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m4rkb wrote:A typical virtue signaller trying to atone for his own backgorund

No, he just portrays characters that highlight the casual racism, sexism and homophobia displayed by so many members of the public.

subsub wrote:

m4rkb wrote:A typical virtue signaller trying to atone for his own backgorund

No, he just portrays characters that highlight the casual racism, sexism and homophobia displayed by so many members of the public.

Well he should invent a character from an ethnic background and base his routine on that then. He'd have endless material.

subsub wrote:

m4rkb wrote:A typical virtue signaller trying to atone for his own backgorund

No, he just portrays characters that highlight the casual racism, sexism and homophobia displayed by so many members of the public.

You sort of have a point, but do you think his pub landlord character was based on his years spent in rough-house cockney boozers?
He's using a lazy stereotype to lampoon people who use lazy stereotypes.

Bad Blue 2000 wrote:

subsub wrote:

m4rkb wrote:A typical virtue signaller trying to atone for his own backgorund

No, he just portrays characters that highlight the casual racism, sexism and homophobia displayed by so many members of the public.

You sort of have a point, but do you think his pub landlord character was based on his years spent in rough-house cockney boozers?
He's using a lazy stereotype to lampoon people who use lazy stereotypes.

+1

Bad Blue 2000 wrote:

subsub wrote:

m4rkb wrote:A typical virtue signaller trying to atone for his own backgorund

No, he just portrays characters that highlight the casual racism, sexism and homophobia displayed by so many members of the public.

You sort of have a point, but do you think his pub landlord character was based on his years spent in rough-house cockney boozers?
He's using a lazy stereotype to lampoon people who use lazy stereotypes.

isnt that half the joke though?

What joke?

That hes lazily sterotyping while lampooning others who use lazy sterotypes

The act is hilarious as good old belly-aching laughs go.
Why does there need to be an agenda that might put you off watching it and finding it funny.
You guize !!

Eaststand wrote:That hes lazily sterotyping while lampooning others who use lazy sterotypes

I know, mate
I should have said- what 'joke'.

Anyway, I doubt he was ever being that meta.
My guess is that the character was spawned by his physical apperance ie looks a bit like a 'geezer'.

Oh yeah, that was quite dumb of me.

I dunno, he must be aware that he is portraying a lazy cartoon. That has to be part of the point, surely.

I'm not sure.

It would be like me doing an impression of a posh bloke and going " I drink champagne, my butler brings it to me".

Kowalski wrote:His landlord shtick never gets old.

Watching a toff pretend to be a over-opinionated commoner never fails to give me big belly laughs.

It worked for Farage...

Isn't Al Murray distantly related to David Cameron?

black_guardian wrote:

Kowalski wrote:His landlord shtick never gets old.

Watching a toff pretend to be a over-opinionated commoner never fails to give me big belly laughs.

It worked for Farage...

Isn't Al Murray distantly related to David Cameron?

Apparently: ' Comedian Al Murray and David Cameron are distant cousins'