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

269 replies

Gone2far · 04/12/2019 09:58

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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.

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JacobReesClunge · 04/12/2019 16:30

Gosh that's very optimistic of you to think we're going to be able to forget about Brexit derxa. The Europe issue has always lurked not very far from the surface in British politics. If it ever gets to the stage where we can stop thinking about it, we'll probably all have moved to Mars or something by then.

Alsohuman · 04/12/2019 16:34

I expect people asked what political comedy would use for material when Thatcher had gone. Ben Elton’s entire repertoire was based on her.

MistyCloud · 04/12/2019 16:36

YANBU @Gone2far

I find him about as funny as piles anyway.

And whenever he is on any panel shows (like 8 out of 10 cats or The Last Leg,) 4 out of 5 things he says are about his race, and how racist white people are. Snoozeworthy crap comedy. Overdone and lame. No wonder he got stuff thrown at him.

Many people are sick of the ultra-PC and 'woke' far-left now. And this reaction proves it. So he was doing it for charity. Big deal.

derxa · 04/12/2019 16:36

Gosh that's very optimistic of you to think we're going to be able to forget about Brexit derxa. The Europe issue has always lurked not very far from the surface in British politics. If it ever gets to the stage where we can stop thinking about it, we'll probably all have moved to Mars or something by then. But I don't want to hear about the bastarding thing on a night out. It threatens to wipe my industry out. I don't find it funny at all. Nish Kumar will be ok though it won't affect him at all. In fact it's how he makes his money.

JacobReesClunge · 04/12/2019 16:38

I can completely understand not wanting to be faced with it when you're out on the razzle derxa. Had more than enough of Brexit myself!

derxa · 04/12/2019 16:39

I expect people asked what political comedy would use for material when Thatcher had gone. Ben Elton’s entire repertoire was based on her. Oh for God's sake Ben Elton is a talented writer and novelist.
And I thought his Thatcher stuff was funny.

leckford · 04/12/2019 16:40

I always find it strange if I was as rude about lefties and immigrants I would be shouted down, but the nasty leftist ‘commedians’ seem to be able to say what they want and that is OK for some reason

Alsohuman · 04/12/2019 16:42

Of course it is @leckford. Satirists have mined the seam of politics for centuries.

Beveren · 04/12/2019 16:43

If someone is such a sensitive little soul that they can't cope with hearing views that differ from their own same could be said of Nish Kumar who has said I spend a lot of time bathing in a glow of consensus.

Can you really not see the difference? (a) Kumar is aware of what is happening, which is clearly more than you can say of the people objecting to him - and when someone is aware that they're in a "glow of concensus" they clearly know what to discount; and (b) he's very obviously joking about it, whereas these idiots seem to be serious.

Trewser · 04/12/2019 16:43

Comedians getting heckled and booed etc is part if the job description, it’s hardly news worthy. He’s not in the least funny so he got what he deserved. Worse happens at comedy clubs every night of the week

yeah, he's lucky it wasn't a bottle of piss (which actually happened at a comedy club I went to many years ago)

Beveren · 04/12/2019 16:46

Unfortunately he is one of the many tedious BBC lovies, he is not funny and neither are most of the others. I now rarely listen to BBC radio and we rarely watch most of the TV either, despite the licence fee. The ‘comedy’ they produce is aimed at the London audience which are not representative of the U.K. as a whole.

It's hilarious when people make wild generalisations like this whilst simultaneously admitting that they have no idea what they're talking about anyway.

BertrandRussell · 04/12/2019 16:54

“yeah, he's lucky it wasn't a bottle of piss (which actually happened at a comedy club I went to many years ago)“
Yep- when you do a favour for an organisation the least you can expect is not to have a bottle of piss thrown at you!

PlacidPenelope · 04/12/2019 16:59

Beveren you think the audience are not aware of what is happening? Really? Nish Kumar said he was surprised at the reaction because he normally basks in a glow of concensus, everyone in his bubble agrees with him and finds his material funny. This audience didn't find his political hectoring funny, maybe they were tired of the same old, same old tropes trotted out by those who share the same views as Nish.

BertrandRussell · 04/12/2019 17:04

The thing is- even if I don’t like an entertainer, I am capable of sitting patiently for 15 minutes. I’m sure a witty heckle or two would have gone down well with everybody. But slow handclapping and booing particularly someone who’s appearing for free is just rude.

Figmentofmyimagination · 04/12/2019 17:05

Ben Elton co-wrote the very funny Upstart Crow. He certainly wasn’t stuck for material post Thatcher. He was also behind Blackadder.

LellyMcKelly · 04/12/2019 17:06

Only if you’re the sort of dick head who laughs at bad things happening to other people.

Spamantha · 04/12/2019 17:06

They'll wish they'd hung on to that bread roll after Brexit happens.

BoneyBackJefferson · 04/12/2019 17:06

I think that Nish is as much to blame as whoever booked him.

Alsohuman · 04/12/2019 17:08

think that Nish is as much to blame as whoever booked him

How do you work that one out?

Figmentofmyimagination · 04/12/2019 17:09

Not long after the ref vote I went to see Stewart Lee trial out some new material. He was saying how difficult it had become for comedians like him now that a section of his audience could radically disagree with another section.

Perhaps we are in for a few more years of safe old Michael McIntyre types snore.

Beveren · 04/12/2019 17:09

Beveren you think the audience are not aware of what is happening?

What they're aware of is that they're hearing something that doesn't fit in with their prejudices and they can't handle it, so their reaction is to boo and throw things.

Kumar, by contrast, is very obviously gently taking the piss out of himself when he says he "normally basks in a glow of consensus". People who don't even understand that are totally misreading what is going on here.

BoneyBackJefferson · 04/12/2019 17:13

Alsohuman

An event that is predominantly right wing invites a left wing comedian = stupidity,

A left wing comedian says yes = stupidity.

Anyone with a brain could see that it wasn't going to work.

And before you jump in with it wasn't his fault someone threw bread at him, I agree, that is entirely down to the person that threw it.

BertrandRussell · 04/12/2019 17:16

Well, I wouldn’t assume the Lord’s Taverners were all right wing. And I would assume they had good manners. And I would assume that they weren’t all snowflakes.

PlacidPenelope · 04/12/2019 17:23

What they're aware of is that they're hearing something that doesn't fit in with their prejudices and they can't handle it, so their reaction is to boo and throw things.

And there we have it, unless you think like me, vote like me, agree with me and hold the same opinions as me you are prejudiced, yet more of the laughably free thinking liberal dialogue.

The audience booed and an item was thrown because they didn't find him funny and were bored by his tedious political ranting, his job was to entertain, he didn't entertain the audience and he is clearly not a capable enough comedian to adapt his material on the hoof when it is failing to achieve what it is supposed to, i.e., make people laugh.

BoneyBackJefferson · 04/12/2019 17:24

And as some one that paid wouldn't you expect to not be insulted and for the comedian to have enough range in their material to be able to adapt to their audience.