to put on my giant judgy-Mcjudgy-pants over this?

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Last night I was at a Rob Brydon gig - a comedy gig that started at 8 and finished at 10.45.

There were loads of parents with kids - some as young as 8 Perhaps half a dozen families.

I really judged. It was the most inappropriate place to take children - surely everyone knows it's adult comedy - there was numerous 'fucks' and the occasional 'cunt', and lots of rude jokes and anecdotes.

Am I so out of step - do others really think that's an ok gig to take them to?

Age 8? Too young.

Surely they should be waiting until Gigglebiz is out on tour.

Oh, you will get well return-judged for this!! I wouldn't take mine at that age but I wouldn't worry about other kids being there tbh, lots of stuff goes over their heads. Whether they would enjoy it or not is another matter...

No way would I take my DC to a comedy gig -its obvious even from the (censored) stuff you see on TV that its going to be full of unsuitable material and swearing of the highest order!

Mind you I am someone who almost put my hands over 10yo DDs ears when a contestant said "pissed" on Come Dine With Me" recently

With respect to the language used I'd suggest you never let the kids go to Glasgow!

ski - I'm from Glasgow (just don't live there now)

The inappropriate stuff was definitely nore than just the swearing, there were long cock jokes too.

I don't understand why, when there is so much that is appropriate to take dc to instead?

We went to see Michael Mcintyre live. He'd done a few risque jokes, talked about blow jobs, used fuck frequently, when he did a double take and noticed a child on the front row. Asked said child his age, child was 9yrs old and had his brother with him, who wasn't much older. Mcintyre looked a bit embarasssed and said he'd have to find more suitable jokes for the rest of the evening.

What were the parents thinking of?

Pixie - it was brilliant, really funny -the warmup act was good too (Al Mccruggan or something)

Ixia - that would really piss me off - a comedian actually toning down the act because of the children in the audience - some things are just meant for adults only imo (and are better for it)

I was very very when I heard how many dimwits parents had taken pre-pubescent girls to see Daniel Radcliffe in Equus.

The tickets for these shows are really expensive too - why would you spend so much money taking them to something where if they understand even half of it, that is actually a Bad Thing

YANBU - I would have judged hard too!

I don't think I'd "judge" the parents for this. Would be a bit surprised to see kids there, but not something to judge over.

I've seen Rob Brydon on telly and he's been quite tame and family friendly. On interviews on the radio and stuff. Maybe they just assumed he'd be like that and didn't realise there would be a lot of his adult stuff and swearing. Maybe they just made a mistake???

It would be the late night that would make me as much as the content. I would rather watch a comedy gig without the kids in tow anyway, and failing that, put them to bed and watch the DVD with booze and fags some popcorn on the couch.

My ds (7) loves Dyaln Moran, but I didn't take him to see him live just for the reason that other people would judge us. Shame really, but I couldn't be dealing with all the dirty looks I would get just because Ds may here the off F word.

lola - it would be terrible if someone gave you dirty looks - that would be entirely the wrong thing to do.

YANBU

YANBU as it contained adult humour, if it was something like Sinfield or non adult humour that would be fine why not.

YANBU. I would have judged my arse off.

Yes Pixie, I do understand that, so I wouldn't take him.

But, on the same token, I saw the Killers at Wembly earlier this year and saw a woman and her two kids (aged about 8-10 I would guess) getting hounded out from the people sittting around them, telling her off for bringing them etc, it was madness. I know its not the same thing, but it was horrible to see, I really felt fot her. Again, DS would have loved to see the killers at Wembly, I am glad he didn't now seeing the reastion the other mother got.

We take ds to the V festival every year and have had really nasty comments there as well.

YEs, I agree there is a difference, I was just ponting out that some people have a probelm with kids going to anything 'adult' at all. And, TBH, there was a lot more swearing and sexual inuendo at this years V from the likes of Lily Allen, Lady Gaga and Katy Perry than at most comedy gigs.

'there were long cock jokes too.'
What? jokes about long cocks, or long jokes about cocks?

YANBU at all.