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Agree completely :)

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Again, I think it's easy to say 'crude and nasty comments about someone elses daughter' but according to reports this was just someone laughing at disabled people rather than making a joke? He simply did an impression of someone with downs. Also it seems it kicked off when he challenged her, not the other way around.

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You've got to have a thick skin as a Carer... and a good laugh is great medicine, even if you have to laugh at yourself or your family.

It keeps me from going cuckoo..... well completely cuckoo.

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I must watch the 2 Mock the Week DVDs I have that have stuff that can never be aired. FB is on it.

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I`ve got them mate, you`ll love them. :D
If you like Frankie Boyle, you`ll love these.:)

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also worth finding are the blue collar comedy tour DVDs (4 of) and the Rodney Carrington and the majestic DVD. especially Rodney's song 'show them to me' heh

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Couldn't agree more Damien, as far as I'm concerned there is very little subject matter out of bounds in comedy.
But there is a world of difference between a joke at a Downs person's expense and the visceral mickey taking about early death and how a person looks, having said that its a free country and if people find this sort of material funny then he certainly knows his audience...personally I think its lazy "comedy", and I use the word comedy very sparingly.

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I believe it was because he challenged them as to why they were talking.

Which says to me that he asked and was answered. If he didn't like the reply, he shouldn't have asked the question.

They do not seem to be the types to garner unwarranted attention unnecessarily. She wrote about it on her blog, I expect to earn some catharthis and was presumably noticed by someone from the media.

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I think you must have been reading a different thread. They don't all agree.

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I concur, but there is a difference between a funny joke and and someone using disabilities to deliberatley offend. I am as willing as the next man to have a chuckle at a funny, clever joke about autism, but if it was suggested that autistic people are ugly, odd people with no prospects, I would most certainly take offence.

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At the time of making the post they did.

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Shame that he's quit Mock The Week.... He was deffo the highlight of the show....

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Exactly. You can make any topic funny, you can find humour in disability in which everyone can enjoy because no individual is the butt of the joke. Your not mocking someone just for being different and presuding people to laugh alone with you at their expense, bascially the same as bullies at school, your finding humorous aspects of their life. One which a lot of people in that position may also find funny. But mocking their voice and their walk? That's entirely different.

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And the response to that is............so what?

Is good that I can recycle a post that I made just yesterday in another thread.


I'm sick of people being offended. The idea that if you "offend" someone, that some kind of appeasement is neccessary really winds me up.

It's one of our freedoms. If someone is offended that's fine they can be offended.

It's a point of view, what you find offensive I may not, and vice versa.

Unless it is prescribed in law that the "offensive" act is illegal in any way, (which of course is different), Otherwise if anybody says to you "I find that offensive" say "good" and then tell them to F****ff

Same applies here.

She offended? Well that's unfortunate for her then isn't it?

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YAY! Recycling. :D


And my response that is .... eh?

He is not being sued, nor investigated, or being censored in any way. Someone made a critism of his comedy and some of us agree, we are entitled to give criticism about his style of comedy just as much as he is entitled to say what he did. You mention freedoms well this is just one of them.

Him as well because it reinforces his critics view on his comedy, he may not care, but I don't recall any long term "shock comedians". There is only so far he can get with the "he can't say that, can he?" type of jokes before people get bored.

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Jerry Sadowitz, Chubby Brown, Jimmy Carr, Billy Connolly (you may not think but he has been pretty shocking in his time, I remember him making jokes about the guy from Liverpool that was beheaded in Iraq).

If he's funny, he's funny, I'd go to see him.