Flo & Joan - Russell Howard

RH just isn't that funny, compared to most mainstream comedians around now.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.heart.co.uk/lifestyle/christmas/mum-shamed-for-calling-santa-father-christmas/

Better not go there actually 🤐

Too sweary, too aggressive and too woke for me but I doubt that I am their target audience. Nothing in that song made me even smile and I've got a great sense of humour

You're not allowed to fat shame or misgender people. Even the fake ones like Father Christmas.

Why do you need a gender neutral name for a fat man with a beard? FFS

I normally quite like them but FFS, the second the JK Rowling line was uttered they lost me.

Such a shame how young women care so little about their rights. They'd rather be abused/discriminated against for no reason other than being born with a female reproductive system and, shock horror, live as women. because that's what they fucking are.

The most recent one I've come across is that Santa is preferred over Father Christmas because it's more gender neutral.

Mother Baby Vessel Earth despairs.

The zombie facts thing means we potentially have a generation of young people holding misogynist views. Young people who are vital in effecting change because they are often comparatively better off for time (no elderly relatives or childcare to do) and sometimes even money (I didn't realise at the time that my 20s would be as good as it got, financially). Young people who will go on to influence policies, teach children, care for our vulnerable relatives etc and whose misogynist views will influence the way they work. It depresses me.

Flo and Joan remind me of a sweary version of those cringe inducing Nationwide adverts, way too try hard.

The zombie facts thing is so true. DH referenced JKR being a transphobe on the back of that Saturday Night Live sketch, things just take on a life of their own if enough people say it.

Ha I feel vindicated. I have a good sense for sniffing out misogynist men (because they're so rare ha!) and I've been telling my partner Russell Howard is a closet misogynist for ages. I couldn't pin it down to anything specific but he has an air about him.

Can you imagine him platforming a racist, actually transphobic or ablist performer? I don't think so. But misogyny right now is so acceptable it's fashionable.

When you look at the events they've done and other performers they are billed alongside, it's clear they wouldn't get booked if they weren't woke.

It's their target market.

The man's a prat, can't stand him.

• full disclosure....I know him IRL and he was always a prat.

Ironic isn’t it that one line positively references women in Poland fighting for their rights, and another couple of lines that do the exact opposite. JKR is fighting for women’s rights. Women who do so are insulted and called Karens. They both need to grow up and get an eduction on women’s issues.

Liked this fellow on television, at first. Went to see his show. Nasty. Targeting people who were overweight (I recall particularly) and anyone not meeting his standards of perfection.

Is that Russell Howard?

I really don't like him, I know others that do. Plus he's a fine one to talk, he has eyes that are far too close together in my humble opinion. Makes him look like George Bush Jnr.

Garfunkel and Oates

Ha! Very Good.

They also make a reference to ‘Karen’s’ in that 2020 song. It’s just a piece of misogynistic nonsense.

Liked this fellow on television, at first. Went to see his show. Nasty. Targeting people who were overweight (I recall particularly) and anyone not meeting his standards of perfection.
I'd be surprised if there's anything of value in work connected with him.

She creates a seven-book fantasy series about all types of mythical creatures living in harmony with wizards and elves and the one thing she can’t wrap her head around is Laverne Cox?

Does anyone else think this sounds like it's comparing Laverne to a mythical being?

I didn't actually find any of their song that funny. I was prepared to give them a go but nah, they aren't my cup of tea.

That's not a sense of humour failure, that's just having a sense of humour.

And yes I agree with Banana- jkr being a ‘transphobe’ is now a zombie fact. It doesn’t matter how many times you show the factual evidence to the contrary, it’s too late now to change the perception :/

Luckily Hugo rifkind’s 2020 review in the times gets it!

I'm afraid I had a sense of humour bypass

Why, did you laugh at Flo and Joan? If so, may I recommend Mrs Brown's Boys?

Does anyone know why their song (the first one I've put up with all the way through) is about America?

Incidentally Flo and Joan are one of those acts where I open the video expecting to be pissing my pants laughing, and instead, at best raise a small smile.