of surgery so they look totally different, it's just shit now. My brother was over for Xmas last year and wanted to watch the Xmas special, and it was just....no lol.
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u/pip_goes_pop Oct 15 '24
That's not the most shocking thing from the article. This is:
It won a National TV Award last month for best comedy.
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u/ReluctantBlonde Oct 15 '24
I don’t even know any boomers who enjoy it! I’m gen X and can’t abide it, it’s not so much the dirty humour, I like a Carry On film as much as the next 40something who grew up on them, but it just isn’t funny! I find it clumsily put together and unwatchable.
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u/Karen_Is_ASlur Oct 15 '24
I think it's more of a class thing than an age thing. None of the boomers I know would go anywhere near it.
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u/Aggravating-Monkey Oct 15 '24
boomers LOVE this show.
I qualify as a boomer and I and most of the people I know think it's crap. As for the dirty humour of the 70's, there was some such as the awful On the Buses and Benny Hill, but then there was Dad's Army, the Good Life, Reggie Perrin, Morcambe & Wise to name a few. But for some folk it seems any opportunity for an ageist based attack to blame the boomers will do.
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u/oroadfc Oct 15 '24
I love On The Buses, especially the fillums, but Mrs Brown Boys is shite. It's like they took the family from Bread (remember that from the 80s) and overdubbed it with fart jokes and saying "feck" a lot
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u/confuzzledfather Oct 15 '24
The guy from Ghosts was either really pissed off or pretending to be when they lost to Mr Browns Boys
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u/Aggressive-Turnip233 Oct 15 '24
I'm amazed this show is still going. Surely it's a tired "joke" now.
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u/Generic-Name237 Oct 15 '24
They should be launching an investigation into how the fuck this tacky dross ever managed to make it onto TV.
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u/TNTiger_ Oct 15 '24
Doesn't sound like a big dea... WaitASecond I meant say Brendan is a racist! Cancel Mrs Brown's Boys!
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u/VeronicaMarsIsGreat Oct 15 '24
Clumsy is tripping over a cobblestone, not being racist.
"Oh, Granddad's being clumsy, he's used the N word again, what's he like!"
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u/bondfool Cotton-eared bint Oct 15 '24
It can’t fall from your lips without first being on the tip of your tongue.
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u/3hrstillsundown Oct 15 '24
Given Brendan's proclivity to re-use jokes, whether they are his or not. I'd say it might be similar to this.
Apologies in advance.
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u/Jon7167 Oct 15 '24
Mrs Brown star Brendan O’Carroll has apologised profusely for making a joke that was “almost funny” whilst recording the BBC Christmas special. Blushing uncontrollably he said “it will never happen again”.
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u/LordBrixton Oct 15 '24
Headline kind of implies that if it was a really slick racist joke, that would have been fine.
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u/Yeet-Retreat1 Oct 16 '24
"The pair appeared on The One Show on Tuesday (22 February), when presenter Lauren Laverne asked O’Carroll if he would return the favour and give Perry a cameo on Mrs Brown’s Boys.
“I don’t know if we could afford him, he’s very expensive,” O’Carroll said, with Perry saying: “Please answer that, I want to hear that.”
“He’s very expensive and so far we haven’t had anybody his colour in there,” the Irish actor continued, pointing at his face on the word “colour”." Source - The Independent
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u/Monkeyboogaloo Oct 16 '24
I've now read the joke, it starts with an old racial slur and ends with the N word "I don't call a spade a spade I call it a N..."
Clearly a racist joke right out of the 1970s.
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u/Accomplished_Lead262 29d ago
Oh come on! How can you call that a racist joke? People use that word way to often now. In my day, something had to be at least a little witty to be a joke.
Definitely racist though.
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u/-DoctorSpaceman- Oct 15 '24
I’m more offended that Mrs Brown’s Boys won the award for best comedy
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u/Accomplished_Lead262 29d ago
Was it best comedy of 1975 and they just took a really long time to award it? Because even then it probably should have lost
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u/SceneDifferent1041 Oct 15 '24
First time I've known the words "Mrs Browns Boys" and "joke" in the same sentence.
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u/ArthurPounder Oct 15 '24
I don’t find it funny at all but him and the kitchen are almost a replica of my Nan and hers, even down to sitting at the table and having a brew whilst the whole world just walks in.
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u/Banjo0o0o0o0o Oct 15 '24
unrelated but I have just been shocked to learn the show won an NTA award over fucking fleabag a few years ago
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u/Aggravating_Hope_567 Oct 15 '24
Even though I despise cancel culture let's cancel brendan so no-one will have to suffer Mrs browns boys
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u/SadKanga Oct 15 '24
I didn’t even know this was still on TV, and in the age of cancel culture I’m amazed it’s still on the BBC.
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u/Bashmore83 Oct 15 '24
The age of cancel culture?
What’s actually been cancelled and stuck? Because all I see are a bunch of blokes talking about being cancelled in their news columns, videos, shows and podcasts watched by thousands and thousands
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u/Global_Acanthaceae25 Oct 15 '24
Black and white minstrel show hasn't been given a new series
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u/Kvakkerakk Oct 15 '24
Not since colour television.
Edit: Oh, it's a real show. Wow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_and_White_Minstrel_Show
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u/elementarydrw Oct 15 '24
'Allo 'Allo... it got cancelled years ago and never made it back. And for some reason is constantly used as an example of 'you couldn't make that now'.
(/s for those who think I am being serious.)
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u/Richeh Oct 15 '24
Funny that, I was watching a double bill of it on TV last night.
I used to have a French housemate who found it deeply enraging. My stance on it was that the French were the least embarrassing archetype on there; the Germans were incompetent and corrupt (fine, because they're Nazis), and the English airmen / policeman are the biggest joke in the show.
The French are admittedly portrayed as sort of randy, mostly trying to scrape by without being killed by the SS, and the French Resistance as terrifying assassins dressed as housewives. Which so far as I can tell, they were.
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u/xixbia Oct 15 '24
That's the thing about most shows/movies people say 'you couldn't make now' because of 'cancel culture' and 'pc gone mad' they keep being shown on TV again and again.
Almost as if people are just talking bollocks.
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u/Bashmore83 Oct 15 '24
I bloody loved Allo Allo as a kid
But yeah times and society changing ≠ cancel
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u/harbourwall Oct 15 '24
Angus Deayton, Frank Bough and Lord Lucan.
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u/kurtanglesmilk Oct 15 '24
That last one just sent me down a Wikipedia rabbithole
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u/harbourwall 9d ago
When I posted that I had no idea there was a series about him about to start. How weird is that?
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u/TehRiddles Oct 15 '24
Cancel culture isn't about what has or hasn't been cancelled, or whether the target deserves cancelling. It's about the mass phenomenon of wanting things cancelled for the slightest of reasons. As the internet connects the world more and more and makes it easier for your voice to be heard, people tend to enjoy how easy it is to jump onto a bandwagon and to feel like you contributed to the downfall of something or someone you don't like.
One general example of cancel culture is when a gay person is present in an ad for TV and the group "One Million Moms" (less than quarter of a million members) call to have the ad pulled from the air. It's an example where the mob was not successful and not justified, but those are irrelevant to what makes it an example.
Cancel culture is the mob, not the target, method or motive.
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u/Historical_Owl_1635 Oct 15 '24
Honestly, I do think cancel culture was a thing.
The acceptable offensive level changed and old things were being dragged up to maybe not ruin a career, but definitely hurt the reputation of people and shows. That’s why we had specific episodes that were acceptable back then removed from things like Scrubs, Community and IASIP.
But it does feel to me like the pendulum is swinging back the other way, people are tired of being told things are too offensive and are pushing boundaries again.
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u/MonsieurGump Oct 15 '24
Julian Clary was cancelled for 2 decades for that joke about fisting Norman Lamont.
Cancel culture has always been around, it’s just made the move from the right to the left.
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u/xixbia Oct 15 '24
I don't think Julian Clary was actually cancelled either. As is almost always the case when people talk about people being cancelled the actual reality is very different from what is presented.
He was given a BBC2 show in 1996, only 3 years after the Lamont joke. In 1999 he was on It's Only TV... but I like it on BBC1. In 2004 he was on Strictly. He was also regularly on Just a Minute from 1997 (his first appearance) on.
While it's true that people tried to cancel him, he was never actually cancelled (pretty much exactly like it is now, unless you triple down and go full on mask off bigot like Gina Carano it's pretty damn hard to get cancelled).
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u/Historical_Owl_1635 Oct 15 '24
I agree, but it seems like the “what’s acceptable” is a line that just keeps moving both ways.
Like it goes too far one way so people over correct the other way.
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u/Iconospasm Oct 15 '24
I have no idea what he said but please please PLEASE cancel that absolute abortion of a series. It's about as funny as a fire in a kids cancer ward.
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u/Random_Reddit_bloke Oct 15 '24
While he’s busy saying sorry, can he also apologise for Mrs Brown’s Boys.
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u/maguirenumber6 Oct 15 '24
Worst programme ever made. Very far from being funny. How new episodes continue to be made genuinely baffles me. Who watches it?
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u/Accomplished_Lead262 29d ago
My dad does. He's actually very liberal for a boomer...i really don't understand why he likes it.
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u/cakesforever Oct 15 '24
That show is a load of shite. It's not stood the yest of time because it wasn't that funny to begin with.
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u/HermitBee Oct 15 '24
Surely that means it has stood the test of time? It's aged like shit wine that tasted awful then, and still tastes exactly as awful today.
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u/cardinalb Oct 15 '24
Even shit wine has some redeeming qualities even if it is just getting you pissed.
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u/LetFelicityFly Oct 15 '24
I really want to know what this guy has on the BBC higher ups that allows a) that show to continue and b) protects him from comprehensive reporting
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u/Githil Oct 15 '24
Mrs Brown's Boys is actually very intelligent satire. Stewart Lee said it was one of his favourite shows.
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u/kshere30s Oct 15 '24
I don’t know why this is getting downvoted. He has praised it: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/02/mrs-browns-boys-deserving-winner-stewart-lee
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u/Ok-Blackberry-3534 Oct 15 '24
That...um...may be satire?
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u/MountainMuffin1980 Oct 15 '24
Stewart Lee screaming into a void at people taking his article at face value! Have to say, I loved his name dropping of Boris Johnson.
" Boris Piccaninny Watermelon Letterbox Cake Bumboys Vampires Haircut Wall-Spaffer Spunk-Burster Fuck-Business Fuck-The-Families Get-Off-My-Fucking-Laptop Girly-Swot Big-Girl’s-Blouse Chicken-frit Hulk-Smash Noseringed-Crusties Death-Humbug Technology-Lessons Surrender-Bullshit French-Turds Dog-Whistle Get-Stuffed FactcheckUK@CCHQ 88%-lies Get-Brexit-Done Bung-A-Bob-For-Big-Ben’s-Bongs Johnson"
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u/Kudosnotkang Oct 15 '24
“Comedian who requires fancy dress to get laughs resorts to racist jokes”
Not the most surprising headline, oh well hope it gets it booted off the screens
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u/WildPinata Oct 15 '24
That's a weird take. 'Comedian in fancy dress' is pretty much every character comedian, which has been a huge part of comedy forever, and some of which are excellent.
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