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Having run a successful stand up comedy club for many years, I know it's very possible to have people in side-splitting hysterics without resorting to lazy and degrading material (sexist, homophobic or racist). Bernard Manning, Jim Davidson and the like are hopeless dinosaurs waiting for their final extinction. Hope it comes soon. There's more and funnier comedy out there.
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Simon - I appreciate you probably don't deserve such a lambasting on the basis of your question but it's one of my pet frustrations as a club owner. I hope you'll forgive me for unleashing my vitriol against bad comedy within your question.
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By the way, there's nothing to say a joke has to be clean to be good! :-)
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Jo Brand's jokes were in character - "I'm fat and ugly and no one wants me, therefore I'll be misanthopist". Jo, I am reliably informed, is, in real life a lovely and intelligent (and happily married) woman, but her act was pretty one dimensional and has thus passed it's sell by date. No tears here.
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Davidson is tells racist jokes and beats up women - a matter of public record. The sooner his 'star' fades the better.
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comloulou - my answer to your comment about inflated intellectualism is extremely anti intellectual and only two words long. You can probably guess it. Since when was being intellectual a crime anyway? Better than dumbing down. Aim up not down, I say.
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Simon - I did already acknowledge that my answer had veered into a personal bugbear and that I'd moved away from the question. Imagine, however (hypothetical) if you'd put "here's an hillarious racist gag... etc etc " and then said, "What's the point? You try and lighten up some people lives with a little piece of, albeit, sexist humour and you get this sort of response." when people complained.
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My apologies for having an opinion on something which I deeply and passionately care about.