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Reginald D Hunter 80th birthday

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Spermysextowel · 09/09/2021 08:08

I know that AIBU isn’t the place for this but I need quick answers. My mother has sent me a link as he’ll be at a local venue on a date close to her 80th birthday & she thinks it would make a change from going out for a meal.
I’m sure I’ve read on here before that his live act is very different from e.g. QI. Is this a really bad idea?

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TowelStripes · 09/09/2021 08:12

Haha! I was thinking 'surely he isn't 80' 🤣

Yeah, his stand up is not as PG as TV appearances. Perhaps watch some stuff on YouTube together from his live acts to see if it's too rude?

Flogert · 09/09/2021 08:13

I saw him in Portsmouth a few years ago. Very funny! Why not watch some of his standup online to check? However I’d be of the opinion that if thats what the birthday girl wants, thats what she gets!

MasterBeth · 09/09/2021 08:13

Er, it rather depends on your mother, doesn’t it? How are we supposed to know what she will like?

SylvanasWindrunner · 09/09/2021 08:14

Haha, I was like 'Bloody hell, he looks amazing for his age!'

WhyOhWhyOhWhyyyy · 09/09/2021 08:15

TowelStripes

Haha! I was thinking 'surely he isn't 80 🤣

Haha. That was my first thought too, ‘wow, he’s aged well!’

Shimmyshimmycocobop · 09/09/2021 08:16

Lol just came on here to say no way he's 80!! Grin

ModerateOven · 09/09/2021 08:16

Crikey from your header I thought it was his 80th! I've seen him live and agree that it's very different from telly appearances. Depends on your mum, I suppose.

takehomepay · 09/09/2021 08:18

I think it’s great she wants to see him at age 80, go for it!

Suzyrtyyg · 09/09/2021 08:19

I saw him live a few years ago , very different from his tv and really bitter about a past relationship and really seemed to hate women . I go to a lot of comedy shows he is the worst I have ever seen .

FrauleinSchweiger · 09/09/2021 08:20

Not sure whether he has changed but DH and I saw him live many years ago and it was awful Hmm. He was on some conspiracy theory trip and it was quite uncomfortable and not funny at all.

Not at all what we were expecting having enjoyed watching him on TV.

Be interesting to know from people who have seen him more recently how it was.

WhyOhWhyOhWhyyyy · 09/09/2021 08:21

I saw him live a few years ago and wasn’t really impressed. He made a point of saying how he hadn’t really prepared and was just winging it. I think TV is his forte rather than stand up. If you think your mum will enjoy it though then go for it.

Babdoc · 09/09/2021 08:22

I saw him live 10 years ago in Perth, Scotland. His audience included a lot of elderly people (Perthshire has a fairly old demographic) and I didn’t see anyone visibly offended or walking out.
His live material can be hard hitting - he was born in Georgia, USA, so experienced racism first hand as a black American, and uses the N word freely in his act.
But if your mother can handle that - and she would have been a young woman during the civil rights marches of the 1960’s, so it is unlikely to shock her - then go for it.
Hunter is funny, and a good raconteur in a lovely Georgian drawl. I enjoyed the evening, and I was in my fifties at the time.

moohoop · 09/09/2021 08:23

I've seen him live stand up and even I (not easily offended) was shocked where it ended up at the end - child abuse punchline.

Until that point the rest of it was funny but he's been building that joke all through and it was just awful as I didn't see that conclusion comings Sad

PenguindreamsofDraco · 09/09/2021 08:23

Interesting start to the day musing on RDH being 80 and concluding I definitely still would. Grin

SpindleWhorl · 09/09/2021 08:26

I saw him live about maybe ten years ago. Took the young teens, as was, for an early Xmas treat. His support act man, who I presume he endorses, thinks rape jokes are funny and Hunter himself rambled a lot about women and wasn't as funny as I thought he'd be tbh.

He might have changed the act, though. But I'd check out the support act as well - you might not want 30 minutes of comedy misogyny by proxy.

Divebar2021 · 09/09/2021 08:31

I saw him a few years ago and he made a pretty controversial rape joke. He ended up being heckled and having a debate with a woman in the audience. He finished the show and DH & I were left feeling he hadn’t meant to finish at that point. He was OK up to that point but not side splitting.

LegendaryReady · 09/09/2021 08:31

Yes, I clicked in thinking surely not too 😆

His live comedy is really quite angry on race issues and women. He doesn't come across anything like the warm cuddly person he does on TV.

It's not something I'd want to watch with my parents.

dworky · 09/09/2021 08:31

Be aware that he's a misogynist.

LegendaryReady · 09/09/2021 08:32

He's right on the race stuff and that, I think, is done well and funny, but he really is very misogynistic.

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Spermysextowel · 09/09/2021 08:33

Thank you. I did have a feeling that in a thread a while ago a few posters found him misogynistic. I’ll suggest she has a look on YouTube

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PersonaNonGarter · 09/09/2021 08:42

I’ve seen him live and… yeah no

sashagabadon · 09/09/2021 08:49

I saw him at camp bestival a few years ago. Found him funny but agree he can be sexist. He made a joke aimed at women standing up for their rights ( related to a topical subject) that was really not funny at all

sashagabadon · 09/09/2021 08:50

But he looks great for 80 Grin

WorriedWishingWell · 09/09/2021 08:51

A fax to my agent informed me I was a dad. My daughter was 14 and she wanted to know her father. My female friends told me it served me right; it was karma after everything I’d said on stage about women. Parenthood forced me to get reacquainted with my humility, rethink my relationship with responsibility, and to change how I speak about the opposite gender.
Sadly another male who doesn't understand the need to treat women as humans until he has a daughter.

PeterPomegranate · 09/09/2021 08:56

Worth checking. Husband and I went to see Frankie Boyle (years and years ago) on strength of his Mock the Week appearances. Not only NSFW (ok maybe could have predicted but they were more off colour than I expected) but most disappointingly his stand up jokes didn’t seem any more developed than his telly jokes - just short one liners.

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