While it's all very well to celebrate Bill Hicks, Doug Stanhope et al trolling Christianity
I've yet to see a populist comedian take on Islam.

I'm starting to get the impression that everyone's too afraid to, which isn't surprising, considering the reaction to the Muhammed cartoon, but it does kind of give the impression that a worthy rant about Christianity is just chosing the soft target.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 24 May 2011, 9:39, 25 replies)

Chris Morris, Omid Djalili, arguably even that sub-Bill Bailey Aussie fellow with the peculiar hair. Nothing particularly biting, certainly, but they're tentatively dipping their toes in the waters.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Tue 24 May 2011, 9:44, closed)

That's it.
No one's really laid into it with sugical precision with passion and conviction. It's tokenist at best.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 24 May 2011, 10:33, closed)

True. But then, who wants to be heckled like this (nsfw)?
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Tue 24 May 2011, 11:37, closed)

Can I just point out to anyone else about to click this
It's not a comedian getting shit, it's Theo Van Gogh lying dead in the street with a knife in his chest.

Cheers
( Wet-chinned bag shanker Cannot parse Wogan, Tue 24 May 2011, 11:59, closed)

Hence the nsfw, although it's not particularly graphic. I was more referring to the reasons for his ending up that way.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Tue 24 May 2011, 12:00, closed)

Fair enough.
I just don't like getting a hard-on at work.
( Wet-chinned bag shanker Cannot parse Wogan, Tue 24 May 2011, 12:28, closed)

You would make a terrible porn-star.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Tue 24 May 2011, 12:31, closed)

I wonder if "erectile dysfunction porn" is a real sub-genre?

( Wet-chinned bag shanker Cannot parse Wogan, Tue 24 May 2011, 12:53, closed)

Watch Dara
He pretty much solves your query, can I put Bill Hicks back on a pedestal now? ;)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPkuWf6IDZY
(markthatiscalledmark, Tue 24 May 2011, 11:46, closed)

possibly...
...but possibly also coz we/they have not the same experiences of islam that we/they have of christianity to take it on? not necessarily a fear of retaliation, perhaps a fear of our/their own ignorance of the subject matter - is the road i'm going down...
(NoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNo, Tue 24 May 2011, 9:45, closed)

if your not sure what direction to take on this
why not try a satnav?
( fluffybunnykiller Is feasting on the clitoris of life, Tue 24 May 2011, 9:48, closed)

Reminds me of Jerry Sadowitz:
"Let me tell you one thing about Allah: he doesn't exist. And he's a cunt."
(Land of Green Ginger It's dreamy weather, Tue 24 May 2011, 9:52, closed)

see what you did wrong there?
thats two things that is but lets not be picky
( fluffybunnykiller Is feasting on the clitoris of life, Tue 24 May 2011, 10:02, closed)

Hahahahaha

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 24 May 2011, 10:33, closed)

The sainted Bill...
... didn't really troll Christianity. He offered valid theological insights, while being very funny.
( calgacus Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae, Tue 24 May 2011, 10:18, closed)

Nah. It was trolling.
It was hardly a treatise on the origins of Judaism.

And I really don't get the "sainted" bit - the irony of that just seems to eat itself whole.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 24 May 2011, 10:33, closed)

So you don't watch South Park, then

( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Tue 24 May 2011, 10:26, closed)

No - did they have a good crack?

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 24 May 2011, 10:31, closed)

They tried their damn hardest
but ultimately Comedy Central censored them, the cowards
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Tue 24 May 2011, 10:34, closed)

You make an excellent point
apart from being wrong in every respect.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 24 May 2011, 12:53, closed)

Achmed
I kill you
(weaselinajetengine, Tue 24 May 2011, 12:57, closed)

Generally, you can only take the piss out of something both you and your audience know well.
Hence, when Islam calms down a bit and we get more islamic comedians, we'll start seeing them do jokes about islam to those audiences who'll get them.
( chenobble rocking his explorer beard on, Tue 24 May 2011, 14:55, closed)

"who'll get them"
As in, "I'll get you for this, Butler!"
(karnuvap, Tue 24 May 2011, 16:14, closed)

May I present Jim Jeffries
NSFW for swearies

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsCNJgxJv30&feature=related

and

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPEbRSjnuEo

I thank you
(bekowsquap Was raptured on, Tue 24 May 2011, 16:27, closed)

I think its the knocking the head against the floor five times a day thats the reason
for all the acting up. That and beer deprivation.
(uncle_bud is not the jelly roll king., Tue 24 May 2011, 16:58, closed)