Last One to Laugh - did the female contestants need to do sexualised performances for laughs?

[Nobiggerthanyourhand]

I really enjoyed Last One to Laugh but was a bit perplexed by the female contestants doing strip teases and erotic dancing,

I don’t watch stand up any more but can’t imagine French and Saunders or Jo Brand twerking at a dog for laughs. Or Bridget Christie.

And the male contestants didn’t do sexualised performances.

So, YABU: it is ok that the women did sexualised performances, and the men, not
YANBU: there is more to women’s comedy than strip teases and twerking

I only remember one ‘striptease’ were there lots?

It wasn't even slightly erotic. She peeled a plaster from her arm and chucked it at someone.

God, I miss French and Saunders. And Jo Brand.

You are right about the constant sexual stuff from female comedians.

You are right about the constant sexual stuff from female comedians

so how many stripteases were there…i only saw the one

Oh wait was there twerking in the dog skit?

i found all the skits really boring so wasn’t really paying attention

Daisy May Cooper didn’t. Her rollercoaster ride was inspired.

Tbh I watched because I was told it was hilarious. It wasn't,
There was a lot of 'poo,bum,willy,snot' type humour that my kid used to find funny when he was 5.

Not all the boys did skits and not all the girls did rude stuff so maybe it would have balanced out

(can’t see richard doing anything rude though didnt mortimer do that tea towel rising from the genital area?

I know what you mean but don’t really agree. I thought Harriet’s skit was a mockery of striptease. The video one by Joe Wilkinson with the guy drawing detailed penises was sexual. I do get a feeling that the women mention sex a lot more than the men, I’d say it’s a sign of the times and like the pendulum swinging back from comedy in the form of lots of men all together being vulgar, to a more balanced room. But it’s a tricky one. I do see what you mean OP and I know why you might not like it.

Yes BM waved a tea towel over a pretend stonk on.

Again, it wasn't in the least sexy.

Re listen or watch some Victoria Wood.

The video one by Joe Wilkinson with the guy drawing detailed penises was sexual

Oh yes, completely forgot about that…shows how much attention i was paying

so both men and women did rude stuff and i didn’t find any of it funny

I didn't watch it but I'm sick to death of women being sexualised. I watched a performance of the voice and two male singers had women wrapped in what looked like bandages writhing away in the background. We don't seem to have progressed much from Legs and Co.

I don’t watch stand up any more but can’t imagine French and Saunders or Jo Brand twerking at a dog for laughs.

"Oh Timmy, you're so licky!"
Dawn French pretending to have sex with a dog in a Famous Five skit.

Yes. BM did do a bit of magic with the tea towel.

There were two stripteases, I thought. Lou and Harriet.

I am not sure that I agree with the pendulum swinging back idea … what does a woman mocking a striptease / erotic dance do for the feminist cause?

And to be really prudish, the vibrator stuff with Judi Love was also a bit low-grade, wasn’t it?

I like to imagine that she would have put more effort into a skit. Or at least rolled out some of her best stuff.

Yes! And she snogged Hugh Grant for Comic Relief. And Jo Brand and Ruby Wax did dress up as the Cheeky Girls.

Perhaps I have misremembered the golden era of female comedians. Well, I stand corrected (but at an uneasy angle and still with a perplexed expression).

I found the series great, actually. Because comedians laugh a lot, and telling the jokes was as dangerous as hearing them.

Bob Mortimer's winning joke was a classic and Joe Wilkinson's RNLI thing damn near killed me.

But the things that broke the contestants were the stupid little things, not the jokes generally.

Oh, I totally agree @TheWonderhorse . It was brilliant. It has made my week watching it.

And the gallery of comedians smiling and openly laughing perfectly balanced the pent-up laughter of the ones in the room. It was joyous.

And I am glad that Bob Mortimer is so clearly loved, and his winning joke was the best!

Not being funny but....i dont find drawings of penises funny

No? Fair enough. I do.

Do you mean 'Last One Laughing' @Nobiggerthanyourhand ?

Or is this a different show?

(Not trying to be funny, honestly... Or pick you up on being 'wrong.' Just wonder if you mean Last One Laughing... On Amazon.)

It spells out LOL @BatchCookBabe on Amazon.

Yes, I thought it was brilliant. Especially the completely innocuous questions that were setting people off.

Right at the start, Bob Mortimer asked Rob Beckett if he had a kitchen island and you could see Rob already thinking he wasn't going to be able to cope.

I'm not a snobby person, certainly not when it comes to comedy, so I found it hilarious and has tears rolling down my cheeks several times from laughter.

I didn't find any of it to be sexualised. A piss take of a strip tease wasn't intended to be sexual, it was intended to be awkward and funny, which it was.