Rosie Jones

I don't find her funny either, I actually find her incredibly hard to watch so if she's on 8 out of 10 etc I'll just turn it off. I don't think it's bad to think this as well, yes she is disabled but she's a bad comedian and I can't see how she would get the same screen time if she wasn't disabled. She may well be a very good writer but I haven't read anything she's written to be able to comment on this.
 
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I don't find her funny either, I actually find her incredibly hard to watch so if she's on 8 out of 10 etc I'll just turn it off. I don't think it's bad to think this as well, yes she is disabled but she's a bad comedian and I can't see how she would get the same screen time if she wasn't disabled. She may well be a very good writer but I haven't read anything she's written to be able to comment on this.
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I agree.

I support disability equality, but equality works both ways.

If you want equality then you have to be prepared to be judged equally to able bodied people. Imo, she would be nowhere near the level of exposure she is now if she was able bodied.
 
She appeared on Frankie Boyle's New World Order the other week which doesn't sound right in my head lol.

To be fair, all the guests on that show generally tick a box and play up to their stereotype (race, gender, disability etc). Frankie still manages to carry the show for the majority but then there's only so many times I can listen to Kerry Pritchard-Mcclean talk about sleeping with guys for *insert joke here*.

It's nothing against disabled people as Chris McCausland is generally very funny (blind). Comedy is about delivery and let's be brutally honest, it's difficult for someone at the best of times without having a serious disability (let alone one that effects the speed of your speech). Credit to her for giving it a go, but not for me.
 
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I personally wouldn't focus the jokes on my disability as much if I was a comedian. I'd make a situational comedy about other peoples reactions and expectations of me. I think the public would have a better chance of relating to that, as they do with other people from minority groups.

I just watched the first minute of her at the Apollo, and her opening joke is about her (or her mother) calling her disability the elephant in the room. As a disabled person I don't find it funny. The audience seems to pity laugh. I think if a black person made a joke that his mother called him a racist phrase people wouldn't be laughing about it.
 
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I personally wouldn't focus the jokes on my disability as much if I was a comedian. I'd make a situational comedy about other peoples reactions and expectations of me. I think the public would have a better chance of relating to that, as they do with other people from minority groups.

I just watched the first minute of her at the Apollo, and her opening joke is about her (or her mother) calling her disability the elephant in the room. As a disabled person I don't find it funny. The audience seems to pity laugh. I think if a black person made a joke that his mother called him a racist phrase people wouldn't be laughing about it.
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They would if a black man said it. Black comedians often refer to themselves as an N word. Admittedly it is more a US thing.

Romesh makes jokes about being Asian a lot too.
 
It’s all just a laugh at the end of day.

I used to crack up at Richard Pryor, he was brilliant. He always referred to whites as Whitey. I personally could not be any less offended. Should I have been?
 
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robfosters said:
It’s all just a laugh at the end of day.

I used to crack up at Richard Pryor, he was brilliant. He always referred to whites as Whitey. I personally could not be any less offended. Should I have been?
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because you can't offend whites by calling them white or anything that looks white like snow.
It just makes us laugh and the offense doesn't work.
A black co-worker got angry with me one day and called me a white ******** and everybody including myself just laughed, if it had been the other way round I would have been in HR.
You already know this though, you have a brain.
 
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