Would you consider this racist/offensive towards Irish people?

Downlinz · 28-02-2011 02:18PM #1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7rsrKQtvYQ

Thoughts? I personally don't care for jokes like that against and sort of felt a bit insulted.

wexfordia · 28-02-2011 02:21PM

Downlinz wrote: »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7rsrKQtvYQ

Thoughts? I personally don't care for jokes like that against and sort of felt a bit insulted.

It doesn't really bother me to be honest

pragmatic1 · 28-02-2011 02:22PM

Meh.

hondasam · 28-02-2011 02:22PM

NO

bluto63 · 28-02-2011 02:23PM

How utterly offensive! Let's get up in arms over it! Who can we complain to!? :mad:

Jimmy the Wheel · 28-02-2011 02:25PM

Meh. Just a couple of jokes.

Some people go out of their way to be offended.

Rabble Rabble · 28-02-2011 02:25PM

Not in the least. Its ironic. Does it have to be explained. Dara is overturning the Irish stereotypes ( says Dee) and while he is over here he is going to tarmac my drive. IRONY!!!

Geez. I blame Alannis

Hurricane-Dean · 28-02-2011 02:26PM

Cop on

Chaotic_Forces · 28-02-2011 02:26PM

Jack Dee is a horrible man and cannot tell a joke for the life of him. So no, I pity him. Do I find it offensive, yes. Is he doing it just to get a few laughs from an English audience, yes. So frankly, he's an eejit.

Pauleta · 28-02-2011 02:27PM

I didnt find it funny but im not offended. I think people who would get offended are insecure.

Tenzing · 28-02-2011 02:27PM

It's hard to offend us. We love any attention.

Wolf Club · 28-02-2011 02:29PM

Bloody racist! I can't believe a satirical comedian like Jack Dee would say something like this, it's an outrage!

Downlinz · 28-02-2011 02:29PM

Rabble Rabble wrote: »

Not in the least. Its ironic. Does it have to be explained. Dara is overturning the Irish stereotypes ( says Dee) and while he is over here he is going to tarmac my drive. IRONY!!!

Geez. I blame Alannis

Don't you think its a bit offensive that they'd carry a stereotype like that in this day and age for it to need overturning?

Maybe I'm reading too much into it but I can't imagine the same kind of "ah sure its only a joke" if he was joking about a black guy doing some kind of slavery for him. :rolleyes:

Mindkiller · 28-02-2011 02:29PM

No, because its a joke on racism rather than a racist joke. And I lol'd anyway.

ElectraX · 28-02-2011 02:29PM

Nah, wouldn't be offended by that at all. It's the nature of comedy, I'm sure if a Scottish or Welsh comedian had just walked off the stage, he'd have some stereotypical jokes about them lined up too.

ScumLord · 28-02-2011 02:31PM

bluto63 wrote: »

How utterly offensive! Let's get up in arms over it! Who can we complain to!? :mad:

I don't know, I usually blamed all these things on Finna Fail, what are we to do now?

DonJose · 28-02-2011 02:32PM

Pikey lol

Downlinz · 28-02-2011 02:32PM

ElectraX wrote: »

Nah, wouldn't be offended by that at all. It's the nature of comedy, I'm sure if a Scottish or Welsh comedian had just walked off the stage, he'd have some stereotypical jokes about them lined up too.

In my book theres things thats ok to poke fun at like the Irish being alcoholics or the welsh shagging sheep or something like that. But alluding to colonialism and suggesting the Irish are inferior or thieves or stuff like this particularly in the atmosphere of making it against a lone Irish person towards an English audience just seems in bad taste.

Tenzing · 28-02-2011 02:34PM

Just watched it there, seems to be joking about travellers rather than the Irish.

Irish jokes are fair game now as the Irish are not discriminated against like in the past.

Jesus Wept · 28-02-2011 02:37PM

Not a single original joke though, which is more alarming.

Galway K9 · 28-02-2011 02:40PM

We make racist jokes all the time, has to go both ways, cant just give and not take a slaggin.

hatrickpatrick · 28-02-2011 02:42PM

Who. Gives. A sh!te.

Seriously, it's stuff like this, and stuff like say the Andy Gray incident, which actually makes the 'offended' group look bad. LEARN TO TAKE A JOKE, PEOPLE!

questionmark? · 28-02-2011 02:43PM

*Post reserved for suitable Joe Duffy reference/snid remark or bleeding hell Joe comment*

Chaotic_Forces · 28-02-2011 02:44PM

Galway K9 wrote: »

We make racist jokes all the time, has to go both ways, cant just give and not take a slaggin.

Except that racism is generally wrong. Picking up on a sterotype is one thing (like slagging the Irish when the audience is Irish) but come on, all he did was the same as going to a KKK meeting and getting a bunch of cheap laughs by making racist jokes towards blacks.

Sonics2k · 28-02-2011 02:44PM

People need to stop being so sensitive.

AnonoBoy · 28-02-2011 02:46PM

You see a joke works like this:

You say a thing and then you say another thing that goes against the first thing you said and the incongruity of it makes people laugh.

In this instance Jack Dee says that Dara goes against the stereotypical Oirish Paddy image and then says that he is going to do something that is a stereotypical Oirish Paddy thing.

Sonics2k · 28-02-2011 02:48PM

Chaotic_Forces wrote: »

Except that racism is generally wrong. Picking up on a sterotype is one thing (like slagging the Irish when the audience is Irish) but come on, all he did was the same as going to a KKK meeting and getting a bunch of cheap laughs by making racist jokes towards blacks.

Considering an Irishman had just walked off stage, Jack Dee has a huge Irish fanbase stretching back over 20 years, and it's very likely there was Irish people in the audience, then it's safe to say Jack Dee was not being directly racist.

We make jokes about Britain all the time, as a Corkman I make jokes about Kerry and Dublin frequently.

We make constant jokes about the Welsh, U.S., Canadians and so on. Is that racism, or just friendly banter.

rossie1977 · 28-02-2011 02:49PM

racist?? since when did the irish become a different race than the british

GLaDOS · 28-02-2011 02:49PM

I laughed. Stereotypes are funny.

Galway K9 · 28-02-2011 02:49PM

questionmark? wrote: »

*Post reserved for suitable Joe Duffy reference/snid remark or bleeding hell Joe comment*

You mean John Duffy hee hee

Chaotic_Forces · 28-02-2011 02:52PM

Sonics2k wrote: »

Considering an Irishman had just walked off stage, Jack Dee has a huge Irish fanbase stretching back over 20 years, and it's very likely there was Irish people in the audience, then it's safe to say Jack Dee was not being directly racist.

We make jokes about Britain all the time, as a Corkman I make jokes about Kerry and Dublin frequently.

We make constant jokes about the Welsh, U.S., Canadians and so on. Is that racism, or just friendly banter.

Friendly banter is fine but I'm quite sure if a black guy had done his routine and suddenly Jack Dee comes along and starts spouting out racist material your tone would change. If he wants to rip on Dara, fine, go ahead. If he wants to rip on the Irish in the terms of "Paddy Irishman being the punchline", go ahead. But blatnatly having a go at the Irish is a bit too much.

Would you consider this racist/offensive towards Irish people?

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