Dara Ó Briain has hit back at fellow comedian Andrew Lawrence on Twitter, branding him "bitter" and "self-delusional".
The Mock the Week host was responding to posts made on Facebook this week, in which Lawrence labelled comedians who make jokes about Ukip "moronic" and "liberal".
Lawrence, who has previously appeared on shows such as Live at the Apollo and Ask Rhod Gilbert, had written online: "Can't help but notice increasingly, a lot 'political' comedians cracking cheap and easy gags about Ukip, to the extent that it's got hack, boring and lazy very quickly.
"Particularly too much moronic, liberal back-slapping on panel shows like Mock the Week where ageing, balding, fat men, ethnic comedians and women-posing-as-comedians, sit congratulating themselves on how enlightened they are about the fact that Ukip are ridiculous and pathetic.
"Yet the Clacton by-election victory and what looks to be a likely victory in the Rochester by-election goes...
The Mock the Week host was responding to posts made on Facebook this week, in which Lawrence labelled comedians who make jokes about Ukip "moronic" and "liberal".
Lawrence, who has previously appeared on shows such as Live at the Apollo and Ask Rhod Gilbert, had written online: "Can't help but notice increasingly, a lot 'political' comedians cracking cheap and easy gags about Ukip, to the extent that it's got hack, boring and lazy very quickly.
"Particularly too much moronic, liberal back-slapping on panel shows like Mock the Week where ageing, balding, fat men, ethnic comedians and women-posing-as-comedians, sit congratulating themselves on how enlightened they are about the fact that Ukip are ridiculous and pathetic.
"Yet the Clacton by-election victory and what looks to be a likely victory in the Rochester by-election goes...
- 10/28/2014
- Digital Spy
Rhod Gilbert thinks comedy panel shows are ''brutal''. The Welsh funnyman's programme 'Ask Rhod Gilbert' - which also featured fellow stand-up comedians Greg Davies and Lloyd Langford - was recently axed by the BBC following its second series in 2011, but Rhod isn't fazed by the loss of his project as he feels it was never his area of expertise. Speaking on Stuart Smith's 'Comedian's Comedian' podcast, Rhod said: ''I think panel shows are really hard and some of them are brutal experiences. You feel like you've been sodomised after them. ''When I did something like 'Mock The Week ' ... I don't...
- 2/26/2013
- Virgin Media - Celebrity
Following several sell-out UK tours, and two best-selling DVDs, multi award-winning stand-up comedian Rhod Gilbert returns with his eagerly awaited new Live DVD. Pre-order it now from Here.
We have three copies of the DVD to give away to our readers.
Rhod’s rants on life’s minor irritations are legendary, but this year, thanks to a life-changing Battenberg tattoo, and following a successful course of anger-management he’s claiming to be a more mellow fellow altogether.
In this brand new show, Rhod recounts the hilarious and turbulent lead-up to a make-or-break trip to New York with his on-off girlfriend. But has Rhod really changed? Will the new, supposedly chilled-out Rhod get his girl and live happily ever after, or will it be microwaved baked potato for one again? Could it be the Mr Angry of comedy as you’ve never seen him before?
With a nation-wide tour extended due to popular demand,...
We have three copies of the DVD to give away to our readers.
Rhod’s rants on life’s minor irritations are legendary, but this year, thanks to a life-changing Battenberg tattoo, and following a successful course of anger-management he’s claiming to be a more mellow fellow altogether.
In this brand new show, Rhod recounts the hilarious and turbulent lead-up to a make-or-break trip to New York with his on-off girlfriend. But has Rhod really changed? Will the new, supposedly chilled-out Rhod get his girl and live happily ever after, or will it be microwaved baked potato for one again? Could it be the Mr Angry of comedy as you’ve never seen him before?
With a nation-wide tour extended due to popular demand,...
- 11/13/2012
- by Matt Holmes
- Obsessed with Film
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