Jo Brand

Not funny, it was downright nasty.

Two points, and apologies if it has already been said, I couldn’t wade through every post.
One: Jo Brand made a most horrible comment ( in most peoples eyes) when we know that acid attacks happen quite frequently and it’s easy to get hold of.
Two: what Farage said about ‘donning khaki and picking up our rifles’ may have been stupid but rifles are not easy to come by ( most terrorists in the UK don’t seem to be able to get their hands on them in any case.)Brand was talking about a particular person to throw acid at....Farage.
Actually, there is a third point, posters ( a few) seem to approve or are amused by her remark because they ‘hate’ NF.This needs thinking about, if the remark had been said about throwing battery acid at somebody they really like, would the comment still be ‘amusing’?Therefore, is it quite alright to have almost anything, no matter how horrible , like an acid attack, be joked about when we dislike somebody in the public eye? No, it certainly isn’t!

Bring back Danny Baker!

Johno. This kind of threatening and repulsive idea does not deserve to be placed under the excuse of "Free speech".

It was irresponsible, disgusting and very thoughtless.

Elvive I Agree. Indeed if people are going to attach this to a "left" viewpoint she has done the side a huge disservice. I am sire intelligent people know she is not making jokes endorsed by them!

She really should know better actually. The poor girls who have suffered such an unbelievably cruel attack do not need to hear jokes about it.

I think it was a waste of good milk shake. A

More seriously, throwing anything over a person - public figure or not - should be prosecuted. It should be shown that an attack by throwing anything on a person is not tolerated. Unfortunately, no matter how "harmless" the substance, it merely highlights the vulnerability of the person under attack.

Free speech, simple as that. Its time people lightened up and stopped freaking out over a few words. If this is forbidden we soon will not be able to challenge rotten, lying, fiddling MPs. In fact, we are already there. If the snowflake idiots win the day it wont belong before the Army Sergeant Major is in the dock for shouting.

it was a joke in poor taste but it was not an incitement to violence.

Janmoo
JB should stick to her good causes and leave out the rest.

AdeleJay. Eggs and milkshakes for protests.? When there are people in the UK and across the world going hungry.?I object to anything thrown or any form of violence in a protest but when there are those needing food banks to survive and there are those using food as objects of violence then those doing so, and those condoning this , should be ashamed of themselves

Jo Brand is an incredibly funny and intelligent woman who has done so much for some good causes.
It was clearly just a joke not meant to be taken seriously.
We seem to be losing our sense of humour in this Country, it’s very sad. Lighten up everyone.

Paperbackwriter
JB 's Humour is now your typical twenty first c taking the p* out of what is observed in the media With the now few and far between digs at her own life which I recall was the majority of her past comedy .she appears to be getting herself and far too much in what we have now received a taste of and that being what she has previously observed in the media.She was once, and only once, a very funny lady.Maybe she needs to get her priorities right and get back to what she came in with as I believe her recent 'comments' have rattled more than just a few cages.

Grandma70s
Why do you think she didn’t mean it? It was nasty and vindictive. She should not be allowed on the BBC.....pay our license to pay her? Dreadful

I have 100 per page and am on page 3 already, Esmeralda!

"There's no such thing as bad publicity" apparently
Has she got a one woman tour coming up by any chance?

Let’s face it ,i am not a fan of Tommy Robinson but if he had said it he would have been arrested & thrown into prison,same as Danny Baker who lost his job recently with the BBC for making a joke........free speech is only for a select few.Jo Brand knew what she was doing & I think she should’ve been sacked .......
I don’t find these ‘new wave’ comedians funny at all.Look at the squit caused by John Cleese who said that London isn’t like a British city anymore.....felt sorry for the chap,he was just stating how he feels & I wouldn’t mind betting that millions of people feel the same.

Yes Callistemon ... I hadn't realised there were so many comments in this thread. I'm afraid I just got to the bottom of page 1 and thought that was it.

Nigel F, may be lots of things, but advocating substituting acid for milk to throw at someone, is something neither he nor anyone in their right mind would ever do. Perhaps a throw away joke about Jo Cox's murder would now be considered ok, so long as you don't mean it of course! Mind you Billy Connelly already has! The impending awful death of Ken Bigley was incorporated into an appalling "joke"! Judging by the nervous laughter, it was certainly a step far to far, as was this this "throw away" comment by Jo B!

I don't think it is any worse that Nigel Farage he would, “don khaki, pick up a rifle and head for the front lines” if Theresa May fails to deliver Brexit in the fashion he wants. In face I think it's rather better as everyone has assumed Jo Brand made a joke which they either did or didn't like, whereas NF claims to be a serious politician

I think it was mentioned earlier in the thread.

I notice nobody is commenting on the BBC production team who decided it was OK to include this particular joke in their programme. I'm sure many comedians toss out comments on the spur of the moment that they afterwards wish they could retract, but the programme's producers had plenty of time to decide whether it was appropriate (or even funny) or not.

Paperbackwriteer

The BBC repeated it more than once so we had no need to look at tacky tabloids.

And I think it’s I’ll judged of the current PM to step in.
I don't know what she has said, but perhaps she is concerned at the high level of vile abuse, racist abuse, threats of violence including sexual violence etc being levelled at politicians of all parties nowadays.

This kind of 'humour' somehow normalises it all.

If the gloves are off but those who consider this not acceptable are labelled 'snowflakes', can we now make jokes about Jo Brand's weight, looks, mental health etc?

It's quite a cruel country we live in
It is; spite and vitriol is taken for humour.
It's not even clever.

Goodness, how easily outraged this nation is becoming! It was a daft throwaway comment, merely a not-very-good joke. I heard the programme at the time so I know exactly what was said. To say it's inciting violence is a ridiculous over-reaction and honestly, to get the police involved is crazy. Surely they have better things to do, as should anyone who took the comment seriously. Maybe if more people had actually heard the programme rather than seeing second-hand reports via the tacky tabloids, a sense of balance wouldn't have become so skewed.

Grandma 70's Quote 'not as if she meant it' ?
Justifiable although inappropriate ?
I don't think so as the mere mention of the word acid and in view that this substance now seems to be added to the list of those used as a weapon should not be seen and used by the likes of JB as a laughable subject.

I do find that some of the comedians of today do make some outlandish jokes. They certainly don't seem to think of any consequences of their jokes or who they may hurt or perhaps they just don't care. It's quite a cruel country we live in

Sorry the above was meant as a reply to a poster who wondered what had happened to our wonderful country, all the current division & hate.