For someone who enjoys talking to Jordan Peterson about cancel culture, the millionaire comic Jimmy Carr remains omnipresent enough to be the poster boy of an Orwellian dystopia - meanwhile truly original left wing comics like Josie Long remain rarely seen in the media - ThreadSky

robinince.bsky.social • 95 days ago

For someone who enjoys talking to Jordan Peterson about cancel culture, the millionaire comic Jimmy Carr remains omnipresent enough to be the poster boy of an Orwellian dystopia - meanwhile truly original left wing comics like Josie Long remain rarely seen in the media

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emmerlord.com•95 days ago

Josie Long's amazing radio show and podcast 'short cuts' was ended earlier this year there should have been more uproar .

robinince.bsky.social•95 days ago

People were very cross - I think it was a very bad decision

gordonhudson.com•95 days ago

He comes across as annoyed with himself and angry at the audience. Overall very unsettling to watch.

mattlibrarian.bsky.social•95 days ago

Josie Long is one of the best people ever! She sent me a bunch of her Drawing Moustaches zines for a library program I ran when I was working for Brent Libraries years ago!

fancyvegaspro.bsky.social•95 days ago

I saw him doing a "when I was cancelled" interview a while back, and I was wondering if he faced a single lasting impact from that whole affair

smallbrainfield.bsky.social•95 days ago

Probably had to hire a better accountant.

mattlodder.com•95 days ago

I heard her doing a voiceover on a Dettol ad today and it made me miss her on telly even more.

flintlock.bsky.social•95 days ago

Roy Chubby Brown for middle class people.

morthrai.bsky.social•95 days ago

1 - As someone once remarked "I wasn't created in Alan Turing's dream"
2 - He actually paid to have that face? Really? 🤨

terry1962.bsky.social•94 days ago

If someone makes me laugh they are funny.

terry1962.bsky.social•94 days ago

Controversial.. my like and repost are in support of Josie she is the best end of.. however I still find Jimmy Carr and Ricky Gervais funny as with all comedians I try to understand what makes them tick.. I have to say read Robin's book I'm a Joke and So Are You also Oliver Double's Getting The Joke

claudiac.bsky.social•95 days ago

Everything about Jimmy Carr is constructed from his artifical face to his weird voice and laugh to his relationships to his "brilliant" commentary. He fake as a pastic jesus statue.

mckelvie.bsky.social•95 days ago

There's at least two people on that show who completely put me off watching it. Which is a shame, as some of the others are great.

theangelremiel.bsky.social•95 days ago

Considering the number of people who give me fight or flight vibes in mainstream British comedy I am consistently amazed that the Taskmaster Wrongun Filter works so well. Only ever had one person on there who gave me the "I don't trust you" shudder.

mckelvie.bsky.social•95 days ago

That's another show Josie would be brilliant on tbh

theangelremiel.bsky.social•95 days ago

She won the second version of the original stage show.

mckelvie.bsky.social•95 days ago

(I mean, I haven't asked her. She might not want to do the TV one.)

mckelvie.bsky.social•95 days ago

And yet!

mcguiganbarry.bsky.social•95 days ago

Who was the wrong un?

rainbowplethora.bsky.social•95 days ago

Dunno about OP but Baddiel is a transphobe

thatdocphoenix.com•95 days ago

He also did not take being bad at the game well

mangyhare.bsky.social•95 days ago

Which is ironic as that's the only thing he was consistently good at.

mckelvie.bsky.social•95 days ago

That series did make me wonder why anyone takes him seriously though. Admittedly it might have all been for the joke but when you have to phone someone to ask where your hip is...

theangelremiel.bsky.social•95 days ago

Baddiel is the one who even on rewatch just was not a good time to be around. The only redeeming quality he had was that he and Jo Brand liked each other, and that's not enough honestly

callidusdominus.bsky.social•94 days ago

Oh God, Jordan Peterson, a top pseudo-intellectual for the far-right. I don't have much respect for Jimmy Carr. And this may be the first that I've heard of Josie Long! It's interesting how the people moaning about cancel culture seem to get the most prominence. Food for thought anyway.

realpaulputner.bsky.social•95 days ago

Rubbernecker seems a long time ago now. 😘

robinince.bsky.social•95 days ago

It even did then

fluffweasel.bsky.social•95 days ago

More Josie Long everywhere! Now!

doodyr.bsky.social•95 days ago

TV comedy has eaten itself, too much domination from derivative game shows with the same group in different studios, it just happens that this one is backed by a huge marketing push which generates free content for the click bait news sites.

nikiw124.bsky.social•95 days ago

Is Jimmy Carr real or is he AI-generated? I've never been sure.

mablank.bsky.social•95 days ago

The various parts are real.

awp.christies.org.uk•95 days ago

He's a real boy, so long as Mr Geppetto keeps up on the payments on the enchantment plan.

wurzle.bsky.social•95 days ago

Last one... has a great premise. Carr should be nowhere near it

aadgroeneveld.bsky.social•95 days ago

His forced laugh should be included in the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons AFAIC, nobody should have to be subjected to that inhumane torture in either war or peace times...

claudiac.bsky.social•95 days ago

That's the truth.

fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social•95 days ago

Never forgotten his racism towards Romany people

laticsexile.bsky.social•95 days ago

Also a tax dodging twat. Most importantly, he’s just not funny.

untidymusic.com•95 days ago

Saw a clip of him saying that Joe Rogan is intelligent. Nuff said.

thebeardedunicorn.bsky.social•95 days ago

What he proved is trying to get cancelled by doing ‘edgy’ material only works if you actually believe in it. Or at least your audience thinks you do.
See Gerry Sadowitz, Roy Brown or Jim Davidson.

frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social•95 days ago

Every time I see Jimmy Carr self-deprecatingly chuckle about his tax affairs, I always think of that amazing (rare) Chris Morris interview on Channel 4 News, where he asks - if you're merely doing a display for the court, to be patted on the head by the power, what is the point of you?

makapala.bsky.social•95 days ago

i enjoyed the show, but the casting was just 8 out of 10 cats regulars. They could have found so much more variety from a huge talent pool

rainbowplethora.bsky.social•95 days ago

Josie Long's @beefanddairy.bsky.social episodes remain some of my all time favourites

matrees.bsky.social•94 days ago

I know someone who did a comedy course with him before he became famous.

Describing what he was like was the only time I've ever heard her drop the c-bomb.

writingabit.bsky.social•95 days ago

Radio 4 are quite fond of Josie though?

studiousbadger.bsky.social•94 days ago

‘All of the planet’s wonders’ is on Audible (I know…)

mzdt.bsky.social•95 days ago

Not fond enough, Short Cuts has been cancelled (but last time I checked they were all still on BBC Sounds).

writingabit.bsky.social•95 days ago

12 weeks of plastic surgery. Like, what?! Why? 🤷🏻

crabsantler.bsky.social•95 days ago

I can't work out whether he's having surgery to look either more or less like Richard Nixon but either way he can get fucked.

clouddawg.bsky.social•95 days ago

I have never thought him to funny. Also, his "joke" about the murder of more than 500,000 Roma victims of Nazi genocide makes him seem even less funny to me.

heptaglemious.bsky.social•95 days ago

I wish I found Jimmy Carr half as funny as he finds himself.

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