If you’ve been using Facebook or Twitter over the weekend, you may well have seen the following screenshot. I stumbled across it via a tweet from Suzy Bennett, winner of the 2006 Funny Women Awards.
Here’s the image in question that’s been doing the rounds:
There’s been a fair amount of debate as to whether this delightful individual is for real. Which, to me, is quite revealing in itself. Even if this is a hoax, this type of attitude is still prevalent enough to be believable. I’ll be blunt. There is no online commenter quite as convincing as a dickhead with a raging ‘I hate everyone except middle-aged white blokes and my wife’ complex.
Authenticity of the post aside, let’s tear into this nice man’s spelling and grammar for a moment, shall we?
I feel the most appropriate place to start is this bit about women ‘comedians’. What a schoolboy error we have here. Surely everyone knows that sarcastic quotation marks are double quotation marks. You can even imagine him making the cute little hand signs in the air. Co-Me-Di-Ans. To try and ram home his misconception that women aren’t funny. You know what, mate, THAT isn’t funny.
And neither is your God complex. I’m sure you do know your audience, probably by first name, seeing as there can only be about six or seven of them at most. But look. You slipped up in another sentence – “Got a good idea of what I want comedy wise.” What YOU want. Not what your audience wants. Which I imagine is something to hide behind so they can pretend they don’t know you at all.
Clearly gay and Asian people are also not part of your friendship groups. If they were, you’d no – sorry, ‘know’ – that they can be some of the sharpest, meanest and most cutting comedians around. You’re not sure if they can handle it? No, you’re not sure you can handle having no bar takings once they’ve driven your punters to tears.
You don’t have to worry about any of it, though, Toby. Nobody here in the UK is going to take ‘offense’ to your comments, because that’s the American spelling. No offence.
