Graham Lenihan "no good right wing comedians"

Ralf and Florian

Interesting read.

https://richardhcooper.blogspot.ie/2012/05/look-at-conduct-of-graham-linehan-and.html

Hotblack Desiato

Ralf and Florian wrote: »

Kenny Everett made no secret of his support for Thatcher and he was in my opinion anyway, very funny. He didn't fit the stereotype of a right winger tbh being openly gay and having a very irreverent sense of humour.

Kenny Everett appeared on stage at a Tory party conference. But he was also sacked by the BBC for telling a joke on live radio which called Thatcher a cnut.

Austria!

In some circles it's discussed frequently how comedians are usually left wing (they are), and how that's because of greater empathy or imagination among liberals, or about comedy working better when punching up instead of punching down. It's actually none of that though.

If you want to make it in comedy you have to move to a city. If you move to a city you become liberal.

Also, the reason there are more men doing stand up is mainly because stand up requires a lot of travelling alone to gigs often late at night and women don't like that.

ToddyDoody

Biggest lickspittle on boardz wrote: »

Is that you, Graham?

https://www.ok.co.uk/celebrity-feature/999767/blind-date-remember-cilla-black-voiceover-host-our-graham-skidmore

...and I'm sure Cilla never groped anyone.

Hotblack Desiato

Austria! wrote: »

If you move to a city you become liberal.

LOL

Also, the reason there are more men doing stand up is mainly because stand up requires a lot of travelling alone to gigs often late at night and women don't like that.

Doesn't seem to bother female solo singers.

flaneur

The best comedians are the people who can poke fun at the emperor and see he or she is not wearing any clothes.

If the establishment is right leaning, they’ll probably seem left wing.

The problem is there’s been a redefinition of “left wing” as anything that isn’t the US Republican Party or the Tories.

You can be a left wing conservative and I think there are plenty of these showing up in the politically correct, wanting to shut down anything that might offend anyone ever type brigade. Those people are just modern say Mary Whitehouse conservatives.

What you want in a comedian is someone who can stand outside the herd and see it for what it is. They’re mostly free thinking liberals, often left leaning but it’s more about their freedom from dogma and ability to be irreverent that makes them funny.

I think we really need to be careful of this use of the word “liberal” to describe what are just modern social conservatives who don't like anyone being able to critique anything. They’re neither liberal nor left.
They’re just conservatives. All this attempting to create safe spaces in universities and shutting down debate is conservative and very deeply so. It has nothing to do with liberal values at all.

Also the US Republicans aren’t “liberals”, other than about economics. They’re massively conservative and big state on all sorts of social issues where they think they know best and they’re very happy to spend big on anything military or law and order focused.

There’s a lot of confusion with these labels and it’s becoming worse.

Ralf and Florian

Austria! wrote: »

In some circles it's discussed frequently how comedians are usually left wing (they are), and how that's because of greater empathy or imagination among liberals, or about comedy working better when punching up instead of punching down. It's actually none of that though.

If you want to make it in comedy you have to move to a city. If you move to a city you become liberal.

Also, the reason there are more men doing stand up is mainly because stand up requires a lot of travelling alone to gigs often late at night and women don't like that.

Unless you're a muslim immigrant.

DickSwiveller

flaneur wrote: »

The best comedians are the people who can poke fun at the emperor and see he or she is not wearing any clothes.

If the establishment is right leaning, they’ll probably seem left wing.

The problem is there’s been a redefinition of “left wing” as anything that isn’t the US Republican Party or the Tories.

You can be a left wing conservative and I think there are plenty of these showing up in the politically correct, wanting to shut down anything that might offend anyone ever type brigade. Those people are just modern say Mary Whitehouse conservatives.

What you want in a comedian is someone who can stand outside the herd and see it for what it is. They’re mostly free thinking liberals, often left leaning but it’s more about their freedom from dogma and ability to be irreverent that makes them funny.

I think we really need to be careful of this use of the word “liberal” to describe what are just modern social conservatives who don't like anyone being able to critique anything. They’re neither liberal nor left.
They’re just conservatives. All this attempting to create safe spaces in universities and shutting down debate is conservative and very deeply so. It has nothing to do with liberal values at all.

Also the US Republicans aren’t “liberals”, other than about economics. They’re massively conservative and big state on all sorts of social issues where they think they know best and they’re very happy to spend big on anything military or law and order focused.

There’s a lot of confusion with these labels and it’s becoming worse.

It's you who is completely confused. Do you know anything about conservatism, or are you just regurgitating the usual banal cliches? Classical conservatives like Edmund Burke were basically classical liberals who stood up for individual liberty above all. The religious extremists who want to ban everything are not conservatives in the traditional sense. Just as the pc mob don't represent traditional liberal values, they are almost certainly not conservatives.

Also, people like Raegan, Bush etc couldn't be further from conservatism. They basically believed in state power, something genuine conservatives despise.

You're right that nobody understands the different labels.

flaneur

DickSwiveller wrote: »

It's you who is completely confused. Do you know anything about conservatism, or are you just regurgitating the usual banal cliches? Classical conservatives like Edmund Burke were basically classical liberals who stood up for individual liberty above all. The religious extremists who want to ban everything are not conservatives in the traditional sense. Just as the pc mob don't represent traditional liberal values, they are almost certainly not conservatives.

Also, people like Raegan, Bush etc couldn't be further from conservatism. They basically believed in state power, something genuine conservatives despise.

You're right that nobody understands the different labels.

Did you actually read my post ?!?

There are two parallel meanings of the word conservative. In an English language normal usage meaning - traditionalist, opposed to change, pro orthodoxy etc etc

In a political context it can be defined in the context of pro business economic liberal combined with social conservatism and that is a definition that is really rather vague as conservative parties can vary from quite pro individual liberty to being dogmatically conservative on a range of social values and adopt very traditionalist and often religiously inspired values. The British Conservative Party has aspects of both philosophies and alternated and changed a lot over the years, depending on who was on the front bench and the public mood at the time.

I didn’t mention any political definition or cite Edmund Bourke’s philosophies and theories at all.

What I’m saying is that the current definition of “liberal” in present day US media parlance is often very socially conservative and pro censorship and policing of freedom of expression. Also left wing and liberal are being used interchangeably and there’s no notion of what they mean other than “them over there!”

You can’t call someone calling for the shut down of freedom of speech or who takes offense at absolutely everything ‘a liberal.’ They’re just social conservatives with a different orthodoxy.

While the current definition of conservative is more akin to right wing traditionalist, nationalist.

The labels are redefined all the time and are far from set in stone based on one academic reference.

Comedians and satirists need to be able to stand outside the dogma of any political philosophy and see things for what they are. A good comedian is quite capable of sending up any political establishment.

Lenihan’s sending up of the Catholic Church and to an extent late 20th century Irish political and social orthodoxy was pure genius. He called it out for what it is, without being so offensive as to cause massive upset. It probably was perfectly timed as the church was losing influence anyway, but it really did make a very powerful and often mysterious institution suddenly seem a lot more human and flawed.

That’s great comedy and I think it did bring about a little bit of social change here, even if we are unlikely to give it any credit for doing so.

I don’t agree with Lenihan in the sense that most good comedians, including him, can see right through any dogma be it dressed as right or left.

_Dara_

Linehan is kinda annoying. I used to follow him on Twitter but then got sick of him so unfollowed him. Love Ted and Black Books though, don’t really care about the real-life personalities of comedians and comedy writers so long as they are able to make me laugh. If they’re law-abiding, fine by me.

A Little Pony

Samaris wrote: »

A Little Pony wrote: »

Fantastic post. Sick of seeing it on British TV. It's about time it was challenged and opposite opinion to leftist views exist on TV.

That's one issue, right there. It's not that you want to see conservative opinions, just "the opposite to leftist". Left = bad. Right may not have to equal correct or original, just...the opposite of left. Where does that take anyone, apart from the trenches of wingnut opinion?

I doubt your view is overwhelming; there are certainly healthier outlooks on it, but the push for "anything, as long as the liberals are annoyed" just ain't healthy, imo.

Btw, I may not agree with everything the poster you responded to said, but it was well-considered and detailed.

It's too one sided, it alienates people from a conservative point of view. I want to see more conservatives on TV.

_Dara_

Samaris wrote: »

Times change and so do opinions. There has been a massive swing towards not mistreating and side-lining homosexual people (and even recognising that lesbians are real and not a conspiracy theory!)in the last ten to fifteen years. The "marriage means X" argument is one I'm dubious on, but I could accept people being unable to seperate it from the Christian view of it, even though I disagree with them.

I have little problem with people, including people in power, changing their minds over a long period of time. I consider it a very different thing to running on a platform of X and then doing Y without even the attempt of X (compromise and something no-one loves but everyone can live with is also fair enough.)

Agreed. I think it’s very possible to change your mind about a previously strongly-held belief. It shows a measured and curious mind to me as well as humility and a lack of obduracy. All good things. It’s not hypocritical. Hypocrisy is, as you say, saying one thing and doing another concurrently.

DickSwiveller

flaneur wrote: »

Did you actually read my post ?!?

There are two parallel meanings of the word conservative. In an English language normal usage meaning - traditionalist, opposed to change, pro orthodoxy etc etc

In a political context it can be defined in the context of pro business economic liberal combined with social conservatism and that is a definition that is really rather vague as conservative parties can vary from quite pro individual liberty to being dogmatically conservative on a range of social values and adopt very traditionalist and often religiously inspired values. The British Conservative Party has aspects of both philosophies and alternated and changed a lot over the years, depending on who was on the front bench and the public mood at the time.

I didn’t mention any political definition or cite Edmund Bourke’s philosophies and theories at all.

What I’m saying is that the current definition of “liberal” in present day US media parlance is often very socially conservative and pro censorship and policing of freedom of expression. Also left wing and liberal are being used interchangeably and there’s no notion of what they mean other than “them over there!”

You can’t call someone calling for the shut down of freedom of speech or who takes offense at absolutely everything ‘a liberal.’ They’re just social conservatives with a different orthodoxy.

While the current definition of conservative is more akin to right wing traditionalist, nationalist.

The labels are redefined all the time and are far from set in stone based on one academic reference.

Comedians and satirists need to be able to stand outside the dogma of any political philosophy and see things for what they are. A good comedian is quite capable of sending up any political establishment.

Lenihan’s sending up of the Catholic Church and to an extent late 20th century Irish political and social orthodoxy was pure genius. He called it out for what it is, without being so offensive as to cause massive upset. It probably was perfectly timed as the church was losing influence anyway, but it really did make a very powerful and often mysterious institution suddenly seem a lot more human and flawed.

That’s great comedy and I think it did bring about a little bit of social change here, even if we are unlikely to give it any credit for doing so.

I don’t agree with Lenihan in the sense that most good comedians, including him, can see right through any dogma be it dressed as right or left.

Very good post. I still don't understand why you refer to modern so-called liberals as conservative. I think a more fitting description for some of them would be religious extremists. Their religion is a secular religion, like Stalinism. Its key tenents are equality/diversity/political correctness at any cost, and they will ensure that those who don't agree with them are sidelined and smeared.

_Dara_

Atoms for Peace wrote: »

Lenihan is longer funny and wasn't been for a while, he's at that stage where satire is replaced by genuine resentment. It seems to be a condition that's common among Irish entertainers in the UK media.

It’s just a lot of comedians in general as they get older. Linehan was 26 when Ted debuted. Middle age is often an enemy of comedy. Vim and vigour damps down a bit.

Dyr

Linehan reminds me of every sniggering little drip I knew growing up, the kind who always looked like he expecting the dig he deserved to land at any moment

flaneur

DickSwiveller wrote: »

Very good post. I still don't understand why you refer to modern so-called liberals as conservative. I think a more fitting description for some of them would be religious extremists. Their religion is a secular religion, like Stalinism. Its key tenents are equality/diversity/political correctness at any cost, and they will ensure that those who don't agree with them are sidelined and smeared.

Because it isn’t anything like stalanism. Nor is their “religion” secularism. In many cases they’re not even secular.

Secularists couldn’t give a hoot what your religion is, as long as the state isn’t taking sides and imposing any religion on anyone.

There’s an element of “offend nobody. Ban all things offensive” in some politically correct philosophies. It’s being erroneously called liberalism. It’s actually just social conservatism of a different type.

If you end up with a society where views aren’t challenged, ideas aren’t put out there and things are beyond discussion, it’s anything but liberal.

I would consider some of what’s happening now as just a cool version of Mary Whitehouse, a woman who spent her life complaining about all things “offensive” on television in the 80s.

20Cent

He's not really a comedian though he writes comedy. It's not his job to amuse us all the time like a court jester. Quite like him. No nonsense and straight talking.



Anyone find a funny right winger yet?

server down

20Cent wrote: »

He's not really a comedian though he writes comedy. It's not his job to amuse us all the time like a court jester. Quite like him. No nonsense and straight talking.



Anyone find a funny right winger yet?

I can think of plenty of non politically correct comedians - from Larry David, to Seinfeld, to Chris Rock.

Since it’s impossible for this thread to define the right wing (a poster just called politically correct beliefs conservative) I doubt we are going to find a solution.

Certainly I can’t think of any very religious conservative comedians.

DickSwiveller

20Cent wrote: »

He's not really a comedian though he writes comedy. It's not his job to amuse us all the time like a court jester. Quite like him. No nonsense and straight talking.



Anyone find a funny right winger yet?

By no nonsense and straight talking you mean an intolerant fanatic?

20Cent

DickSwiveller wrote: »

By no nonsense and straight talking you mean an intolerant fanatic?

Intolerant fanatic of what?

DickSwiveller

20Cent wrote: »

Intolerant fanatic of what?

Anybody who dares disagree with him. Look at his twatter page.

flaneur

Many, even most comedians are politically incorrect.

Stacksofwacks

20Cent

DickSwiveller wrote: »

Anybody who dares disagree with him. Look at his twatter page.

He doesn't suffer fools gladly. Fair play to him, the amount of time I've wasted trying to reason with some gob****e when a simple f off speeds things up greatly.

Hardly intolerant or a fanatic.

Prune Tracy

20Cent wrote: »

He doesn't suffer fools gladly

That can cross over to just being a deeply unpleasant, cantankerous person to anyone.

Many years back, on this site, in another life of mine here, there was a moderator whom people said was great because he didn't suffer fools and was straight talking yadda yadda - when the non sycophantic types would be just "Eh... he's a narky, thin-skinned bully ".

Gbear

Political correctness has become a hobby horse for the right in the past 30 years or so, and an easy source of clickbait for tabloid rags, but it's nothing new.

PC is as old as human history.

What has changed is the backdrop against which PC is measured.

The Jim Davidson's and all that were within the bounds of political correctness at one point in time, and if you go further back, PC swings more towards racial segregation, homophobia and so on, because the backdrop that society was functioning against was Christian, straight and white with tradionalist views on the family, gender roles and all the other things that go along with that.

As far as comedy goes, I generally find that preachy comedy, even if I agree with the message, is uninventive, boring and lacking any intelligence. It's weak point-scoring aimed at the baying masses, who have no capacity or desire to have their beliefs challenged.

Comedy is a good barometer for PC because you can see what topics are seen as safe.
There'll always be bland goop like Michael McIntyre, but there'll also be preaching to the choir, which is perhaps more pronounced in the States than on this side of the water given the existence of such partisan media channels, but still exists here and in the UK - I don't watch Russell Howard because he's a **** comedian, but perhaps he's an example.

The reason there's no good right wing comedy is the same reason there's no good anything-wing comedy. It's because it's ****e aimed at people who aren't interested in comedy.

Good comedians can make fun of people or things on their own merits and not just because which team they're on. The likes of Matt and Trey, whether you agree with the execution of their jokes, understand this with the equal-opportunities offensiveness of their comedy in South Park and they're not the only ones.
I saw someone complain about the BBC and undoubtedly in my mind the BBC has a left wing slant, but it has a good tradition of subversiveness and self-reflection and you can see how in shows like HIGNFY everyone gets attacked.

It's incredibly important to fight against PC because unless ideas challenged we can't know if they're worthwhile.
That doesn't just mean blandly spurting racist bollocks though.

The Man has changed but there's still plenty of people who are nominally on the left and right who challenge the it.

If you can easily tell which wing they're on, they're probably not really doing that. They're either scoring cheap points and stealing a living, or they're having a tantrum on stage.

Dyr

20Cent wrote: »

He doesn't suffer fools gladly. Fair play to him,

He must find his own company intolerable so.

He's the classic bedwetter who wouldn't say boo to a ghost in real life but give's it socks on twitter

Skylinehead

Biggest lickspittle on boardz wrote: »

I agree. But can boards.ie have the same policy for ramming a Donald Trump 'joke' into every single thread?

It's a boring cringe-fest at this stage.

Edit: See above post as an example.

Yep, same applies.

Outlaw Pete

He's back in 'Toilet Town'?

Prune Tracy

I'm not a fan of Linehan's persona but I don't disagree with him on some of those points, like the Trump one. And that guy Cernovich is horrific.

PeterParker957

You want humour?

The left wing say they're against segregation yet are in favour if Islam which is all about segregation.

Baaadum tsshhh.

DickSwiveller

Prune Tracy wrote: »

I'm not a fan of Linehan's persona but I don't disagree with him on some of those points, like the Trump one. And that guy Cernovich is horrific.

What's horrific about Cernovic?

darkdubh

DickSwiveller wrote: »

What's horrific about Cernovic?

Never heard of him but going by his wiki page he sounds like an utter cnunt.

_Dara_

server down wrote: »

I can think of plenty of non politically correct comedians - from Larry David, to Seinfeld, to Chris Rock.

Since it’s impossible for this thread to define the right wing (a poster just called politically correct beliefs conservative) I doubt we are going to find a solution.

Certainly I can’t think of any very religious conservative comedians.

Some non-PC comedians will be left-wing too though. Being un-PC is practically a prerequisite for becoming a comedian.

Manach

Responding to OP:
First name that I thought of was PJ O'Rourke. His masterpiece of "Holidays in Hell", a tour of the world's disaster areas, was tragi-comedy at its best.

bur

Billy Connolly's lines always stuck with me...

“The desire to be a politician should bar you for life from ever becoming one.”

"Don't vote. It just encourages them....”

Vladimir Poontang

Graham Linehan is a petulant, bitter, angry little man who has become a self-important windbag who is not afraid to whip up his twitter sheep to bully anyone that dares to disagree with him.

An absolute tosser.

Sand

Given the media and social bubbles people live in, its hardly surprising Graham Linehan can believe there is no good right wing comedians. Even were he to encounter one, they would be swiftly blocked and he would retreat back to the safety of the known and the comfortable. In time he would convince himself the encounter never even happened.

topper75

Gwynplaine wrote: »

I still don't know what it means to be left wing or right wing.
Anyone else?

It is very clear.

I was in the welfare the other day and this one demanded to know what I'd been doing to find a job.

A right nazi bitch she was.

George Orwell warned of this kind of thing in 1984.

somefeen

People aren't fond of comedians"punching down" with humour.
If some upperclass lad from D4 was taking the piss out of people from ballymun it would be considered offensive rather than funny. If someone from ballymun takes the piss out of ballymun its funny.

So the lower down on the scale you are the more things there are you can poke fun at. People from poorer backgrounds tend to be economically left leaning. Combine the two and you have left wing comedians all over the place.

One of the many, many reasons I despise Amy Schumer. Despite being oh so progressive and feminist she uses the circumstances of the people less well off than her as a source of humour. Might be forgiveable but she's from a wealthy family.

Prune Tracy

topper75 wrote: »

It is very clear.

I was in the welfare the other day and this one demanded to know what I'd been doing to find a job.

A right nazi bitch she was.

George Orwell warned of this kind of thing in 1984.

What's wrong with her asking that? No, George Orwell warned about far, far worse stuff.

greencap

20Cent wrote: »

He's not really a comedian though he writes comedy. It's not his job to amuse us all the time like a court jester. Quite like him. No nonsense and straight talking.



Anyone find a funny right winger yet?

Although not usually a stand up comedian, here is one Anthony (antwan) Cumia.
You'll find Anthony's views can at times be ... a tad intolerant.

Be it his open discrimination towards the black community ... which he will justify, his love of guns (of which he has a great deal, often on his person), or his references to ''pissy eyed f*gg**s'', Anthony is an all round charmer, and cares for your opinion.

Really though, one of the funniest fckers ever. Mancrushing for a year now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He3MPIq5gNE

(also he's not a big fan of Obama, feminists, or Muslims. He's fine with white western male nra members however)

flaneur

PeterParker957 wrote: »

You want humour?

The left wing say they're against segregation yet are in favour if Islam which is all about segregation.

Baaadum tsshhh.

Which left would this be?
The imaginary one?

I have my doubts that many actual left wing people would be pro any extreme religious point of view that goes contrary to basic values of fairness, human rights, equality and so on.

When you start to take either the left or the right to very far extremes you arrive at forms of authoritarianism in both cases.

The best societies tend to be more pragmatic ones.

20Cent

Sand wrote: »

Given the media and social bubbles people live in, its hardly surprising Graham Linehan can believe there is no good right wing comedians. Even were he to encounter one, they would be swiftly blocked and he would retreat back to the safety of the known and the comfortable. In time he would convince himself the encounter never even happened.

Throw up some videos of all these comedians, or name them or something Share the humour!

20Cent

greencap wrote: »

Although not usually a stand up comedian, here is one Anthony (antwan) Cumia.
You'll find Anthony's views can at times be ... a tad intolerant.

Be it his open discrimination towards the black community ... which he will justify, his love of guns (of which he has a great deal, often on his person), or his references to ''pissy eyed f*gg**s'', Anthony is an all round charmer, and cares for your opinion.

Really though, one of the funniest fckers ever. Mancrushing for a year now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He3MPIq5gNE

(also he's not a big fan of Obama, feminists, or Muslims. He's fine with white western male nra members however)

Celebrating Hitlers birthday, gas man. Sounds like a parody of what a lefty thinks a rightwing comedian is.
Looks like the left wing media have censored him now though.
Left wing Daily Mail report about it.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2679686/Radio-host-unleashes-racist-Twitter-tirade-punched-face-black-woman-Times-Square.html

Anthony Cumia claimed on Twitter on Wednesday that a woman attacked him when he caught her in a frame while taking photos
He branded her a 'c***', an 'animal b****' and a 'savage' and said that he hoped one of her 'home boys' killed her
He insisted he was not racist, saying 'there is a deep seeded problem with violence in the black community' that no one talked about
SiriusXM, on which he hosted a show for 20 years, said that the rant was 'abhorrent' and that he has been fired

Samaris

PeterParker957 wrote: »

You want humour?

The left wing say they're against segregation yet are in favour if Islam which is all about segregation.

Baaadum tsshhh.

There's a subtle difference (actually not that subtle) between "pro-Islam" and "anti-being-a-dick-to-Muslims". For instance, I dislike organised religion. I don't like Islam, particularly some of its notions about women, gay people and its intense social conservatism. I don't like Catholicism much either, particularly some of its notions about women, gay people and its social conservatism. Yes, Catholicism has been neutered to some extent and can't kill people anymore in most countries where it is a majority religion. Great, that is an improvement.

Now for the tricky bit; this does not mean I agree with being a dick to either lot or imposing legal restrictions on their beliefs (bar the specific cases where those beliefs lead to imposing restrictions on others - i.e mistreating gay people.)

Really don't know why this position is so hard to grasp.

PeterParker957

Samaris wrote: »

There's a subtle difference (actually not that subtle) between "pro-Islam" and "anti-being-a-dick-to-Muslims". For instance, I dislike organised religion. I don't like Islam, particularly some of its notions about women, gay people and its intense social conservatism. I don't like Catholicism much either, particularly some of its notions about women, gay people and its social conservatism. Yes, Catholicism has been neutered to some extent and can't kill people anymore in most countries where it is a majority religion. Great, that is an improvement.

Now for the tricky bit; this does not mean I agree with being a dick to either lot or imposing legal restrictions on their beliefs (bar the specific cases where those beliefs lead to imposing restrictions on others - i.e mistreating gay people.)

Really don't know why this position is so hard to grasp.

Possibly because at Mass yesterday I sat with a male either side of me, didn't need to use a separate entrance and wasn't radicalised to kill gays and apostates.

We moved on - they haven't.

greencap

20Cent wrote: »

Celebrating Hitlers birthday, gas man. Sounds like a parody of what a lefty thinks a rightwing comedian is.
Looks like the left wing media have censored him now though.
Left wing Daily Mail report about it.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2679686/Radio-host-unleashes-racist-Twitter-tirade-punched-face-black-woman-Times-Square.html

Anthony Cumia claimed on Twitter on Wednesday that a woman attacked him when he caught her in a frame while taking photos
He branded her a 'c***', an 'animal b****' and a 'savage' and said that he hoped one of her 'home boys' killed her
He insisted he was not racist, saying 'there is a deep seeded problem with violence in the black community' that no one talked about
SiriusXM, on which he hosted a show for 20 years, said that the rant was 'abhorrent' and that he has been fired

Ah yes, that's our Antwan.

The good news is that after his 'misunderstanding' Anthony went on to found his own independent show, which he now co-hosts with, ex-Howard Stern regular, Artie Lange.

Anthony's racism and right wingedness is misunderstood by many. I mean yes he's a racist, but he's a nice racist, and was very friendly with his black co-host for many years.

He's got no problem with the gay community, or the Jewish, who he often expresses affection for. And will date black women, although not marry.

He just likes to keep lots of guns, and live near whites and Jews.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS_qdZJgOPI

Vladimir Poontang

topper75 wrote: »

It is very clear.

I was in the welfare the other day and this one demanded to know what I'd been doing to find a job.

A right nazi bitch she was.

George Orwell warned of this kind of thing in 1984.

This might actually be the funniest thing in this thread lol