Leith Arches and the Edinburgh fringe festival

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More proof that modern comedy has become woke only ‘entertainment’.
This time it’s Father Ted writer and stand up, Graham Linehan’s turn to be cancelled for his views on gender bollocks.

Banned by the same hypocrites who probably pissed themselves at him poking fun at the catholic priesthood, but don’t like his sensible idea that women can’t have a cock.
Apparently, an online campaign brought his despicable views to the attention of the venue and felt compelled to release the following statement.

“ We are an inclusive venue and will not allow such views to violate our space.”
I think they need to look up the word ‘inclusive’ in a dictionary.
How the fuck is censorship of someone you don’t agree with inclusive?
Sounds like the Leith Arches is an ‘exclusive’ venue to me.
Exclusively woke.

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Nominated by Field Marshal Cuntgomery.

More on this from Ron Knee below.

The Edinburgh Cringe

Those with even a passing interest in such things will be aware that Edinburgh’s annual International Festival is one of the greatest events in the world’s calendar for ‘the performing arts’.

Time was that The Fringe in particular was considered to be ‘avant-garde’; a place where performers could express themselves in ways which might be considered outlandish, boundary-pushing or controversial.

Not so much these days, it seems. Take the case of Irish performer and writer Graham Linehan (creator of the legendary ‘Father Ted’), whose stand-up gigs have been ‘cancelled’ twice at short notice, because his views don’t ‘align’ with the overall values of the owners*.

Yeah you guessed it. Linhan has expressed utterly outrageous opinions on gender issues; fascistic notions such as ‘women don’t have penises’. Shocking, isn’t it? In the face of this ‘cancellation’, Linehan resorted to performing outside the Scottish Parliament as a form of protest.

So there you have it. The creeping censorship continues. ‘Sure, you can perform here, as long as we agree with what you say’.

Edinburgh Cringe indeed.

* translation into English; ‘we’ve shit the bed at the thought that the trans lobby nutters will come after us’.

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66 thoughts on “Leith Arches and the Edinburgh fringe festival”

  1. I can only imagine what sort of laughter free shit fest it is now.

    It’s probably so crap now lenny henry would be the star of the festival.
    He could resurrect his david Bellamy act.

    • The supposed best “joke” says it all:-
      I started dating a zookeeper, but it turned out he was a cheetah.
      Deffo a laughter free zone if that’s the best they can offer. Probably expensive as f*ck too but something the right on politically correct in-crowd can boast about having attended at one of their gay friendly vegan soirées.

  2. Well done for him to say, fuck it i’ll play anyway. Fuck Leith (it’s a fucking shithole anyway).. and fuck the fringe.
    I’m just waiting for that day when the snake eats it’s own tail.
    I will be laughing my fucking head off when it doe’s.
    Cunts.

  3. What if jug-eares from MotD walked onto the Edinburgh Festival stage and not say a word. Would we be allowed to record the abuse he will receive ?

  4. Hehe, fucking ‘values’, makes you laugh (well it would if they had a comedy show)

    I always thought that it was the ‘values’ of paying public who would have the final say, if it is sold out it would suggest that the paying public are far from uncomfortable with real biology.

    Corporate woke, even shitty little venues like this one are cunts.

  5. It only a matter of time before comedy is banned.. the taliban could learn some tricks from the bed wetting wokies.

    I’m searching my mind for a laugh out loud new comedy from the last five years?
    Help me out here..

      • That’s farce,MP’s can’t be that extravagant, ridiculous and absurd?

        I’ll get my coat.

      • You won’t see Barry on there……not now he’s got half a mill of Chinese Communist Party money in his dirty pockets.

      • Sorry…..I thought you meant the BBC’s Question Time and that traitor filth Barry Gardiner.

    • Phoenix Nights, The Office and early Alan Partridge (yes, Coogan is a cunt) were all funny as fuck, but they’re all about 20 years old. Can’t think of anything of note since.

      Sad boring sacks of shite nowadays.

      Next time a woke cunt is in your house, put stand up videos on of Bernard Manning and 80s Eddie Murphy.

      Watching a woke prick’s reaction should be great fun.

      • Gooony goo noo,(wtf language is that ITS A FUCKING BIGFOOT,you shaved the bitch and taught her to talk ,lol

      • Micky Flanagan is about it for British comedy but he’s not been on TV for years.

        Doesn’t need to.

    • Warrington Minge Festival… With a bottle of Vladivar in the back of every taxi.

  7. Personally, I thought Father Ted was toilet. Really awful. If I want to see unintelligible, pissed-up. scruffy cunts, I’ll walk through the park next to the railway station. Nonetheless, no comedy should be banned, even if it’s atrocious like everything on the BBC from the last twenty years.

    • You must have found the “perfectly square piece of dirt”/Hitler moustache scene funny.

      • Peep Show was ace,
        As was Friday Night Dinner
        And Ricky Gervais After Life.
        People Do Nothing weren’t bad too.

      • HBG – Never saw it, sorry. Was that with the obese bird from the Chocolate Orange adverts. She was so unattractive, she couldn’t find a real husband.

    • Anyone who doesn’t find Dr Ted funny owns all of Eoin McLove’s albums, smells of wee and has no willy.

    • I enjoyed the one with the insane milkman.

      Father Ted is fat least far better than ‘TED Talks’. What a load of drivel that turned out to be.

  8. This year’s joke of the year went to Lorna Rose Treen for this side splitter.

    “I started dating a zookeeper – but it turned out he was a cheetah.”

    Fuck me! There goes another rib.
    So that kind of primary school ‘humour’ is regarded as cutting edge comedy is it?
    They’d fucking pass out if someone told a knob joke.
    As limp as a vicars handshake the lot of them.

    • Actually now o come to think of it, it’s not even original material.
      I recall one of my kids asking me why the animals in the zoo wouldn’t play cards with the big cat.
      And that was fucking years ago.

    • I don’t know why they keep showing black people on all the adverts.

      They haven’t been on sale for about 200 years.

      Some cunt should tell a proper joke like that.

  9. I went to the Edinburgh Festival once. All sorts of weirdo hippy types “performing” in the streets and then going round with a hat the cheeky bastards. Paid £16 to see Ruby Wax in some shit and walked out after 20 minutes. I’ve been to funerals with more laughs. Next day I saw a pre season friendly …..Hibs or Hearts (can’t remember, I was pissed) v Sunderland 0-0. Nearly shat myself in the street walking back to the hotel but managed to hold on. Then I fucked off to see the Loch Ness Monster which was another disappointment. Sat there with my camera for at least thirty minutes and didn’t see a fucking thing.
    Cunts.

    • I keep away from festivals with hippies and crusties involved. Anywhere white people with dreadlocks might congregate stinking up the place with ganja.

      Glastonbury
      Notting Hill
      Boom Town
      Edinburgh
      Goodwood Festival of Speed.

  10. White gold, a really funny watch, not commissioned for a third series, shooting stars, cancelled, there really is not much going for the idiot lantern these days, only for the gayze.

    • I used to love Shooting Stars. Loads of people I knew at the time hated it. They tried too hard to ‘get it’ as if there was some underlying meaning.

      It was just completely nuts.

  11. Anyone heard the ‘jokes’ that ‘won’ at that Fringe bollocks?
    One was this: ‘A friend of mine only goes into Starbucks now. He’s Costaphobic.’

    Fucking shite. I’ve seen better jokes in a cheap Christmas cracker.

    • One I heard for you Norm.

      Mason Greenwood has left Manchester United by mutual consent.

      Although he did have to ask his lawyer what consent means.

    • Michael McIntyre must be well jealous. Material of that standard has made him a millionaire.

    • These ae the same people who sneer at ‘dad jokes’.

      I suppose all material has to be delivered via a 20-something soy boy or bint in a tiny club in a major city to qualify as funny.

      The same people won’t eat a burger at a pub or steakhouse for the proles but at an ironic cafe in the middle of London they’d order it and pay twice as much.

      Same with art; if they see a Rubens or similar in a stately home it’s trash, but a Banksy on some grimy wall in Bristol?
      Like oh my Gaaawwwdd it’s just ahh-mazing!

  12. That is one thing I miss. Telling or hearing ridiculously offensive or sick jokes and not being apprehensive about it in public places. At home I say what I fucking like. Fuck any cunt who’s a guest who takes offence. I’d tell an even more offensive joke if they whinged. Then kick them out. But in public it’s a different matter nowadays.

    All it has done has killed humour. Tell some Bernard Manning/sickipedia gag in a pub now, some cunt will probably film you and call the rozzers.

    What a fucking country.

    We deserve to be fucking conquered. And we will be because the only cunts who’ll fight will be the ‘old gammons’.

    The fucking young, vegan, gluten free, pansexual, environmentalist, neckbearded, tiny wristed soft arses will be crying under their beds, looking for a fucking app on their phones that might save them.

    • Say it anyway. It’s far less likely you will be recorded in a face to face situation. There’s no screengrabs in real life. Even if the police were called, what are the police going to do?

  13. The sooner some science cunt clones Mr Bernard Manning the better.

    Send thousands of them to this Minge business.

  14. On second thoughts about no decent comedy in recent years , I forgot about the wiminz world cup.

    Have you seen them taking fucking penalties? Made me laugh anyway.

    • There’s a few like Leo who are anti-woke, but some aren’t that funny if i’m honest. Francis Foster is a good example; good sidekick to Konstantin Kisin on Triggernometry, but I don’t rate him as a stand up. If he was more woke he’s be a mediocre act on Live at the Apollo.

      Same with Andrew Lawrence; What he says is broadly right but I don’t find the delivery funny. It seems a bit dated.
      Geoff Norcott is quite good as he seems like a normal bloke trying to figure it all out. His style is a lot more polished.

      I think Jim Davidson is still funnier than most of the younger anti-woke comedians in his delivery, as was Alex Belfield, even though Belfield isn’t really a comedian, and I disagreed with them both on a few things.

  16. Well that’s the “fringe” down the pan as far as I’m concerned. Was only a matter of time before this happened. Bloody pathetic.

  17. I loved Father Ted.

    But Graeme Linehan can get fucked.

    He was one of those lefty Marxist media luvvie cunts calling people out and getting them cancelled.

    No he’s had a taste himself he’s bleating and mewling .

    Karma pal.

    I’ve had my fun
    And that’s all that matters…

    • Ted was superb, but Linehan is a cunt.
      Just like JK Rowling, he’s a leftie twat who has been bitten by his ‘own.’

      Linehan doesn’t have tits like JK though.

    • You are fr finton stack. That money was just resting in my account before i moved it on.

    • Yep, joined in the pile-on when Count Dankula went to court over the Nazi Pug video, although Dankula has forgiven him.

      I haven’t.

  18. the Fringe sounds about as daring as Live at the Apollo, which no cuntvwatches these days.
    As soon as the token appears, you can predict their whole set.
    Fat bird.
    Lesbian.
    Black
    Pakistani/Arabic/Muslim
    Mincing gay poofter
    Self-hating liberal yank
    Cerebral Palsy/Dwarf

    Fuck off the lot of yers.

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