When will Comedy End?

Lycett has a habit of pulling ridiculous PR stunts. I wouldn't be surprised if this didn't happen or wasn't manufactured to happen.

Hotblack Desiato

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119236514#Comment_119236514

Jimmy Tarbuck doing comedy? Bit late in life for a career change... and jesus if anyone thinks that Sarah Millican video is filthy they must lead a very sheltered life indeed

Anyway, given that the show was in NI we are missing an important detail - was it a Catholic or a Protestant donkey?

donaghs

Going back to college campuses, since so many ideas in US colleges have now gone mainstream, could this be the future of comedy?

College Campuses Can Be Minefields For Comedians (HBO) - YouTube (8 min clip from Vice News about comedy and US campuses).

The college comedy bookers, who mentioned that they are listening to diverse voices, hence having strict uniform rules about what comedy is allowed. The interviewers response was well-put "diverse voices, that all say the same thing?"

The last quote from a student, "when I'm here I feel safe and accepted and welcomed", about campus. Which is nice, but not really good preparation for entering the real world. Not to mention how can you intellectual challenge students if they can veto anything on the basis of it being unsafe or triggering.

Oh Christ this is all we need - he “wants to make people laugh again”

considering he didn’t do it first time around, I’d doubt his future in comedy - more like tragedy

https://m.independent.ie/style/celebrity/celebrity-news/i-was-an-idiot-i-let-people-down-al-porter-breaks-five-year-silence-to-say-hes-long-time-sober-and-want-to-make-people-laugh-again-41837631.html

Hangdogroad

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119332684#Comment_119332684

OK thats it, comedy is dead.

Ash.J.Williams

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119332684#Comment_119332684

His job was taken away from him by jealous a club level comedian and the hospital “rape” was a kiss in the cheek , all allegations withdrawn and no charges, no matter who it is they deserve their job back

Suckit

Jerry Sadowitz 2nd show was cancelled at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival because a load of people who must have been oblivious to his style of comedy, found it offensive. If they weren't oblivious, why go? I hope it is used as a "Spartacus moment". But I can't see all the other comedians (yet) backing him, but this thing may have legs.

https://twitter.com/RealJSadowitz/status/1558457715994812418

Many comedians and others already weighing in.

Sadowitz was supported by fellow comedians including Simon Evans, who replied to him: “If you can identify the line that got you cancelled then I for one am willing to nick it. And I think every other comic should too. This is our Spartacus moment.”

Fred MacAulay called it “an utterly dreadful development”. Al Murray wrote: “Godammit Jerry I’m sorry.”

Richard Herring said Sadowitz was “a challenging comedian but that’s the whole point of his act.” He added: “The fringe should not be cancelling shows in any case. Very worrying development. Would love to hear the reasoning behind this decision. Or why seemingly no one has explained it to Jerry.”

Sadowitz has long been known for routines that most people would find grossly offensive. He has billed himself as “magician, comedian, psychopath.” The Guardian’s Brian Logan has described him as “the great, twisted granddaddy of abusive comedy.”

In Canada, after he opened his show with the greeting “Hello moose-fuckers,” someone got on stage and knocked him unconscious. Before the punch, he told the audience: “I’ll tell you why I hate Canada – half of you speak French and the other half let them!”

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2022/aug/14/jerry-sadowitz-edinburgh-fringe-show-cancelled-over-extreme-racism-homophobia-and-misogyny

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11110575/JK-Rowling-wades-Jerry-Sadowitz-row-comedians-Edinburgh-Fringe-cancelled.html

Tony EH

The guy's been offensive for 30 years. That's his act. How can someone go to one of his gigs and expect something like Michael McIntyre?

Jesus, do your fucking research.

Suckit

It seems to be the same quote in all of the papers too.

“He got his penis out to a woman in the front row. The problem was not the audience – I knew he was an acquired taste. It was his indefensible content.”

That just says to me that it was the audience. His "indefensible content" is the offensive stuff you were warned about before buying the ticket. As for "He got his penis out" -He has been doing that for years. He always gets his c*ck out. So they didn't know anything about him.

Sounds like that person "knew he was acquired taste" and presumably knew he 'could be' offensive. So it has to be asked, Who would they have preferred that he had offended? It's baffling.