Mean Spirited Attack on Peter Kay

[Janos]

What on earth inspired this piece of evil minded vitriol ?

IMO it goes beyond valid criticism and is just downright vicious. Especially this bit:

"PETER Kay is an old school, 16-stone light entertainer of a kind that 30 years ago would have been telling crap jokes about Chinkies, Pakis and West Indians called Chalkie"

What the chuffin heck has Peter Kay ever done to Tony Parsons?

Oh, well, I'll take your first-hand account over DS1's 3rd-hand one any day, AQ! Will look out for the 2 perfumed natterers. I bet you are careful not to do or say anything at all noteworthy in his presence

I'll stick up for Peter Kay. He's hilarious. I love the bit he does about not having enough chairs at Christmas ! So true !

What a t**t TP is. Don't tell me, is he a southerner per chance?

I think PK has very northern humour - I know the outlaws darn sarf don't get it either...or The Office. Thick or wot?

Well I had a fab time at The Apollo - Peter, you are a genius! Ta muchly!

And btw - cheese? and cake? together?

Les Cadburys Fingres

Turn big light on

Get on t'internet

EVERYBODY IIIIIN, IT'S SPITTTTING!!

Rola Cola

What time is is there? 9 o'clock? It's 10 o'clock here!

And the best one.......BOOKED IT, PACKED IT, FUCKED OFF!!!

Am PMSL as I type!!!

I love Peter Kaye! I am not Northern (zummerzet me any zider anyone?), but the jokes still bring back my council house childhood every time. Wonderful! And you don't need to worry about the kids seeing. Even better.

Used to have a best friend whose Dad (departed and dearly missed) wrote a lot of Jim Davidson's scripts, I suppose some of the Chalkie ones. Lovely man really lovely- but absolutely no link between him and Peter Kaye from what I can see! He would have put Peter Kaye into a completely different class of joke.

PMSL Gobbledigook

And I'm a southerner and I think he's brill.

I might have to wath one of the DVDs soon

DD was watching the music channels earlier and dancing. Peter Kaye came on, and she loved it! She danced and "sang" along, and kept laughing telling me how funny it is. She is nearly 3!

To get it you have to be able to totally relate to it.

Who here used to put things in front of the video so no burglars could see the light on the clock from outside! ANd who remembers video 'remote' controls that attached to the video with a lead?!

And who remembers taping the top 40 on their stereo trying really hard to pause as far to the end of the song as possible without getting the talking?!

I've watched the first half of 'Live at the (Bolton) Albert Hall' three times today (joys of end of term...) - not seen it before, nicked it from dh.

Thought it was v funny actually, but can vaguely see where Tony Parsons is coming from in that Peter Kay is very much in the Northern club comic tradition - not exactly breaking new ground, is he? But he does what he does incredibly well, & anyway Tony Parsons thinking you're talentless is much like having George Best tell you you drink too much!

TP's spot on on the drugs debate mind you.

Gobbledigook- you just described the first fifteen years of my lif LOL!

Scary thing is my parents still live that life.

Peter Kay is great. I'm sure I made 'Rose Petal Perfume' too when I was a kid! I love the way he transports you back to your childhood - even the bits you'd forgotten about.

And why does your Mum always buy crap pop?

THat's why it is so funny - because you sit there remininces afterwards. Made the rose petal perfume First video we had had remote control attached to the machine

Grandma leaving the wedding reception at 8pm
kids doing aeroplanes and knee dives on the dance floor

TP is an annoying little twerp anyway and his comment...

is the one that really annoys me. Why does it follow that he would be telling racist jokes? Because he's large and Northern? Not all Northern comedians are Bernard Manning. Peter Kay's humour is keenly observational and not based on stereotypes at all.

ks, I don't like Johnny Vegas either!

I didn't like Pheonix nights, I just didn't get it. Whereas DH, who grew up in east Manchester thought it was hilarious, he got it.

I therefore didn't watch the televised stand up series of his, unfortunately because I did catch an absolutely hilarious 5 minutes at the end of the series, about the dinner ladies bringing children in from the playground (Gdg's EVERYBODY IIIIIN, IT'S SPITTTTING!! I think).

It evoked good childhood memories, I could remember being in that playground! It made me chuckle for days .

NOOOOOOO -he is CRAP COMMON and TOTALLY UNFUNNY. He reminds me of some the fat, dodgy, slimey relative that everyone hopes has been forgotten about but turns up at family events and thinks that he's funny, when all everyone else does is cringe.

joash, I think to some extent, that is the point

love Peter Kay, hate Johhny Vegas and TP's article, though. Phoenix nights was brilliant and shows Peter Kay is not just a stand up comic - the man can act!

Mind you, I would go and see Peter live for his humour, not his voice.

Love Peter Kay too.Dh comes from just outside Bolton & Phoenix Nights used to remind me of my in laws-I always expected to see them in the audience.

Can't stand Johnny Vegas though.Urghhhh,makes me feel queasy just looking at him.

peter kay has more talent in his little finger than parsons could ever dream of, so for once i agree with julie burchill

Isn't TP meant to have a very little willy?