Flo & Joan - Russell Howard

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Only half caught it (might rewatch later) but caught something in their song about "trans" and "J K Rowling"

leaving it there, as it's quite a mainstream show ....

Is that their 2020 song? Someone shared it on Facebook so I listened as some of their other stuff is quite amusing. And then I stopped it after they slagged JKR off.

I got to the bit about JKR and I'm afraid I had a sense of humour bypass -women's rights is a massive joke huh?

IMH they are not as witty or funny as they clearly think they are.

Well I felt disappointed by that bit but the rest was good.

Yeah it was quite funny up to that point, then I just stopped listening. Probably not surprising really.

It’s gob shite virtue signalling... “oh aren’t twee, sweary and on point”

Prefer Fascinating Asda’s Christmas message...

The new expert on trans rights is a wizard loving sham

Sit down JK Rowling

Off you piss to Azkaban

www.comedy.co.uk/online/videos/21551/flo-and-joan-the-2020-song/

Flo and Joan are a pound shop Garfunkel and Oates.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=YCKpJkplwoU

@notnowdennis

It’s gob shite virtue signalling... “oh aren’t twee, sweary and on point”

Prefer Fascinating Asda’s Christmas message...

Love the autocucumber there but agreed on both points.

They are very woke. And MN is mentioned in a sneery way in another song. But whatevs, some of their stuff is quite funny and I don't need to agree with someone on everything in order to enjoy the bits of their work that I like.

The problem is these kind of throwaway lines become the received wisdom and so it’s impossible to see the funny side. I was just listening to a radio play written by young people which included one line - just one - which clouded the whole thing. “I felt as uncomfortable as JK Rowling on the trans march”. A crap joke anyway, but only went to show the young writer had no genuine grasp of what JKR had ever said on the issue. Yet as that sort of attitude is passed on, people will just take it as read. It’s worrying, which is why I doubt there’s any way to make this funny. There’s something inherently unfair about it.

Yeah I saw it on Facebook too but stopped it at the JKR reference.

I’ve liked some of their other songs but this one seemed more forced and it wasn’t as funny (before the JKR reference even).

Yeah it's bullshit. Hardly anyone seems to have actually read what JKR said - presumably because she is a woman, and so isn't worthy of actually listening to and we have to take mens interpretation of it instead.

Pete Davidson on SNL said

“She creates a seven-book fantasy series about all types of mythical creatures living in harmony with wizards and elves and the one thing she can’t wrap her head around is Laverne Cox?”

When did she say anything to suggest she couldn't 'wrap her head around Laverne Cox'?

Incidentally Flo and Joan are one of those acts where I open the video expecting to be pissing my pants laughing, and instead, at best raise a small smile.

I'm afraid I had a sense of humour bypass

Why, did you laugh at Flo and Joan? If so, may I recommend Mrs Brown's Boys?

Does anyone know why their song (the first one I've put up with all the way through) is about America?

Luckily Hugo rifkind’s 2020 review in the times gets it!

@donquixotedelamancha

I'm afraid I had a sense of humour bypass

Why, did you laugh at Flo and Joan? If so, may I recommend Mrs Brown's Boys?

Does anyone know why their song (the first one I've put up with all the way through) is about America?

I didn't actually find any of their song that funny. I was prepared to give them a go but nah, they aren't my cup of tea. Mrs Brown's boys is okish I suppose.

And yes I agree with Banana- jkr being a ‘transphobe’ is now a zombie fact. It doesn’t matter how many times you show the factual evidence to the contrary, it’s too late now to change the perception :/

I didn't actually find any of their song that funny. I was prepared to give them a go but nah, they aren't my cup of tea.

That's not a sense of humour failure, that's just having a sense of humour.

She creates a seven-book fantasy series about all types of mythical creatures living in harmony with wizards and elves and the one thing she can’t wrap her head around is Laverne Cox?

Does anyone else think this sounds like it's comparing Laverne to a mythical being?

Liked this fellow on television, at first. Went to see his show. Nasty. Targeting people who were overweight (I recall particularly) and anyone not meeting his standards of perfection.
I'd be surprised if there's anything of value in work connected with him.

They also make a reference to ‘Karen’s’ in that 2020 song. It’s just a piece of misogynistic nonsense.

Garfunkel and Oates

Ha! Very Good.

Liked this fellow on television, at first. Went to see his show. Nasty. Targeting people who were overweight (I recall particularly) and anyone not meeting his standards of perfection.

Is that Russell Howard?

I really don't like him, I know others that do. Plus he's a fine one to talk, he has eyes that are far too close together in my humble opinion. Makes him look like George Bush Jnr.

Ironic isn’t it that one line positively references women in Poland fighting for their rights, and another couple of lines that do the exact opposite. JKR is fighting for women’s rights. Women who do so are insulted and called Karens. They both need to grow up and get an eduction on women’s issues.

The man's a prat, can't stand him.

• full disclosure....I know him IRL and he was always a prat.