Scarborough - BBC1

fidelcastro · Post by **fidelcastro** » Fri Sep 06, 2019 10:50 pm

I like Jason Manford as a comedian, but this rather smelled of a poor mans' phoenix nights

Steve1956 · Post by **Steve1956** » Fri Sep 06, 2019 10:58 pm

It smelt alright what a pile of shite.

thatdberight · Post by **thatdberight** » Fri Sep 06, 2019 11:05 pm

fidelcastro wrote:I like Jason Manford...

It was about here that you lost me...

cricketfieldclarets · Post by **cricketfieldclarets** » Fri Sep 06, 2019 11:08 pm

thatdberight wrote:It was about here that you lost me...

Went to watch him in blackpool. Was actually a very good and funny night. And he was entertaining without being rude, crude or offensive. Usually sign of a good comedian.

fidelcastro · Post by **fidelcastro** » Fri Sep 06, 2019 11:11 pm

thatdberight wrote:It was about here that you lost me...

Were you more of a ken Dodd man?

ClaretTony · Post by **ClaretTony** » Sat Sep 07, 2019 9:06 am

fidelcastro wrote:Were you more of a ken Dodd man?

Ken Dodd was brilliant

ClaretAndJew · Post by **ClaretAndJew** » Sat Sep 07, 2019 9:19 am

cricketfieldclarets wrote:Went to watch him in blackpool. Was actually a very good and funny night. And he was entertaining without being rude, crude or offensive. Usually sign of a good comedian.

A "good" comedian? In what way is a comedian "good" if he isn't "rude", "crude" or "offensive"?

Who decides the criteria on those things?

Darnhill Claret · Post by **Darnhill Claret** » Sat Sep 07, 2019 9:29 am

BBC’s answer to Benidorm written by Derren Litten. Just trying to do the same in a different location.

DCWat · Post by **DCWat** » Sat Sep 07, 2019 9:30 am

I don’t like comedians who appear to get more laughs from being rude and offensive. Chubby Brown being a prime example.

ClaretAndJew · Post by **ClaretAndJew** » Sat Sep 07, 2019 9:32 am

DCWat wrote:I don’t like comedians who appear to get more laughs from being rude and offensive. Chubby Brown being a prime example.

Chubby Brown is massively racist and misogynistic.

I don't want a comedian to pander to the lowest common denominator, I want them to make me think. Swearing or using serious topics as the basis of a joke doesn't have to be offensive though.

Aclaret · Post by **Aclaret** » Sat Sep 07, 2019 9:34 am

DCWat wrote:I don’t like comedians who appear to get more laughs from being rude and offensive. Chubby Brown being a prime example.

Yet Bernard Manning managed it....there's a comedian for everyones taste.

DCWat · Post by **DCWat** » Sat Sep 07, 2019 9:52 am

ClaretAndJew wrote:Chubby Brown is massively racist and misogynistic.

I don't want a comedian to pander to the lowest common denominator, I want them to make me think. Swearing or using serious topics as the basis of a joke doesn't have to be offensive though.

Is he or is that his comedic style - pandering to an audience who probably are?

Agree that swearing doesn’t have to be offensive, but there are those out there who use certain words for laughs rather than provide much to think about.

cricketfieldclarets · Post by **cricketfieldclarets** » Sat Sep 07, 2019 10:06 am

ClaretAndJew wrote:A "good" comedian? In what way is a comedian "good" if he isn't "rude", "crude" or "offensive"?

Who decides the criteria on those things?

I’m not saying offensive comedians aren’t good. I like that type too.

But he’s in a similar bracket to Kevin bridges and Peter Kay etc. Doesn’t have to resort to the above to make people laugh. I imagine he could if he wanted to.

Some can’t.

claptrappers_union · Post by **claptrappers_union** » Sat Sep 07, 2019 10:08 am

I caught a bit of it last night

Just another show about thick Northerners

cricketfieldclarets · Post by **cricketfieldclarets** » Sat Sep 07, 2019 10:11 am

claptrappers_union wrote:I caught a bit of it last night

Just another show about thick Northerners

Plenty of us.

Cirrus_Minor · Post by **Cirrus_Minor** » Sat Sep 07, 2019 10:21 am

Very Benidormish

claptrappers_union · Post by **claptrappers_union** » Sat Sep 07, 2019 10:50 am

A good comedian is about the audience. I’m not the audience for Peter Kay. My mate went to see Roy Chubby Brown, he had fond memories of watching him on videotape as a teenager. Went to see him as an adult and realised he was amongst Brexit Central.

I watched Jim Davidson on YouTube... there’s no jokes.

He reminded me of that dickhead in the pub that everybody humours. He just rhymed of his observations about gays, brown people, fat girls and mental people. And all the soldiers in the audience were lapping it up, ******* themselves.

I’d be embarrassed

ClaretAndJew · Post by **ClaretAndJew** » Sat Sep 07, 2019 11:24 am

DCWat wrote:Is he or is that his comedic style - pandering to an audience who probably are?

Agree that swearing doesn’t have to be offensive, but there are those out there who use certain words for laughs rather than provide much to think about.

There's a documentary about him from 2005 or so that shows him behind the scenes and at home and his opinions are quite similar to those he holds on stage, especially regarding Muslims or immigrants.

Steve1956 · Post by **Steve1956** » Sat Sep 07, 2019 11:30 am

Manford sung last night in this,he's a better singer than he is a comedian,and he's shite at singing.

Bosscat · Post by **Bosscat** » Sat Sep 07, 2019 11:35 am

Steve1956 wrote:Manford sung last night in this,he's a better singer than he is a comedian,and he's shite at singing.

So you don't have his box set on the shelf behind the tellybox then Steve

Steve1956 · Post by **Steve1956** » Sat Sep 07, 2019 11:46 am

Bosscat wrote:So you don't have his box set on the shelf behind the tellybox then Steve

If you watched that rubbish last night mate you would understand what I mean,the last good sitcom anyone ever made was About forty years ago.......this last night was mind numbing drivel,I don't think I've ever heard Manford say anything funny....best thing about last night episode was a rather fat Claire Sweeney squeezed into a pair of jeans two sizes to small.

Bosscat · Post by **Bosscat** » Sat Sep 07, 2019 12:01 pm

Steve1956 wrote:If you watched that rubbish last night mate you would understand what I mean,the last good sitcom anyone ever made was About forty years ago.......this last night was mind numbing drivel,I don't think I've ever heard Manford say anything funny....best thing about last night episode was a rather fat Claire Sweeney squeezed into a pair of jeans two sizes to small.

Friday nights are our pub quiz nights m8 we don't watch telly we socialize

... seeing as everyone has slagged this "comedy" off will have to watch it and then offer my opinion

Wile E Coyote · Post by **Wile E Coyote** » Sat Sep 07, 2019 12:07 pm

Bernard Manning was very funny, its only latterly that the PC brigade have decided he wasnt.

Steve1956 · Post by **Steve1956** » Sat Sep 07, 2019 12:20 pm

Bosscat wrote:Friday nights are our pub quiz nights m8 we don't watch telly we socialize ... seeing as everyone has slagged this "comedy" off will have to watch it and then offer my opinion

It's better than Brassic though.

Aclaret · Post by **Aclaret** » Sat Sep 07, 2019 12:20 pm

Wile E Coyote wrote:Bernard Manning was very funny, its only latterly that the PC brigade have decided he wasnt.

Growing up in the 70s and 80s I thought Manning was a good comedian, in those days people were allowed to mock and laugh at EACH OTHER. Today you arnt allowed to laugh at certain things.

Bosscat · Post by **Bosscat** » Sat Sep 07, 2019 12:25 pm

Steve1956 wrote:It's better than Brassic though.

Bosscat · Post by **Bosscat** » Sat Sep 07, 2019 12:48 pm

Cirrus_Minor wrote:Very Benidormish

Its written by the same bloke as Benidorm Derren Litten

Some Actors crossing over.... The Spanish character has become an Italian... will probably have Steve Pemberton popping up next ....
Karaoke featuring heavily just like Benidorm... a hairdressers one of the main settings in the opening show...

Derren Litten hasn't much imagination..... just moved the plot from the Sun to Scarborough, Benidorm with rain (and less humour) but it is funner than that "Bus Driver" thing with Toby Jones... who shone in "Detectorists"

Steve1956 · Post by **Steve1956** » Sat Sep 07, 2019 1:48 pm

ClaretAndJew wrote:Chubby Brown is massively racist and misogynistic.

I don't want a comedian to pander to the lowest common denominator, I want them to make me think. Swearing or using serious topics as the basis of a joke doesn't have to be offensive though.

Chubby is slumming it these days......

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Billy Balfour · Post by **Billy Balfour** » Sat Sep 07, 2019 2:35 pm

Steve1956 wrote:Chubby is slumming it these days......

He certainly knows his audience, I'll give him that.

Billy Balfour · Post by **Billy Balfour** » Sat Sep 07, 2019 2:37 pm

Aclaret wrote:Today you arnt allowed to laugh at certain things.

These days our prisons are rammed full of people who got caught laughing at certain things.

ClaretAndJew · Post by **ClaretAndJew** » Sat Sep 07, 2019 2:53 pm

You can laugh at anything you want.

fidelcastro · Post by **fidelcastro** » Sat Sep 07, 2019 3:01 pm

Billy Balfour wrote:These days our prisons are rammed full of people who got caught laughing at certain things.

Like whom laughing at what?

Bosscat · Post by **Bosscat** » Sat Sep 07, 2019 3:14 pm

fidelcastro wrote:Like whom laughing at what?

Depends how much spice has been consumed

fidelcastro · Post by **fidelcastro** » Sat Sep 07, 2019 3:19 pm

Bosscat wrote:Depends how much spice has been consumed

You'd better ask pstotto

Billy Balfour · Post by **Billy Balfour** » Sat Sep 07, 2019 5:11 pm

fidelcastro wrote:Like whom laughing at what?

Someone said on this thread that you aren't allowed to laugh at 'certain things' . My comment was rephrasing Stewart Lee's "These days, if you say you're English, you get locked up and thrown in jail" sketch.

Billy Balfour · Post by **Billy Balfour** » Sat Sep 07, 2019 5:13 pm

Steve1956 wrote:If you watched that rubbish last night mate you would understand what I mean,the last good sitcom anyone ever made was About forty years ago.

Have you ever watched Father Ted?

Steve1956 · Post by **Steve1956** » Sat Sep 07, 2019 6:26 pm

Billy Balfour wrote:Have you ever watched Father Ted?

Cant say I have what's it about?

Foulthrow · Post by **Foulthrow** » Sat Sep 07, 2019 6:51 pm

Whatever happened to Russ Abbot?

Bosscat · Post by **Bosscat** » Sat Sep 07, 2019 7:23 pm

Steve1956 wrote:Cant say I have what's it about?

Bloke called Ted who's a Dad??????

ClaretAndJew · Post by **ClaretAndJew** » Sat Sep 07, 2019 7:59 pm

My Mum was watching a TV show earlier called "Love The Neighbour" from the 1970's. First time I've ever seen it.

The whole story of this episode was trying to sell the house because they had black neighbours, and the fact that having black neighbours means their house value is lower than the rest of the street.

The phrases "nig nog" were said quite often and also the use of white people "having pure, white thoughts" and black people having "black souls".

Crazy that it was just seen as normal. "It was just like that back then" me Mam said. Well thank **** it's changed.

thatdberight · Post by **thatdberight** » Sat Sep 07, 2019 8:00 pm

fidelcastro wrote:Were you more of a ken Dodd man?

No.

Woodleyclaret · Post by **Woodleyclaret** » Sat Sep 07, 2019 8:07 pm

Well we enjoyed it.I worked in Scarborough for a year staying on the Esplanade and really enjoyed my time there. The pub shown is next to an excellent chippy.
Full of Dirty Leeds fans but then knowheres perfect
Lots of good cafes and cheap pubs

Steve1956 · Post by **Steve1956** » Sat Sep 07, 2019 8:40 pm

Bosscat wrote:Bloke called Ted who's a Dad??????

I've got company...stop talking shite,I'm entertaining my Scottish friends....socialising

Bosscat · Post by **Bosscat** » Sat Sep 07, 2019 8:53 pm

Steve1956 wrote:I've got company...stop talking shite,I'm entertaining my Scottish friends....socialising

You have friends

Steve1956 · Post by **Steve1956** » Sat Sep 07, 2019 8:55 pm

Bosscat wrote: You have friends

No not really,I think they just hang around with me to bang my beautiful wife.

Bosscat · Post by **Bosscat** » Sat Sep 07, 2019 8:58 pm

Steve1956 wrote:No not really,I think they just hang around with me to bang my beautiful wife.

Can't blame em she knows more about football than you ya "Old" bigger

Steve1956 · Post by **Steve1956** » Sat Sep 07, 2019 9:00 pm

Bosscat wrote:Can't blame em she knows more about football than you ya "Old" bigger

And she has a lovely arse.

Darnhill Claret · Post by **Darnhill Claret** » Sat Sep 07, 2019 9:56 pm

Leisure · Post by **Leisure** » Sun Sep 08, 2019 8:41 am

Billy Balfour wrote:Someone said on this thread that you aren't allowed to laugh at 'certain things' . My comment was rephrasing Stewart Lee's "These days, if you say you're English, you get locked up and thrown in jail" sketch.

Which is a quality sketch!

Tricky Trevor · Post by **Tricky Trevor** » Sun Sep 08, 2019 4:40 pm

Chubby Brown was hilarious. His timing and style were first class, if you could see past the foul language. As he pointed out many times 90% of his gags he was the butt of the joke yet folk called him sexist.
Sadly too long ago he went down the racist path when his career was solid without it. Even worse I believe these views to be his own views and not just his act and that is depressing.