Dave Longley sick sad bstad.

@drivel wrote:

@bassingbourne55 wrote:

Sounds like he should be made persona non grata in the comedy world alongside the late Bernard Manning, Jim Davidson and Billy Connolly (after his sick joke about murdered hostage Ken Bigley)

The best one I have heard on a similar vein

Was Roy CHubby Brown – in Bedlington – ( N East near Newcastle) – it’s a rough place too !!
Anyway in a local club – doing his act – it’s a church connected club – there’s a statue of Christ on the Cross over the door at side of club

Roy – ” I see they got the bstard that nicked the Fruit machine then !! “”

See now that is probably the funniest thing I have ever heard from Chubby, but I know quite a few religious loons who would have kicked up a huge fuss over that joke

But as theyre catholics nobody would have been overly bothered by their complaints, but imagine if someone dared to make a joke at muslims expense :shock: :o :o :o

Maybe the answer is to start having warnings for comedians like they had to do on TV

Things like

“WARNING, This act might contain humour and comedy and therefore might not be suitable for miserable oversensitive whinging b’stards”

Or

“Warning, some humour in this show MIGHT refer to your home town, accent, religion,, nationality, physical shape or size, hair or lack there of, football team or other connected things or media stories. If you cant accept humour that doesnt appeal to your specific sense of humour but others might find funny, cant laugh at yourself or have a bargepole rammed so far up your rusty bullethole your hats hover a foot above your head we reccommend you go home and watch songs of praise on TV instead

Well it MIGHT work :lol:

@slayer wrote:

Rhys Jones is from Croxteth in Liverpool (ffs Uber,I knowe you watch the news) and Maddie’s Mcann’s mother is a Liverpudlian

You obviously “knowe” nothing then dont ya (including how to spell “know” lol) as I dont watch the news at all, so ner :P

@slayer wrote:

Taking it one stage further then- is the inference that ANY comedy is funny (to some) and it is the beholder who is at fault for not finding it funny rather than the comedian? Therefore should a comedian be able to tell ANY joke

IE “How do you stop a child drowning”? Ans= Take your foot off its head

Not even remotely funny…now exchange the word “child” for the word “p*ki” or “n*gger” or “homo” etc etc and suddenly a lot more people find it funny

The theory that someone finds something funny therefore justifies the telling of the joke doesnt justify the actual joke itself-

Yup wasnt very funny, but niether is “knock knock”, “whos there?” “me” either, some things just arent funny because they arent funny IE the child joke, now even if it had been changed to

“How do you figure out if your kid wont be playing truent again,,,,,,,”

Or

“How do you find out if a child is being physically abused”

with an answer of “Take your foot off its head and ask” and youre heading in the right sort of direction as theyre starting to become chuckleworthy

So were the child joke more like those two I would have found it funny and I am sure many other people would have

So yeah, it DOES justify telling the joke, as people finding it funny IS the point, EVERYONE finding it funny however isnt

@slayer wrote:

And what about “physical” comedy. Happy slapping is amusing to some- indeed some would call it comedy (if the definition of humour is something that makes you laugh)-the action of the individual and the reaction of the recipient makes it a chuckle for some but I wouldn’t say it could be considered appropriate to the majority or indeed “right”

Give it time, the kids today who find that funny are the adults of tomorrow, so whos to say that in 20 years beadles about isnt parodied with a show where people beat up tramps “for a laugh”

Other than that tho, slapstick humour HAS been widely televised AND laughed at for decades, as have “pranks” like bowls of water balanced on doors, dog crap in a burning back, peoples trousers being yanked down, faces being permanent markered while they sleep and countless other things that “could” be classed as assault were they to happen to the “wrong” person

@~Pebbles~ wrote:

personally, i dont find jokes about dead people amusing at all, whether I know the person or not. I was brought up to have respect for the deceased, its common decency.

Oh I don’t know Pebbles. Jokes about the deceased are dead funny. :lol: :lol: :lol:

@~Pebbles~ wrote:

each to their own then eh

That IS sort of the point here

The phrase “each to their own” applies to people OTHER than just the one saying it too you know

And you think not laughing at jokes about dead people is a “common decency” then eh?

Funny that really as there have always been oodles of quite tasteful jokes about romans, hitler, Jesus and the apostles, King Harold, Napoleon, General Custer, Nikki Lauder, Einstein, Davy Crocket, Henry the 8th and loads of other “Dead people” in the forms of verbal gags, visual ones and even spoof films which in far more oversensitive times than today have been popular, laughed at and NOT found to be “distasteful” by the masses

Maybe you mean just the recently dead? But then again many people who WOULD whinge about a maddie joke would also be quite able to laugh at jokes about someone like her killer if they were executed, or Moira Hindley if she were to be hung or just keeled over I suspect making the thing not about “dead people” as a collective objection on principle, but more of a very selectively applied facade of pavlovian “decency” quite possibly as an outward over compensation for most peoples awarenes of lacks of decency they hold in other areas

“There is none more devoutly vocal than the person with self known sins” as the saying I just made up goes lol (good one tho if you think about it ;))