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2008… comedians freely engage in non-PC banter about a pregnant trans man

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CorruptedCauldron · 22/08/2023 11:44

A clip has surfaced on social media of The Big Fat Quiz of the Year 2008. Some big-name TV stars, including Dara O Briain, can be seen having a giggle about the notion of a man giving birth. They’d never get away with this kind of comedy banter now, and Dara has repeatedly ignored Graham Linehan’s calls to speak up about gender ideology. I found it interesting to see that even the most fervent BeKinders of 2023 have a few very un-PC skeletons in their closet.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-endless-hypocrisy-of-the-comedy-class/

The endless hypocrisy of the comedy class

Personally I find TV panel shows pretty unbearable. They’re like being at a student party full of lairy smartarses you don’t know, and probably wouldn’t want to. But now a clip from one has, in the journalistic parlance of our time, ‘resurfaced on soci...

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-endless-hypocrisy-of-the-comedy-class/

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WarriorN · 23/08/2023 07:49

*ronson

WarriorN · 23/08/2023 07:52

"What pride does to your morals"

Oh the irony of that sentence

WarriorN · 23/08/2023 07:53

Sorry meant to add this

2008… comedians freely engage in non-PC banter about a pregnant trans man
DialSquare · 23/08/2023 10:19

Oh no Boiled. It's back in my head now!

AutumnCrow · 23/08/2023 10:55

What's Marillion got to do with the conversation?

Poster called Dadjoke said 'Kayleys'
Kayleys
Marillion
Fish and his Mullet
All roads lead back to misogyny
Poster called Dadjoke now having a thrash
More Marillion comedy ensues

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CorruptedCauldron · 23/08/2023 11:00

Also, some of us got the wrong end of the stick, thinking Dadjoke actually thought we wanted to ban ceilidhs and it was just a spelling fail!

Incidentally I can’t find any mention of this mysterious slang drag term Kayley anywhere online… just Kiki and Kai Kai.

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IcakethereforeIam · 23/08/2023 11:19

Dad joke desperately tries to save face 🤡

Waitwhat23 · 23/08/2023 11:25

Has DadJoke shared the links yet to show that Kayley is a drag term?

'Cause sorry, DJ, until you do, I'm assuming that you had a wee panic after realising that you had utterly bastardised the word ceilidh and are wildly doing a reverse ferret/Darvo type of thing.

Waitwhat23 · 23/08/2023 11:28
peanut butter ferret GIF

QUICK!

IcakethereforeIam · 23/08/2023 11:33

Tbf, I'd had to check the spelling before committing it to print. Although, I'd have known it wasn't 'Kayley'! Sadly, if it hadn't been so wildly wrong his autocorrupt would likely have sorted it for him 😔.

RoyalCorgi · 23/08/2023 11:33

If a typical TW turned up on a televised event clumping around in a skimpy high cut leotard, all the viewers who are blissfully unaware of what’s going on (including all the people who believe TW have had surgery and hormones and are essentially physically women) will see what we’re talking about.

Like this? (Clip starring Mark Heap from Big Train - which was written, coincidentally, by Graham Linehan.)

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Big Train clip - Mark Heap & Gymnastics

Video: Big Train 1x03 (1998)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?ab_channel=hpmons2&v=uaWo6xxCKdo

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CorruptedCauldron · 23/08/2023 16:07

Mark Heap’s gymnast turned out to be quite an accurate prediction of the future! The adulation and encouragement from the crowd for this ungainly prancing male, who receives a standing ovation, while the talented female gymnasts look on glumly.

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FictionalCharacter · 23/08/2023 17:25

CorruptedCauldron · 23/08/2023 16:07

Mark Heap’s gymnast turned out to be quite an accurate prediction of the future! The adulation and encouragement from the crowd for this ungainly prancing male, who receives a standing ovation, while the talented female gymnasts look on glumly.

I can’t even laugh. It’s coming true.

ApocalipstickNow · 23/08/2023 17:45

Graham Linehan wrote that sketch in 2022 then time travelled back to warn us of what lay ahead.

Boiledbeetle · 23/08/2023 17:47

DialSquare · 23/08/2023 10:19

Oh no Boiled. It's back in my head now!

😁

SammyScrounge · 09/10/2023 03:05

Waitwhat23 · 22/08/2023 13:07

...kayleys? Do you mean ceilidhs? And is your point about kilts? Because if it is, I'm embarrassed for you.

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Ditto. DadJoke should come up to Scotland and explain to soldiers of a Scottish regiment that their kilts are on a par with drag queen's and pantomime dames. Just to see what happens.

PriOn1 · 09/10/2023 05:02

I miss Sean Lock and I’d quite like to go back to 1985.

Also… suffragette tartan! Now that is something to aspire to.

FictionalCharacter · 09/10/2023 12:11

SammyScrounge · 09/10/2023 03:05

Ditto. DadJoke should come up to Scotland and explain to soldiers of a Scottish regiment that their kilts are on a par with drag queen's and pantomime dames. Just to see what happens.

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Too right! And anyone who looks at Lt Col Johnny Thompson and thinks he’s like a drag queen or pantomime dame is very odd indeed https://www.tatler.com/article/untitled-annabel-sampson-22-september-2023-at-1352

King’s ‘hot equerry’ steals the spotlight – once again – on the Royal visit to Paris

Lieutenant Colonel Johnny Thompson, who secured the third spot in Tatler’s Social Power Index earlier this year, has caused an unwitting coup d’etat sending many French hearts aflutter on the royal state visit

https://www.tatler.com/article/untitled-annabel-sampson-22-september-2023-at-1352

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