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 ?

Ry, I'm sorry?

Have you ANY grasp of username evolution on this forum?

you are making no sense whatsoever.

Will get back to you after I've watched it - meanwhile just marking my place ... look forward to catching it later ...
Glad you love it here, I'm fond of the place too

WTAF?! :o

OK Ry - focus, focus.

Jane - your disappointment is nothing in comparison to mine. I thought you were the orgasm lady and no I find you are nothing but a fake. Pah.

Now, just to clear things up. Jugglingwithpumpkins - are you actually juggling a pumpkin right now? Sleepy Fergus? Are you tired, and is your name Fergus? Bogeymanface - are you a man with a bogey on your face?

No, I am a woman with the face of a Bogeyman, but I now see that it would be an easy mistake to make, so I apologise for my lack of foresight when choosing my username. I really should have considered the "man with bogey on face" confusion.

we don't call each others mummies

I do-when they are at their worst!
I think she should do another one-there is loads more material.

It's OK, it's easy done - but then most of us assume that other posters will be able to understand that our NNs are not to be take literally

JB - I was joking - but from now on I shall read your posts in a slightly out of breath French accent -

loved this, great job I thought it was hilarious, will look for more of you on you tube

"JB - do you know Jane Birkin recorded one of the worst love songs known to man? - her fake orgasm in 'je t'aime is the stuff of legends - so I really don't think you should be lecturing me on what's considered highbrow entertainment."

What the tits?

Actually, Je'Taime Moi Non Plus was written for (and originally sing by) Brigitte Bardot. Birkin was just a stand-in. Plus, she was quite a good actress. So not as low-brow as you'd think, Ry.

She was joking. Apparently.

Katie Perry and The Wanted are the live acts,
Don't like either of them.

Oooops, wrong thread

it's the impersonating thing I didn't quite get tbh. I haven't been trying to sound like anyone really

You did try to sound like Brigitte Bardot on Je' Taime, Jane. You did very well.

Jane - you protest too much.

I think working9while5 has hit the nail on the head. Aibu as a concept and a topic certainly deserves to be lampooned. And if you haven't been on a thread where defending city bonuses, threatening to move to Hong Kong if tax goes up, driving 4x4 vehicles in the city and complaining that £200,000 pa household incomes are inadequate, then you don't really know Mumsnet.

Still interested to hear why op felt it ok to use the word bitches, though. But have a feeling we will never hear.

Bubcakes - yep, she wasn't a bad actress that's true.

( Off to watch X Factor results [highbrow])

I thought the whole point of AIBU is that the idea of it is a bit of a piss-take in itself. After all it's the place you go if you want a barracking from total strangers telling you how truly wrong you are about whatever it is you're doing.

How many places on the internet offer the space for that kind of self reflection? It's obviously somewhat tongue in cheek. But this comedienne missed the joke, because she's all frothed up about smug mummies and wants to please the boyz in her audience.

Bibbity, I've been on those threads and those kind of people get a very hard time here mostly. So why is this woman using them as indicative of all Mumsnetters when the opposite is true?

But this comedienne missed the joke, because she's all frothed up about smug mummies and wants to please the boyz in her audience

Sorry, but while there is a thread running alongside this one moaning about workmen who poo in your toilet, I ealy don't think its the comedienne that is missing the joke here....

She isn't saying they are indicative of all Mumsnetters. She is lampooning Mumsnet, I hardly think her audience are taking her seriously. Comedy is comedy - do you really take as the literal truth the observational comedy of Jack Dee or Lee Evans or Peter Kay, for instance. You know they are exaggerating to comic effect - do you think this woman's audience are incapable of understanding the same.

I have made several posts on this thread and you will see from the very start that I have been consistent in my dislike of her using the word bitches. But some of her lines are funny (pronouncing chorizo) to some of us. I'd hazard a guess that most Mumsnetters do have some of the habits/characteristics/opinions she is mocking. Ok, you can accuse her of lazy stereotyping, but she will be aware of this and so will her audience. Hell, some of her audience appear to be members of this very forum who found her little bit funny on a scale of patchy to mildly amusing to outright hilarious.

Someone agreed with me! No one ever agrees with me! (Not because I have disagreeable opinions, just because they're unimpressive/unmemorable).

Now I am [smug]

Thunder , she's not frothed up at all, she's joking and exaggerating for comic effect. She possibly is a regular on mums net, I doubt she hates all members and wishes I'll on them. TBH, the only one who seems to be overly frothing is you, why are you so upset at this and no matter how much you bang on I won' t agree with you but bang on some more and get it all off your chest.

Bibbity racists like racist comedy. Sexists like sexist comedy.

People don't have to take it literally, what this is about is letting the kind of people who think it's OK to call women bitches know that it's OK to call women bitches and fantasise about violence against them.

Did nobody here live through the eighties when comedians avoided getting cheap laughs at the expense of women and minorities, and actually tried to be funny on other terms? We seem to be going backwards now with the likes of Frankie Boyle, Ricky Gervais and people like this woman. I think it's a shame.

And she did direct the bitches at all Mumsnetters, not just the ones that people here think deserve it.