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Perhaps Ron is a Jim Davidson fan

Nuskyblue said:

British comedy is almost exclusively a middle class circle jerk isn't it?

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You’re saying that with a picture of Peter Kay in your profile

shmmeee said:

List of former Footlights members - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

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I think calling some of them comedians is a bit of a stretch.
Alexander Armstrong??

Alexander Armstrong was in a double act with Ben Miller for a good while so he's got roots in comedy, although when you see his stilted banter with Richard Osman on Pointless it's questionable to call him a comedian.

bigfatronssba said:

I think calling some of them comedians is a bit of a stretch.
Alexander Armstrong??

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You can pick and choose all you like, but your claim was there’s no posh comedians.

Fry and Laurie are as posh as it gets, ditto Python. Whether they’re your cup of tea or not they’re hugely successful. I can’t stand Michael McIntyre but he’s still a comedian.

bigfatronssba said:

I think calling some of them comedians is a bit of a stretch.
Alexander Armstrong??

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shmmeee said:

Fry and Laurie are as posh as it gets, ditto Python. Whether they’re your cup of tea or not they’re hugely successful. I can’t stand Michael McIntyre but he’s still a comedian.

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Fair comment

Grendel said:

I’ll start

baddiel

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he asked for a comedian....

shmmeee said:

Fry and Laurie are as posh as it gets, ditto Python. Whether they’re your cup of tea or not they’re hugely successful. I can’t stand Michael McIntyre but he’s still a comedian.

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Stewart Lee has some good jokes about him....

Grendel said:

The Armstrong and Miller Show (TV Series 1997–2001) ⭐ 7.4 | Comedy

25m | TV-MA

m.imdb.com

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Nude Practice was a memorable sketch-basically a vets where everyone's nude (bar flat caps, wellies etc), with lots of objects just about obscuring everything important. Send up of All Creatures Great & Small etc.

Finham said:

Nude Practice was a memorable sketch-basically a vets where everyone's nude (bar flat caps, wellies etc), with lots of objects just about obscuring everything important. Send up of All Creatures Great & Small etc.

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Sounds really hilarious

What have I just read?

baldy said:

Sounds really hilarious

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Not really, but a bit shocking for the era maybe?

Jack Whitehall is a comedian and definitely most posh!

If you want working class comedians, look no further than the post WW2 generation. After that, the BBC decided that equality and diversity could only be delivered from Cambridge and Oxford. And Hull.

DrPoolittle said:

If you want working class comedians, look no further than the post WW2 generation. After that, the BBC decided that equality and diversity could only be delivered from Cambridge and Oxford. And Hull.

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Fast Show! Only went to East Anglia Poly.

From Paul Whitehouse's wiki:
"The pair (Higson & Whitehouse) began working as tradesmen on a house shared by comedians Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, which inspired them to start writing comedy. They moved to an estate where in a pub they met Harry Enfield, a neighbour with a stage act"

So they were actually builders for Fry & Laurie. Nice.

Finham said:

Fast Show! Only went to East Anglia Poly.

From Paul Whitehouse's wiki:
"The pair (Higson & Whitehouse) began working as tradesmen on a house shared by comedians Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, which inspired them to start writing comedy. They moved to an estate where in a pub they met Harry Enfield, a neighbour with a stage act"

So they were actually builders for Fry & Laurie. Nice.

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So, they got their break by working for the Oxbridge mafia…..……

DrPoolittle said:

So, they got their break by working for the Oxbridge mafia…..……

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Simon Day didn't, started out as a stand-up and met the others through working with Vic & Bob.

There you go, Vic Reeves! Vic got his breaks through Malcolm Hardee. Now he was working class:

"Hardee was born in Lewisham, South East London, near the River Thames, and came from a long line of lightermen[3] who earned their living on tugs pulling barges on the river. He was the eldest son of Frank and Joan Hardee. He spent his first two years in an orphanage while his mother was in hospital with tuberculosis[1] and was educated at three South East London schools – St Stephen's Church of England primary, Colfe's School, and Sedgehill comprehensive.[1]

Expelled from the later two schools he drifted into petty crime:[1] stealing Coca-Cola from a local bottling plant, burgling a pawnbrokers[8] and setting fire to a Sunday school piano because he wanted to see "holy smoke".[7] He served prison sentences for cheque fraud, burglary and escaping custody;[9] in 1967, he escaped from Gaynes Hall Borstal dressed as a monk.[7][10] He also had convictions for arson and once infamously stole a Rolls-Royce[3] which he believed belonged to British cabinet minister Peter Walker. (Walker later wrote to Hardee after reading about this widely reported story and denied it had been his car.)[11]

Hardee decided to turn to showbusiness as a way of staying out of trouble, saying: "There are only two things you can do when you come out of prison and you want immediate employment. You can either be a minicab driver or you can go into showbusiness"[9] and "Prison is like mime or juggling – a tragic waste of time".[1]"

I'm quite upper-middle and thought that the 'most Championshipest-of-clubs-table' idea was funny.

I got it up round my neck a bit near the end though and had to read through the concept again to be sure I understood why they had us relegated. Turns out we're just not 'Championship' enough! A gloved compliment, we find.

I'd have Preston, Millwall and Blackburn right up there anyhow.