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Frankie Boyle, .... how desparate for laughs can he be?
http://tinyurl.com/y3ct2nh
Now I can't see how he's even considered to be remotely amusing but really is he so desparate for laughs that he mocks to disabled?
Now I can't see how he's even considered to be remotely amusing but really is he so desparate for laughs that he mocks to disabled?
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Wharf makes an alarmingly good point there.
If this were any other minority, wouldn't you be shouting "PC gone mad? Can't you take a joke?"
I'll be interested to hear where you think that PC should stop, especially seeing as disability isn't race, gender or sexual orientation specific.
(Stands back whilst the dailymailers tie themselves up in knots trying to explain that one).
Wharf makes an alarmingly good point there.
If this were any other minority, wouldn't you be shouting "PC gone mad? Can't you take a joke?"
I'll be interested to hear where you think that PC should stop, especially seeing as disability isn't race, gender or sexual orientation specific.
(Stands back whilst the dailymailers tie themselves up in knots trying to explain that one).
Yes I know perfectly well what this thread is about Orson_Carte.
It is about some sick individuals who seem to think that a "Comedian" (I use that term loosely) that pokes fun at a Down's syndrome child, is somehow funny, and yet these same individuals would equally condemn the likes of Bernard Manning and Jim Davison.
If we are to have "no holds barred" comedy, then no subject should be banned.
It is about some sick individuals who seem to think that a "Comedian" (I use that term loosely) that pokes fun at a Down's syndrome child, is somehow funny, and yet these same individuals would equally condemn the likes of Bernard Manning and Jim Davison.
If we are to have "no holds barred" comedy, then no subject should be banned.
She is quoted in the Mail as saying:-
"I expected dry, nasty, crude humour, yes, but unimaginative humour poking fun at the stereotype of people with Down syndrome was not something that I expected"
Wonder if he'd chosen a different disability to make fun of whether she would have been offended at all seeing as she was expecting him to be nasty about other subjects/people.
"I expected dry, nasty, crude humour, yes, but unimaginative humour poking fun at the stereotype of people with Down syndrome was not something that I expected"
Wonder if he'd chosen a different disability to make fun of whether she would have been offended at all seeing as she was expecting him to be nasty about other subjects/people.
She got what she expected then - I don't like him at all but each to their own - I don't find him funny at all. I think he's crude and inappropriate, so I wouldn't go and see him - but it's no secret what sort of humour youu'd experience. If it wasn't this disabled group it would be another or some other minority he'd pick on, and I've seen him on TV laying into Susan Boyle with particular venom. Not funny.
AOG
Mr Boyle didn't ridicule a disabled child. He made jokes about Downs Syndrome, and the woman in the audience has a child with Downs Syndrome.
Tell me - which members of society ate beyond the pale when it comes to comedy?
Blacks? Muslims? The elderly? Those suffering from mental handicaps?
Difficult eh?
Mr Boyle didn't ridicule a disabled child. He made jokes about Downs Syndrome, and the woman in the audience has a child with Downs Syndrome.
Tell me - which members of society ate beyond the pale when it comes to comedy?
Blacks? Muslims? The elderly? Those suffering from mental handicaps?
Difficult eh?
Humour is a very personal thing. I have a relative who has cerebral palsy and I tend not to find jokes specifically about it funny but I don't think it is practical to ban them. Where would it end?
Is this funny?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IFUNIa2NU8
Is this funny?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IFUNIa2NU8
Scotman - don't know if you saw the first series of 'Extras', but there's a stand up comic with cerebal palsy?
It's quite magnificent. It shows you CAN make jokes about CP (or rather our prejudices).
I think that's what upsets the dailymailers - they're stuck with dead 70s comics and don't understand how much the world has moved on.
For then, Bernard Manning is as funny as Peter Kay is for younger (better educated) people
It's quite magnificent. It shows you CAN make jokes about CP (or rather our prejudices).
I think that's what upsets the dailymailers - they're stuck with dead 70s comics and don't understand how much the world has moved on.
For then, Bernard Manning is as funny as Peter Kay is for younger (better educated) people
"I expected dry, nasty, crude humour, yes, but unimaginative humour poking fun at the stereotype of people with Down's syndrome was not something that I expected."
This woman is an idiot. She can't have it both ways.
The joke about Rebecca Adlington which is quoted in the story, is inspired, and the joke he made about Princess Diana and the ludicrous concert in her honour was brilliant (paraphrasing) "if they wanted to honour her they should have chosen subjects closer to her heart and held a gang bang in a minefield" Brilliant.
This woman is an idiot. She can't have it both ways.
The joke about Rebecca Adlington which is quoted in the story, is inspired, and the joke he made about Princess Diana and the ludicrous concert in her honour was brilliant (paraphrasing) "if they wanted to honour her they should have chosen subjects closer to her heart and held a gang bang in a minefield" Brilliant.
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