Jordan Gray “sitcom”

[Davros]

Photo will follow. I was wondering if anyone has watched it? Started on Tuesday 24th June.

There was a review in The Telegraph....

https://archive.is/hQSCv

I'll give it a miss

Saw a trailer, and even 90 seconds of it was quite enough.

Interesting to note that the Radio Times piece pictured above avoids all pronouns. I take issue with 'gleefully crude' and would be very surprised if it has much more staying power than the yogurt in my fridge but at least the writer hasn't bent over backwards to pay tribute to the penis pianist's womanly womanness in every sentence.

Having done a quick Google, Jordan’s only offering appears to be a glimpse of himself, si tu me comprends. Thé favourable reviews seem to be more complimentary about the trans ness than any actual talent or performance.

I’ll stick with DS9 re runs, thanks

I like the Telegraph review. I won’t be watching because I don’t want to kick my telly (again!).

Oh this is funny. Nick Frost has just been confirmed as Hagrid in the upcoming HBO Harry Potter series 😆

Maybe he can do one in “girl mode” and one in “boy mode”

It could have been a lot worse - at least JG is playing a transgender character. A far bigger insult would have been to cast him as, say, some kind of femme fatale who's lusted after by all the straight men and I suppose gay women.

Yeah, it explains his recent comments about JK Rowling. He didn’t throw her totally under the bus btw, just said he doesn’t agree with her but she has the right to hold her views. I was a bit disappointed but I guess he was trying to walk a difficult tightrope. He’s got to pay the bills I suppose.

Oh, I don't care what he says. He's happy to take the cash and advance his career, don't blame him.

What I mean is, imagine the "Yay, a trans comedy on mainstream TV! Wait, oh noes! Someone starring in it who will be taking the JKR coin!".

It's short, so I watched it in the interests of research, and I'm not sure I'd be happy about it if I was trans. The TRAs are pretty much like real ones (loud, violent and unreasonable, although they haven't punched any women or poured piss everywhere yet) and the trans protagonist is not exactly April Ashley:

Doesn't pass.

Loves his penis and has no intention of getting rid of it.

Is an all-round pita.

Has disgusting personal habits, pees in the sink, uses the women's toilets.

If I knew nothing about trans, after watching this I'd be thinking "oh, that's what jkr was on about!"

Doesn't pass.
Loves his penis and has no intention of getting rid of it.
Is an all-round pita.

Well that somes up a lot of TRAs, doesn't it? I am sure they will love it.

Yes the Pink News commenters are up in arms that Nick Frost is in this and will be in the new Harry Potter. Also one TW reckons as this trans character causes havoc it’s an attack on all trans people. I mean you can’t win!

This show self-identifies as a comedy, I've watched some scenes and it's not very convincing. I don't think you'd get many people thinking that this passes as a comedy.

oh yay more blokes-first TV

Gleefully Crude? Jordan Gray? Surely not!
I’m not a fan and will give it a miss. I don’t like anyone who gets their dick out, to be fair. But then I thought the woman who wore a merkin to the Scottish parliament while pretending to have her nether regions out was a bit scuzzy: even with a point to make, as Jordan Gray apparently thinks too.
I didn’t ‘get’ Jenny Eclair’s comedy and I don’t get Rosie Jones’ now.
basically I don’t find genitals funny, or thought provoking. And I feel for the set cleaner who had to wash Jordan’s Pre-cum off the tv studio keyboard: I’d lay odds that it was a woman.

That parliament woman wasn’t comedy though.

Elaine Miller wore a merkin, sewed to the sturdy pair of tights she was wearing, as a political protest against the Scottish Parliament's determination to destroy women's rights. It was after the GRR bill passed, and after days and days of stage 3. debate where hundreds of suggested amendments to protect women and girls were voted down by a Government in thrall to an ideology.

I think it's scuzzier that after the conclusion of the vote, several MSP's rose to applaud the balcony area of vicious, violent men (including Big Beth Douglas who has openly threatened women with bats and knives on social media) who had gleefully been using the women's toilets throughout the proceedings. I think it's scuzzier that a disabled MSP was jeered at during one of the days which had gone on near enough to midnight and had likely hours to go for asking what time they were likely to finish so he could inform his carers.

The premise of the 'comedy' is that the transgender employee has free rein to behave terribly because if the manager complains, he will be cancelled.

I mean, it is true in a lot of ways, or probably was when it was written at the height of cancel culture but it's not a good look and I can see why TRA's don't like it.

my first thought was that this will end up annoying all sides in this debate

My second thought was 'can it be possibly worse than 'Boy meets Girl' the sitcom where Denise Welch fails to notice that he son's new six foot girlfriend is transgender despite it being blindingly obvious to everyone else

Nick Frost is clearly a Terf and took one for the team (and cos he's not had a gig elsewhere in ages). Then after being in something that's likely not getting recommissioned based on the reviews, he definitely needed something to relaunch himself. And after his fine uncover efforts to ensure this was dreadful enough, he's been rung up by the shadowy figures that JKR employes and been told "youve done good work. You will be rewarded with a part in Harry Potter".

It's all very cunning and well planned.

I saw the trailer, and without even considering that I think Gray is a bell-end, it did not appeal. There was a very 1970s vibe to it - the era of 'Mind Your Language', 'Neighbours' and 'Are You Being Served', which were all basically one joke repeatedly hitting you over the head. Dated.

Is that really surprising? Trans people define themselves by gender stereotypes so not surprising they would see others as stereotypes as well.

Pretty sure when TRAs picture the TERFs that live rent free in their heads we are all 1970s sitcom busybodies and mother in laws 😂

Mothers in law. Purleese

We are all Yootha Joyce in "Man About the House".