AIBU to find Dawn French's latest Trump comments more sad than funny?

She's not funny but to be honest, she's less offensive, annoying and well, frankly dangerous than Trump. I chose my battles as to what I get annoyed about and this isn't even close.

Trump destroying things, starting wars, killing children at school, yeah, that's annoying.

Of course she can support Palestine but why try and minimise the horrors of 7th October?

She’s used the baby voice before, when mocking the victims of the Hamas’ atrocities.

Course she can support palestine I didnt say she couldn't but to call mass murder a 'bad thing' was appalling and stupid. As I say a bit of an internet troll these days.

Could not agree more. See also: David Tennant, Emma Watson, Daniel Radcliffe.

Agreed on all points. Presumably she is desperate to draw attention away from her driving ban. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/dawn-french-driving-ban-speeding-plymouth-b3047445.html

She's pretending to be Trump with the baby voice.

She is allowed to support Palestine if she wants to you know, it's not a crime.

She's not doing a TV show, she's doing a message on social media, It doesn't have to be perfect.

She’s never done anything that’s funny.

Comedians giving their opinions on a range of topics in a (they hope) witty manner is most of comedy. Mumsnet giving opinions and judgements is most of MN. PPs saying don’t judge, don’t give opinions are just tiresome and pointless.

Is it possible that it’s AI? I have no idea

I detest Trump and agree with pretty much anything negative said about him but that little rant is childish, a bit pathetic and totally unfunny and adds absolutely nothing to an anti Trump narrative.

Having said that, I find Dawn French's slapstick type 'humour' completely unfunny at the best of times; this is just more of the same.

She is doing a silly baby voice so yes it is fine to be rude about her.

As others have said she has form for her previous rants targeting Israel and minimising the mass slaughter on Oct 7th as a 'bad thing' so she deserves all the rudeness she gets, she's like that Nadia loose women person just another high profile internet troll.

Fine to criticise Trump but do it as an adult not as a big baby.

It's very accurate. He has the emotional maturity of a tantrum-prone toddler and the intellectual capacity of a 10yr old on drugs.

I like hearing all opinions

Is she friends with Miriam Margolyes?

@darkling2yep she lost it there.

I’ve always loved her as a comedian and comedy actor. French and Saunders together were wonderful, and the Vicar of Dibley is still one of my favourite ever programmes.
Lately, perhaps because of social media platforms, she’s changed her style of comedy to this silly style of attempt at politicalsatire. Perhaps it appeals to some, or perhaps just gets her attention, but I just don’t find her funny at all anymore. Her post mocking the Hamas attack was absolutely vile and whenever I see her I’m reminded of that.

The more I see of Dawn French the more I realise how much of the heavy lifting Jennifer Saunders was doing in that partnership.

I despise Trump but this just isn't funny. The delivery isn't funny. I've got friends who would do better.

@darkling2 Spot on.
Absolutely.
Spot on 👏👏👏👏👏👏

I don't understand why celebrities feel that we ought to listen to their voices on any issue. I agree with Ricky Gervais - be an actor/comedian/member of Royal Family etc... but stop talking about other things unless you are an expert in that area. If you want to help with an issue then go and provide help in some practical form. Stop telling everyone your opinion on social media.

Just after Hamas slaughtered and raped girls to death and filmed it on their Go Pros for a laugh, French made a video slagging off the Israelis and made a sneering face and did a baby voice saying "yeah, but they did a bad thing to us" - she was mockingly pretending to speak for the 1200 babies, girls, boys and families who were raped and murdered by the terrorist organisation Hamas, at a festival during the cease fire which was then in place.

Now, no matter how much of anti semite you might be, you don't publicly use a baby voice to attempt to minimise the slaughter of the raped and murdered children of Jewish people, at a festival, by a terrorist organisation wearing Go Pros, filming the slaughter for a laugh.

And yet, she did.

Unquestionably. No matter what you are about to try to say about "both sides" this is exactly what she did, she chose in public, irrefutably, to mock in an attempt to minimise the raped and murdered babies, girls, boys, families who are at the festival when Hamas the terrorist organisation attacked them unprovoked during the cease fire.

And she only "apologised unreservedly" after an enormous backlash.

So nothing that vicious creature says or does is a surprise to me anymore.

And no, you don't have to be a Trump fan to know she is a foul creature and that on the day she mocked the slaughtered, raped children of the Jews by a terrorist organisation, she ceased to ever be worth listening to again.

I think French and Saunders were trailblazers but, because they were some of the first women in alternative comedy, they got away with a lot of stuff that wasn't all that funny. I never found her gurning and baby voices funny.

As someone whose late husband - proud, strong and dignified as he was - was incontinent in later life, I find the scorn for people facing this challenge deeply depressing. People who would never laugh at wheelchairs or blindness and would never use words like cripple or spastic think that it's hilarious to talk about "shitting in a nappy" or laugh at incontinence in older people.

And no amount of hating Trump is an excuse for encouraging mockery of one of the most common and humiliating aspects of decline with age.

I genuinely cannot stand the man, but we should challenge and mock things he says and does by choice, not the failings of his body.

Im not on X so not seen it. I used to love Dawn French and especially the Vicar of Dibely but after that awful anti Jewish rant with that vomit-inducing babyish talk, I cant bear to even look at her face ever again 😡