Jo Brand

I like Jo Brand but in this case she just spoke before thinking and who hasn't done that? Lets look at things Nigel Farage, Boris and the like have said in the past, all offensive. She has apologised so that should be it.

Grandma 70's - whether she meant it or not surely it was a very ill judged remark. Thoroughly bad taste.

I heard the programme and jumped when I heard her say it.
I am the least PC person you could meet but I thought her so called joke was stupid, could be dangerous, and not in the least bit funny.
I usually do laugh at Jo's humour, even the near the knuckle stuff but this was beyond the pale.

Very bad taste and insensitive to people who have been injured and maimed by having acid thrown in their faces. Not funny at all. There are better and more intelligent ways of insulting Nigel Farage.

By the way, I do think milkshake-throwing is also unacceptable.

moorlikeit

" I am sure the hatred towards her expressed on Gransnet is simply because she is a Labour supporter and reflects the posters' politics more than any objective viewpoint.

Those who think spewing hatred is solely a leftist trait should look again at the extreme right and the many vile things that were cooked up by Ukip."
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The difference is nobody defends nor condones the far right when they do it!

This is not wholely about right/left of politics. However if a person such as Jo Brand has made it well known by using the media , public platforms to tell everybody their political leaning if and when that person makes a joke or comment such as throwing battery acid at someone then they are hardly being non partisan or secretive about who they are directing the comment to.

She said:-

" Well, yes, I would say that but that’s because certain unpleasant characters are being thrown to the fore and they’re very, very easy to hate and I’m kind of thinking ‘Why bother with a milkshake when you could get some battery acid?’

“That’s just me. I’m not going to do it, it’s purely a fantasy, but I think milkshakes are pathetic, I honestly do, sorry.”
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Disect her ' joke '.

" Who does she mean by saying " certain unpleasant characters are being thrown to the fore and they’re very, very easy to hate "?

She is a left wing comedian who uses the media on a regular basis to let us know where her hatred is pointed at politically and she did not mean Corbyn did she!

" That’s just me. I’m not going to do it, it’s purely a fantasy, but I think milkshakes are pathetic, I honestly do, sorry.”

On one hand she is saying look I'm only kidding, you know silly old me but by saying " but I think milkshakes are pathetic, I honestly do, sorry.” after mentioning throwing battery acid previously what she is then doing is making her comment turn from a ' joke ' into a personal statement.

That is why the ' joke' is not a 'joke' . I accept Jo Brand would never throw battery acid at somebody but she knew and the BBC ,which in my opinion is now probably worse than her , what she was doing. You say it you own it!

annepl is right, it was supposed to be a joke. Certainly not hilarious but not advocating throwing acid either.
I didn’t hear it in “real life” but have since googled it. It does sound to me as though she was actually trying to mock milkshake-throwing which seems to have become “a thing”.
Here is a snippet. Wish I’d seen the programme then I might be in a better position to comment:

www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/police-investigate-jo-brand-over-remark-about-throwing-battery-acid-at-politicians-a4166921.html

You may think it is funny, Elvive and you may think that I am an old fuddy-duddy, but I don't think that jokes about acid attacks, raping women, lynching politicians, disabled children, victims of fire are remotely funny.

This is all such a long way from the type of real comedy which I used to enjoy.
It all has an element of spite and viciousness.

Yes a brat, a spoiled brat. Quite right. Leftie brat.

I think she acting like a spoilt bratt . Just because she is left wing Labour , doesn't mean we have to have her views . Anyone else wouldn have been question by the police and taken off the television . Not her brazen as anything on the telly last night . Jo Brand shame on you .

Yes all the people who have had acid thrown at them are distraught because of some mistimed comment and all lefties are baddies and the poor old man should not have been forced to wear a yoghurt at 8 o'clock in the morning.

People will have heard Jo Brand and it will have put ideas in their heads.

She seems to like doing most things in bad taste, what would she say if some idiot took her up on it? Would an apology be enough? I think not! Perhaps she’d say differently if someone threw a ‘milkshake’ at her.
I agree with murreymints75...if she had a brain she’d be dangerous. She is full of her own importance.

POGS.
An excellent post. This supposed "joke" sows the seeds in the minds of certain types of people. How can anyone think this is funny, unless you have a very warped sense of humour. Imagine how the innocent people who have been victims of acid attacks must feel on hearing this.

She has always been very left wing and anti establishment. But that was a step too far. However all this fuss about it is only highlighting what she said. Not good.

It was a nasty throwaway remark which should have been left unsaid - Jo Brand used to be good, at one time, but now she's reduced to banal game shows and using tactics like this for a cheap laugh.

Yes; it does make you wonder, doesn't it...

Most things Jo Brand says are in bad taste

The program was pre recorded so if the BBC was up in arms why did they broadcast it.
Makes you wonder.

Quite simply it was an abhorrent thing to say and definitely not funny. I'm sure I've read somewhere that she was a nurse years ago.

Good post, moorlikeit; totally agree with everything you've said. Last night I googled 'Jo Brand charities supported' and 'Nigel Farage charities supported'; I don't think I need to say what I found...

So far as the joke was concerned, I generally like Jo Brand and comedians do have to test boundaries. I wouldn't have laughed at it but wouldn't have wasted police time in investigating it either.

I agree.

For me, yes, it was in bad taste. Reporting it to the Police, as someone has done, is ridiculous!

The reason I think that throwing milkshakes is not a reasonable form of protest is that you never know what is being thrown until it hits you and a lot of the nasty things people do throw don't hurt immediately which makes them more dangerous. Then people are judged for the way they reacted when liquid or anything else was thrown at them.
People complain that politicians live in a bubble but then when they go out they get things thrown at them.
So far as the joke was concerned, I generally like Jo Brand and comedians do have to test boundaries. I wouldn't have laughed at it but wouldn't have wasted police time in investigating it either.

Oh really! Make Jo Brand public enemy number one! I disliked the acid-throwing "joke" but then I dislike a lot of what currently passes for comedy. Too much venom from many comedians in my opinion.
But Jo Brand does not deserve the vitriol delivered here by some posters. The series Getting On and also Dammed showed a depth of compassion for those living on the edge that few other sitcoms/dramedies have ever managed. She is also active in many charities.
I am sure the hatred towards her expressed on Gransnet is simply because she is a Labour supporter and reflects the posters' politics more than any objective viewpoint.
Those who think spewing hatred is solely a leftist trait should look again at the extreme right and the many vile things that were cooked up by Ukip.
I really do not believe the shouters on this thread do themselves any favours - they are part of the problem that afflicts the world: too much tribalism and hatred.
By the way, I would describe myself as somewhere in the centre politically before some of the posters dismiss me as a leftist apologist!

We await the prosecution of the poor veteran who was soaked with milkshake.