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Post by Bampton Beech Boy on Oct 7, 2010 22:14:36 GMT
Went to see him tonight, did anyone else go this week? Brilliant, although a few walked out in the circle accoring to my brother. Must have thought his stage act would mirror what he did on Mock The Week, WRONG!
Warm up act was Craig Russell, the Canadian in shorts who has been on Live at The Appollo, great value too.
Well worth the 13 month wait since receiving my ticket as a birthday present.
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Post by abingdonloyal on Oct 8, 2010 5:39:45 GMT
Agree great comedy, Frankie Boyle dont hold back, Craig Campbell was the canadian as you say he wern't bad either ;D
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Post by robie on Oct 8, 2010 12:01:51 GMT
Im still aching from laughing so much last night.
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Post by Agadoo on Oct 8, 2010 12:52:41 GMT
Went to see him tonight, did anyone else go this week? Brilliant, although a few walked out in the circle accoring to my brother. Must have thought his stage act would mirror what he did on Mock The Week, WRONG! Warm up act was Craig Russell, the Canadian in shorts who has been on Live at The Appollo, great value too. Well worth the 13 month wait since receiving my ticket as a birthday present. So technically it was this years birthday present? |
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Post by static on Oct 8, 2010 15:32:04 GMT
he annoyed me, saw him on wednesday night.
didn't think his jokes were that good, rellyed on shook tactics.
something else that made angry was how PC he was when approaching the subject of race. not that i wanted him to be racist but i did think what a funny old world we live in where he could happily joke about maddy Mccann, peodaphilia and cancer victims, but be careful around the subject of race!
perhaps i'm just too old and synical.
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Post by static on Oct 8, 2010 15:32:50 GMT
but yes the warm up act was great
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Post by Behind The Goal on Oct 8, 2010 16:08:33 GMT
Boyle... I have larfed at some of his jokes, but, he does go over the top too much for my liking
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Post by Agadoo on Oct 8, 2010 20:19:30 GMT
he annoyed me, saw him on wednesday night. didn't think his jokes were that good, rellyed on shook tactics. something else that made angry was how PC he was when approaching the subject of race. not that i wanted him to be racist but i did think what a funny old world we live in where he could happily joke about maddy Mccann, peodaphilia and cancer victims, but be careful around the subject of race! perhaps i'm just too old and synical. Remember Bernard Manning? he was a stand up comedy genius but was labelled as a racist and never worked on TV again. |
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Post by Simon Lill on Oct 9, 2010 12:21:47 GMT
he annoyed me, saw him on wednesday night. didn't think his jokes were that good, rellyed on shook tactics. something else that made angry was how PC he was when approaching the subject of race. not that i wanted him to be racist but i did think what a funny old world we live in where he could happily joke about maddy Mccann, peodaphilia and cancer victims, but be careful around the subject of race! perhaps i'm just too old and synical. Remember Bernard Manning? he was a stand up comedy genius but was labelled as a racist and never worked on TV again. He was vile though! Saw one clip of him where he targetted black people in the audience and basically racially abused them. 'genius' it certainly was not. |
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Post by hairy on Oct 9, 2010 12:35:41 GMT
Boyle is funny, but agree he would never be brave enough to do jokes involving race, it would be the end of his lucrative career. The backlash against racism has now gone so far that it has stifled free speech, even if whats being said is not racist.
Bernard Manning was a racist, but mostly a harmless loudmouth bigot trying for an easy laugh, actually got kicked off tv because he was past it and the audience for the type of shows he was on had dwindled. Interestingly when he did his national service as a young man he served as a prison guard for Nazi officers awaiting trial after the war, puts his racist jokes into perspective a bit!
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Post by yellowwhite on Oct 9, 2010 15:16:29 GMT
Mock the week was never the same after FB..
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Post by Simon Lill on Oct 9, 2010 15:23:31 GMT
Mock the week was never the same after FB.. Nope. That said I like the canadian, Stewart Francis is it? And that Milton fella! When they're on I always laugh! |
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Post by Agadoo on Oct 9, 2010 17:33:20 GMT
Remember Bernard Manning? he was a stand up comedy genius but was labelled as a racist and never worked on TV again. He was vile though! Saw one clip of him where he targetted black people in the audience and basically racially abused them. 'genius' it certainly was not. Probably about 30 years ago right? |
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Post by Simon Lill on Oct 9, 2010 17:39:24 GMT
He was vile though! Saw one clip of him where he targetted black people in the audience and basically racially abused them. 'genius' it certainly was not. Probably about 30 years ago right? If I'm honest Sex on Fire it was a good 7-8 years ago I saw it so couldn't accurately date it's age. It was pretty horrendous though and left a nasty taste in my mouth at least. I never liked him much before that (what I got to see of him anyway) but that was just it for me. It wasn't comedy, it was a racist verbal assault plain and simple. It was certainly no loss to comedy when he disappeared off the radar. |
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