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 ?

Ooh. Can't watch right now as the DCs are watching Ben and Holly but will do later.

I hate the word comedienne btw!

Funny.

It's an amusing piss-take of the stereotypical caricature of Mumsnet, but it's not a very accurate piss-take of Mumsnet itself.

I mean, for every one person posting about the trials and tribulations with their Albanian nanny, there are 100 20 people willing to rip that poster a new one for their pretensions and ideas above station. And I say this as someone who had a Romanian au pair.

I do horrifiedly admit to mentioning Nigel Slater in a post recently although have never watched his show, nor bought any of his books.

Mary, you remind me v much of another female comedian on the circuit at the mo - a northerner. Can't think of her name, will try to google. If it wasn't for the accent difference, I'd swear you were one and the same. Your intonation is identical.

That was really funny!

Some of the arsey comments on here are really dickheadish!

Ooh, Sarah Millican. Google her.

Made me laugh

But FunnyintheGarden - that's not a true representation of MN cos quite a lot of us AREN'T anal and did find it funny

Not offended, not laughing either though. Meh.

The thing is, not finding her funny doesn't mean not being able to laugh at yourself. It just means that she didnt appeal to a certain sense of humor. Now if you got Eddie Izzard to do a MN sketch I would most likely be rolling on the floor in a puddle of my own pee.

I didn't find it particularly ha ha funny but it wasn't remotely offensive.

AIBU is great fodder for comedy though and targeting the passive aggressive element of it all was original, as opposed to the "hysterical spoilt mothers" element of mumsnet which has been done to death in parodies.

Font - I agree - but he'd choose funnier and less obvious things to comment on

To people who don't have kids or use this site the subjects in AIBU must sometimes seem ridiculous in the big picture. I know many of my single friends inc my sister have had a glimpse on here and thought WTF! .

see!!

'And I say this as someone who had a Romanian au pair'

classic

Made me laugh!!

But then I am the first to admit I have a strange sense of humour.

A bit like doing a bit about why policemen all carrying umbrellas. You can be very funny and say hilarious things, but the audience will always be thinking "But policemen don't all carry umbrellas", even if they're laughing.

I think it's strange to accuse those who don't find it funny of not having a sense of humour or being up themselves.

No one who doesn't find it funny is accusing those who do of being a bit thick and undemanding, are they?

It's dull stereotyping that actually bears no resemblance to what is on Mumsnet. Have you even bothered to read any threads here?

Calling women bitches makes you a misgoynistic asshole, dreaming of killing Mumsnetters makes you a psycho, but the men in the audience loved it. Did you enjoy all their cheers and the male approval you were getting?

Come the revolution misogynistic wanker-comedians of whatever sex will be the first up against the wall. :)

Oh sorry, I see you're a "comedienne", a lady who tells jokes. Well there's space in the wall for misogynistic wankers of that stripe too.

Sigh.

That is all.

I am taking the point of those who think it misogenistic. I am not going to dismiss it because a.this isnt netmums and b. there is something to it (IMO)

As for it being funny.
Personally I think it is. The OP is saying stuff that I have seen on the boards over and over. There are an awful lot of funny women on MNs who make very sharp comments if someone is getting all 4X4'y and banging on about nannies (home made pasta anyone?).

So she could have lifted that stuff straight from the pages of MNs. That could make her a lazy arse.

I laughed, I recognised MNs.

But as I said before I am so far removed from the sterotype she was laughing at, I suppose it was easy for me to laugh.

If she had been banging on about women with brown kids, benefits, wishing they could afford a nice bit of CK oilcloth, feeding their kids unorganic food etc etc
I probably would have been more

But there are plenty of comics who do that already. Vikki Pollard? Vair Hilaire if you are a public school boy with lots of money.

Lets poke the prols and see what happens.

But thats another thread I suppose.

I'm bemused by all the Mumsnetters here who don't mind being called complacent bitches (cheer!), racists and smug mummies moaning or having someone fantasising about their blood running the streets (big hurray!) and in fact are actually praising this drivel.

I think that would mean that the "joke" (what there was of it) is on you.

That didn't even make me smile. Lazy, clichéd, a little bit pathetic really.
Glad I'm not the only one.

Erm, no thunderbolsandlightning, it just means that not everyone who posts online defines themselves as a "mumsnetter" or identifies strongly with the site as anything more than a way to while away a bit of time.

Perhaps the issue might be more why is MN-which I thought was simply set up for parents to talk/seek advice/help each other-perceived/portrayed in such a way by the media?

I happen to post on MN-but don´t consider myself an MNer btw.