Robin Ince resigns from The Infinite Monkey Cage

Ah David Tennant, the most unpleasant scrotum faced angry old bloke on the planet, how he loved spitting out his virulent misogyny at anyone who would listen. So testerical

"What absolute dicks these people are" - "have", surely? Poor Mia. Surely she's suffered enough in life.

I thought Ince flounced from the BBC a long while ago as well. The only time I've ever really laughed at him is when Ricky Gervais was winding him up in some of his stand-up DVD extras. I saw RI once at the BBC, trying to get his son in with him without a security pass.

😂

Oh Robin, please do pamper yourself. You'll be pampering us too 🙏

I've just had a google and it seems that Brian Cox is doing a series of shows with a rotating panel of scientists of which most are female including Hannah Fry.

He resigned last Christmas, I suspect it’s just a new series is due out without him

I think life/work has gone a bit quiet for him since he flounced off, and he's trying to make himself seem relevant again in the hope that someone will hire him.

To be fair, I do think it is one of the funniest things he has ever said and I would like to congratulate him on reaching his comedy peak.

I'd forgotten about him comparing himself to his heroes!

He's been much funnier since he's pampered us with his silence.

😂👌

Perhaps instead he could pamper us with the luxury of his silence?

"I felt I couldn't pamper myself with the luxury of silence."

Is that one of the most knobbish phrases ever uttered?

The whole thing is reaching peak ridiculousness. We can't be far from them claiming TW are the only true women and we're some sort of 3rd category 😂

But tide has turned, not just being pro trans but very vocal about it, including criticising others for not being ideologically pure is now thankfully a bit controversial. Which could be ignored if you are very talented and popular, but well, he’s not. He’s the sort of person who had a good bbc radio comedy career. The sort of person you are expecting to pop up on QI and “Have I got news for you” etc. amusing rather than proper funny.

But hes taken this odd stand, and I think not quite realised until it was too late he’s taken a stand that really will cause his income stream to dry up. And the trans community seem to demand other people be allies to them, yet the loyalty is one way and no they aren’t feeling compelled to buy tickets to his shows.

It will be interesting to see what he does next. I wouldn’t be surprised if other lefty cosy comedians are watching this carefully. I bet their managers certainly are.

Ah, a POET! If only I'd known.

But...but..he's a POET, dontcha know.

I've never listened to the program and know nothing about Robin Ince, but the line "I felt I couldn't pamper myself with the luxury of silence." is hilarious 😂

I stopped listened to it ages ago because I wanted science not opinions.
And a scientist who doesnt know what a woman is….?
And thinks we want to know his half baked political views on ‘Trump’
Good riddance.

Maybe he got bookings because the booker thinks "well I don't like him much but other people seem to." And they've realised that no, it's not just them, actually no one else likes him much either.

and he’s a bit too controversial for current climates

He's not controversial at all. He's neck deep in the Omnicause. He's just not very funny.

I thought he’d already done that

Just reminding everyone that he's a brave and true little soldier for the cause. Lest we forget his sacrifice

He’s deactivated his Bluesky I think.

I was on there upset his tour sales were going v badly. I think there may be an element he resigned nearly a year ago with other things planned, including this tour, which hasn’t gone well. If he’s not going to get bbc work, and he’s a bit too controversial for current climates for other channels to pick him up, he’s going to struggle. Especially as he’s not built a big fan base. I do think he’s another man who needed a better manager /sensible advice, I bet if he realised he was throwing away his full career for this ideology he’s not even part of, he might have paused, but I bet he hadn’t realised the tide had turned and he was in practice throwing away everything for someone else’s fight.

Doesn't he identify as a poet?
He'll have more free time on his hands now, be afraid 😱

I saw him live promoting his book. He’s really weird. Self indulgent and self important

Quite. No one, surely, thinks of Robin Ince as an artist. Well, no one other than Robin Ince.

Yep. I would not be too keen to employ or collaborate with a freelancer who was being so openly hostile to Gia Milinovich and Brian Cox in a supposedly ‘impartial’ environment using license-fee money under a new broom Director General.