Chubby Brown has been cancelled

His gigs have bouncers and M15 style security. His main problem is activists. I can't understand why they buy a ticket to get kicked out.

 

A bloke I worked with in the 80s raved about seeing Chubby Brown and lent me a cassette of one of his shows. 1% funny, 99% foul-mouthed, horrible tripe. A shame, really, because his timing and delivery was very good, but his material was suspect to say the least - although he was obviously extremely popular on the circuit. Probably says as much about his audience as it does about him. I can't help wondering why City Hall booked him. There must be more acts than venues at the moment.

 

After we play Blackpool he's on the north pier at a Joe Longthorne tribute show. Quite shocked at that because his fanbase is rather different to those who'd want to pay respect to Joe.

 

I'm sure Chubby Brown has many LGBT supporters.

 

I don't believe in "canceling" things like this. If his act is still identical to how it was back in his heyday, with the same level of racial and sexist content, then people will just not go to see him, and his tour will be over anyway. Or if it's still the same and people do want to hear that sort of content, then it will be a success. Who are we to tell someone what they are/are not allowed to find funny?

Personally, I've outgrown him. In my teens, I thought he was hilarious. Now, it all feels tired and desperate so I wouldn't want to go.

On a side note, I've met him personally a number of times. He was always a lovely bloke, to be honest. Not at all like the "Chubby" character he came up with.

 

Back in 1982, my friends were raving about this comedian I'd never heard of, but they were insisting he was brilliant and would I like them to get me a ticket to go see him? I was really up for it. To see some new talent was all the encouragement I needed. The venue was the salubrious Chapeltown WMC and it was packed.
Eye Of The Tiger was blasted out from the speakers and on to the stage came Chubby Brown, to a fantastic reception. For the rest of the evening, every joke raised the roof. Unfortunately for me, I was left cold and didn't find him funny at all. I doubt I'd feel any different 40 years later. There's no doubt I was in a minority of one that evening, but I simply didn't find him funny. I've never seen him live or on video/dvd/telly since.

 

I just think if someone goes up on stage and tells a racist joke like some of the ones I've shown above, it is giving people in the audience the green light to do the same, seeing that people find it funny. It's not acceptable anymore.

 

The demographic is slightly older.

 

But all you are doing by censoring them is making them a martyr to those who do want to hear that crap, who will hold him up as being hard done by. Look at the publicity this has drawn. I'd not heard his name mentioned in years before this, and now he's in all the papers and news programs. My son(17) had never heard of him, but I know he's googled him and watched some of his old clips. That's a new generation that's potentially polluted. If it had been allowed to quietly go ahead, I doubt most people would be none the wiser.

 

See response to my post re 17 year old

 

this lad talks sense

 

What is the world coming to when you can't go on stage and spew hateful bile to an audience eh?

 

No he doesn't, he basically says the city should welcome racists.

 

I'm shocked to be honest. He was classed as "old farts" comedy when I was 17.

 

I'm shocked the news company that gives Farage a platform is all over this.

 

I agree with Codeye. They stem from the notion that "any publicity is good publicity".

 

Since when have venues not been able to decide which acts they want performing there? I’m not sure why they booked him in the first place but holding a protest to tell somewhere that they have to host someone they don’t want to is daft. People are comparing it to a tv show and turning over the channel but broadcasters get the first say of whether they want to show it or not before you get to that choice. They turn down or cancel shows all the time, plenty of which have way more than 300 viewers. No one has a god given right to a platform, he’s not being stopped from doing his act, he just can’t do it there.

 

Saw him years ago, before anyone had heard of him, at a stag night in the Manor at Ward Green (thats been shut for years) and I've got to say as a stag comedian he was hilarious.

 

Im guessing his target audience is white middle aged Tommy Robinson supporting union Jack waving Neanderthals.

 

Good. He’s a vile racist and misogynist who appeals to equally vile racists.