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 ?

Hilarious and very true!!!!

I think Mary missed a trick as it happens. If I were short of material, as a comedienne , I would watch threads on general subjects or current affairs and feverishly scribble down everything posted by Shirley or Bjups or Hully or Greeneyes or half a dozen others on here who are genuinely funny. Then I'd work it up into a routine and pass it off as my own.

MN posts have occasionally made me laugh harder than anything else ever, bar that time in assembly when Emma Shandon wet her leotard doing a gymnastics display. That comedy clip was just tedious and slightly irritating.

The first rule of parenting is -never take yourself too seriously.

Often I find a a pretty good clue to seriousness-or not.

Certainly not on AIBU, LeQueen!
I give advice to those really in need,(on serious threads) but otherwise it is an opportunity to have a bit of fun!
Of course she was OTT but anyone could recognise the basis-she had certainly dipped into AIBU.

This is a distraction not RL .I have often been on here discussing the merits of frosted glass over clear while simultaneously contemplating serious health issues irl and dealing with family shi* etc etc. I think some people have got things out of proportion.

There was a wonderful thread with 'what I have l have learnt from MN' and it was far funnier than anything in OP- and all from women who were deadly serious.

Haven't read all the comments, but this made me laugh. I'm relatively new to Mumsnet and it made me giggle as it's very much what my initial thoughts were about MN. Well, not just my initial thoughts, much of it rings true all the time.

AIBU is a chance to have a go at the type of person who irritates me in RL and I am never brave enough to have a go e.g. 'disabled people shouldn't park in mother and toddler spaces if they have no spaces of their own'.

"I will hunt you down you smug complacent bitches and the streets will run with your blood"

Hilariously funny.

I'm still waiting for your book LeQueen..............it would be far funnier.

I think the funniest thing about mumsnet isn't the very rare post of the sort the OP was satirising, but the responses they generally garner, which are pretty savage generally. And funnier than anything in the OP's sketch.

Have also had to change my pants after reading some of the mumsnet classics threads.

Honestly - ripping the piss out of middle-class mothers for being middle-class is a bit hmmmm

It's particularly unpleasant hearing the hysterical braying laughter of the undoubtedly middle-class men in her audience.

I wish she would hunt some of 'em down in all honesty.

Quick! Look! There goes the point!

50 miles to the left of you.

I'm offended, and anybody who isn't offended at getting called a bitch (the smug, complacent kind or whatever) or seeing other women getting called bitches just for posting on a website is a self-hating idiot as far as I'm concerned.

I know nobody will take offense at my opinion because if bitch and hate threats don't phase you, probably nothing else will.

It's OK to be offended, that is your right. As is mine (& others) not to be.