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The Cathars were right
It would look like a hare from a distance.
David Cameron: socialists have no sense of humour
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It would look like a hare from a distance.
Streathamite
ideological dogmatist
isvicthere?
a.k.a. floppybollocks
I simply made gentle fun of your terminology. You used the term "alternative comedians" in a sentence in the present tense. If someone said something about their gramophone or wireless, similar unbridled hilarity would ensue. That's all. Let's not have a ruck.
So alternative comedy is a term contemporary with gramophone or wireless, is it? No it isn't. It's still in use. If you think that pointing this out is a ruck, you must have led a bit of a sheltered life.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Reminds me of the "Not the Nine O'Clock News" sketch where the bloke goes into the audio shop for a new stylus.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
He didn't say that, now did he?
ymu
Niall Ferguson's deep-cover sock-puppet
And yet, you were so keen to pursue the point earlier. Was it the arse-handing, plate thing?
Streathamite
ideological dogmatist
It is? Where? Eastbourne?
It is? Where? Eastbourne?
Of course it is, you fool. Have you not noticed the amount of politically correct comedy still around? Even the non-politically correct stuff now has to be done with a slef-conscious irony. Most people still call it alternative comedy even if your mates don't.
Hundal's voice is annoying. Like a posh Sylvester the cat.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Well, you don't, or you'd have been a bit less willing to misrepresent what he said.
ericjarvis
give a feck for the feckless
What you seem to be saying is that almost all mainstream comedy these days makes some effort to avoid being gratuitously racist, sexist, or homophobic. That it is no longer seen to be acceptable to simply assume that being offensively bigoted will be funny. And that this new mainstream of comedy is referred to by most people as "alternative".
It's a perfect foot in gob moment. You've described how what used to be "alternative comedy" has become the mainstream, then you claim that most people still call it "alternative comedy". Do they heck as like. It's just "comedy" now. The likes of Bernard Manning and Jim Davidson are no longer the mainstream, they are dull bigoted old twats.
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Alternative comedy, in fact.
Get off your high horse. Mainstream comedy was never primarily about bigotry, although some certainly was. In my experience most people do still draw a line between what they see as mainstream comedy (even if it has been pushed to the margins and nostalgia TV) and politically correct comedy. The latter is still widely referred to as alternative comedy, even if it isn't in your circle.
And if you think that gratuitous racism, sexism and homophobia isn't still widespread, it must be a bit of a genteel circle you move in.
That's actually true. Even the bigotry nowadays has to be done with a sense of knowing irony.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
By you, or in general?
Steel Icarus
ersatz maven
If Theresa May cut her own face off live on telly, I'd laugh like a fucking drain.
Streathamite
ideological dogmatist
Well, if that's your experience, then I can only conclude that the people ion the social circles you move in are massively behind the times. everywhere I've gone 'alternative' comedy so long ago became the mainstream that NOBODY uses that term, nor have they done so for a very long time. You know, like 'dance music' is a bit of a dated label.
And who the fuck are you to say what "most people" do or don't call something? Since when did a majority of the British people give you carte blanche to represent them, or pronounce on their behalf?
More succinctly - yet again, you're talking shit.
And I might ask who you think you are to say who's 'massively behind the times.' We can't all be ex-public school slumming it in Brixton or whatever trendy place it is you live.
And I've said that alternative comedy went mainstream. That's one reason why there are so many unfunny comedians around. Real people still call it alternative comedy as well.
Streathamite
ideological dogmatist
Oh what a surprise, U75s resident dullard realises he can't win against the "talking shit" line and goes for the cheap sneer.
Thank god for two-trick ponies like LLETSA, I say. there's no element of unpredictability. Or that dangerous "interesting spontaneity" stuff, no sirree
If that's the 'real people' you know, no wonder you never have anything remotely interesting or insightful to say
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Leyton is about as trendy as leprosy, you dick.
Refused as fuck
"ethnic pakistani tosser"
Haven't actually heard the phrase "alternative comedy" when it wasn't being used to describe something that happened in the 90's ...since the 90's.
Oh right.
Oh what a surprise, U75s resident dullard realises he can't win against the "talking shit" line and goes for the cheap sneer.
Thank god for two-trick ponies like LLETSA, I say. there's no element of unpredictability. Or that dangerous "interesting spontaneity" stuff, no sirree
If that's the 'real people' you know, no wonder you never have anything remotely interesting or insightful to say
You, on the other hand, are full of such startling insights as 'I prefer to think that we'll get socialism one day.' How can anybody compete with that?
I don't know what you're so indignant about anyway. Just look at the tone you've been using every time you've addressed anything to me in this thread.
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