I’m sure all the closet ‘swifties’ here on IsAC simply cannot wait for ‘Tay Day’, an event organized by the University of Liverpool academics to “debate and deconstruct” the stars work.

On the 12th of June prior to her three day run of sold-out shows in the city, the University of Liverpool will host a “symposium for fans, students and academics to engage with the cultural phenomenon that is Taylor Swift”.

Cultural phenomenon eh? Well only if you are a teenage girl or an overexcited poo pusher who live their lives on TikTok and believe the manufactured media hype about this plastic pop princess. How much deconstructing of her work can you do aside from drawing the conclusion its just another load of unoriginal cliched sterile shite indistinguishable from what passes for musical talent nowadays. She has the right opinions and has sucked the right cocks to get where she is is about the size of it and you don’t need to have gone to university to figure it out either.

And anyway Liverpool gave us the bubble perm, scallies in shell suits and the Anfield Rap so what the fuck do they know about culture?

bbcnews

Nominated by Liberal Liquidator.

Hot off the press, OpinionatedCunt opines with this:

The BBC’s obsession with Taylor Swift.
Please, make it stop. Every single day I’m assaulted by articles about this fucking woman. To hear the way the cunts harp on about her you’d think she was Jesus, Gandhi and MLK all rolled into one. Their obsession with her has gotten that bad that she even has her own section now ffs.

More BBC News.

Please BBC, I know it’s hard for you but PLEASE try and ignore her just for one day. No other entertainment figure receives even a fraction of the attention and slavish devotion you give her.

Worry no longer, fellow cunters. Within four years we will have an answer to this puzzling question that keeps us all awake at night.
The Leverhulme Trust have awarded teams of researchers from Lancaster University, and the University of Bath a grant of £498k to solve this riddle.

Yes, nearly half a million pounds!
Money well spent, obviously.

“Hello, Leverhulme Trust research grants department? Oh, hello, me and a few of my fellow researchers were wondering if we could get a grant.
What for? Oh, we thought a ground-breaking genetics study into why zebras have stripes might just pinpoint why they have their distinctive black and white patterns.
You’ll send me the application form?
Super”

express

Nominated by Jeezum Priest.

Who in modern British stand-up is worth watching?

Who is actually funny?

Definitely not Jack Whitehall, James Acaster or Joe Lycett; three soy-boy mediocrities who, back in the nineties, would get a couple of appearances on Friday Night comedy with Tommy Tiernan and disappear.

Is Ricky Gervais’ stand-up funny? I watched Apocalypse and found it a bit obvious. ‘Must bait the wokoids’, this will generate headlines’.

I’ve seen Stewart Lee live (once may years ago) and although it’s combative and right -on, it’s at least his own style.

The trouble is he’s spawned a legion of fanboys who want to be the next Stewart Lee and they’re not smart enough to pull it off. It’s that or comedy-by-box-ticking. Female and black comedians who get gigs on panel shows and have a sycophantic audience of liberal students clapping like seals. They can’t form a career doing comedy nights at clubs because the general public would heckle them and make them cry.
(see Kumar, Nish)

Most of the newer comedians on Netflix are just trading on their innate sexual or racial characteristics. It’s boring, so boring that Amy Schumer’s entire repertoire has been satirised by the meme of her uttering ‘my vagina’, then receiving adulation from grey-faced NPCs;

‘Comedy Unleashed’ is a reaction to woke but I haven’t found many of the acts very funny, as they try too hard to be anti-PC. they aren’t like Bernard Manning or Mike Reid who just wrote and performed the material they wanted to, regardless of how PC it is. It’s a deliberate attempt to be controversial and edgy. They gave their audiences – largely working class – the respect that paying punters deserve.
Comedians are usually quite dismissive when an audience reacts with an ‘ooohh’ at a mildly controversial idea that the comedian then has to explain to them.

The only stand-up act i’ve found funny in the past ten years is Mickey Flanagan. His material and delivery are quite unique in this day and age. Never tries to be a shock jock and frequently mocks the pretentions of the liberal middle-class, the very people who make up the bulk of comedians on the BBC and Channel 4 for the past twenty years. He seems to have gone quiet recently which is a shame. He and Sean Lock were the only worthwhile comedians on TV for large stretches of the 2010s.

The rest are posh women, including the men.

unherd

Nominated by Cuntamus Prime.

Is he as dumb as he looks??

This article cracked me up, a Court Judge in Michigan , USA, land of the brave and home of the seriously stupid, looks on in utter disbelief as a Mr. Corey Harrison joins the court via remote hearing whilst driving on a suspended license. The miscreant Harrisons own counsel , who looks like she wants to laugh out loud, then has the front to ask the judge for an adjournment for a month. The judge looks like he wants to laugh out loud….. before telling Einstein Harrison to turn himself in by 6.00 p.m. No bail, just jail. This is no doubt one of the funniest 2 or 3 minutes of video that I’ve seen in ages. Thanks judge for making me smile

bbcnews

Nominated by Paul.

Well worth a watch the link C.A.