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 ?

[usualsuspect]

Why write your own materiel ,when you can just lift it straight from here?

[begonyabampot]

it's still her own material even if she used some inspiration (as most comics and writers do) from here. And a lot different from some poster writing the odd funny line now and then.

[swallowthree]

Great and captured how I feel about much of Mumsnet and much of the ill informed, self pitying, anti children shite that is spouted on here.

[rycooler]

usualsuspect; I could have written a much funnier routine that's for sure - but there's no way I could be a stand up comedian and do what she does ( I'm too good looking for stand up for one thing ) all she did was take MN's 'smug mummy' image and run with it - she hasn't lifted legit threads has she? - she made them up. With comedy you have to take the obvious and work with that, I'm sure there's some hilarious things being said on the camping threads but hardly anyone reads them so what's the point talking about them? AIBU is very popular and has mass appeal.

[Claragoesbumpsinthenight]

Its not the fact its taking the piss out of Mumsnet- I do that quite a lot but its just the fact I didn't find it funny!

[usualsuspect]

No the threads were not made up ..there were several rastamouse threads and I would hazard a guess she used the comments on them in her routine

[WitchesBrewIsMyFriend]

well I thought it was funny too.

[rycooler]

Yep, loads of RastaMouse threads - loads of nanny threads - loads of threads about organic food, she didn't make that up, what she did was exaggerate those themes - has there ever been a thread about a nanny building the extension? - no, she made it up.

[usualsuspect]

oh well ,it still wasn't funny

[GossipWitch]

funny I love it, (not an organic milk drinker of cows that have been hugged).

[BupcakesandHaunting]

The thing is this; out of all of the forums I have ever been on, Mumsnet is by far the most self-deprecating. With a few exceptions, I think that we don't take ourselves all that seriously. Threads like the ones that this humour vacuum of a woman referenced always end up in the OP getting flamed so what she is actually doing is picking on people that aren't actually that well received here. That's why it isn't funny.

She needs to go away and try again. There is plenty of material on MN to develop a good routine from (BF v FF/SAHM v WOHM etc etc)

Plus, unless you are a MN regular, you wouldn't find her witterings about AIBU remotely funny. That's why I know that all of the hearty guffaws were canned.

So there.

[scottishmummy]

She's right about the content radge out about rastamouse impact upon received pronunciation and is I sounding black mummy?and lazy euro nannies who won't work 18hr day for tuppenth ha'penny and a biscotti for supper

Just not the delivery.pretty poor

[rycooler]

Usualsuspect

[begonyabampot]

well my husband laughed as well and he doesn't read mumsnet. The kids laughed too but i'm not sure if they were laughing at her or laughing at us.

[JarethTheGoblinKing]

v amused that this thread's still going

[timetoask]

oh, thanks for sharing MARY, I thought it was brilliant.

[FunnysInTheGarden]

Agreed Bup. It was just badly done.

[BleedyGhoulzombiez]

WHATTT??? Nannies don't normally build extensions?? You are kidding, right?

[harrysdad2011]

I saw Mary Bourke last night at a comedy club and she did this joke. A light hearted sketch, very funny live

[valiumredhead]

Did you laugh in all the right places harry?

[Ariesgirl]

On a day in which my heart has felt like a stone and I have cried at the drop of a hat, this has made me not only smile but Laugh. Out. Loud.

Thank you.

[Thzumbazombiewitch]

What's wrong, Ariesgirl? Obviously not the thread to share, but have you another thread elsewhere about whatever it is?

[Ariesgirl]

You just being kind has set me off again, zombiewitch :):(. No I don't have another thread about it, though it's kind of about a thread IYSWIM? (probably not). Thanks for asking though

I'll watch some more Comedy I think. Yes. That'll do it.

[Thzumbazombiewitch]

Have PMd you with more comedy. :)

[northernrock]

Was funny in parts. I like Am I beeeeing unresonable!
There are some smug twats on here complaining about their nannies, sure. But there are also some of the funniest people in the country. With more original material.