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To wonder why famous people feel they have to over share personal stuff

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TerriBull Sun 08-Jan-23 14:15:49

No not another one about Harry!

I was just reading an article about Katherine Ryan stand up comic, bantering with Jonathan Ross, never a good idea given his track record. I stopped watching him ages ago I really don't like him. Anyway back to Katherine Ryan, admittedly I've only ever seen her on WDYTYA so I can't say whether she's funny or not It was reported among other things , she said this "her husband would sometimes abandon her to play golf as she has only 3 holes as opposed to 18" If a man said that I'd regard him as a sexist pig, so is it any better to hear that from a woman. Personally I don't think so, nor do I find such crassness remotely funny, just poor taste.

I'd be interested to know what others think.

MawtheMerrier Mon 09-Jan-23 15:24:27

Not only famous people it seems!
Social media sites such as FB, Twitter (GN included) are littered with contributions which IMO qualify as TMI

Summerfly Mon 09-Jan-23 15:20:11

Can’t abide vulgar comedians, especially females. So many nowadays resort to it but in my opinion it’s just not funny 😕

rowyn Mon 09-Jan-23 14:59:01

I''m with those who cannot stand KR. She's offensively loud and unfunny. Can't understand how she makes a living from being so. (Have you noticed that GOOD comedians often win quizzes? I assume that they have the quick intelligence and knowledge to amuse and to be able to make a quick joke off the cuff. )Watch the programme 'Would I Lie to you' and you'll see what I mean)
As far as the joke is concerned - that doesn't bother me, and the headline describing it as oversharing is inaccurate. It's just the person deliveting it that I object to!

grandtanteJE65 Mon 09-Jan-23 14:19:02

I don't know either the comedians named, but like a good few others here, I have never cared for crude jokes and don't find them remotely funny.

Nor do I find the public statements made by celebrities or others about private matters remotely interesting.

But then I was brought up to believe that you neither "washed dirty linen in public" (must have been hard to avoid for the generations who did their washing in the nearest river!) nor discussed personal matters in public.

Standards have changed about this, and a lot of people must unlike us find these personal details of others lives fascinating, and lavatorial jokes funny, or no-one would listen or read them.

As to pearls - yes I have some river pearls in different colours and threaded either as very short necklaces that lie at the base of my neck, or as very long ones, but none the length my mother and aunt used, which was a necklace long enough to end mid-way between their necks and their bosoms.

On the other hand I haven't owned a twin-set since somewhere around 1968, when I discreetly disposed of one my mother had bought me, and claimed, when she asked where it was, that it had been stolen from the drying area of the hall of residence I was living in.

Dearknees1 Mon 09-Jan-23 14:11:10

Highly unlikely to be true. Kathryn Ryan is a comedian and talks the way people expect her to as do Sarah Millican, Sarah Pascoe and many other female comedians . Not to my taste. I prefer Bridget Christie and Jo Brand,

pinkjj27 Mon 09-Jan-23 13:51:43

That should say Crude, spell check must have changed it

pinkjj27 Mon 09-Jan-23 13:50:04

I can't stand Kathryn Ryan she is curd, sexist and unfunny, as well as being an attention seeker, talking over others to draw attention to herself.
As for Jonathon Ross A friend stop talking to me 10 years ago because I said I couldn’t stand him, Lol
I think over sharing is attention seeking and very unattractive in anyone be you a royal, a so-called celebrity or a so-called ordinary person.
Unless your story will help others and sometimes it can, then I don’t want to know.

polly123 Mon 09-Jan-23 13:43:08

Another good reason not to watch Jonathan Ross posing and attempting unsuccessfully to be 'cool'. I enjoy witty and creative humour which draws on observation of life such as Billy Connelly or Peter Kay. Vulgarity often (not always) relies on shock value and little else.

Esmay Mon 09-Jan-23 13:41:19

Didn't the late great Joan Rivers start this type of humour ?

I found her outrageous , but funny .
Thanks to her -
going to the beach became a joke -all those crashing waves meant sex on the beach .

I'm not that keen on Sarah Millican .
Recently , I've found Lou Sanders too crude .

FannyCornforth Mon 09-Jan-23 13:24:31

Cunk was written by Charlie Brooker.
Morgan is a writer and actor rather than a comedian

FannyCornforth Mon 09-Jan-23 13:22:29

Gabrielle56

Dislike Ryan/ horribly vulgar Rosie Jones (why nobody told her that filth isn't the way to be accepted as a minority comedian! Being actually funny IS) any females that bang on and on about the very most intimate bits of female anatomy and sound to me like adolescents bragging about sex they haven't had! Female funnies? Victoria wood bless her /Andi osho / Zoe lyons.i used to like cunk but her new series is embarrassing and zero funny.

Do you mean Diane Morgan’s ‘Mandy’?
I absolutely love it!

HousePlantQueen Mon 09-Jan-23 13:15:23

Comedy is a personal taste, whether the comedian is male or female. Personally, I don't find vulgar comments funny, I think it is a lazy way of trying to get laughs by shocking the audience.

Gabrielle56 Mon 09-Jan-23 12:57:12

Aaargh! Millican! Yuk yuk yuk vile obsessed and verging on the creepy the way she over labours her disgusting routines! Were she a bloke she'd be arrested!

Grantanow Mon 09-Jan-23 12:56:28

Keeps them in the public eye so they can continue to cash in on their 'celebrity'.

Gabrielle56 Mon 09-Jan-23 12:53:37

Slebs have the biggest egos and usually the lowest IQ ! True comedians and truly funny people have effortless humour (funny bones) and usually very high IQ rating. There's a big difference between talented people and famous people. As for Harry's bragging? Sounds like a LIE à là WILTY game show! It's straight outta cider with Rosie and probably concocted by his z list Missus'playbook - like her ridiculous curtseying parody she expects us all to believe!!!! He probably had an encounter with someone trusted/ approved by palace as used to be practised just so no danger of a "kiss and tell" surfacing later! Sounds bonkers(!) But- "TRUE"

Wyllow3 Mon 09-Jan-23 12:50:59

correction, "explicitly".

Wyllow3 Mon 09-Jan-23 12:50:29

Plenty of other places to talk about H, let's keep him off this thread as it exlvcily stated it was NOT for this.

I like good political satire, from male or female!

volver Mon 09-Jan-23 12:49:45

JPB123

I can’t bear the woman! She isn’t funny, just crass, self centred
and should go back to Canada,or wherever she’s from.

Oh dear.

JPB123 Mon 09-Jan-23 12:48:41

I can’t bear the woman! She isn’t funny, just crass, self centred
and should go back to Canada,or wherever she’s from.

Gabrielle56 Mon 09-Jan-23 12:47:31

Dislike Ryan/ horribly vulgar Rosie Jones (why nobody told her that filth isn't the way to be accepted as a minority comedian! Being actually funny IS) any females that bang on and on about the very most intimate bits of female anatomy and sound to me like adolescents bragging about sex they haven't had! Female funnies? Victoria wood bless her /Andi osho / Zoe lyons.i used to like cunk but her new series is embarrassing and zero funny.

nanna8 Mon 09-Jan-23 12:44:09

That was referring to Harry virginity escapades, by the way.

nanna8 Mon 09-Jan-23 12:43:15

Pass the sick bucket! Talk about immaturity…

Neilspurgeon0 Mon 09-Jan-23 12:42:33

So can I Blondiscot but not a single one of them has ever appeared on television. I am married to an exceptionally amusing lady and related to quite a few as well, but none of them need to resort to vulgarity to be amusing.

Bazza Mon 09-Jan-23 12:26:55

Ooh yes, and just to go back to the original post, why does Harry think the world either wants or needs to know how and where he lost his virginity?

Bazza Mon 09-Jan-23 12:21:34

I thought Dinner Ladies was brilliant, mostly female cast. I’m no prude but don’t find many jokes about bodily functions funny whoever is telling them. Everyone has their own idea of what is funny, but I defy anyone not to laugh at Del Boy falling through the bar.