Been watching the latest series, I like to see what stand up is coming through etc. One thing that I notice is that must the comedians with a particular trait only do jokes about that trait? the blind bloke does blind jokes, the lesbians only do gay jokes, the black bloke only does black jokes etc I'm looking for them to stand out and they just do the predictable old stuff.
i get what you mean TTT. I think there is probably some self-preservation in there. I make jokes about my wheelchair and my rubbish hands and my terrible at mathsness to other people so they don't have to make them at my expense
If Lenny Henry never told me he was black, I would never have known! As a comic he was a one trick pony (although I think he’s a bloody good actor - but as a comic, he was rubbish).
If a comedian has 'something about them', then making jokes against themselves is a well of material that others cannot draw from in that direct self-deprecating way.
In theory, it puts the audience on the comedian's side with very little effort, so why not make the most of it.