to think that Nish Kumar being booed offstage has cheered me up no end?

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Yes, I am biased, because I've always found his brand of left wing wokery unfunny, but, let's face it, to think he could go on stage in front of that audience, with his usual routine of 'Brexit supporters are stupid' and not get the odd bread roll thrown at him, is pretty arrogant.

So they booed off a comedian everyone knows does pro remain left wing comedy who was trying to help then raise money for their charity. OK, then

Well.... they voted leave, so they're not known for being the brightest bunch, are they?

ducks bread rolls

I think they are extremely rude. Particularly as he was doing the gig for free.

OP - you need to get out more mate

Kumar will probably be embarrassed to see mumsnet defend him - i imagine he thinks mumsnet is full of terfs and transphobes as he is strongly TWAW and pro trans rights. Like Frankie Boyle - proliferate blocker of terfs

Kumar will probably be embarrassed to see mumsnet defend him - i imagine he thinks mumsnet is full of terfs and transphobes as he is strongly TWAW and pro trans rights.

He'd probably just condescendingly dismiss them as "Whiiiiite peeeople" - even though there are many people of all races and nationalities on MN.

Stay silent and perhaps boo or heckle (if you can be imaginative in your heckle).

I remember Frank Skinner recalling the best heckle he ever received. A very short way into his set, an obviously blind man shouted "You're rubbish, go home!" Not wanting to be seen to be picking on a disabled person, Frank just ignored it and, after an awkward few seconds of silence, started to continue his routine. Immediately, the man shouted out again "Oi, are you STILL here?!?!"

Sorrry thought that Nicholas was dull, half his jokes barely made sense (and Im not against all right wing comedy, I watch chubby brown every xmas)

My favourrite heckle ever was Alan Davies, came on and spent a few minutes in silence just rubbing the curtain (just after the alt comedy era)-audience member shouted out 'Wrong type of material Alan'

He said it was only one bread roll

Well.... they voted leave, so they're not known for being the brightest bunch, are they?

See, that’s exactly the kind of “joke” Nish would make, safe in the bubble of his lefty Remainer audience, and know that he’ll get a laugh from it!

It’s a weird kind of comedy - if that is even what it is - that completely relies on everyone holding the same political viewpoint. So you can effectively just yell “Brexiteers - aren’t they stupid!” and the audience rolls in the aisles.

Ah-there you are,@jillyhilly! Don’t forget that link, will you?

If you are correct, would you still keep on doing the same material when the audience has let you know that they don't find it funny?

Reports indicate that they were fine with the set till he mentioned Brexit, when a few sensitive souls took offence. Not quite the same thing.

I’m not surprised a load of cricket bores/boars threw bread rolls at him just like at boarding school, eh?
Perhaps they should have booked Roy Chubby Brown instead - would have been a safer bet ... rather than one of the countries between comedians.

It’s a bit weird that the OP’s day is ‘made’ by hearing second hand news that a comedian she doesn’t like has been booed off stage for telling political jokes that didn’t go down very well.

That’s one uneventful life.

Bertrand, I might be wrong but I get the feeling you’re trying to make a point with the repeated requests for the link. I can’t quite
believe you’ve been waiting for me to share it with you when it’s the very first thing that comes up when you search for Nish Kumar on YouTube. However, here it is:

I remember watching Nish Kumar perform for free as a BBC warm up artist in about 2012. He was a bit thinner and very funny. I still remember his joke about what’s the point of a rising tide that lifts all boats if you haven’t got a boat. Quite.

Afterwards, I remember, we caught sight of him walking quickly off towards Oxford Street tube on his own in his coat, looking tired and like he just wanted to get home.

That video starts after the booing started. I assumed you must have seen the whole set.

It’s a bit weird that the OP’s day is ‘made’ by hearing second hand news that a comedian she doesn’t like has been booed off stage for telling political jokes that didn’t go down very well.

But it’s not just the OP. This has caught the public imagination in quite an interesting way, and I think it’s worth asking why that is. Unfortunately it is very difficult to do so without getting caught up in one’s own political perspective.

So there’s the clip, above. In my opinion it sort of summarises our political divide, so its extremely difficult to see it in any kind of neutral way. If you agree politically with Nish and like his approach to comedy, you’ll see a room full of rude racist Brexiteers, all of whom are thick, possibly working class but also apparently boarding school “cricket bores” who are giving poor Nish - who’s doing it for chaaaaarirty, a ridiculously difficult time.

If you have a different political perspective you’ll see a woke, bigoted Remainer lefty, full of their own superiority - the type you’re sick to death of seeing all over the place - get a satisfying shellacking from an audience who have different values and who’ve had enough of this kind of comedy.

I’ve been on both sides of this debate and it is amazing how we see what we want to see. The only way to see what’s going on is to try and see things from the other perspective. That’s why I made the earlier point about how would you feel if you paid for a nice evening out, only for that annoying guy from the telly who keeps banging on about Trump and Brexit turned up, made a few of his not-very-funny “political observations” and then called you a prick?

But surely it’s clear that by that point he’d lost the audience,Bertrand, which is presumably why someone started filming. What more were you hoping to see?

I just wanted to see the “crappy insulting” set that led to him being booed. Because otherwise how can we know whether the booing was justified or not?

So that makes insulting the audience ok
Well, if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck...
OP yabvvu
It's quite pathetic to find glee in such disgusting behaviour.

It's quite pathetic to find glee in such disgusting behaviour.

I doubt Nish has let this bother him. Stand ups have all played tough venues when they were coming up.

I think it speaks volumes about the audience. Arrogant, privileged men acting like (public) schoolboys.

I’m fairly left leaning and voted remain, but Nish Kumar has never been remotely funny and the Daily Mash programme is toe-curling my embarrassing for all involved.