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Hound I now live and work in Northern Ireland and I’ve heard more Irish jokes told here by the locals than I did recently in the ukMaybe we should apologise to Liverpudlians for work jokes (notice I didn’t refer to them as scousers in case it upset someone) or we should all be apologising to ourselves every time a Yorkshireman is referred to as tight In my case the cap does fit
My Jimmy Saville impersonation used to have them rocking in the aisles.Wouldn't dream of doing it nowadays.Let's hope there's no skeletons in the cupboard about James Stewart, Humphrey Bogart or James Mason.My repertoire will be in tatters!
Bernard Manning wasn’t funny, even at the time (70s) many people considered him to be OTT.
The Germans episode of Fawlty towers gone now
Quote from: Ldr on June 12, 2020, 11:26:36 amThe Germans episode of Fawlty towers gone nowYes it’s getting stupid now
BST, the point is that just because you don’t find it funny doesn’t mean it isn’t to others.The Bernard Manning stuff and the Jim Davidson stuff was funny at the time and people laughed at it.How is that any different to the “I thought you was a nigger” sketch any different.It uses the N word but you find that funny?Is that because it was being said to a white man?I am in no way a racist person and have some very good black and Asian friends but I do think that the current situation is being taken too far.
Should people be considering chucking the Mercedes Benz, BMW, Volkswagon cars they drive about into the dock, after all they were big supporters of the most racial ruling government ever put on Earth in Europe.
Hound you are wrong about Ireland
Hound.It is really, really simple and I do not understand why anyone struggles to get this.Comedy that is predicated on stereotyping weaker, more marginalised groups than the people who are making or laughing at the comedy, and doing it in a way that is designed to belittle is just not funny. It is bullying.So the GGM "English" sketch was funny. The one in the Young Ones (now cut) where the police officer with sunglasses on is giving racist abuse to a white man because "I thought you was a nigger" is funny. Jim Davidson doing his Chalky White act wasn't funny. Bernard Manning doing his "So there were this Paki" jokes wasn't funny. Little Britain doing Vicky Pollard wasn't funny.
That I wouldn’t hear Irish jokes in Ireland