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Sir Calumn
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Righto everybody I cant be bothered to read all the threads there have been so many new ones and new replies so someone please point out the good ones, thanks.
Anyway, I have a gig Thursday night and it's going alright, they're tolerating my terrorism and paedo stuff, when I did a joke about Madeline McCann and suddenly the whole thing turned sour.... all I said was something about not caring about her and not wanting to see pictures of her everywhere because she didnt even have any tits yet.... what's so wrong with that? I dont get why some things are so offensive and some things arent.
One gig I said paedophilia and necrophilia should be legalised and all was good, yet I did one little rape joke and bang... the atmosphere just went.
Anyway here is an action photograph
http://www.lionsdencomedy.co.uk/photos/6/Sir Didier*Hamilton.jpg
What I want to know is a) why do some things piss people off so much more than others and b) what really ill thought through things have you said that have really killed the conversation/room?
I once told a woman in a restaurant that she was too heavily pregnant to be working, turned out she was just fat, ouch! I hate to think what she did to my food.
Also once I was talking to some people about politics and I thought I had sussed what they would and wouldnt take offense to and I thought I could get away with a sex joke so I said "How can you say Bill Clinton was smart - he got a blowjob off a jew and thought he wouldnt have to pay for it*?" completely forgetting that there was a racist element to that as well and they really took offense to that.
*copyright Bill Maher 2003
My life is just an everlasting chain of awkward moments strung together by telling people about my awkward moments.
Anyway, I have a gig Thursday night and it's going alright, they're tolerating my terrorism and paedo stuff, when I did a joke about Madeline McCann and suddenly the whole thing turned sour.... all I said was something about not caring about her and not wanting to see pictures of her everywhere because she didnt even have any tits yet.... what's so wrong with that? I dont get why some things are so offensive and some things arent.
One gig I said paedophilia and necrophilia should be legalised and all was good, yet I did one little rape joke and bang... the atmosphere just went.
Anyway here is an action photograph
http://www.lionsdencomedy.co.uk/photos/6/Sir Didier*Hamilton.jpg
What I want to know is a) why do some things piss people off so much more than others and b) what really ill thought through things have you said that have really killed the conversation/room?
I once told a woman in a restaurant that she was too heavily pregnant to be working, turned out she was just fat, ouch! I hate to think what she did to my food.
Also once I was talking to some people about politics and I thought I had sussed what they would and wouldnt take offense to and I thought I could get away with a sex joke so I said "How can you say Bill Clinton was smart - he got a blowjob off a jew and thought he wouldnt have to pay for it*?" completely forgetting that there was a racist element to that as well and they really took offense to that.
*copyright Bill Maher 2003
My life is just an everlasting chain of awkward moments strung together by telling people about my awkward moments.