funny joke

[SepticTone]

Chubby Brown is the lowest common denominator of chav humour, supremely unfunny, a piece of leftover debris from the 70's popular lowgrade stuff that passed for comedy then, a consummate racist, misogynist & all-round piece of crap.

This isn't merely my opinion, it's a matter of fact. You simply wouldn't believe the depths he plumbs in extracting laughs from drunk chavs.

I believe he's had to tone his racist 'jokes' down now when live, because of legislation, but believe me, they're just as gross as his misogynist ones. Sheer simplistic filth from beginning to end. He makes Benny Hill look like Woody Allen.

Sample of his toned-down stuff:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRQR0AM0bDI

Definitely don't watch this if you're easily offended.

[PeterSF]

I think it's just part of his "schtick". It grabs your attention and is about as tasteless as his jokes.
Remove the swear words and his entire act would likely last about two minutes.

[davec]

Just watched the Chubby bit you posted, ST, or at least enough to get the idea. Sorry we've devoted so much message space to him, especially in a thread entitled 'Funny Joke'. As funny as last week's garbage and a waste of oxygen.

[PeterSF]

I just watched less than half of that CB video.
Dunno why I liked any of his stuff when I was a student, maybe they removed the blatant racist & misogynist bits for the LP or there were actually some funny bits way back then.
Now though... He gives new meaning to the term "low brow", with an audience to match.
I couldn't believe the joke about the Indian woman and her bindi (the red dot), just repugnant.
What a *^@%$(6 7*47!, as he would describe himself.

The most exposure to British culture we get on American TV, apart from the odd royal scandal or oil spill PR cockups, is in series like "Masterpiece Theatre". This is a showcase for British series like Jane Austin's "Emma", Agatha Christie whodunnits, and the like. All tea and crumpets and jolly hockey sticks, don't you know.
On the other hand, Europeans get the opposite impression of us whenever an English football team plays there, as the inevitable hooligans tag along and ruin it for all of us. Of course, Benidorm has its own share of the typical package tour Brit, going back at least as far as that Monty Python sketch. Sorry, I seem to mention them a lot, but they do take the piss out of the worst aspects of Englishness.

Before it's no longer topical, some jokes from my friend in Sheffield re the World Cup debacle:

Whats the difference between Cinderella and the England football team?
Cinderella wanted to get to the ball....

Osama bin Laden has just released a new TV message to prove he is still
alive. He said that the England Team performance on Saturday was completely
s**t. British intelligence have dismissed the claim, stating that the
message could have been recorded anytime in the last 44 years.

Robert Green - The only man to leave Africa with out catching anything.

[davec]

Yeah, 'jolly hockey sticks' and 'Oh mum, it's ever so wonderful' are definitely in our Public Television System's programming tastes when it comes to importing British stuff--always have been. I guess they think American audiences only want the tourist's view of Brits, not to see them as real people. Or, they just don't want to challenge them with shows that might reference something they're not immediately familiar with. Probably all of the above.

We're lucky we ever got Monty Python and, surprisingly shown on Broadcast television in the late 60s, The Avengers and The Prisoner. For those of you too young to know Diana Rigg as anything other than a Masterpiece Theatre presenter, check out Google Images or the ImDB on The Avengers. Black leather never looked so good!

PBS is generally kind of crap here now...supposedly the nation's educational network, the days are full of cooking shows and even Motorweek. So forget them getting any bright ideas like showing The Street, which easily passes our ridiculous censorship guidelines, or French and Saunders, almost all of which does. Even Last of the Summer Wine got bumped to very late night and now, I think, is off the air here. My local video store has exactly one CD of that.

If I had more money, I guess I'd splurge on full cable and satellite packages. You always get better stuff when you pay for it. Sigh. Meanwhile, I've completely mined out the PBS/BBC section of the video store, so I'm out of the water until I locate a new venue for stuff.

[SepticTone]

Diana Rigg in black leather! Yes, I remember that as an early preteenager & wondering how her legs joined up. However, she was eclipsed by Joanna Lumley in the second series, IMHO, as 'Purdey', by which time my voice had broken.

You just can't beat Joanna Lumley.

I'd like to give her a bit of a light spanking,though. ( Sorry, an English vice ).

She still looks good in low light & has teeth similar to Billie Piper, but she probably would have something much more ascerbic & scathing to say about me, knowing her surreal wit. She was amazing in the recent BBC series "Joanna Lumley's Nile". Recommended viewing.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/ ... -cockerell

[davec]

She was also good as the vapid cougar in Absolutely Fabulous. The kind who'd want to be spanked before being kissed, I'd speculate...

[SepticTone]

One would only be allowed to spank Joanna Lumley with her express permission, unless one was a Ghurka, I'd imagine.

My favourite TV series with her was 'Sapphire and Steel': an almost totally incomprehensible British Sci-Fi series, made clearly on an unimaginably small budget, in which she co-starred with David McAllum '(The Man from UNCLE').

Except she was better than him & her superb cut glass yet mellifluous accent shone through sufficient to melt the heart of even the most hardened Northerner like me. ( no pun intended). Viz:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmhSA1gZ2Sk&NR=1

"Ab-Fab" showcased her comedic talents & her real personality, & came as a complete surprise to us Brits, as she'd always been associated with untouchable snowqueen type roles, hence its subsequent popularity here. I know she's already an OBE but I think she should be given a Peerage. She'd certainly wake up a few of the old gits who currently snooze their dotage away in the House of Lords.

[PeterSF]

unless one was a Ghurka, I'd imagine.

Took me a moment or two before I got the connection there. Not sure why she took on their cause in particular, but good for her. I'd like to think she was presented with a ceremonial khukri knife or two, like the ones wielded by Milla Jovovich in Resident Evil Extinction. I suppose Purdey could have used them back in her New Avenger days.
I have to say I always preferred Emma Peel though. The writing was better then, and I never really got into The New Avengers with that Gareth whatsisname (Thomas?).
I like Joanna Lumley best as Patsy Stone, bottle of Stoli in one hand and a fag in the other, still looking good in her fifties (now 64).
Note: I just watched that Sapphire and Steel clip. Somehow I never saw that series. Very strange. McCallum of course now plays "Ducky" (haha!) in the highly rated NCIS show alongside Mark Harmon.

[SepticTone]

She espoused the cause of allowing all elderly Nepalese Ghurkas into the country, ( along with all their extended families, incidentally), as her dad was a senior British commander of the Ghurkas & she was born in India during the Raj.

She has subsequently been sadly demonised in the British press, as when the law was relaxed last year as a result of her high profile campaign during election year, because thousands of Nepalese with Ghurka connections have subsequently sold up, been fleeced of their money by fake 'Go to Britain free' agencies in Nepal, flown here, along with all their extended families, expecting a sunny land of milk & honey & love & kisses from Joanna, & are currently widely dispersed & languishing, mainly in the North of England, in cold damp ex-Army bases, hostels or abandoned council houses in sink estates, disenfranchised, on minimal benefits & with no knowledge of the language, culture, climate & social norms of England.

Good intentions subverted by harsh reality. She's had no contact with any of them them or the press since this situation arose a few months ago, & wisely keeps her head down nowadays comforted by multiple "StollyBollies" in her mansion in Surrey. But I still like her.