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.

“ Was he there to give a lecture on morals and politics?”

Would you expect him to write N entirely new set for a one off charity gig?

*According to Twitter one of the things he said before he started getting booed was:

“I want you white people in the audience to do something for me. I want you to go home and kill your Brexit-voting parents.”

Is hate speech what passes for comedy these days?*

I can't find any reference to him saying that at this gig. It was reported that he said it at another gig, so maybe he did have some awareness of his audience not to bring that line out there.

As far as the line itself goes, I don't find it funny, but comedians often go out to shock. It's an intrinsic part of comedy that makes people uncomfortable, and if you want to have a go at any comedian who has ever said something you deem 'hate speech' it's going to be a very long list of comedians.

The war criminal 'elderly gentleman', who was seen covering himself in yoghurt, Penelope? that one?

Was he, Farage etc doing it all for charity at a private function?

I think the reaction of the crowd was harsh given that it was a charity gig he was doing for free. But I am not surprised he received a poor reception to self loathing left wing lectures masquerading as comedy to a group of hard working, successful and charitable people, especially given that their inhibitions would have been lowered to some degree.

Would you expect him to write N entirely new set for a one off charity gig? Probably not Bertrand but he could have adapted a bit.
I voted remain but I probably wouldn't have laughed much. I get enough lecturing about Brexit and 'boomers' at home from DS1

I find him quite funny and agree with his view of things ( although I do think he laughs a bit too much at other peoples jokes). Saying that I suppose if a few bread rolls is the worse that has happened to him as a comedian/person than he can count himself lucky

Yes, I love it when a minority who's probably struggled his entire life to get ahead, finally gets his comeuppance while donating his time to charity.

Comedy is, I think, an important arena of free speech - left wing types can and should insult right wing types and vice versa. Throwing rolls seems fairly inoffensive where someone wades into the Brexit fray, charity gig or not .

YANBU- he's a smug, woke tosser- can't bear the mash report.

I don’t find his stuff that funny but I do admire the way he has shrugged all this off as an occupational hazard if you’re a comedian.

Missing the point spectacularly yorkshirelass 🙄

Patroclus are you justifying throwing things, doesn't matter a jot to me why either Farage or Nish Kumar were doing what they were doing I don't agree with throwing things at anyone full stop.

People who attended the event in question where expecting to be entertained not lectured so yes he should have modified his act to fit in with the occasion but certain left wing types can never let an opportunity pass by without promoting their agenda.

What's the word for a right wing snowflake? A shit shaving?

No, im pointing out things that never happened.

Throwing is not on. But booing is a fair response to disliking a performer. I saw a video of a few minutes of his set and it just wasn't funny.

Also Patroclus do you have definitive evidence that the elderly gentleman threw the milkshake/yoghurt over himself? I can't find any.

I also find him irritating and unfunny but I think the audience reaction to him was pathetic and I think his behaviour shows him in a much better light than theirs tbh.

The crowd throwing things sound like a bunch of dickheads, and I'm amazed that anyone supports that. He was performing for charity and people are welcome not to like his stuff, but not to throw stuff at him.

I went to see Nish earlier in the year and found him very funny.

Could somebody share the link to his set, please? I haven’t seen it, so can’t comment specifically.

Stompy the crowd didn't throw things, ONE person threw ONE bread roll and was castigated for it, as even Nish Kumar confirmed but don't let facts get in the way of your outrage.

Apparently it's this BertrandRussell.

with his usual routine of 'Brexit supporters are stupid' and not get the odd bread roll thrown at him
One could argue they kind of proved his point

I can't help thinking that his assumptions of what would play well with the audience is HIGHLY indicative of how the UK ended up in the whole Brexit fisaco situation to start with.

IMHO politicians and intellectuals were happy to rush into a referendum based on their view that because being in the EU was good for the country as a whole, the country would not ultimately vote to leave. Sure, some people would vote leave but they would be the unreachable, uneducated minority. Some intellectuals/politicians/wealthy business people supported Brexit out of greed and personal gain but they know that they have options such that they won't suffer the full consequences in their lovely alternative world of life in the UK.

Austerity and immigration had not impacted negatively to any great extent on their daily lives and they did not fully research the mood of those not so blessed, nor did they seem to believe any reports which may have been comissioned in that area. Their collective conscience seemed unbothered by some of the awful outcomes of things like disability benefit reforms/bed room tax/ the roll of Universal Credit. They aren't forced to use the local sink comprehensive nor to be at the mercy of the NHS's postcode lottery of healthcare or subject to zero hours contracts. People at the grass roots were angry about so many things impacting negatively on their lives they looked for someone to blame and a way to register their discontent...... and it didn't end well.

Those in charge took the UK into a referendum based on their experience of life in the UK simply not realising that "they" were far fewer in number than they thought.

Boris himself ran away from the PM role in the immediate aftermath of the leave vote winning.

Nish Kumar was the cause of his own misfortune.

I love the term ‘left wing types’
I always imagine the poster wearing a lemon twinset pursing her lips whilst twitching the nets.

So a left-wing comedian came over to perform a free of charge gig for a charity.
A comedian famous for his opinions gets booed because he does what he does every time.
It's not that he misjudged the audience. It's the organisers who misjudged who they invited for an audience that was clearly on the right-wing side.
Looks like the funny posh boy Jack Whitehall wasn't available to do that for free so they had to go with a raging socialist.