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Is anyone else apart from me made deeply uncomfortable by watching and listening to Rosie Jones?
My discomfort has less to do with the fact that, due to her cerebral palsy, her delivery is necessarily slow, and her speech sometimes hard to follow.
It's due purely and simply down to the fact that she is not funny.
Make a joke of a condition has always been a one-trick pony, and there is a seriously short limit to the amount of time you can mask your discomfort by laughing along with someone laughing at themselves and the cards nature has dealt them.
Once that's gone, no matter how you are delivering your lines, as a comedian, you are required to be funny, and she is not funny at all.
I believe that it is the sheer 'right-on'-ness of audiences telling themselves how much they are better than everyone else because they embrace someone's difficulties, and applaud their ability to laugh at them, strictly in the context at all.
But strip that away, and if you the same material was being delivered by someone without Ms Jones's personal challenges, and she would not get a gig on a street corner, never mind on television.
Any thoughts?
My discomfort has less to do with the fact that, due to her cerebral palsy, her delivery is necessarily slow, and her speech sometimes hard to follow.
It's due purely and simply down to the fact that she is not funny.
Make a joke of a condition has always been a one-trick pony, and there is a seriously short limit to the amount of time you can mask your discomfort by laughing along with someone laughing at themselves and the cards nature has dealt them.
Once that's gone, no matter how you are delivering your lines, as a comedian, you are required to be funny, and she is not funny at all.
I believe that it is the sheer 'right-on'-ness of audiences telling themselves how much they are better than everyone else because they embrace someone's difficulties, and applaud their ability to laugh at them, strictly in the context at all.
But strip that away, and if you the same material was being delivered by someone without Ms Jones's personal challenges, and she would not get a gig on a street corner, never mind on television.
Any thoughts?
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I have mentioned Rosie before. I want to listen to her, she has had some very interesting opinions on various chat shows and is not afraid to express them.
I don't have a problem with her slow speech or her disability but she is just too screechy and loud. Over excitable, nothing to do with her CP.
As for her comedy, I agree she is a bit of a one trick pony. Similar to Jo Brand banging on about her weight and periods.
I don't have a problem with her slow speech or her disability but she is just too screechy and loud. Over excitable, nothing to do with her CP.
As for her comedy, I agree she is a bit of a one trick pony. Similar to Jo Brand banging on about her weight and periods.
goodgoalie - // I cannot bear her, and it's nothing to do with her cerebral palsy. Embarrassingly unfunny; but it's almost heresy nowadays to say such a thing about anyone with a disability. //
Indeed.
I believe that a skewed belief that someone making fun of their own circumstances must automatically be hilarious is simply not valid, and Ms Jones is a perfect example of that.
It's like all the media gushing over Samantha Cameron, 'Sam Cam' as they ludicrously titled her, banging on about an averagely attractive woman as though she was the reincarnation of Helen Of Troy, simply because her husband was the Prime Minister.
These days, the emperor is getting a new suit of clothes every fifteen minutes.
Indeed.
I believe that a skewed belief that someone making fun of their own circumstances must automatically be hilarious is simply not valid, and Ms Jones is a perfect example of that.
It's like all the media gushing over Samantha Cameron, 'Sam Cam' as they ludicrously titled her, banging on about an averagely attractive woman as though she was the reincarnation of Helen Of Troy, simply because her husband was the Prime Minister.
These days, the emperor is getting a new suit of clothes every fifteen minutes.
I had an idea who you were talking about so I looked her up and I was right. Dreadful, absolutely dreadful - and so loud. I can only imagine her presence on television is all part of the quest for inclusivity. I can't think of another reason to give this decidedly unfunny, self-obsessed woman airtime.
I can't see the correlation between her and Sam Cam though - not at all.
I can't see the correlation between her and Sam Cam though - not at all.
naomi - // I can't see the correlation between her and Sam Cam though - not at all. //
The link is about perception.
People are seeing these two women as something they are actually not - in this case, fabulously funny, and drop-dead gorgeous, respectively, and the media treat these two perceptions as though they are the majority opinion of the ladies concerned.
I am suggesting that they are not, at all, and never actually were.
The link is about perception.
People are seeing these two women as something they are actually not - in this case, fabulously funny, and drop-dead gorgeous, respectively, and the media treat these two perceptions as though they are the majority opinion of the ladies concerned.
I am suggesting that they are not, at all, and never actually were.
I never noticed that Sam Cam was ever put on a pedestal or glorified for whatever her admirable traits were. She certainly didn't seek the limelight...maybe it was just the usual media blowing things out of proportion as it so often does.
I too had to check to see if Rosie Jones was who I thought she was. Comedy is subjective...I assume there are some who find her funny.
I too had to check to see if Rosie Jones was who I thought she was. Comedy is subjective...I assume there are some who find her funny.
