dannyboy1807 Posted 27 August , 2013 Share Posted 27 August , 2013 Speak for yourself. I, personally am highly offended, cheeky young pup! dannyboy1807 - I know where Purley is! Me and my possie from the pensioners club will be round to see you. that's once we can fix the wheel back on Fred's zimmer and we've all finished out tea n biscuits and visited the gents. excellent that gives me about 4/5 hours head start Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Broomfield Posted 27 August , 2013 Share Posted 27 August , 2013 You're OK, Danny Boy. Thursday is pensioners; day down the chippy. By then they'll have forgotten what was going on anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanA Posted 27 August , 2013 Share Posted 27 August , 2013 I 'eard that! Pardon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coldstreamer Posted 28 August , 2013 Share Posted 28 August , 2013 watched it tonight - some funny bits (I liked the way the milk was delivered) but on the whole not very good I thought Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martin_sole Posted 29 August , 2013 Share Posted 29 August , 2013 Kielty's Father was assassinated by Loyalists. As with Jews telling jokes about anti-semitism it is a matter of context! So whether or not something is offensive or in bad taste depends on the personal history of the whoever is telling the gag??? I have fairly catholic tastes when it comes to comedy, but a joke about, say, serious child abuse doesn't get funnier if told by the Jimmy Saville Victim Support Group. Lenny Henry's toe-curlingly embarrassing "Katanga" catchphrase was no less appalling coming from him as it would have been coming from Bernard Manning in blackface. The idea of certain groups having a self-issued free pass or exclusive rights on whether or not something is acceptable or unacceptable, bothers me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Broomfield Posted 29 August , 2013 Share Posted 29 August , 2013 To be fair, Martin, Lenny Henry (as a "comedian") is just toe-curlingly embarrassing. Full stop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martin_sole Posted 29 August , 2013 Share Posted 29 August , 2013 Fair point. I met him many years ago and he was a genuinely witty and likeable chap. Then again, he's made a packet out of being not very funny onstage, so what do I know? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pighills Posted 29 August , 2013 Share Posted 29 August , 2013 OK, so I finally watched the first episode. I loved The Inbetweeners. The Inbetweeners could do no wrong as far as I was concerned, even their film was good. I watched 'Chickens' with a completely open mind but I couldn't get away from the fact that the two main characters were playing exactly the same roles they had in The Inbetweeners and it just did not sit right, it made everything very unfunny for me. I do wonder if other actors had played those roles whether I'd have found it amusing. As it was I felt it was a disaster, which is a shame as I could do with a good comedy it's rubbish on telly ATM. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KGB Posted 2 September , 2013 Share Posted 2 September , 2013 Say what you like about Lenny Henry he does a nice ad for hotels! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Hone Posted 3 September , 2013 Share Posted 3 September , 2013 Indeed, Mrs H. and I refer to staying at a certain budget hotel chain as 'doing a Lenny Henry'. To be fair to Dudley's finest, he has latterly reinvented himself as a stage actor of some note. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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