Latest video from comedian Mary Bourke

Love the Irishness to her humour, the way she says things and you don't really know if that's her opinion or dark humour.

She was great years ago at the Fringe, where she took the piss out of porno mags. Got her burly husband on stage to copy the stupid poses - finger in mouth, vacant smile, chest stuck out, etc. Seeing a man do them really flagged up the misogyny.
I’m delighted she’s on team terf, I would expect no less. And I think she’s tough enough to handle the inevitable flak from the TRAs.

Just saw this after Linda Blade posted it. Good clip. Shame to hear she's had it in for mumsnetters

I loved that routine, I'll be keeping an eye out for her. Tbh I'm just happy to see a comedian i know won't lazily slam women/jkr/feminists etc, even if she never mentions the smurf thing again. Tbf comedians should be ripping into the authoritarian, almost sci-fi dystopian world the TRA types want. "Cervix owner" should be laughed out the park. Such a shame so many are too scared, or have their careers ruined if they step out of line.

Fab discovery. Love her and cant wait to go and see her live. Big GC night out coming :)

Wow this whole routine was hilarious! Thank you, I've been in stitches!

apart from when I’m trying to choose paint .. Mumsnetters know their Farrow & Ball

F and b is crap paint; choose the colour and get it mixed.

It was a bunfight sometime between 2008 and 2010, about Rastamouse, a CBeebies programme. A variety of views were robustly expressed! For a little while it (IIRC) was a by-word for MN craziness.

Brilliant!

(What was the Rastamouse thread?)

Only discovered her last week - love this sketch. And she is Irish which is great

definitely!

I couldn't go in the dog house, not with my "designer" dog. The Dog House crowd are the fiercest MNers. If MN are going to have to fight, I vote we put them in charge.

I got a bit stuck on the let the old people die bit at the start, and couldn’t tell how much of that and the not sure I’ll take the vaccine bit was a joke. She’s pretty good though.

Must admit that I rarely stray far from FWR and have taken the precaution of a name change posting in the Dog House, in anticipation of a savaging if I put one paw out of line. Those cuddly pet-lovers can be a vicious bunch! If you’ve never been there, it’s nature raw in tooth and claw

Sorry, MTW should be under "She was brilliant".

unlike the inability to edit on here.🤨

Mock the Week,
She was brilliant, but.......

Have I got News for You,
Would I Lie to You,
Task master,
8 out of 10 Cats
etc
etc
That's Mary Bourke off the guest list

I absolutely hated Mumsnet (and netmums and babycentre .. remember that?) when I was posting as a new mum. Full of sanctimummies who would loftily destroy anybody who didn’t toe the line.

I still never venture anywhere beyond this board (apart from when I’m trying to choose paint .. Mumsnetters know their Farrow & Ball).

*spent whole decades making material, that should say.

Ha. I listened to that video in the OP and thought she is a MNetter. There are the giveaways.

Comedians don't necessarily have to believe in what they use for material. Izzard spent making material on views he either never held or has done a complete reverse ferret on.

The 'Karen' sketch is from June 2020.

That is the best thing I have seen for a long time! Bloody brilliant!! I will be in line for her future gigs and we so need to have a GC live comedy night once life gets back to some sort of normality.

Watched the mumsnet one now. It's the one from 2010, and as I expect I said on the sketch thread at the time, the Rastamouse thread actually happened. So did the threads about abusing au pairs. It's not all mumsnet was, but that element was there, and probably still is; it's just the rest of us have scared them into silence.

Not watched her Mumsnet sketch - but anyone who is as insightful as in the ‘I am not a tr*f’ material surely cannot now believe in the Karen meme - even if she did material in it before.

And yes - I did have to google what a Jerusalem artichoke looks like!

About time we had a new (and funny) voice on the topic!

She had a sketch about mumsnet in 2010, definitely. In fact, she made a thread on mumsnet at the time to let us know and let us give our feedback, which I thought was very honest.

Full disclosure, I haven't watched the youtube link above to check it's the same one yet, but I will when I've got peace and quiet.

If it's the same one, I think, like all of us, Mary Bourke has been radicalised by MN changed as a person over the last decade. She's definitely gained far more stage presence and become a more accomplished comedian since 2010, whatever you think of the material.