Shaun. Like the other crap on here, that is offensive. You ought to be ashamed of yourself. The least you can do is remove this entire thread.See if she gets this one:
The area which I grew up in was really tough. When I was a kid, people used to cover me in chocolate and cream and stick cherries on my head .... yep, life was very tough in the gateau!!
Cheers,
Shaun
Is getting jokes a man thing
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swee'pea99
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Back in the day I was at Jongleurs when Lenny Henry did an impromptu set. He was clearly trying out new material, and it didn't take long to twig that most of it was really lame. But he went down a storm. The audience was clearly wowed by the presence of 'a star' (having come out for an evening of wannabes), and almost hysterically predisposed to laugh; the Great Man himself, meanwhile, was so bursting with self-confidence and (I hate to say it but) charisma, compared with the standard Friday night fare. Between the two, hilarity ensued.
But like I say, the material was really feeble. It was all in the 'atmosphere'....
Basically, if the joke is longer than two lines, it's too long. Keep 'em short, keep 'em fast and then if no-one laughs, what've you lost? The longer the joke YOU tell (if you are not being paid to be on stage telling it in front of an audience full of people wanting to laugh), the less funny the punchline gets the further it is from the start.
I hope that is a joke, Pete. I wouldn't like to think you live in such a cotton wool universe.
yorkshiregoth
Master of all he surveys
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Well I don't get the first 'joke' either.
John the Monkey
Frivolous Cyclist
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I'm in that camp too, although I've never found Billy Connolly funny.
What a knob.
Well, that's as maybe. And I most certainly do not! I've usually passed lightly over sexist and other unacceptable stuff that's cropped up on here - see what the consensus is.
But when I get a sniff of antisemitism - if one accepts the allusion 'gateau' -> 'ghetto' - and thinking what 'ghetto' meant in the 1940s - then I protest. And I'm sorry to find the Admin - whom I usually totally support - getting involved. Let him answer, anyway.
I usually laugh at the 'joke' threads on CC. This time, however, ...
2Loose
Guru
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- Loughborough, Leicestershire.
But when I get a sniff of antisemitism - if one accepts the allusion 'gateau' -> 'ghetto' - and thinking what 'ghetto' meant in the 1940s - then I protest. And I'm sorry to find the Admin - whom I usually totally support - getting involved. Let him answer, anyway.
I usually laugh at the 'joke' threads on CC. This time, however, ...
Sorry, didn't get the first joke and you have certainly lost me, but then I only understand the word ghetto as it has stood for the last 40 years (google was not my friend today)...
...but I am blonde so that must be it.
swee'pea99
Squire
Blimey, you must have finely-tuned nostrils. Jews don't have any kind of a monopoly on ghettoes my friend. Lay off Shaun, he's good people and I have absolutely no doubt not an anti-semitic bone in his body. You really need to get a grip, and stop jumping to take offense where a moment's thought would tell you none was intended.
Oh, and I thought it was funny, so there.
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
Well, that's as maybe. And I most certainly do not! I've usually passed lightly over sexist and other unacceptable stuff that's cropped up on here - see what the consensus is.
But when I get a sniff of antisemitism - if one accepts the allusion 'gateau' -> 'ghetto' - and thinking what 'ghetto' meant in the 1940s - then I protest. And I'm sorry to find the Admin - whom I usually totally support - getting involved. Let him answer, anyway.
I usually laugh at the 'joke' threads on CC. This time, however, ...
I really don't see the need to get on a high horse over the joke. It's regularly told amongst my Jewish friends and relatives and causes much hilarity.
Piemaster
Guru
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- UK City of Culture
Well, that's as maybe. And I most certainly do not! I've usually passed lightly over sexist and other unacceptable stuff that's cropped up on here - see what the consensus is.
But when I get a sniff of antisemitism - if one accepts the allusion 'gateau' -> 'ghetto' - and thinking what 'ghetto' meant in the 1940s - then I protest. And I'm sorry to find the Admin - whom I usually totally support - getting involved. Let him answer, anyway.
I usually laugh at the 'joke' threads on CC. This time, however, ...
Having a bad day Pete? I thought the gateau one wasn't bad. In fact I'm going to tell my Jewish m-i-l that one on Xmas day. I've heard worse from Jackie Mason.
I once went to see Michael Barrymore and he was on top form. The Circus Tavern (which we pass on the Southend Fnrttc) was falling about. I didn't laugh once. I guess humour is a personal thing.
