…or at least the BBCs Wireless 4 involvement in it.
Every trainee radio producer (looking for a quick promotion to TV) descends upon Edinburgh every August to produce sub standard crap to fill the airwaves – they really need two more episodes of ‘Just A Minute’ to go with the 500 they have already recorded in London this year. Then there is the smug self-satisfied cunt Clive Anderson, introducing his “hilarious” weekly chat show with three or four equally smug and self-satisfied guests (most of whom are also appearing at “the Festival”). Then comes the worst of the lot – “Stand Up.” Every wanker who ever cracked a fart joke at school is qualified to stand up and piss off the drunken audience with even more fart jokes.
Radio 4 Extra get most of this shit (under the generic title this year of “Funny At The Fringe” – but don’t hold your breath), but you can be sure Wireless 4 will manage to salvage a few hours of it for it’s “6.30 comedy” and a few cheap guests for ‘Just A Minute’ or series 100 of The News Quiz (that is not a joke – either the content or the fact that it really IS the 100th series about to start).
Comedy and Edinburgh Festival go together like fish and chips or strawberries and cream and this week of course a previously undiscovered comedic talent – John McDonnell trod the boards with his own knockabout obscene comedy. It seems the BBC and the organisers of the Edinburgh Festival are lazy unimaginative bastards, and are shackled together like Punch and Judy or Hitler and Eva Braun.
Perhaps I am a cunt for not appreciating tradition – but to me the Edinburgh Festival is as shitty as Strictly Come Prancing.
Nominated by W.C.Boggs
I see some limp ‘joke’ at the Festival has caused offence to somefuckerorother. Who the fuck cares and let’s not forget the sorry procession of unfunny cunts this shitshow produces.
Mr Manning you are sorely missed. Then the fuckers will know what offence means and what is actually funny.
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Solid cunting and the mention of Clive ‘Tefal forehead’ Anderson takes me back to that TV interview with the BeeGees.
Anderson was an obnoxious cunt all the way through the interview. Like some Tourettes affected teen, he couldn’t help but rapidly interject with his little quips, like machine gun fire. The BeeGees were very patient and were trying hard to answer the questions that the shiny bonced arsehole had put to them moments earlier.
It all got too much for two of them and they fucked off out after Anderson had made some feeble joke about them being tossers (their first group was called Les Tossers). The third one (Maurice if I remember) politely made his excuses and left. At that very moment, Anderson looked around bewildered, just like he had shat his Y fronts with several pounds of creamy diarrhoea. He made that face that new at that point his TV career had just entered the toilet pan zone. Delicious to watch.
What a gigantic cunt.
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The BEE GEES were pretty rotten, old turds though, weren’t they? Flakey, bearded, karaoke queens on helium.
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Rotten old turds, heh heh.
That said, they have never been cunts or shat on anyone to the best of my knowledge.
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Rumour has it, that during the burial service of Bee Gee Robin Gibb in 2012, his brother Barry sang a beautiful version of “How deep is your bruv”….
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Anderson’s always been a smug cunt. These days the world of comedy seems to be infested with them; agenda driven pricks with that same air of just having taken their head out their own arsehole.
Manning would shit on the lot of them.
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Smug cunt Anderson should give a little nod to his disastrous Bee Gees interview by calling his Edinburgh show “Clive Anderson- Stayin’ A Cunt”.
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The Edinburgh Festival – along with Glastonbury- is just another Libtard Snowflake wankfest.
Fuck off.
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This so called comedy is extremely juvenile , I’ve seen better jokes in a Christmas cracker. Is this what comedy has come to ?
The best comedy is about taking the piss. I watched some of these Snowflake cunts and sat pan faced from start to finish.
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It should be called the minge festival, it’s a gathering of cunts. Cunts who think they have talent performing for cunts who want to be right on and trendy by being able to say they saw so n so when they were unknown at the fringe.
Another example of the BBC selling the country it’s agenda. the fringe is right on and hip because the BBC says so.
The BBC also through Mr Khan was funny………
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Now,the Edinburgh MINGE Festival sounds like something I’d be interested in.
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I think the Warrington Minge Festival is ace !!
Lots of wodka, and, well…minge.
Saw Chris Tarrant on the railways again this pm. Just as the script said “the railways had now hit rock bottom” (or similar), they showed a pic of the station sign at Wrexham
That must’ve been 60 years ago, I don’t think the place has turned any corners yet…(unless a U-bend can be counted…).
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My Father dangled me over the parapet at Edinburgh Castle when I was about 6 years old…never liked the fucking place since.
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Could have been worse Dick,imagine if Krankie sturgecunt had of been around to baby sit you!! reckon you’d still be on valium to this day.
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I wonder how many people read my post and thought…..”Shame he didn’t drop the Cunt.”
LOL
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Seriously I for one would miss your contributions to ISAC. Very few of them fail to raise a smile or a laugh with me.
Have a good afternoon with the hounds
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The Edinburgh Fringe is a very valid cunting indeed. It is an unmitigated pile of moose shit.
I went only once, way back in the late 80’s. I was big into theatre and drama at the time, having literally just completed an A’level in Theatre Studies. My friend was a Drama teacher and as luvvie as they come, so she dragged me up there for the Fringe, completely spur of the moment. Her fellow ‘Am Dram’ members were putting on ‘Abigail’s Party’ up there in some backwoods theatre on the outskirts of the city.
It was sheer cuntery from start to finish.
1/ We had to stand for half of the train journey as it was packed as fuck.
2/ We had NO ACCOMMODATION. Yes, that’s right, not even a fucking tent, as everything was booked up. I didn’t know this when she dragged me up there. We ended up sleeping on the floor of her fellow luvvies squalid digs, complete with green,mouldy, dirty crockery in the sink that the lazy cunts could not be arsed to wash up (I ended up sorting that shit out, mug that I am)
3/ The shows were a pile of shite. Crappy comedy shows, pretentious drama masquerading as something so very ‘deep and meaningful’, which the audience would be wetting their knickers over and manically applauding like a flock of sheep on speed (not me of course)
4/ Dark and dingy, hovel-like venues that seemed to have hauled in most of the local homeless heroin addicts to pretend to be an audience.
5/ Street shows and ‘artists’ – those annoying mime shitheads, stilt-walking fuckers and the annoying cunts who tap you on the shoulder and start playing to the crowd at your expense, fucking cunt waffles.
By the time I got home I was tired and irritable as hell as well as mightily hungover, as I had spent most of the time in the local pubs, as anything vaguely good to go and see was fully booked and the rest of it was the above-mentioned bullshite.
NEVER AGAIN.
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Never been to the Fringe but did go, a few years ago, to the Tattoo which is on at the same time. Lovely sunny day, except during the show itself when it pissed it down every 15 minutes. During the day I thought the only time I had seen so many knobheads in one place was when I lived in London.
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Anybody heading up north for this snowflake wankathon needs to give their head a fucking wobble!
Personally I can’t think of anything worse than leaving the sunny south coast and steaming up north to cold/ wet/windy Scotland, especially to go and listen to a load of right on leftie wankers bleating on about Trump, bojo, Brexit , Hong Kong , HS2, climate change and just about anything else that grinds their little snowflake gears!!
Forget calling it The Fringe
THE MINGE is far more appropriate for this gathering sheer cuntery……
A truly dreadful festival that only appeals to the sort of cunts that belong under the wheels of a gas guzzling 4×4
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You saying that Q reminds me one of the pinnacles of Wireless 4 cuntitude “The Now Show” opens in fifty-something series this week there. How apt.
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This festival is proof that comedy is no longer just something to make you laugh. Every ‘comedian’ has an agenda and every ‘joke’ has some underlying political reference point. Literally any cunt could put together a set that the snowflake cunts at the fringe would laugh at, just get up on stage and shout Donald Trump, Brexit, Boris Johnson! And the snowflake fuckers would laugh on cue. Gone are the days when entertainment was actually funny, it’s now just sarcastic irony. Fuck the lot of them.
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I lived in a Edinburgh when I was a student and got so fed up with the massive influx of tourists at Festival time that I decided to go away one year. I had little money and no sense and decided to go to the southwest of England. What a mistake. First Bristol, which had nothing to offer but some shitty old boat designed by a guy with a preposterous name straight out of Anthony Trollope, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, then Salisbury, where a rat-faced B&B landlady refused to give me an extra pat of marmalade at breakfast, then Plymouth, where my first sight on leaving the train station was a shoplifter running up the street being pursued by an irate shopkeeper, with no sign of PC Plod to back him up. After a week of crappy food, lousy beer and unfriendly natives, I left mangle wurzel land and went back to Auld Reekie and tried to ignore the stilt walkers, jugglers and “clowns” whose teeth I felt like kicking in.
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I too have lived in Embra at festival time (involuntarily). You forgot the mime artists. Still and all, Leith Walk and points north seemed relatively untouched by the idiocy – I hope that hasn’t changed.
It’s always been a bit of a cuntfest, with a blurred line between genuine promise and bampots in ebullition as far as the performers go. The comedy side’s just got completely out of hand as it is now illegal to make jokes which are funny. Anywhere. Except ISAC.
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My missus got me to watch 5 minutes of Kevin Bridges last night. I don’t think I’ve ever come closer to kicking her cunt in before.
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The last time I went to Edinburgh, I thought I’d taken a wrong turn and ended up in The Forbidden City. Me dlive stlaight home.
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I enjoy good stand-up, but the Edinburgh Fringe is the last place i’d bother looking.
I’d go to Canada or Boston.
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Regulars on here might be aware that my dear wife hails from the Athens of the North, and I quote her words of wisdom on the subject of the Festival.
‘The only sane thing to do when the Festival’s on in Edinburgh is to get the fuck out of the place and stay out’.
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On the subject of comedy, I see that some people have taken offence to the fact that Ubercunt Gary Linekunt made a joke about baldies. Now Linekunt is an arsewipe of spectacular proportions, but fucking hell, can you not make a joke about anything these days without some twat getting the hump?
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Why haven’t the BBC sacked him?
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The Edinburgh Pish Festival is the same tiresome bollocks every year. A bunch of right-on twats congratulating each other on how “woke” (oh puke) they all are. Not comedy,just the usual jaded ranting, featuring all of the left’s greatest hits such as Trump, Brexit etc. Anti-comedy made by,-and for-poofters, lezzas, peaceful,Um Bongo guzzlers,wimminz,and various other misfits and cunts. Give me Bernard Manning, Jim Davidson and Roy Chubby Brown over this keek any day.
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I live in the west of Scotland
I go to Edinburgh for 2 reasons only
1. To visit my sister
2. To watch Rugby ( I know painful ATM)
Never been to festival, fringe or tattoo
East coast cunts are inhospitable and dour cunts
Oh and the wee Diddy krankie kid on parliament is there – another reason NOT to go
Fuck the fringe and Edinburgh cunts
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Belated afterthought – just been listening, entirely for statistical purposes, to R4’s comedy half hour at the Fringe.
Presented by unfunny Bristolian wimminz, introducing
1. Unfunny Jewish* lesbian* wimminz
2. Unfunny granddaughter of discoverer of herpes cure, name of Bauer.
3. Extremely unfunny New York wimminz singing song which got not a titter, accompanied by mute male on piano. Cohen and Kaplinsky.
4. Vaguely amusing Australian gay* male. Gag: “The first rule of relationships…(continues to chatter, milking it)…is that one of you could do better.”
No, cunt. All of you could do better, and so could your audience.
*Mentioned only because they did.
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The only funny thing about the fringe this year, was the news of the shop shelling Cheeto’s to tourists for nearly a tenner a year. If you’re dumb enough to pay that much for what is effectively a packet of crisps, you deserve to be ripped off. Recently saw some of the ‘jokes’ that were told at the festival. If that’s the best these ‘comedians’ can come up with, they really need to find themselves another line of work.
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