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Human rights abuses are coming home. e: cat 
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Nov 21, 2022 17:40
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Bloody Hell https://twitter.com/jeevanrai/status/1594711888914522112
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Nov 21, 2022 18:02
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smellmycheese posted:Bloody Hell On top of the general hideousness of that it's also painfully unfunny. Does anyone actually like him as a comedian? Most people aware of him these days just seem to know him for that football song and his recent nonsense.
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Nov 21, 2022 18:39
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Is there a minority Baddiel hasn't picked on yet?
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Nov 21, 2022 18:42
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stev posted:On top of the general hideousness of that it's also painfully unfunny. Does anyone actually like him as a comedian? Most people aware of him these days just seem to know him for that football song and his recent nonsense. he has apparently written a children's book
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Nov 21, 2022 18:48
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OwlFancier posted:he has apparently written a children's book Actual children, or his fellow manchildren?
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Nov 21, 2022 18:49
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actual children, saw it in the shops. Don't know what sort of weirdo wants to buy their children a book by a washed up 90's comedian but maybe there's a bunch of sad dads out there
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Nov 21, 2022 18:55
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stev posted:On top of the general hideousness of that it's also painfully unfunny. Does anyone actually like him as a comedian? Most people aware of him these days just seem to know him for that football song and his recent nonsense. In the 90s I really liked him as a comedian. Newman and Baddiel: Live and in Pieces was my favourite comedy show for a long time but some of it has aged so terribly.
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Nov 21, 2022 19:00
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David Baddiel had a successful career as a comedian in the 90s because Rob Newman was funny.
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Nov 21, 2022 19:07
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Tesseraction posted:Is there a minority Baddiel hasn't picked on yet? Jews, probably. If he had there would surely by now have been a "this you?" when he shrieked about anti-Semitism.
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Nov 21, 2022 19:22
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The Mary Whitehouse experience was The Thing for my generation of students - Punt and Dennis,. Newman and Baddiel. Catchphrase heavy, and the other three where actually funny. Some of it had agreed like milk on a radiator (Milky Milky)
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Nov 21, 2022 19:26
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what a oval office
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Nov 21, 2022 19:33
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Jedit posted:Jews, probably. If he had there would surely by now have been a "this you?" when he shrieked about anti-Semitism. nah he definitely got in on the anti-Jewdas poo poo
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Nov 21, 2022 19:39
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OwlFancier posted:actual children, saw it in the shops. Don't know what sort of weirdo wants to buy their children a book by a washed up 90's comedian but maybe there's a bunch of sad dads out there I've seen that on a bookshelf in an actual school can't imagine it's worth the asking price. not a great prospect. bit of a
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Nov 21, 2022 19:40
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forkboy84 posted:https://twitter.com/aborisdrone/status/1594659353042292737?t=7jKClCAajNIaOVxMxc-QfQ&s=19 Boiled all the right piss and got me blocked by Socialist Voice (who pay Elon Musk $8 a month for their blue tick hahahahaha) so...  So much hypocrisy shown up. Brilliant stunt.
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Nov 21, 2022 19:49
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The part that sticks out most about old clips of Baddiel is that they demonstrate just how poor of a stand up his is. Had he not had material that kicked down he'd have nothing. Even Frank Skinner's material has aged, but he could and can write a joke.
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Nov 21, 2022 19:56
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Microplastics posted:
Aaaaand we're back to "are people earning £50/100k financially secure".
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Nov 21, 2022 20:04
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Just to make things worse. Baddiel’s co host on that show in the clip was Michael loving Gove.
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Nov 21, 2022 20:04
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Doesn't surprise me that Baddiel is a fan of the old "if you want to look thin, surround yourself with fat people" ideology. He must have seemed more witty and charming than usual that night.
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Nov 21, 2022 20:13
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It's worth watching the series of Taskmaster with Baddiel in it just so you can see how astonishingly loving stupid he is.
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Nov 21, 2022 20:24
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Gorn Myson posted:The part that sticks out most about old clips of Baddiel is that they demonstrate just how poor of a stand up his is. Had he not had material that kicked down he'd have nothing. I remember reading Frank Skinner's biography for some reason many years ago, and he seemed genuinely hosed up by a schoolyard incident where he bullied some other loser kid by making jokes at his expense, and recognised that it was a bad trait that he brought into his professional career. I'm not sure if he changed dramatically after that revelation, but it at least demonstrated some modicum of self-reflection that I doubt the Bad Eel is capable of. Unkempt posted:It's worth watching the series of Taskmaster with Baddiel in it just so you can see how astonishingly loving stupid he is. nah.
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Nov 21, 2022 20:29
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Unkempt posted:It's worth watching the series of Taskmaster Lemme stop you right there.
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Nov 21, 2022 20:32
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Frank Skinner can also take a joke at his own expense without becoming a nuclear corncob.
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Nov 21, 2022 20:33
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Kokoro Wish posted:Lemme stop you right there. It's good and Alex Horne is a national treasure
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Nov 21, 2022 20:40
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Darth Walrus posted:Speaking of celebrities doing nice things, it looks like Jolyon Foxslayer's crew is pursuing a worthy project: I'm glad they're doing this, and on the same subject if you haven't watched Abi Thorne's last video, it's worth an hour and a half of your time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1eWIshUzr8
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Nov 21, 2022 20:47
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I will probably watch his documentary to see if his apology to Jason Lee has any element of sincerity to it. My expectations are not high, I won't be surprised if he tries to turn it around - "antisemites use this to attack me, when they are in fact the real racists" stylee. But who knows, maybe he'll turn up to a right wing rally decked out in fascist gear and ask the camera, "Are we the Baddiels?"
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Nov 21, 2022 20:52
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Failed Imagineer posted:I remember reading Frank Skinner's biography for some reason many years ago, and he seemed genuinely hosed up by a schoolyard incident where he bullied some other loser kid by making jokes at his expense, and recognised that it was a bad trait that he brought into his professional career. I'm not sure if he changed dramatically after that revelation, but it at least demonstrated some modicum of self-reflection that I doubt the Bad Eel is capable of. The one where he’s properly open about his alcoholism is bleak.
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Nov 21, 2022 21:03
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Skinner became quite a devout Catholic, but in a more relaxed "love thy neighbour" sense rather than the self righteous bigoted sense.
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Nov 21, 2022 21:50
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Unkempt posted:It's worth watching the series of Taskmaster with Baddiel in it just so you can see how astonishingly loving stupid he is. Oh hah I tweeted this earlier before having seen this post: https://twitter.com/WhatEvil/status/1594776696540069889?s=20&t=OeWAV0G2Z34j0-g2-k7TRQ (Should say "Glad I did" - autocorrect fail) Yeah I agree. Was flabbergasted by just how loving stupid he was. Also: sebzilla posted:It's good and Alex Horne is a national treasure Yeah one guy at work went on about Taskmaster for years but I always thought it looked poo poo, but then I gave it a go and it genuinely is great. Of course there's a lot of British comedians and 'slebs on there so that means there's quite a few people who are massive melts or worse (Baddiel, Richard Osman, Katherine Ryan all spring to mind) but also people who are great like Mel Giedroyc. And yes, Alex Horne is a legend and despite being cast in the show as the "put upon/mistreated assistant" it's his show concept and he comes up with the challenges. It can be a bit hit or miss and some of the series have people on who aren't actually that entertaining but when it's good it's really, properly hilarious. Season 4 with Hugh Dennis, Mel Giedroc, Joe Lycett, Noel Fielding and Lolly Adefope is fantastic. Bob Mortimer and Sally Phillips are also particularly good. I haven't watched S11 onwards yet, though.
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Nov 21, 2022 22:32
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I like Taskmaster, I think one of my favourite contestants was Romesh Ranganathan because he both tried the show as the absurd thing it is but also gave the challenges his all. I also just like the guy. Don't tell me he's a dog nonce I won't listen
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Nov 21, 2022 22:47
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If you like Alex Horne you should also watch No More Jockeys, a silly game he invented with Mark Watson and Tim Key a dozen or so years ago (when they were filming We Need Answers) and they have been playing on YouTube since the pandemic. Half hour episodes on Friday mornings, perfect for easing yourself into the last day of work/first day of weekend haze.
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Nov 21, 2022 22:58
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Rhod Gilbert went in with a determined effort to ruin Greg Davies life every single episode of S7 and did a fair job of it.
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Nov 21, 2022 22:58
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James Acaster getting pissed off at every single task is peak Taskmaster Either that or that time Greg had to pull Nish Kumar aside to tell him to start trying
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Nov 21, 2022 23:04
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Tesseraction posted:Don't tell me he's a dog nonce I won't listen
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Nov 21, 2022 23:06
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Bobby Deluxe posted:He genuinely seems alright from travels with my mum and asian provocateur, but I always have wariness about comedians who's shtick is pretending to be an angry oval office, because there's a tendency over time for it to be revealled as not an act. Speaking as someone with Indian family, it's basically every uncle I've ever had on that side so to me it's rather nostalgic.
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Nov 21, 2022 23:08
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So what's going on with this university strike I'm hearing about? Checked the last half dozen pages and was surprised nobody mentioned it.
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Nov 21, 2022 23:08
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Tbh I just saw about this https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1594391326325633024 And there is indeed an article in The Times about how we've just kept on trucking
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Nov 21, 2022 23:17
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I think this make the rich pay NHS Scotland story is getting blown up to associate Scotland with privatising the NHS in general and put people off the idea of independence in a background radiation kind of way. Seems like Nicola Sturgeon was pretty direct in saying that it's not going to happen, it was just something brought up in a meeting. For all I know it's brought up in many meetings by some bozo and never goes anywhere, but it was front page news there and I think it's for that reason. Court decision on whether Scotland can hold a referendum is coming this week so maybe that is motivating the framing.
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Nov 21, 2022 23:31
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I see that the Tories and their stooges at MI5 are still claiming that Shamima Begum is a threat to the UK and using that to justify Sajid Javeed's strongman act when he stripped her of her UK citizenship. Even if you take everything she's ever said and done at face value and extrapolate that out for the 40-50 years more she might live*, she's still only a fraction of the threat to the UK that other UK citizens (like Rees-Mogg or Farage) are. * - she probably won't live that long in a Syrian refugee camp.
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Nov 22, 2022 00:06
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Tesseraction posted:Speaking as someone with Indian family, it's basically every uncle I've ever had on that side so to me it's rather nostalgic. Fair enough but I thought his schtick had worn a bit thin by the end of the series. I think his fallback for when he can't think of anything funny to say is just to say nothing and look like he's seething. His standup can be quite funny I just don't think he's that good at being funny when put on the spot.
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