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

[Gone2far]

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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.

It doesn’t really matter whether you find him funny or not- would you boo and slow handclap?

how can we know whether the booing was justified or not?

Well yes, it’s a good point that seeing the entire set before passing judgement would probably be a good idea. But unless there’s another link somewhere that I’ve missed, nobody here seems to have done that, so this entire thread is about passing judgement without seeing all the evidence; to a certain extent I think that’s fair enough and we can imagine what Nish said based on the stuff he churns out on the telly on a fairly regular basis. And your very first post on this thread seemed to imply that you’d made up your mind and the audience absolutely wasn’t justified in their response because he was just doing his usual Nish routine, and more than that doing it for charity out of the generosity of his heart. But perhaps I misunderstood your point.

And anyway, who cares whether or not each of us individually thinks it was “justified”? And what are you going to do when you’ve decided - feel smug? aggrieved? completely satisfied that our decision that the audience / Nish was in the wrong and this proves everything you’ve ever said Brexiteers / Remainers? Nish can say what he likes, that’s the point, and everyone will react differently, that’s fair enough isn’t it? I think there’s a larger and more interesting conversation to be had, as I mentioned earlier about why this has gone viral and what it says about all of us.

If the Right actualy found a sense of humour, maybe they could have some comedy of their own rather than Mrs Brown's Boys and Jim Davison. As it is the only others getting very successful are left wing. Wonder why that is....

For a long time middle aged northern men all made the same jokes and were given a gameshow, then proper comedy actually emerged in the 80s in which originality and wit actually matters.

You dont have a divine right to get an act who agrees with you politically, its just people of a certain political persuasion arnt funny.

This fits in the (now completely brimming) conservatives getting upset about the free market category.

I wouldn’t boo at Nicholas thing who someone shared earlier. I thought bits of his stuff were quite funny. The anti feminist jokes weren’t funny, which was a shame. But I would’ve have booed him!

I don't find this new swathe of "comedians" very funny, because I used to live up North where some of the funniest comedians came from, due largely to the number of comedy clubs.
Nish Kumar can consider himself lucky, because if his brand of "humour" is based on ridiculing 52% of the population, then I suggest he plays a few of the Northern clubs and see what their response is.

andyoldlabour- who do you find funny?

The video looks a bit sad. I obviously can't judge completely as it doesn't show the whole thing, but from that clip, it shows the audience (or rather a section of the audience) in a very bad light.

It is possible to sit quietly if you don't enjoy the jokes. You can't believe your entitled to a comedian that's going to completely match your political views and there were probably mixed views in that audience.

if his brand of "humour" is based on ridiculing 52% of the population

Well, it isn't, is it? Only 37% of the electorate voted for Brexit, and the percentage of the populate is only around 25% - and that was the electorate/population 3.5 years ago. Both have changed quite a bit since then.

I don't think there is a video of the full set (or of John Bercow being booed)

Im also up north but most of those old comedians were crap. Taffy ffs

BertrandRussell

I find the following very funny - John Bishop, Peter Kaye, Russell Howard, Bob Mortimor, Billy Connolly, Dave Allen, Hugh Dennis, Paul Whitehouse.

if his brand of "humour" is based on ridiculing 52% of the population

I don’t care if it happens to ridicule 99.9% of the population, if it’s sufficiently funny. Nish has his moments.

Nicholas de Santo was pretty funny, I thought, even the anti-feminist jokes. Thanks for the link.

Also a fan of safer comedians like Danny Bhoy, as long as we’re throwing names around.

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

Have you any idea how stupid it makes you look to say things like this?

I've never heard of this person but, judging from what I've read in the thread, we have diametrically opposing views so it's not surprising. I wouldn't have thrown a roll at him, I would probably have got up and gone to the bar for a drink for the duration of his time on stage, which would hopefully would have been out of earshot.

“ which would hopefully would have been out of earshot.”

So not interested in anyone else’s point of view then?

@Gone2far look at the comments on his FB page. That's not really the cream of the gene pool is it?

Beveren

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 suspect that there are other sources that say differently. its all about perspective.

YANBU!

I suspect the audience members had a few wee sherries. I think Nish should hone his dealing with heckler skills.