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Worst stand-up comedian ever


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2 hours ago, Total Longo said:

OK, i'm none the wiser, thankfully. Did see a clip of Mock the Week the other day, sadly, and this person was on it, sporting about 15 different haircuts at the same time.

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I actually like Maisie Adams. Never seen her stand-up, but she's decent on the panel shows.

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1 hour ago, SasaS said:

Nothing is ever funny if you don't want it to be funny. It's a precondition for enjoying comedy.

Ain't that the truth. 

 

I saw a brilliant Daniel Kitson show ("Mouse") in Liverpool a few years ago. One bloke in the audience sat there with a grumpy face on throughout, so Kitson included the challenge of his sour gob into the act. That didn't improve his mood.

 

(As an aside, I know the bloke in question.  He's normally sound, but just not that night.)

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3 minutes ago, Colonel Kurtz said:

I think there is a general point about how the Marxism/Leninism ideology is not held responsible for the 100 million people who died as a result of its implementation in the 20th century. I'm amazed that people want to be associated with it but obviously you disagree. 

Much like being associated with the tories in light of the tens of thousands of people they have killed through their austerity program over the last decade then 

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15 minutes ago, Colonel Kurtz said:

I think there is a general point about how the Marxism/Leninism ideology is not held responsible for the 100 million people who died as a result of its implementation in the 20th century. I'm amazed that people want to be associated with it but obviously you disagree. 

It was the psychopath Stalin who was responsible for those deaths - pretty much state capitalism/despotism from the mid 1920s onwards.  It's like blaming all muslims for muslim terrorists.

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16 minutes ago, Colonel Kurtz said:

Oh how the hard left love "Yes but what about" rebuttals.  

 

The claims that austerity led to 10,000s of deaths are pure conjecture and not based on facts. 

FactCheck: did austerity kill 120,000 people? – Channel 4 News

 

The deaths of 100 million people because of Marxism are not disputed by anyone sensible but somehow you think that there is a moral equivalence ?  

Even if you dispute the number, how can a system that declares someone fit for work - who then drops dead a week later - or says that someone with nothing must wait 6 weeks for state help, be morally right?

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24 minutes ago, Colonel Kurtz said:

Oh how the hard left love "Yes but what about" rebuttals.  

 

The claims that austerity led to 10,000s of deaths are pure conjecture and not based on facts. 

FactCheck: did austerity kill 120,000 people? – Channel 4 News

 

The deaths of 100 million people because of Marxism are not disputed by anyone sensible but somehow you think that there is a moral equivalence ?  

What I am talking about is people living & dying in poverty in this country at this very moment due to government policies. The figures are certainly up for debate but the fact that it is happening is not.

 

What you are doing is blaming a political philosophy for the deaths of 100 million people through the last century or so. If you're so sure of yourself, why don't you show us all exactly where in Marx's writings he advocated tens of millions of deaths?

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Just now, Rushies tash said:

Anyway, is Marxism the same thing as communism? I'm confused.


Marxism is the economic/philosophical theory, communism is an implantation of the ideology of communist thought, based around the thinking of Marx.

 

They share an author and a lot of theory, but Marxism is also a critique of ‘current’ structures, culture, exploitation, economic theory and class struggle. A history of how we got here and where we should go.

 

Marxism is the thinking that guides the ideological framework of communism, later interpretations adapted or changed how central certain things were. 

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1 minute ago, Bruce Spanner said:


Marxism is the economic/philosophical theory, communism is an implantation of the ideology of communist thought, based around the thinking of Marx.

 

They share an author and a lot of theory, but Marxism is also a critique of ‘current’ structures, culture, exploitation, economic theory and class struggle. A history of how we got here and where we should go.

 

Marxism is the thinking that guides the ideological framework of communism, later interpretations adapted or changed how central certain things were. 

I knew that mate - I was trying to point out how blaming some chin stroking political theorist for the deaths of millions at the hands of psychopathic despots was a bit of a stretch. Modern Marxism (put simplistically) is the equivalent of working at Waitrose or John Lewis.

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50 minutes ago, Colonel Kurtz said:

I think there is a general point about how the Marxism/Leninism ideology is not held responsible for the 100 million people who died as a result of its implementation in the 20th century. I'm amazed that people want to be associated with it but obviously you disagree. 

I'm not a Marxist nor Leninist but even though I havent read much Marx I do find I agree with him on some points,not on others. As for the username,I joined around the same time as the NSA spying scandal so I chose something to poke fun at it knowing how they love Russians and those usernames would ping their search criteria. I am left wing,probably due to my Merseyside/Irish/Scottish ancestry,which applies to a good portion of Liverpool fans. I think you're smart enough to know that a bit of what you write on here is a bit of incitement to the left leaning of this forum and you know how 'highly' the tories are held in the area. Anyway,carry on.

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7 minutes ago, Colonel Kurtz said:

Here is Marx on Jews. 

 

"Thus we find every tyrant backed by a Jew, as is every pope by a Jesuit. In truth, the cravings of oppressors would be hopeless, and the practicability of war out of the question, if there were not an army of Jesuits to smother thought and a handful of Jews to ransack pockets."

 

Could be lifted straight from Der Sturmer

 

And here Engels writing about a black associate :

 

"Being in his quality as a n****r, a degree nearer to the rest of the animal kingdom than the rest of us"

 

What a nice pair of guys, but never mind, lets focus on the evil tories. 

 

 

 

 


Abhorrent views, of course, no excuses, but at the same time you can hold a lot of people guilty of the same. That’s not to brush it away, it’s to nearly state that the world has improved significantly in holding people to account over extreme racist views, or at least we’re improving.

 

Apropos of nothing he’s an article on our current prime minister and his increasing number of racist, sexist and homophobic remarks.   

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11 minutes ago, Colonel Kurtz said:

Here is Marx on Jews. 

 

"Thus we find every tyrant backed by a Jew, as is every pope by a Jesuit. In truth, the cravings of oppressors would be hopeless, and the practicability of war out of the question, if there were not an army of Jesuits to smother thought and a handful of Jews to ransack pockets."

 

Could be lifted straight from Der Sturmer

 

And here Engels writing about a black associate :

 

"Being in his quality as a n****r, a degree nearer to the rest of the animal kingdom than the rest of us"

 

What a nice pair of guys, but never mind, lets focus on the evil tories. 

 

 

 

 

'People 100 years ago were racist bastards shocker.'

 

I wouldn't consider myself a Marxist or a Communist, nowhere near it. What I am concerned with though is what's going on in this country at the moment & it's not fucking great.

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1 minute ago, Mook said:

'People 100 years ago were racist shocker.'

 

I wouldn't consider myself a Marxist or a Communist, nowhere near it. What I am concerned with though is what's going on in this country at the moment & it's not fucking great.

In fairness to Colonel Kurtz, there's absolutely no way you'd find any tories caught saying anything racist. Particularly not nowadays. I mean, imagine how stupid it would be for the actual, literal, current prime minister to have made undeniably racist comments in print.

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1 hour ago, Rushies tash said:

Even if you dispute the number, how can a system that declares someone fit for work - who then drops dead a week later - or says that someone with nothing must wait 6 weeks for state help, be morally right?

 

Don't people who are actually working sometimes drop dead a week later?

 

Either way, this is a really bad stand-up routine.

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10 minutes ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

 

Don't people who are actually working sometimes drop dead a week later?

 

Either way, this is a really bad stand-up routine.

They certainly do although they tend to have a better chance of making it to the fortnight mark than someone trying to claim government support for terminal cancer.

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I saw Stewart Lee at the Philharmonic and thought he was good.

 

I don't really watch much stand up, but a few years ago me and the wife went to the comedy club in the Albert Dock. There was a group of out of town lads who thought it would be great to heckle every act, and most of the acts couldn't handle it. Apart from Martin Mor the Northern Irish comedian who came on last, and who absolutely tore the lads apart before getting them thrown out. Everyone was cheering as they got escorted out the club, probably to go to Revolution to drink Smirnoff Ice and Carling.

 

So yeah, Martin Mor is okay by me.

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