Bob The Badger

Glad I don't have to wake up in Bolton every week TBH. I'd lose the will to live 😙

That post reminds me of all your other posts.

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I feel like dropping a log off down my pants tbh.

I had a sneaking suspicion we were going to really turn it on today. It seems I'm more likely to turn Mrs Badger on. So, that's not going to happen then.

I hate off-the-ball injuries; they are often ligament damage injuries.

Even though he walked off, the picture of him inside the dressing room concerns me.

Lincoln are starting to get on my tits. 3-0 up already.

That's the spirit; start panicking about how bad we'll look next season when it's the first half of the most important game of this season. Are you a meditation teacher?

It's actually because lime limes, the avocado trade is run by the cartels. And, of course, Liz Truss.

Not hysterically funny but it made me smile and I'm sure @Carl Sagan will like it.

I worked in West Bromwich in the late 90s and my biggest account was New Holland in the US. I'd been pushing to use email (I even had my own account, but had no business account) and couldn't make any headway. Then I got a fax from NH saying that all requests to tender much be provided via email from a certain date. I walked into my sales director's office and waved it triumphantly in his face. His response was, it's a fad, Tim. We're not getting email.

A rudimentary knowledge of quantum mechanics is definitely useful, but I didn't have to do any actual atom splitting to enjoy it.

You don't pay a premium for the front row at Hall for Cornwall mate, you just have to like comedy enough to book your tickets as soon as they go on sale. This isn't the west end.

I'm not sure I want to get sucked into this because you're missing the point and I’m not sure I can help you with that. Gervais and Carr are clearly caring people. I’ve read enough about them to believe that. Carr aims more fun at himself than everybody else. I was on the front row of his last Truro gig and saw him work from about 3 feet away. He messes with the audience and laughs with them, never laughing harder than when somebody puts him down. He does take the piss, but every person he interacted with was laughing hysterically. That’s because he’s a pro, and he knows who to pick and when to back off. If you push back, then yeah, he’s gonna come after you, but you did that to yourself. He actually never spoke to me and Mrs Badger, but he did to the people on both sides of us. Make a joke out of that because I’m sure there is one. I was in the second row for Tom Allen on Sunday, and he did pretty much the same thing. It was some of the best crowd work I have ever seen. And Jim Jefferies did an entire joke of several minute about the deaf and a sign language person, and you know who loved it the most? The deaf. The invited him to do a gig for them and he did. Do you really think Gervais’s assistant is upset or offended? Or do you think she knows he doesn’t mean it and is really having a go at stereotypical attitudes? He’s a leftie, you do know that, right? It’s the intent that (at least to me) is important. Every comedian ducks up from time to time, but as long as they aren’t trying to hurt people or they are going after nebulous constructs, I’m fine with that. From reading your posts over the years, I sensed a certain amount of contempt from your comment and contempt never makes me laugh even if I sometimes feel it.

I cannot remember either mocking a specific person for their disability. If they did that, I wouldn't like it. Both look at broad constructs. And both, as per Carr's Travellers joke from a couple of years ago, are actually trying to ridicule the more common narrative around the stereotypes of the subject material. I don't even like it when Stweart Lee goes after other comedians. But as the ones he does go after are much bigger names than him, I put up with it. I love to point out the irony of you having a go at me for missing irony that wasn't present, but you'd not understand it and it would be punching down, so I won't.

very classy.

I think you spoke too soon. 30p Lee has been wall-to-wall on the radio. Air-to-air then I guess.

She apologised for editing it (as everybody does) and instead issued an undoctored one.

Saw Tom Allen at Hall for Cornwall tonight. Really enjoyed it. I had no expectations beforehand having not seen him do stand up but thoroughly enjoyed it as did Mrs Badger. His delivery feels like a cross between Eddie Izzard and John Mulaney. Fast paced and dramatic. Brilliant crowd work in the first half with lots of call backs and the expected references/double entendres to his sexuality. Will definitely get tickets if he comes back.

No.

Ditto. If you had no clue who's made it you'd know who made it inside 10 minutes. Good fun, 2 episodes in.

You but who's done it since then? Literally nobody. Not a single manager in over an hour now.