Stewart Lee (a comedian apparently) calling MN a "hate site"

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Is there a backstory here or is he spouting random nonsense? Would MNHQ be interested in his defaming their site, also some ageism and condescension.

Relevant passage towards the end (after a hot take on Gideon Falter 🙄) :

"It was with some relief I finally had my now retired Basic Lee show filmed in Salford last week by Sky. The definitive record of this much-discussed, but comparatively rarely seen, show should diffuse the ongoing online storm in a teacup reflecting its imagined content, which has already resulted in the location of my family home being posted on the guest book of the schools advice, recipes and hate site Mumsnet by a furious old lady."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/28/context-is-vital-gideon-falter-met-police

Stewart lees has been writing the same comedy for years, people either like it or they dont. But the idea that it goes over peoples heads is silly. Its not deep.

Are we stupid? Get your punctuation sorted first and then we will have a chat about who is stupid.

Sorry, no we won’t because we are just a bunch of silly mummies and old women who share recipes and chat about pushchairs.

Yep, you said it

Your slip is showing.

Maybe someone should ask him on X. Is he literally claiming to have been doxxed on MN? Can we see the receipts, please?

Exactly! Tedious, deconstructionist, anti-joke comedian, beloved of pseuds everywhere. Now in a relationship with a woman 18 years his junior 🙄 So alternative yet so predictable. I guess male mid-life crisis is the great leveller.

The bit at the bottom asking for donations to the guardian..

This is what we're up againstTeams of lawyers from the rich and powerful trying to stop us publishing stories they don’t want you to see.
Lobby groups with opaque funding who are determined to undermine facts about the climate emergency and other established science.
Authoritarian states with no regard for the freedom of the press.
Bad actors spreading disinformation online to undermine democracy.
***
But we have something powerful on our side.
We’ve got you.
The Guardian is funded by its readers and the only person who decides what we publish is our editor.
If you want to join us in our mission to share independent, global journalism to the world, we’d love to have you on side.

made me laugh more than the article.

I'm proud to say I've never found him funny.
But if I'm honest I'm not a Ricky Gervais fan - Office excepted. Just grateful he is basically sane and rational.

Yawn

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrQIKkN1xfE

Just leaving this here:

maybe mumsnet told her to ltb

I've seen all his shows in the last 10 years but won't be going again. In in the last one he demonstrated that he has no understanding of what GC feminists believe or want- or he does, but chooses to misrepresent it . The main basis of his joke about Mumsnet was that we just sit around getting pissed in the afternoon, so why should anyone care what we say about anything.

Stewart Lee put an anti-FGM campaigner (and survivor) Nimko Ali on his tedious annual hate list, without saying why she had qualified for it.

Presumably it was because she is friends with Carrie johnson, née Symonds; one certainly hopes it wasn't speaking against FGM that was the source of his problem with her. But given that my primary association when I read her name is "FGM campaigner, founder of the Five Foundation", I'm sure you can appreciate the shock I felt at seeing her name.

😂

tbf they do pull your brains out through your nose to mummify you, of course they don't need to bother if you're so open minded it's already fallen out.

Doxxed?

You mean he was shocked that someone Off Of The Mumsnet, once recognised him and he thinks this is doxxing?

is that you stuart?

If it was he’d be able to spell his own name.

I think I've found the post, and it's a mere mention of the rarefied district he lives in, without any other information. It's on the thread that was mostly responding to his hate list and the people he'd included in the "Pedal Bin" section, such as, inexplicably, an FGM campaigner.

@dittymcdit commented on that thread, I imagine SL will read this thread. And his takeaway will be that we are all transphobic Pearl-clutchers aren't intelligent or left wing enough to understand his comedy

Well, he definitely did read it, but his takeaway was that we shouldn't dare imply that he might live in very genteel surroundings

^https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womensrights/4444132-What-has-Stewart-Lee-done?page=1

He could be identifying as stuart, he seems to be identifying as a comedian.

Who is RMW? Tried googling but couldn't find anything. I recognise those initials from other threads but can't remember who it is. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Robin Moira Wright I think.

Or White!

He's no Dave Chapelle is he?

You know, funny.

Stewart Lee had Jolly-On Maugham on his ‘Pedestal’ list?

https://amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/dec/26/prominent-lawyer-jolyon-maugham-tweets-about-clubbing-a-fox-to-death

Bit embarrassing.