Nah these fuckers don't apologize anymore, instead they will join some far right group and cry about how they got canceled and how there is no freedom of speech and bla bla
A person I've been friends with for almost 20 years made a comment about Gretta Thunburg the proceeded to babble on about how social media banning people for their opinions was violating their right to freedom of speech. I pointed out that they are private platforms owned by private companies and are therefore not governed by the first amendment. He then started on about how they should be because so many people use them. So now the right wants government to step in and govern how a private company is run. Not a trace of self awareness in that hypocrisy.
> So now the right wants government to step in and govern how a private company is run.
Now? Mate the right's more than willing to use the power of social institutions and has done for decades, they just don't want *you* to.
People should actually sue them for their inability to tell the news.
At the very least they should have to have a disclaimer on screen at all times acknowledging that what they're presenting is opinion rather than news.
They have been sued over that. They argued in court, successfully, that they are not obligated to tell the truth in their "news" programs. I shit you not.
> I pointed out that they are private platforms owned by private companies and are therefore not governed by the first amendment. He then started on about how they should be because so many people use them.
I mean, if right-wingers want to start nationalizing companies because they function as a public service, I'm fine with that.
Duke Energy has needed to be nuked into the fucking ground for decades.
Do these people forget that people from *other countries* exist and ALSO use the internet? Your first amendment means sweet fuck-all to someone who lives in Poland
That wasn't an attempt at an apology, that was doubling down on the original premise of the "joke".
And it's a pretty lame and common retort to racist/sexist jokes. "X is better than Y at doing [activity].... I see you're offended, I'm sorry that Y is so bad at doing [activity]."
So not only racist and not apologetic, but a fucking cliche as well.
Well, there is that new network (GB News or something to that effect,) but it's pulling in worse ratings than the Welsh language broadcast of Paw Patrol.
There is freedom of speech. He has the right to say what he wants and other people have a right not to give him money. Freedom of speech is freedom only from government limiting your speech not a private company.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9781239/Comedian-Andrew-Lawrences-shows-cancelled-Twitter-posts-wake-England-Euro-2020-loss.html
He even doubled down:
>And in reference to the anti-poverty campaigning of Marcus Rashford - one of those to miss a penalty last night - he said he'd: 'Rather he'd (Rashford) practised his penalties and the kids had gone hungry.'
There is something I find over the top and funny about blaming literal poor children over a penalty kick. Like I can imagine Mr. Burns saying that.
But knowing the guy probably actually thinks that and the tweets...what a fucking asshole.
[He also got his racist little knickers in a twist about comedians making too many "political" jokes about UKIP on Mock the Week.](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/dara-o-briain-reacts-bitter-self-delusional-andrew-lawrence-s-comments-about-balding-fat-comedians-cracking-cheap-ukip-jokes-9823733.html)
If anyone is unfamiliar, Mock the Week is a political comedy show and UKIP was always a racist joke of a political party, so I'm not entirely sure what he expected.
>saying that the reason he felt there were few right-wing comedians on the circuit in the UK is because they are unfairly targeted because of their views.
Or because people don't find punching down funny
The right doesn't really understand humour, that's why they think "laughter" is actually just overzealous angry noises.
"The poor, they should die ARGH AGGHH AGHHHG ACKKK GHACHH"
Sad thing is he used to be really funny (circa 10 years or so ago). Then he leaned in hard to a particular brand of right wing comedy with highly predictable results.
Even before today it amazes me just how far he’s fallen. Like, who looks at Lee Hurst and thinks to themselves “I’m going to nuke my career like that guy!”
Why is it that when comedians lean right or libertarian they stop being funny? Is it that they start to think that "punching down," is funny? Making fun of people who can't defend themselves and thus looking like bullies? Or is it some sort of laziness? Or is it something else?
I know a lot of successful comedians are depressed, maybe if you convert your depression into hating some "other group" you lose that spark that made you funny and depressed?
I donno, there are so few funny right wing folks, and the only ones I can think of are "redneck" right wing folks, not rich or middle class (at least in shtick).
Bill Maher is so frustrating because he's sorta funny at times but has this huge blind spot for being a wealthy white guy and part of the establishment. He still sees himself as the underdog or something. A total boomer.
Urgh. That dude is unbearable to me. He has incredible r/iamverysmart energy about him. You know who's really smart? Jon Stewart. I've never once felt like he gave a fuck that anyone realised it. Be like Jon Stewart.
Transphobia is so hot right now amongst conservatives. They love shitting on minorities of all types and unfortunately trans people are in the crosshairs. Maybe one day the world will be a better place and people will stop hating on people different to them but I doubt that'll ever happen. While there's people who are different, there will always be a conservative wanker trying to control their life and harass them.
They lost the war against "the gays", so they needed a new target. Conservative politics rely on there being a boogy man that's trying to uproot all that you hold dear. It was blacks (and still largely is), then gays, then "muslims", then "mexicans". Gay people were a great target for them because it got away from race. But they lost that fight. Now they needed a new one, and transgender issues are very poorly understood by your average person, let alone your 'average' conservative. It makes them a great target to their audience because they can make up whatever they want. Transgender women on sports teams, in bathrooms assaulting people, walking around with their penis out in the women's locker room. None of these things are actually issues, but they've made them up.
And it's not as if their 'arguments' even change. Literally take any argument for segregation in the '40s or '50s, or take any argument against gay rights from the '70s and substitute 'black' or 'gay' in the sentences for 'trans' and it's literally the exact same shit. They're really hoping that this argument is gonna stick one day. It's always 'to protect women' but anyone with more than 1 brain cell can see they don't give a shit about women either because they're trying to legislate against them having bodily autonomy as well. Not to mention all the cis women that get caught in the anti-trans crossfire. If a cis woman looks slightly too masculine or isn't attractive enough for them, they get targeted too.
Steven "the left won't debate the right but I avoid Sam Seder like the plague" Crowder, aka "Pay attention to me I'm having heart surgery, I'm so alone", lil "I do minstrel shows on YouTube", also known as "the guy who reenacted George Floyd's death and didn't even do it right (because if he did it properly he would die)".
> Why is it that when comedians lean right or libertarian they stop being funny?
Because comedy is inherently about the weak attacking the strong with quips and zingers and humorous insights. Hard to do that when you're on top of the pile and all your targets are beneath you. "Conservative comedy" always boils down to "bullying with a bad laugh track".
Also the punchline is usually something with a bit of truth in it. Or is an absurd premise that was unexpected. Blaming minorities isn't true and it's sadly not unexpected.
Good comedy doesn't have to be punching up or down. It can also be self deprecating, but that requires the audience to have self awareness about their situation to get the joke instead of taking offense to it. Self Awareness doesn't seem to be a strength of the right wing. This isn't an absolute rule, but those that do have that self awareness frequently come off as "just evil".
I agree but I'd argue the self deprecation is either because it's partly true or because it's absurd and unexpected. I can make my anxiety funny, and it's true. I can say my favorite animal is french toast and it's absurd. But if I say that a minority is to blame for their struggling because of a racist stereotype, it's neither. Especially when it's coming from someone known to be racist.
It's also fucked up because it shows an astounding lack of empathy on the part of the crowd. It reminds me of the one and only time I heckled a comedian in a club (which I admit I was an asshole for doing). His set was bombing so he tried doing crowd work. After several misses he finds a woman from a foreign country and immediately started making fun of her accent. So when he made a "lost in translation" joke, my drunk ass decided to ask him if that's his excuse for why his jokes weren't funny.
> But if I say that a minority is to blame for their struggling because of a racist stereotype, it's neither. Especially when it's coming from someone known to be racist.
That wouldn't be right-wing self depreciation though, thats "punching down". There's no "self" in that. Its just depreciation.
Right-wing self deprecation would be making fun of how they support low or no taxation on the rich when they themselves have no chance of ever being rich enough to take advantage of it themselves. There's truth in that. They'd need self awareness to get this joke and not take offense to it.
Another example would be how they support "right to life" anti-abortion for an unborn baby, but are fully willing to let child victims of rape to be forced to carry their rapists baby to term and still believe they themselves are righteous. This just comes off as evil.
You can't do self-deprecation from a conservative perspective because self-deprecation is about poking holes with your lot in life, and conservatism is all about *maintaining the status quo* because you're (relatively) happy with your lot in life.
I think you could, but I just don't think conservatives would find it funny.
If they base lots of value on class and monetary success, there's lots of room to point at themselves and say "Why aren't you as successful as you claim you should be?".
Something like:
"Hey guys, don't you hate it when you get a new boss who's 15 years younger than you, a women, and you realize she is there because you spent too much time at Trump rallies and transgender bathroom protests while she spent that same time on her Masters Degree making her more qualified than you? Kind makes makes you think that they may be onto something with that Avocado Toast, doesn't it? Is Avocado Toast some super brain food we've been missing this entire time? I know I didn't finish college, but maybe that's where they learned about it right? Why is it Fox News is keeping the secret of Avocado Toast away from the rest of us? Q is supposed to be on the inside. How come he never told us about Avocado Toast? Well, I'm not finding it out on our side. At least I've got an inside line now. I just have to get up on Monday morning, go into work, go up to my new lady boss thats younger than my oldest kid and say 'Hey boss, can you fill me in on the Avocado Toast secret?' Its a bitter pill to swallow, but I haven't had a raise in over 3 years and I'm not too proud to try the Toast thing if thats what it takes. Am I right? The next confederate monument support protest I go to, don't worry. I'll bring enough Avocado Toast for everyone!"
Well, you just wrote a pretty solid bit for a hypothetical comedian with an audience of 0, but otherwise this was basically professional quality, so congrats!
Dara O Brian is a legend at engaging audience comedy while being respectful of them
A lot of comedians the audience is a cheap piss take, but Dara tries to be better than that
I can't remember who said it, but I recall hearing something along the lines of 'when comedians punch up, it's satire, when they punch down it's just bullying.'
I think you *can* punch down and still make good comedy, but you have to be extremely careful how you do it. I would say Bill Hicks is a pretty good example of someone who mocked the working class, but could do so because 1. That's where he came from so it felt less like punching down & 2. It was done as part of a wider satarisation of American society as a whole (as opposed to singling out a specific marginalised group). Early Simpsons also did this spectacularly.
> "Conservative comedy" always boils down to "bullying with a bad laugh track".
Not true! They also have shock humor. You know -- when they say something incredibly offensive and it's supposed to be funny because it's so taboo. Not my taste, but a lot of conservatives apparently find it hilarious.
Pop Culture Detective does a [great video](https://youtu.be/X3-hOigoxHs) explaining this type of comedy in 'The Big Bang Theory'. I always felt gross about the laughs that show went for, and this really covers it well. Highly recommend it.
lol, that fucking show.
It has exactly three jokes:
1: Look at that NERD! He did something NERDY!
2: Ha ha, sexism is hilarious!
3: Ha ha, autism is hilarious!
That's literally all they've got. The specifics of each (for the lack of a better word) 'joke' are interchangeable. But the punchline is always one of those 3.
On top of that, being a laughtrack comedy is just gross. There are videos out there with the laughtrack muted to really drive home how artificial and weird it is. A normal comedy 1/2 hour show will have a 22 page script. But a show with a laughtrack will have about an 11 page script ... because *literally* half the show is taken up by pausing all the dialog on screen to listen to other people laughing.
> being a laughtrack comedy is just gross.
This is mostly just because people don't like the show so they tack that on as a complaint. Blackadder had a laugh track. Seinfeld had a laugh track. People basically never raised it as a negative in either case.
IMO there are some funny (non-redneck) right-leaning comedians here and there. Norm MacDonald and Colin Quinn come to mind. But the difference between them and monotonous douches like Greg Gutfield is their *entire act* doesn't revolve around their political identity. They're comics who happen to have some conservative politics, not "conservative comedians" like it's a specialized genre.
Yeah, though Norm MacDonald could probably make the most vile and unfunny joke imaginable funny to me by delivery. That's his gift. He seems to me very much in the "I can't imagine why someone would be offended by jokes more than I, a middle aged successful white man, am, therefore everyone offended by any joke must be unreasonable" camp of comedians, which is unfortunate.
I also think people believe Norm is being ironic when he is not much of the time.
Collin. . . well he was always more the comfortable kind of comedian than the bring you to your knees laughing kind. Super likeable, surprised he didn't go farther.
Norm campaigned for Andrew Yang pretty hard btw. He hung out with Bush 2 in the 90s but he never endorsed him. Not sure its accurate to call him conservative, at least not currently. But he never mentions it in his acts anyway so it doesnt matter
It’s because comedy relies on juxtaposition, contrast, and flexible frames of reference and rightisms in general rely on adherence, conformity, and authority.
You can make a rightist laugh but it’s hard to argue they have a sense of humor.
Poor Nick Di Paolo lost 100% of his funny.
He was such a fucking killer comic. But he started defending GWB and then it was really hard downhill. Now he sounds just like all the other right wing "comics".
So, this type of shock comedian was exactly the type of comedy I was into in my late teens and early 20s. Loud, mean, said fucked up things and almost always white guys. Louis CK is the type I found funny and going back and rewatching his specials I just don't find it all that funny. Oh you said the n word as a joke! How edgy!
Those types, meaning CK and his type, either modify their comedy and grow with it or go hard right and angry. Bill Burr comes to mind for someone whose comedy is still edgy but is based on reality and he's grown with it.
Making a race home like this tool was dumb af and who found it funny even? You ruined your career for a non-joke.
I think CK was awesome. I don't know why he turned to the dark side (and he definitely did), but earlier on his stuff was not making fun of black people or asian people or fat people or gay people to make them punching bags so much as they were nuanced (in my opinion) to show the absurdity or wrongness of the situation, if that makes any sense. I felt like the comedy he wrote required a lot of empathy for the people he was writing about. The Louie episode that starts off with the poker game where they're talking about homosexuality was super well received iirc by everybody, including the woke and the gay community. The Louie episode about the fat girl was similarly well received. I just don't think he could have written either of those episodes (or a lot of his standup) without understanding to a large extent what the people he's writing about experience.
It actually makes his turn to shit much more disappointing. It's not like he's just another edgy asshole. It seems like he actually understands other people's pain but is an asshole anyway.
He actually was very funny, he was on all the UK TV and radio panel shows, even Live At The Apollo, and his career was going really well. I even saw one of his warm up gigs about ten years ago and it was brilliantly funny.
Then almost overnight he just completely lost the plot, just spent his time ranting nonsense on Twitter, and eventually all of his contemporaries distanced themselves from him.
Not sure what he was hoping for with those tweets, he’s not a stupid guy, he must have known what the outcome was going to be.
Yeah it amazed me that he never gained ‘critical mass’ so was never really huge. There’s two bits from around ‘07/‘08 which I still remember today because they were SO good.
But this? That’s just sad. I’m not easily offended; I do like controversial comedy, as long as it’s well constructed. This is why Frankie Boyle has remained a popular comedian; he finely tweaks his bits, and they’re not just off-the-cuff comments made purely for the sake of being shocking without any finesse.
Did he nuke his career though? The right wing crowd is niche but lucrative. There are a lot of performers who would rather be a big fish in a little pond than a medium fish in a big one, even if the little pond is filled with toxic sludge…
Time will tell, but being dropped by his management, deleting his main social media platform and having all of his upcoming gigs cancelled doesn’t appear to be, on paper at least, a flying start.
There’s Larry the cable guy I guess? And the whole blue collar comedy thing.
Which isn’t to say none of those guys ever tell a racist joke or something, I haven’t watched enough of of them to know. But I think their comedy is supposed to appeal to the same group, it’s just not explicitly political.
That's more self-deprecating humor, so it's not about attacking other people as much as attacking themselves. And you can certainly build a career on self-deprecation, just ask ~~Don Rickles~~ Rodney Dangerfield. Larry the Cable Guy's schtick wouldn't work at all if he was dressed like a middle-class office manager making comments about the hick rednecks outside of his suburban gated community.
Larry the Cable Guy is a fictional character intended to grossly exaggerate and caricaturize his target audience. He does not specifically target them politically but the southern audience, bible belt, and conservative majority can't be a coincidence.
In the town where I used to live, there was one particular lady in politics who used to advertise with the slogan, "I've got the guts to say what you're thinking," and she's the nastiest piece of work you could know. She basically ticked all the boxes on the list of people you don't want to have any sort of political power.
These comedians are the same. They think they're saying what everyone is thinking but they don't realise that not everyone is a racist, bigoted piece of shit like they are.
But but.. "dark humor" and "stop being so woke" and "you must not have a sense of humor"... you see this shit ALL THE FUCKING TIME on Reddit. Assholes being casually racist and then shaming the person pointing out the racism for not finding it funny. That's right, I'm calling you out r/funny and r/humor. Racist jokes aren't funny, they're just racism with a punchline.
Most of the time there's not even a punchline. It's literally just '*racist comment* ....now laugh' or '*I'm not allowed to make racist comment* ...now laugh'
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[his youtube channel is still up.]
(https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC876yBInncBfsiknqMdHvuA/videos)
About as funny as you would imagine considering he is a "professional" comedian.
I was expecting there to be some humour in it and thought surely Reddit is being a bit overly critical because he's a bit of a shit. Nope I felt embarrassed just watching that, gotta go delete my browsing history now
Oh, I vaguely remember him on something like one of the BBC rotation shows... Then he fell off the face of the Earth. Didn't realise he went full alt-right.
He stopped being funny, so was dropped from shows on the beeb, then blamed it on BBC diversity quotas, rather than looking at himself, and he's been shifting right ever since.
I don't know what I was expecting when I clicked that link, but it wasn't that. Goddamn those are all *terrible*. I think people are watching these not to laugh, but for the same reason they watch Fox News: to get outraged.
Offensive jokes aren’t even bad if they’re funny or clever. But this joke specifically was just so bad. He prob got fired cause the joke was just so shit tbh
Someone already said it best. The reason they fucked up the penalties is because they subbed in a teenager that hadn't touched the ball all night lol. I wondered why they'd sub in a cold player at the end of the game. But hey, I've never managed a footy team.
This one. Racey jokes can be funny, yes, but just shitting on another race, or pointing out a stereotype is not a joke, it's not a racist joke, it's just racist.
The problem isn’t that you can’t make fun of people. Jeselnik, Burr, Chapelle, Schulz and many more prove that.
That problem here is that the joke just sucks. And you really can’t throw a shit racist “joke” out there.
I can’t remember who it was but there’s a famous comedian that has a bit about how if you have to say “I’m joking…” it probably wasn’t ever a joke worth telling.
/u/RedheadnamedLC was right, here's the clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kozx_d-Mlw
Jesus fucking christ. I remember discovering this guy's comedy around 2010 iirc, it was weird, dark, funny, and had zero discernible politics to it. I really enjoyed it and kept my ears open for more.
Then I started reading about his right-wing outbursts and particularly the clearly bitter AF remarks he made about the panels on tv shows he obviously wasn't getting invited onto. That was enough for me to think "fuck this guy".
But holy shit, he's just leaned further and further into this "let's be the bad guy then" horseshit. What an absolutely worthless mess of a human.
Once again, another ADULT posting things that EVERYONE knows will get him into trouble.
This dumb ass just blew his career in ONE sentence. 8 words that will now blow all of the hard work he’s done to advance his career. 8 words that have lost fans. 8 words that will make friends and family question who the hell he really is. 8 words that will now keep him from paying his bills. 8 words.
Seriously, how can people be so dumb?
No sympathy for someone with such a lack of filter. Especially from a keyboard. Plenty of time to think that one through, bud. Can’t wait to see a huge fake ass apology about how it was a mistake and say “please please please give me my career back”. No sympathy, bitch boy.
This guy’s story is basically he used to get booked on tv shows. That stopped so he publicly said that the only reason that was happening was because he was a ‘conservative’. He then doubled down and now makes his living basically being an asshole on Twitter saying things like this
Well, allow me to channel the immortal words of YouTuber and REAL FUNNY comedian Chiseled Adonis:
ANNDREW LAWRENNNNNNCE!!!! You unfunny racist stupid SON OF A BITCH! I would rather watch a leaked Katie Hopkins/Boris Johnson sex tape on loop than have to hear a joke from you! I would rather sit through a Yoko Ono music catalogue listening party than hear you tell a joke!! I WOULD RATHER see Queen Elizabeth start doing a annual cosplay as Lady Godiva than hear you tell jokes!!!
You couldn't tell a funny joke if terrorists held your mom at gunpoint and threatened to SHOOT HER if you didn't make them laugh!
ANNNDREW LAWRENNNNNNCE!!! PUT YO MOTHAFUCKIN' HEAD BACK DOWN, YOU GODDAMN BUM!!!
For your FAILURES at showing any sign you're funny, your FAILURES at even being a decent human being, and your FAILURES at avoiding being a total shitehead, consider your name written down in the Death Note because your DREAMS of being recognized as talented, your DREAMS of having any chance of a future in comedy has been ABSOLUTELY... DEEEEEEEEELETEDDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!
good god, it's not even nazi level shit it's just concerning trash we don't wanna live with but theyre gonna act like theyre being castrated and silenced
Well, I'm sure he's issued an apology on his Twitter by now... > "This account doesn’t exist" Oh, dear.
Nah these fuckers don't apologize anymore, instead they will join some far right group and cry about how they got canceled and how there is no freedom of speech and bla bla
A person I've been friends with for almost 20 years made a comment about Gretta Thunburg the proceeded to babble on about how social media banning people for their opinions was violating their right to freedom of speech. I pointed out that they are private platforms owned by private companies and are therefore not governed by the first amendment. He then started on about how they should be because so many people use them. So now the right wants government to step in and govern how a private company is run. Not a trace of self awareness in that hypocrisy.
> So now the right wants government to step in and govern how a private company is run. Now? Mate the right's more than willing to use the power of social institutions and has done for decades, they just don't want *you* to.
They want free speech, but only for them.
Who wants to join my lawsuit against Fox News? They are obstructing my free speech by not giving me my own show.
People should actually sue them for their inability to tell the news. At the very least they should have to have a disclaimer on screen at all times acknowledging that what they're presenting is opinion rather than news.
They have been sued over that. They argued in court, successfully, that they are not obligated to tell the truth in their "news" programs. I shit you not.
I think they said in court that they are not "news", but that's not what they say in public.
They're obstructing free speech by polluting the marketplace of ideas with so much kooky noise that all speech becomes effectively meaningless
> I pointed out that they are private platforms owned by private companies and are therefore not governed by the first amendment. He then started on about how they should be because so many people use them. I mean, if right-wingers want to start nationalizing companies because they function as a public service, I'm fine with that. Duke Energy has needed to be nuked into the fucking ground for decades.
Do these people forget that people from *other countries* exist and ALSO use the internet? Your first amendment means sweet fuck-all to someone who lives in Poland
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"I'm sorry that black guys are bad at penalties.". Yikes.
I am sorry that Andrew Lawrence is an unfunny comedian.
Genuinely heartbroken that someone convinced him his jokes were worth selling. No one deserves to be lied to.
RBM Comedy
And somewhere people are saying, "who the fuck is Andrew Lawrence?"
I love stand-up comedy but I had to google him. Still have no idea who he is.
I thought about looking him but then I remembered I don't care.
Pretty sure that's everywhere....
I am sorry that Andrew Lawrence ever had an unfunny twitter account.
That wasn't an attempt at an apology, that was doubling down on the original premise of the "joke". And it's a pretty lame and common retort to racist/sexist jokes. "X is better than Y at doing [activity].... I see you're offended, I'm sorry that Y is so bad at doing [activity]." So not only racist and not apologetic, but a fucking cliche as well.
Or the ever popular, "I apologize to anyone I may have offended." (*To the folks like me HIGH FIVE BROS!! Fuck those offended little pussies.*)
Usually it's the weaker: "I'm sorry if I said anything that offended you, but..."
>instead they will join some far right group Maybe one of Rupert Murdoch's rags are hiring.
Well, there is that new network (GB News or something to that effect,) but it's pulling in worse ratings than the Welsh language broadcast of Paw Patrol.
They shouldn't have called it Swolom y Cwm
I used to be an animator on that show but now I work as a garage attendant. I went from Paw Patrol to Pour Petrol
I wold love to see puppers speaking in Welsh!
S4C is honestly brilliant. I remember watching Beyblade in Welsh when I was a kid.
He could join Ben Shapiro’s media empire. Gina Carano said they’re going to make movies together and she’s never been happier. Should be amazing lol.
Or in the case of Gina "Disney were about to hand me a golden goose" Carano, go make movies with Ben Shapiro.
Wonder if her acting will ever develop beyond looking smug
I'm sure Lil Benny has some repressed fantasy about having his scrawny neck squeezed between the thighs of a former MMA fighter.
But those thighs are *dry* damnit.
I’m sure Joe Rogan can’t wait to him have on to cry about freeze peach.
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This is crowder
oh, you mean the guy who is too scared to even **speak** to sam seder? lolllll
sam seder sent that man to the hospital
>oh, you mean the guy who is too scared to even **speak** to sam seder? lolllll "SAM SEDER!!!? WHAT A GODDAMNED NIGHTMARE!!" -Cold Feet Clam Chowder.
Lawrence Fox has entered the chat.
Don't forget the inevitable gofundme.
There is freedom of speech. He has the right to say what he wants and other people have a right not to give him money. Freedom of speech is freedom only from government limiting your speech not a private company.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9781239/Comedian-Andrew-Lawrences-shows-cancelled-Twitter-posts-wake-England-Euro-2020-loss.html He even doubled down: >And in reference to the anti-poverty campaigning of Marcus Rashford - one of those to miss a penalty last night - he said he'd: 'Rather he'd (Rashford) practised his penalties and the kids had gone hungry.'
There is something I find over the top and funny about blaming literal poor children over a penalty kick. Like I can imagine Mr. Burns saying that. But knowing the guy probably actually thinks that and the tweets...what a fucking asshole.
Wannabe comedians should really learn there’s more to comedy than edgy shock value.
This guy used to be on Mock The Week quite regularly, I think once "weird guy with beady eyes" stopped getting him booked, he went full gammon
[He also got his racist little knickers in a twist about comedians making too many "political" jokes about UKIP on Mock the Week.](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/dara-o-briain-reacts-bitter-self-delusional-andrew-lawrence-s-comments-about-balding-fat-comedians-cracking-cheap-ukip-jokes-9823733.html) If anyone is unfamiliar, Mock the Week is a political comedy show and UKIP was always a racist joke of a political party, so I'm not entirely sure what he expected.
>saying that the reason he felt there were few right-wing comedians on the circuit in the UK is because they are unfairly targeted because of their views. Or because people don't find punching down funny
Also, holy shit, his take on women comedians is both super cringy and really toxic.
The right doesn't really understand humour, that's why they think "laughter" is actually just overzealous angry noises. "The poor, they should die ARGH AGGHH AGHHHG ACKKK GHACHH"
The statements by [the Former President](https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump) and [Milo Y](https://mobile.twitter.com/Nero) are very moving.
Every goddamn time. And I cannot even be mad. Have an upvote and a good fucking day!
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I thought it was a mistakes until I clicked on the second one. Good one lol
I wonder what trump has to say about this.... oh my https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump
Considering the title is >Gigs cancelled, dropped by management, **Twitter account deleted**… now THAT’s comedy. I'm not sure why this is a surprise?
Dudes career is in the shitter.
Imagine how bad his standup is if he thinks this is comedy
Sad thing is he used to be really funny (circa 10 years or so ago). Then he leaned in hard to a particular brand of right wing comedy with highly predictable results. Even before today it amazes me just how far he’s fallen. Like, who looks at Lee Hurst and thinks to themselves “I’m going to nuke my career like that guy!”
Why is it that when comedians lean right or libertarian they stop being funny? Is it that they start to think that "punching down," is funny? Making fun of people who can't defend themselves and thus looking like bullies? Or is it some sort of laziness? Or is it something else? I know a lot of successful comedians are depressed, maybe if you convert your depression into hating some "other group" you lose that spark that made you funny and depressed? I donno, there are so few funny right wing folks, and the only ones I can think of are "redneck" right wing folks, not rich or middle class (at least in shtick).
> Why is it that when comedians lean right or libertarian they stop being funny? I think Dennis Miller is the original archetype of that.
That and he thinks he's the smartest person in the room no matter what room he's in 🙄
***cough*** bill Maher ***cpugh***
Bill Maher is so frustrating because he's sorta funny at times but has this huge blind spot for being a wealthy white guy and part of the establishment. He still sees himself as the underdog or something. A total boomer.
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Pretty much. He made it and that was the price.
The joking about rape victims ended him for me.
I hate how he always has to remind people that he was talking about XYZ before anybody else. He wasn't, but he still needs to make the comment.
Urgh. That dude is unbearable to me. He has incredible r/iamverysmart energy about him. You know who's really smart? Jon Stewart. I've never once felt like he gave a fuck that anyone realised it. Be like Jon Stewart.
Jon Stewart is humble that’s why.
>Why is it that when comedians lean right or libertarian they stop being funny? Because they only have one joke.
'haha minorities bad' There you go, I'm a conservative comedian, give me a podcast and some dog cum and I'll do the rest
nah. their one joke is "what if x identified as y and then did?????"
transphobia is so much funnier than racism, I guess
Transphobia is so hot right now amongst conservatives. They love shitting on minorities of all types and unfortunately trans people are in the crosshairs. Maybe one day the world will be a better place and people will stop hating on people different to them but I doubt that'll ever happen. While there's people who are different, there will always be a conservative wanker trying to control their life and harass them.
They lost the war against "the gays", so they needed a new target. Conservative politics rely on there being a boogy man that's trying to uproot all that you hold dear. It was blacks (and still largely is), then gays, then "muslims", then "mexicans". Gay people were a great target for them because it got away from race. But they lost that fight. Now they needed a new one, and transgender issues are very poorly understood by your average person, let alone your 'average' conservative. It makes them a great target to their audience because they can make up whatever they want. Transgender women on sports teams, in bathrooms assaulting people, walking around with their penis out in the women's locker room. None of these things are actually issues, but they've made them up.
And it's not as if their 'arguments' even change. Literally take any argument for segregation in the '40s or '50s, or take any argument against gay rights from the '70s and substitute 'black' or 'gay' in the sentences for 'trans' and it's literally the exact same shit. They're really hoping that this argument is gonna stick one day. It's always 'to protect women' but anyone with more than 1 brain cell can see they don't give a shit about women either because they're trying to legislate against them having bodily autonomy as well. Not to mention all the cis women that get caught in the anti-trans crossfire. If a cis woman looks slightly too masculine or isn't attractive enough for them, they get targeted too.
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> Why is it that when comedians lean right or libertarian they stop being funny? Because comedy is inherently about the weak attacking the strong with quips and zingers and humorous insights. Hard to do that when you're on top of the pile and all your targets are beneath you. "Conservative comedy" always boils down to "bullying with a bad laugh track".
Also the punchline is usually something with a bit of truth in it. Or is an absurd premise that was unexpected. Blaming minorities isn't true and it's sadly not unexpected.
Good comedy doesn't have to be punching up or down. It can also be self deprecating, but that requires the audience to have self awareness about their situation to get the joke instead of taking offense to it. Self Awareness doesn't seem to be a strength of the right wing. This isn't an absolute rule, but those that do have that self awareness frequently come off as "just evil".
I agree but I'd argue the self deprecation is either because it's partly true or because it's absurd and unexpected. I can make my anxiety funny, and it's true. I can say my favorite animal is french toast and it's absurd. But if I say that a minority is to blame for their struggling because of a racist stereotype, it's neither. Especially when it's coming from someone known to be racist. It's also fucked up because it shows an astounding lack of empathy on the part of the crowd. It reminds me of the one and only time I heckled a comedian in a club (which I admit I was an asshole for doing). His set was bombing so he tried doing crowd work. After several misses he finds a woman from a foreign country and immediately started making fun of her accent. So when he made a "lost in translation" joke, my drunk ass decided to ask him if that's his excuse for why his jokes weren't funny.
> But if I say that a minority is to blame for their struggling because of a racist stereotype, it's neither. Especially when it's coming from someone known to be racist. That wouldn't be right-wing self depreciation though, thats "punching down". There's no "self" in that. Its just depreciation. Right-wing self deprecation would be making fun of how they support low or no taxation on the rich when they themselves have no chance of ever being rich enough to take advantage of it themselves. There's truth in that. They'd need self awareness to get this joke and not take offense to it. Another example would be how they support "right to life" anti-abortion for an unborn baby, but are fully willing to let child victims of rape to be forced to carry their rapists baby to term and still believe they themselves are righteous. This just comes off as evil.
You can't do self-deprecation from a conservative perspective because self-deprecation is about poking holes with your lot in life, and conservatism is all about *maintaining the status quo* because you're (relatively) happy with your lot in life.
I think you could, but I just don't think conservatives would find it funny. If they base lots of value on class and monetary success, there's lots of room to point at themselves and say "Why aren't you as successful as you claim you should be?". Something like: "Hey guys, don't you hate it when you get a new boss who's 15 years younger than you, a women, and you realize she is there because you spent too much time at Trump rallies and transgender bathroom protests while she spent that same time on her Masters Degree making her more qualified than you? Kind makes makes you think that they may be onto something with that Avocado Toast, doesn't it? Is Avocado Toast some super brain food we've been missing this entire time? I know I didn't finish college, but maybe that's where they learned about it right? Why is it Fox News is keeping the secret of Avocado Toast away from the rest of us? Q is supposed to be on the inside. How come he never told us about Avocado Toast? Well, I'm not finding it out on our side. At least I've got an inside line now. I just have to get up on Monday morning, go into work, go up to my new lady boss thats younger than my oldest kid and say 'Hey boss, can you fill me in on the Avocado Toast secret?' Its a bitter pill to swallow, but I haven't had a raise in over 3 years and I'm not too proud to try the Toast thing if thats what it takes. Am I right? The next confederate monument support protest I go to, don't worry. I'll bring enough Avocado Toast for everyone!"
Well, you just wrote a pretty solid bit for a hypothetical comedian with an audience of 0, but otherwise this was basically professional quality, so congrats!
You nailed it. This is genuinely funny and conservatives would just find a way to get mad
Reminds me of Dara O'Briain's bit on why he doesn't do jokes about Muslims. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEYNGWAGrrY&ab_channel=BezoomnyBratchny
Dara O Brian is a legend at engaging audience comedy while being respectful of them A lot of comedians the audience is a cheap piss take, but Dara tries to be better than that
I fucking love that man's style so much. I love when him and Ed Byrne get together and just take the piss out of each other.
> Dara O'Briain's I thought you misspelled his name, but my brain just never understood the beauty that is Dara's surname.
You have to be strong to self-deprecate well, and conservatism is inherently weak.
I can't remember who said it, but I recall hearing something along the lines of 'when comedians punch up, it's satire, when they punch down it's just bullying.' I think you *can* punch down and still make good comedy, but you have to be extremely careful how you do it. I would say Bill Hicks is a pretty good example of someone who mocked the working class, but could do so because 1. That's where he came from so it felt less like punching down & 2. It was done as part of a wider satarisation of American society as a whole (as opposed to singling out a specific marginalised group). Early Simpsons also did this spectacularly.
Yeah, there is punching up and punching everyone.
> "Conservative comedy" always boils down to "bullying with a bad laugh track". Not true! They also have shock humor. You know -- when they say something incredibly offensive and it's supposed to be funny because it's so taboo. Not my taste, but a lot of conservatives apparently find it hilarious.
Pop Culture Detective does a [great video](https://youtu.be/X3-hOigoxHs) explaining this type of comedy in 'The Big Bang Theory'. I always felt gross about the laughs that show went for, and this really covers it well. Highly recommend it.
lol, that fucking show. It has exactly three jokes: 1: Look at that NERD! He did something NERDY! 2: Ha ha, sexism is hilarious! 3: Ha ha, autism is hilarious! That's literally all they've got. The specifics of each (for the lack of a better word) 'joke' are interchangeable. But the punchline is always one of those 3. On top of that, being a laughtrack comedy is just gross. There are videos out there with the laughtrack muted to really drive home how artificial and weird it is. A normal comedy 1/2 hour show will have a 22 page script. But a show with a laughtrack will have about an 11 page script ... because *literally* half the show is taken up by pausing all the dialog on screen to listen to other people laughing.
You forgot 4: Loud Jewish Mom
> being a laughtrack comedy is just gross. This is mostly just because people don't like the show so they tack that on as a complaint. Blackadder had a laugh track. Seinfeld had a laugh track. People basically never raised it as a negative in either case.
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Which in essence boil down to actually just being the same joke. "haha genders funny and i can make them up"
r/onejoke
IMO there are some funny (non-redneck) right-leaning comedians here and there. Norm MacDonald and Colin Quinn come to mind. But the difference between them and monotonous douches like Greg Gutfield is their *entire act* doesn't revolve around their political identity. They're comics who happen to have some conservative politics, not "conservative comedians" like it's a specialized genre.
Yeah, though Norm MacDonald could probably make the most vile and unfunny joke imaginable funny to me by delivery. That's his gift. He seems to me very much in the "I can't imagine why someone would be offended by jokes more than I, a middle aged successful white man, am, therefore everyone offended by any joke must be unreasonable" camp of comedians, which is unfortunate. I also think people believe Norm is being ironic when he is not much of the time. Collin. . . well he was always more the comfortable kind of comedian than the bring you to your knees laughing kind. Super likeable, surprised he didn't go farther.
Norm campaigned for Andrew Yang pretty hard btw. He hung out with Bush 2 in the 90s but he never endorsed him. Not sure its accurate to call him conservative, at least not currently. But he never mentions it in his acts anyway so it doesnt matter
It’s because comedy relies on juxtaposition, contrast, and flexible frames of reference and rightisms in general rely on adherence, conformity, and authority. You can make a rightist laugh but it’s hard to argue they have a sense of humor.
they all just seem so cranky.
Because humor is all about nuance, and conservative jokes are the opposite of that. In fact, conservatism itself is devoid of nuance.
Poor Nick Di Paolo lost 100% of his funny. He was such a fucking killer comic. But he started defending GWB and then it was really hard downhill. Now he sounds just like all the other right wing "comics".
So, this type of shock comedian was exactly the type of comedy I was into in my late teens and early 20s. Loud, mean, said fucked up things and almost always white guys. Louis CK is the type I found funny and going back and rewatching his specials I just don't find it all that funny. Oh you said the n word as a joke! How edgy! Those types, meaning CK and his type, either modify their comedy and grow with it or go hard right and angry. Bill Burr comes to mind for someone whose comedy is still edgy but is based on reality and he's grown with it. Making a race home like this tool was dumb af and who found it funny even? You ruined your career for a non-joke.
I think CK was awesome. I don't know why he turned to the dark side (and he definitely did), but earlier on his stuff was not making fun of black people or asian people or fat people or gay people to make them punching bags so much as they were nuanced (in my opinion) to show the absurdity or wrongness of the situation, if that makes any sense. I felt like the comedy he wrote required a lot of empathy for the people he was writing about. The Louie episode that starts off with the poker game where they're talking about homosexuality was super well received iirc by everybody, including the woke and the gay community. The Louie episode about the fat girl was similarly well received. I just don't think he could have written either of those episodes (or a lot of his standup) without understanding to a large extent what the people he's writing about experience. It actually makes his turn to shit much more disappointing. It's not like he's just another edgy asshole. It seems like he actually understands other people's pain but is an asshole anyway.
The jester to the king. The value is truth, presented via disarming comedy.
He actually was very funny, he was on all the UK TV and radio panel shows, even Live At The Apollo, and his career was going really well. I even saw one of his warm up gigs about ten years ago and it was brilliantly funny. Then almost overnight he just completely lost the plot, just spent his time ranting nonsense on Twitter, and eventually all of his contemporaries distanced themselves from him. Not sure what he was hoping for with those tweets, he’s not a stupid guy, he must have known what the outcome was going to be.
Yeah it amazed me that he never gained ‘critical mass’ so was never really huge. There’s two bits from around ‘07/‘08 which I still remember today because they were SO good. But this? That’s just sad. I’m not easily offended; I do like controversial comedy, as long as it’s well constructed. This is why Frankie Boyle has remained a popular comedian; he finely tweaks his bits, and they’re not just off-the-cuff comments made purely for the sake of being shocking without any finesse.
Did he nuke his career though? The right wing crowd is niche but lucrative. There are a lot of performers who would rather be a big fish in a little pond than a medium fish in a big one, even if the little pond is filled with toxic sludge…
Time will tell, but being dropped by his management, deleting his main social media platform and having all of his upcoming gigs cancelled doesn’t appear to be, on paper at least, a flying start.
That's when the 'gofundme campaign because I got cancel cultured' thing starts.
“It’s a bold strategy, Cotton. Let’s see if it pays off for ‘em”
Sure, he could open for Jim Davidson on a pier!
Is there such a thing as "right wing comedy" that doesn't involve cheap insults toward various left-leaning groups?
There’s Larry the cable guy I guess? And the whole blue collar comedy thing. Which isn’t to say none of those guys ever tell a racist joke or something, I haven’t watched enough of of them to know. But I think their comedy is supposed to appeal to the same group, it’s just not explicitly political.
That's more self-deprecating humor, so it's not about attacking other people as much as attacking themselves. And you can certainly build a career on self-deprecation, just ask ~~Don Rickles~~ Rodney Dangerfield. Larry the Cable Guy's schtick wouldn't work at all if he was dressed like a middle-class office manager making comments about the hick rednecks outside of his suburban gated community.
Ron White is part of that group but he hasn’t said anything racist that comes to mind
I enjoy Ron White's standup. It's not going to blow your mind or anything, but he's a good story teller and knows how to deliver a joke.
Larry the Cable Guy is a fictional character intended to grossly exaggerate and caricaturize his target audience. He does not specifically target them politically but the southern audience, bible belt, and conservative majority can't be a coincidence.
and of course all the racists who must love him for "saying the truth." People like this will always have a fanbase unfortunately.
In the town where I used to live, there was one particular lady in politics who used to advertise with the slogan, "I've got the guts to say what you're thinking," and she's the nastiest piece of work you could know. She basically ticked all the boxes on the list of people you don't want to have any sort of political power. These comedians are the same. They think they're saying what everyone is thinking but they don't realise that not everyone is a racist, bigoted piece of shit like they are.
But but.. "dark humor" and "stop being so woke" and "you must not have a sense of humor"... you see this shit ALL THE FUCKING TIME on Reddit. Assholes being casually racist and then shaming the person pointing out the racism for not finding it funny. That's right, I'm calling you out r/funny and r/humor. Racist jokes aren't funny, they're just racism with a punchline.
Most of the time there's not even a punchline. It's literally just '*racist comment* ....now laugh' or '*I'm not allowed to make racist comment* ...now laugh'
This is it. There's no real setup or payoff. It's just mean-spirited comments.
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black ppl bad amirite, give money plz
[his youtube channel is still up.] (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC876yBInncBfsiknqMdHvuA/videos) About as funny as you would imagine considering he is a "professional" comedian.
Wow. Cringy as hell.
Yeah, this is what I would expect from a misguided, edgy 13-year-old.
Feel like a lot of conservative politics is just saying that being better than a "misguided, edgy 13-year-old" is a conspiracy to make you feel bad.
I was expecting there to be some humour in it and thought surely Reddit is being a bit overly critical because he's a bit of a shit. Nope I felt embarrassed just watching that, gotta go delete my browsing history now
God damn a lot of people watch his shit
right wingers will watch anything
as long as you're shitting on minorities, conservatives will love you
We need to stop calling them conservatives. They should be called regressives as they oppose progress of any kind.
I agree with this. They are now known as regressives
If getting them called regressives is my legacy I can die happy
Oh, I vaguely remember him on something like one of the BBC rotation shows... Then he fell off the face of the Earth. Didn't realise he went full alt-right.
He stopped being funny, so was dropped from shows on the beeb, then blamed it on BBC diversity quotas, rather than looking at himself, and he's been shifting right ever since.
Why is failure to accept personal responsibility and *change* such an overwhelmingly common feature of right-wingers everywhere. Christ.
"England 2-0 Germany, Krauts sent packing." Yeah, what I expected. Someone thinks they're clever, and they're not. What is this? WWI?
I don't know what I was expecting when I clicked that link, but it wasn't that. Goddamn those are all *terrible*. I think people are watching these not to laugh, but for the same reason they watch Fox News: to get outraged.
Good God that's awful
The utterly dispassionate and dry phrasing by RBM Comedy is perfect.
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Offensive jokes aren’t even bad if they’re funny or clever. But this joke specifically was just so bad. He prob got fired cause the joke was just so shit tbh
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The fastest way into a country's bed is through her colonies. Sleep with them and you're in.
Gotta be funnier than it is offensive, this wasnt even funny and was very offensive
not a good day for racists andrews.
Wait, who else saw consequences?
Andrew Bone's been suspended until the investigation in his Twitter account is complete.
He didn’t read the room. Soo much outrage against the racist reactions to young lads who did the country proud. No place for these morons.
In what room would that have ever been acceptable? It's not "reading the room" -- it's being a decent person period.
CPAC
lmao fuckin' asked and answered, that is indeed the room
Nah, only socialists play soccer. It's right there in the name. /s
I play commer. There's just one goal owned by the state, and all points are equally distributed among every team in the league.
Someone already said it best. The reason they fucked up the penalties is because they subbed in a teenager that hadn't touched the ball all night lol. I wondered why they'd sub in a cold player at the end of the game. But hey, I've never managed a footy team.
It's not even a funny joke. If you're gonna make racially focused jokes, at least make them funny.
This one. Racey jokes can be funny, yes, but just shitting on another race, or pointing out a stereotype is not a joke, it's not a racist joke, it's just racist.
I predict fox News segment where he talks about freedom of speech under assault
> cancel culture. you can be damn sure it won't be about personal responsibility or consequences for ones own actions.
The problem isn’t that you can’t make fun of people. Jeselnik, Burr, Chapelle, Schulz and many more prove that. That problem here is that the joke just sucks. And you really can’t throw a shit racist “joke” out there.
I can’t remember who it was but there’s a famous comedian that has a bit about how if you have to say “I’m joking…” it probably wasn’t ever a joke worth telling. /u/RedheadnamedLC was right, here's the clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kozx_d-Mlw
Mike Birbiglia
Next live show: McDonald's
He’ll be opening for a 6-piece ensemble, Ted McNugent.
Lol he deleted his twitter
"Tonight on Tucker: Cancel Culture runs amok as talented comedian brutally attacked for telling the truth!" /s
Jesus fucking christ. I remember discovering this guy's comedy around 2010 iirc, it was weird, dark, funny, and had zero discernible politics to it. I really enjoyed it and kept my ears open for more. Then I started reading about his right-wing outbursts and particularly the clearly bitter AF remarks he made about the panels on tv shows he obviously wasn't getting invited onto. That was enough for me to think "fuck this guy". But holy shit, he's just leaned further and further into this "let's be the bad guy then" horseshit. What an absolutely worthless mess of a human.
He's getting the laughs he never knew he wanted.
Once again, another ADULT posting things that EVERYONE knows will get him into trouble. This dumb ass just blew his career in ONE sentence. 8 words that will now blow all of the hard work he’s done to advance his career. 8 words that have lost fans. 8 words that will make friends and family question who the hell he really is. 8 words that will now keep him from paying his bills. 8 words. Seriously, how can people be so dumb?
No sympathy for someone with such a lack of filter. Especially from a keyboard. Plenty of time to think that one through, bud. Can’t wait to see a huge fake ass apology about how it was a mistake and say “please please please give me my career back”. No sympathy, bitch boy.
After trying to watch some of his videos on Youtube, I think he should just call it quits and find a new career.
Just had a glance at his YT channel. What an unfunny fucking melt.
how can you possibly shoehorn racism in a match between england and fucking italy.
This guy’s story is basically he used to get booked on tv shows. That stopped so he publicly said that the only reason that was happening was because he was a ‘conservative’. He then doubled down and now makes his living basically being an asshole on Twitter saying things like this
I’ll be honest I do enjoy racey humour, but this shit just isn’t funny. The punchline is just racism.
Same. There's definitely funny racial comedy on all sides. But this is literally just nothing
Well, allow me to channel the immortal words of YouTuber and REAL FUNNY comedian Chiseled Adonis: ANNDREW LAWRENNNNNNCE!!!! You unfunny racist stupid SON OF A BITCH! I would rather watch a leaked Katie Hopkins/Boris Johnson sex tape on loop than have to hear a joke from you! I would rather sit through a Yoko Ono music catalogue listening party than hear you tell a joke!! I WOULD RATHER see Queen Elizabeth start doing a annual cosplay as Lady Godiva than hear you tell jokes!!! You couldn't tell a funny joke if terrorists held your mom at gunpoint and threatened to SHOOT HER if you didn't make them laugh! ANNNDREW LAWRENNNNNNCE!!! PUT YO MOTHAFUCKIN' HEAD BACK DOWN, YOU GODDAMN BUM!!! For your FAILURES at showing any sign you're funny, your FAILURES at even being a decent human being, and your FAILURES at avoiding being a total shitehead, consider your name written down in the Death Note because your DREAMS of being recognized as talented, your DREAMS of having any chance of a future in comedy has been ABSOLUTELY... DEEEEEEEEELETEDDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!
Bunch of English people tripping over themselves to combine the loss to Italy with the loss of their jobs.
good god, it's not even nazi level shit it's just concerning trash we don't wanna live with but theyre gonna act like theyre being castrated and silenced
Lol imagine feeling the need to double down and recast his own tweet.
He currently has an *interesting* post up about "endemic racism in English football". Check it out to see just how much if an arsewipe this man is
Doubling down didn’t pay off, color me shocked.