Fake news!
There's no evidence that being anti-Brexit harms a comic's career, says Stewart Lee
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artifus is doing it all wrong, Wed 5 Apr 2017, 15:59,
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I don't doubt that Mr Lee is entirely correct,
however I'd like to offer some anecdotal evidence that I think is relevant. I know someone who went to see Lee Nelson live (I know, I was shocked to know someone who'd watch him on tv, nevermind pay money to see him, but there you go). Anyway, it was somewhere outside London, Essex I think, and he did some anti Brexit stuff and absolutely died. He got quite flustered apparently and awkwardly changed tack after a bit, but it was in the second half and he never really recovered.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Wed 5 Apr 2017, 16:12,
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some people think Al Murray's real too
although that is his actual name
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I Wikipediaed him once.
I forget the details but he has proper aristocratic lineage.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Wed 5 Apr 2017, 16:22,
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unless you're Jim Davidson or Jethro or one of those cunts whose audience is exclusively made up of cunts
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My sister liked both of those guys and she died last year
Although to be fair when she was alive she was a cunt.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Wed 5 Apr 2017, 20:43,
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I listen to lots of comics that do anti brexit stuff.
I don't get annoyed, just find it a bit safe and boring.
However I can imagine a situation where if you go to a town that voted heavily for brexit and spend your act saying how wrong they are it's not going to get a laugh.
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Wed 5 Apr 2017, 16:28,
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I'd imagine that happens quite often to 'alternative' comedians, even before Brexit
It's probably why you dont tend to get so many of the big names in Cornwall
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This guy's doing a gig in Cornwall and he's hilarious:
www.hallforcornwall.co.uk/Online/default.asp?doWork::WScontent::loadArticle=Load&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::article_id=808D88F5-3D1C-4240-9524-B51BB51F09FB&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=70DF121C-57A9-4706-96C8-CF0C41380723
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Wed 5 Apr 2017, 17:13,
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That's if he doesn't flounce half-way .....
....when someone says the subtitle for his thrilling titled and in no way sappy, vacuous looking, new book, should in fact be: How this Remainder spends every waking moment demonizing the working class he once made money off cos the EU is lully and they are low information and gullible.
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Alternative?
I've yet to hear a comic do an anti eu bit.
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Wed 5 Apr 2017, 18:19,
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Prezackerly
Even comics I really like cannot make their anti-Brexit stuff funny and the constant yawnsomeness of what the also-rans do is painfully dull. The only person to have reflected on his remainder position with some kind of self-awareness is Adam Buxton, as far as I'm aware.
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Surprised he says that Al Murray
doing an anti-Brexit show hasn't hit his audience. That's the only one in the list who has any sort of blurred line in their politics/audience.
I read that Telegraph article the other day and did wonder how Marcus Brigstocke knew why someone was walking out of his show. I'm not sure how long I could last watching him do a routine on Brexit, and it wouldn't be because I disagreed with him.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Wed 5 Apr 2017, 16:32,
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no one likes marcus brigstock
or his alter-ego mark steele.
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The Ann Coulter Fan Club Babylon is burning at, Wed 5 Apr 2017, 21:30,
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