I'm a comedienne and I've written an entire routine about this forum

[joanjett]

I love this forum so much , I wrote an entire routine about it . Would you like to see / hear it ?

Google her, she is funny, this made me laugh

I once did a gig at JD Wetherspoons in Luton, because I love the smell of oven chips and disappointment. If you've never been to Luton it's when sadness goes to self harm. It's where depression goes to listen to Nick Drake and weep.

I love the delivery of 'Am I. Being. Unreasonable?'

Agree though it is about the popular media caricature of mn, dp likes to tell friends that I am a mnetter, most do say 'oh my god, really?' we do not have a good reputation.

God - you mean you tell people you belong here? In public?!!!

Love 'belong', and no, dp likes to tell people

HullyGully Cheap laughs. Sexist crap.

If I were to record and post that you lot would rip me a new one. And then I'd have to either flounce or name change

MAde me chuckle, esp the end bit.

I think that was a laughter track - it was very offputting.

I really liked the delivery but I don't actually think what she said was that funny - it's a cliche of Mumnste which I don't really think is true tbh.

Hully
I have to (reluctantly disagree).

She is not mocking women.

She is mocking a stereotype.

And that is what makes it funny. Tbh, I think she should go even more wildly OTT with her example. The Albanian aupair, the banker needing bonus.

There have been some posts on MN that have been along that vein, and they have comic potential.

If she had been using a male stereotype, Bullington Club, hooray-henry, investment banker type - her imaginary MNetter's DH - would that have been offensive?

Maybe to a banker.

As for the comedian/comedienne knicker twisting that went on earlier - well, I forsee that appearing in her routine shortly!

That's the irony isn't it? The OP posts a link to a really funny routine about 'smug' MNetters and a comedian/comedienne debate immediately breaks out!

You couldn't make it up...and fortunately for the OP she doesn't actually have to

That should have been (reluctantly) disagree.

Rogue parentheses get on my tits.

Yes, it's a great place to dip in & out of but there is smugness and certainly not short of people full if their own self importance. I think she was pretty spot on.

As I said earlier, it's the stereotype buts that make it funny.

iPhone fail big time on last post.

I laughed.

I would have laughed more if the example threads had been more like some of the ones we do actually get:

• My sister refuses to have my 2 year old twins as pageboys at her wedding the fucking bridezilla

• DS punched another child in the face and school refuse to recognise that it's because he's sensitive, should I complain to OFSTED

• MIL only babysits 3 nights a week the lazy old bitch,

• My 8 month old baby is reading Harry Potter is she G&T

etc. The ones on the routine were too made up.

Would have laughed more if balloon had written jokes [hgrin]

@ Worra

I agree with balloon - there are enough daft AIBUS on here in real life without making them up.

DId the OP comeback at all or was she just after free publicity?

SeveredHeadsDragonTheFloor, A comedian after free publicity!! Say it ain't so!! .

Can she just lift the real life AIBU's though? Would she not face a barrage of lawsuits if she did? Followed, of course, by lots of "AIBU to expect that my very real concerns about my 8 month old's reading abilities not being taken at all seriously by the leading consultant I insisted we were privately referred to should not end up in a comedy routine mocking me and my family. Furthermore, AIBU to expect MN take a stance here?"

I can just see it now.....

I was disappointed - I got all settled down for a good laugh and then it didn't deliver (for me). There is so much material on MN, so much that would be side splitting - this was, as others have said, lazy & a bit lame. It's a shame as a good piss take of MN is very funny.

well I liked "the ones who drink organic milk from cows that have been hugged" but after that I did wonder if the laughter had been taped and added. Too much repetition of am I being unreasonable and the timing not perfect for all of them. Not YANBU but there's a better routine to be written.

I think it was funny & if you´re too specific it´s not going to play to a wide audience, is it?

What is funny is that people on here think she wants suggestions-when the title is "I am a comedienne & I have written..."

Mumsnet-smug-surely not

Marking place so I can read when I get homew from hellish school trip.

I did see a field full of ducks though.

meh

It's funny!

Gave me a laugh!

(It is Friday and I'm demob happy)