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Alan Carr!

31 replies

BegoniaBampot · 23/03/2013 00:07

Ok, have heard people go on about him but never really watched him. Watching him on telly and can't believe how crass he is and all those folk laughing - maybe have had a sense of humour bypass but fuck, how offensive and unfunny. Would be ashamed to be caught in the audience laughing. There's edgy but he isn't even funny.

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KC225 · 23/03/2013 00:18

Are you serious - he's great

TigOldBitties · 23/03/2013 00:41

I went to see his tooth fairy tour, he's really funny. I don't watch chatty man as I never like the guests.

What was he saying that was so awful?

WorraLiberty · 23/03/2013 00:43

Sorry but it might be better if you actually tell us what it was that he said, that you took offence to?

Other than that I can only add that imo he's warm, funny and makes me laugh.

sjupes · 23/03/2013 00:45

Alan carr is brill are you sure it wasn't jimmy carr? He was on c4 after alan tonight - he is vile and unfunny.

RobbinyoureastereggsSparkles · 23/03/2013 00:46

I like him. We went to see him in his Tooth Fairy tour, he was so funny that DH nearly fell off his chair.

I like that he often pokes fun at himself. How did he offend you?

twitchycurtains · 23/03/2013 00:47

I love Alan Carr, he is v funny,, Jimmy Carr on the other hand is most definitely not.

sjupes · 23/03/2013 00:47

The time of this thread suggests jimmy..unless you are on plus one?

please be jimmy no one really dislikes alan he's friends with gok wan fcs!

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BegoniaBampot · 23/03/2013 00:52

Sorry folks, meant Jimmy Carr - that's what 3 glasses of red wine will do for you! It was jokes about Diana, cocks and cocaine as she died and abortion jokes. Apologies.

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sjupes · 23/03/2013 00:55

Jimmy is a vile disgusting tax evading fanny rot!!

He is worse than frankie boyle imo.

ThePathanKhansAmnesiac · 23/03/2013 00:55

Begonia Grin, i get all the names wrong, thats without the wine

Never seen the appeal in Jimmy Carr, shifty eyes as well if I may say.

WorraLiberty · 23/03/2013 00:56

Oh in that case YANBU

I can't stand his paedophile jokes and his stupid fake laugh.

sjupes · 23/03/2013 00:57

I just noticed you have bampot in your name - n.e scotland by any chance Grin

Only ask as that's where i am and it's a conversation staple to loads of people still Shock

TigOldBitties · 23/03/2013 01:01

I quite like some of Jimmy Carrs stuff, although his laugh is awful.

I like that he makes you, well me at least, laugh and then wince after. You know it's close to the mark but you laugh anyway.

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BegoniaBampot · 23/03/2013 01:03

Yes my fabulous name goes unnoticed! What the fuck was that with the fake laugh? Not joking when I say I haven't really watched him in flow before.

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BegoniaBampot · 23/03/2013 01:03

And not NE, more W.

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sjupes · 23/03/2013 01:07

I bloody love scotland - one word can carry across country and be the same Grin i'm sure bampot was my first or second word Blush i'll need to ask my dad that one!

HazeltheMcWitch · 23/03/2013 01:13

That is his real laugh!

HazeltheMcWitch · 23/03/2013 01:14

I also love - and use the word bampot.
I'm from NE Scotland, but now live dahn sarf. Can't say it's caught on quite yet. But It Will!

WandaDoff · 23/03/2013 01:19

I think I remember reading an article once that said Jimmy Carr was bringing up his younger brother after their parents died.

I'm a bit tipsy so I'm not sure but I'll go & look.

Begonia we're in the west/central scotland too

sjupes · 23/03/2013 01:22

It will eventually! I tried my damnedest when i lived in lancashire to spread it but theres more scots than english in blackpool these days anyway!

WandaDoff · 23/03/2013 01:24

No I know nothing about Jimmy Carr at all I must be drunker than I thought Blush

Nirvana1999 · 23/03/2013 01:31

I don't like Alan Carr either. Although he's funnier on Chatty Man than he is on stand up, IMO if course. I had slight road rage and called someone a bampot the other day, my friend hasn't heard it before, it's my new name for her.

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BegoniaBampot · 23/03/2013 01:35

See feel bad now, nothing against Alan Carr. But Jimmy Carr - be gone, ya bampot!

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Nirvana1999 · 23/03/2013 01:37

Jimmy Carr is a fud of the highest order.

WandaDoff · 23/03/2013 01:37

Bampot is right up there with Bawbag in my top 10 scottish sweary words.