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Post by Chopsen on Sept 22, 2022 23:26:06 GMT
Saw Jack Dee live last year, and his show was quite reactionary. It's kind of on-brand, as he's been cosplaying "grumpy old man" all his life. He's actually kind of grown in to it.
But anyway, his shtick now (which his audience lapped up) is "isn't everything shit these days?" in the observational humour style. It's not right wing as such, but you can see how you'd make easy bed fellows.
tl; dr - the tendency of men to become more right wing as they get old and grump is exhibited in a man who sells himself as a grumpy old man.
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Post by Lizard on Sept 23, 2022 0:10:11 GMT
Roy Chubby Browns 'humour' amounts to swearing and describing bodily functions. There's no discernable jokes as such, he just says something like 'you're a fucking cunt' and that's it. Probably had some - and I'm being very, very generous here - transgressive appeal when you never heard those kind of words in the mainstream, but he's always been utterly shit.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Sept 23, 2022 6:34:46 GMT
It would be interesting to know whether Jack would take such a principled stand if the ‘Free Speech Alliance’ was known more accurately as the ‘Climate Change Denial and Covid Misinformation Bureau’.
I do kind of agree with the broader principle of ‘if money is going fully electric, everyone should have access to it’ but also, fuck Toby Young
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Post by cubby on Sept 23, 2022 6:57:21 GMT
Twitter is basically the two minute hate, but longer.
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Post by Reviewer on Sept 23, 2022 7:14:28 GMT
Based on a quick skim of his previous posts Dee might not believe climate science.
I’m not really expecting a comedian to necessarily have the correct understanding of some of these things, I just continue to wish the likes of Twitter didn’t exist.
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Post by Nanocrystal on Sept 23, 2022 8:13:30 GMT
Famous person moaned a bit. Possibly right wing? Questionable content in twitter history.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Sept 23, 2022 8:24:21 GMT
Hopefully Lee Hurst still has access to his PayPal account. I'm praying for him.
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Post by dogbot on Sept 23, 2022 9:34:03 GMT
I'm amazed, considering how he's a one-joke joke, that Jack Dee still has a comedy career. You learn something new everyday.
I'm utterly unsurprised that Toby Young is still an absolute waste of skin and air, however.
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Post by Tuffty on Sept 26, 2022 6:41:00 GMT
Mark Lawrenson proclaims he was sacked by the BBC for being a 65 yr old white male. Personally think its more to do with the fact that when he did do commentary it sounded like he would rather be anywhere else.
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Post by simple on Sept 26, 2022 12:17:02 GMT
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Post by kal on Sept 26, 2022 14:14:27 GMT
Darren Grimes has been sacked from GB News, and in the backlash GB News is being criticised for being too woke.
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Post by 😎 on Sept 26, 2022 14:34:33 GMT
Also fun is that he found out about it via Twitter, as they told the press before they told him.
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Post by Solid-SCB- on Sept 26, 2022 14:36:01 GMT
All 4 viewers must be absolutely beside themselves.
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Post by dogbot on Sept 26, 2022 15:02:26 GMT
All 4 viewers must be absolutely beside themselves. I thought he was on GB News?
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Post by Jambowayoh on Sept 26, 2022 15:06:58 GMT
Darren Grimes has been sacked from GB News, and in the backlash GB News is being criticised for being too woke. Ahh, the leopard face-eating party claims another victim I see.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Sept 26, 2022 15:47:50 GMT
Apparently, Jack Monroe has deleted her twitter account because someone said the roast potatoes her mum made in the picture she posted up didnt look very nice.
I was a slow convert to twitter but it is very funny sometimes.
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Post by hedben on Sept 26, 2022 17:42:13 GMT
To be fair she’s been getting monstered on Twitter for a while, that was probably the last straw - but she didn’t help herself sometimes either. Posting about how fuckable Prince Harry is to a predominately left, anti-wealth crowd of followers was never going to make many friends.
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Post by Dougs on Sept 26, 2022 17:46:33 GMT
Apparently, Jack Monroe has deleted her twitter account because someone said the roast potatoes her mum made in the picture she posted up didnt look very nice. I was a slow convert to twitter but it is very funny sometimes. Ha, no way, I saw that she was complaining about people going after her mum but that is funny.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Sept 26, 2022 19:24:28 GMT
Twitter celebs: they emo quit just like us!
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Post by Nanocrystal on Sept 26, 2022 19:41:31 GMT
Suggest we rename this thread to "The Woke Thread AKA The Latest Twitter Nontroversies".
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Post by Tuffty on Sept 27, 2022 7:19:55 GMT
Also fun is that he found out about it via Twitter, as they told the press before they told him. Such an amazing journalist to not even get the scoop on your own life.
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Post by muddyfunster on Sept 27, 2022 9:19:49 GMT
Admittedly, I've not seen much of Darren Grimes's output in the past couple of years so perhaps he's truly a terrible person that deserves all he gets.
Based on his age, how he came to prominence (the money was just resting in his account), and the fact he rarely appears to understand what he's saying, I've always assumed that he was basically just a 'useful idiot' in the Vote Leave camp. Seemed like he was thoroughly exploited by rich Brexiteers who wanted to stay in the background. His entire career seems to be a consequence of a studenty political stunt that got out of hand. I just wonder if he's basically been trapped into the role of being Darren Grimes and all the dog whistle gibberish that entails in order to get paid or if that is actually who he is.
Wouldn't be totally shocked if one day (once Brexit is finally off the agenda, the world's moved on and some of power behind it are dead or so old he doesn't have to fear them) he releases a revisionist tell-all autobiography that paints himself as a victim in a world he didn't properly understand. I would be shocked if it was well-written.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Sept 27, 2022 9:57:07 GMT
You could have stopped at 'useful idiot' tbh.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Sept 27, 2022 12:39:44 GMT
Today I learned that comic book writer Chuck Dixon who has written stuff like Punisher, Batman and Nightwing is a bit of QAnon guy and has written some QAnon comic books. Guess he realllllllly identified with the Punisher then.
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Post by Lukus on Sept 27, 2022 14:05:13 GMT
Mark Lawrenson proclaims he was sacked by the BBC for being a 65 yr old white male. Personally think its more to do with the fact that when he did do commentary it sounded like he would rather be anywhere else. Isn't that basically what got him the job in the first place? He's pretty much always been 65. And as reasons go for a sacking, that's pretty good anyway. Fuck off and enjoy your retirement you boring old fuck.
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Post by geefe on Sept 27, 2022 14:25:28 GMT
Alan Hansen knew when the gig was up
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Post by Jambowayoh on Sept 27, 2022 15:06:58 GMT
It's a shame that Lawrenson didn't have the introspection to see that he's a boring, whiny cunt.
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Post by Ulythium on Sept 27, 2022 22:25:20 GMT
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Post by Jambowayoh on Sept 27, 2022 22:49:48 GMT
And we thought the previous cabinet was scraping the barrel. This one has gone to the quantum level of the barrel.
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Post by Chopsen on Sept 28, 2022 0:13:14 GMT
It's a trap. Ignore it.
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