When will voice impressionists be cancelled?

I haven't heard Bertie complaining. How it it cruel to mock his stutter? Are you being offended on his behalf?

Bertie doesn't have a stutter, that's just an affectation for to appear a ordinary man.

No thats his bank account you're thinking of

When will cancelling be cancelled?

All cast members of the office should apologize for enabling that useless unfunny muppet Gervais.

Interesting. I think Davy Fitzgerald has admitted that he is not happy with Mario Rosenstock's impressions of his voice. I would have sympathy for Davy. It's all a good laugh for us the listeners but if it's genuinely upsetting for Davy then I would be of the view that Mario should drop those impressions.

I was watching Callan's Kicks recently and he had a sketch featuring the two Healy-Rae brothers. Danny Healy-Rae looked like a werewolf in the sketch. It was funny but you would understand if he was offended by it.

Bo' Selecta is another one that comes to mind.

hopefully humans dont go full retard on this one, impressionists can be very funny, and we all need the fun

Complaints that comedy is being gutted or destroyed by new-fangled moral standards have pretty much always been a feature of the comedy world. As each generation of comedians matures and is challenged by an upcoming generation with different notions of what works as comedic, they complain about this. In the 1970s, black people were considered inherently comedic in the UK — the main gag in [i]Love Thy Neighbour[/i] was that the protagonist has a neighbour who is black! Gosh, how funny. That ceased to be funny, or even acceptable, by the 1980s, but mother-in-law jokes thrived for another decade until they, too, fell out of favour with public taste. And so forth.

Comedians affected by this - which is all of them who stay in the business for more than a few years - either adapt their work to evolving public taste, or they get fewer and fewer bookings in lousier and lousier venues and, in the latter case, they complain that they are being censored and cancelled. But they are not; they are just being outmoded.

Voice impressionists aren't necessarily mocking their subjects' vocal mannerisms. Especially on the radio, the main point of the voice impression is that the listener will know who the subject is supposed to be. If Bertie Ahern is depicted as stuttering, that's not because stuttering is funny; it's because Ahern stutters, and so the stutter is how the listener knows that Ahern is being depicted. The humour should be found in the words that are put into Ahern's mouth, not in the fact that Ahern stutters.

Maybe they do maybe they don’t, it doesn’t change the fact that the world doesn’t revolve around their feelings. Grow a thicker skin might be the best advice for someone like that?

I have a stammer and I don't give a fcuk. As someone already said Bertie doesn't really have a stammer.

Interesting thread op, it's a fine line between comedy and upsetting/offending people. It's when it's personal and aimed at one individual as opposed to a group of faceless people if you like that offence occurs, like the davy example above, that's personal and if he hasn't given permission mario should stop. But if it was a general slag on gaa managers it would be ok imo

It is certainly considered fair game on Boards, and even on this thread to mock disabled people though casual use of 'retard' as an insult.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/not-quite-politically-correct-1.77592

Billy hit a speed bump joking about Kenneth Bigley and his Thai wife.

went to one of his first gigs after those comments, there certainly was tension in the air, great gig though

Probably. Why not? Who knows. Go look yourself.

I'm not heading off on a wild goose chase to follow your unproven claim. I'm just saying that I don't believe his stammer was made a laughing matter in mainstream media at the time. Maybe the lads in the pub might have had a giggle, but not in the media.

What's so bad about offending people?

I don't go out of my way to offend, or to be offended. But if something offends me, I'll either tell the person, turn off the radio/tv, whatever, move on. Where is people's resilience