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Why I Hate Peter Kay
Behind the cheeky smile of the mammoth mummy’s boy, there’s a man who’ll steal your jokes and have escorted from your seat.
There is a show which seems to play endlessly on the more obscure Sky channels. Like painting the Sydney Harbour Bridge, as soon as it finishes, it starts up somewhere else. You will have all seen it. Peter Kay Live at the Comedy Store. Fans of the chubby funster hold it up as some sort of seminal moment in recent comedy history, the moment when Kay metamorphosed from Northern comedy caterpillar into national treasure. The night when the people of That There London fell in love with Bolton’s favourite son. The comic next door.
Only they didn’t. They were laughing at him, not with him. At least, some of them were. A study into regional comedy tastes highlighted that Northerners enjoy laughing at themselves, mainly for being poor, salt of the earth and all working class-ruddy-Thatchery. Southerners, on the other hand, gather their giggles from the misfortune of others, including those who are poor, salt of the earth and all working class-ruddy-Thatchery.
That is where Kay comes in. He manages to appeal to both demographics with the same, fairly limited material. The Lancashire lad-done-good pokes fun at the very people who so readily champion his talent. “Ooh, we were poor and my Nan was silly,” he might as well say.
According to The Guardian, one of his best jokes is: “There used to be an old woman who lived next door to us. There was a power cut one night, so my Mum went round to see if she was all right. She said, ‘I thought there’d been a power cut – then a bus went past with its lights on.” It ticks all the boxes. A) It plays into the whole, aren’t we Northerners community minded, knowing our next door neighbours and all. B) It takes the piss out of one of his own, but in a light hearted ‘it’s OK because he is from Bolton and not London so he is allowed to’ way. And C) It’s not actually that funny.
He is the comic equivalent of a shop which sells Bagpuss teddy bears and toy Clangers to people who are too young to remember the shows but still think it is quite kitsch to own the merchandise.
Kay represents a jovial link to a bygone era, with tape recording grandparents who stay quiet so their voices are not picked up by the video player, where innocent pastimes like dunking biscuits were all someone needed to enjoy an afternoon and when new fangled food like strawberry cheesecake causes gasps of disbelief. He is the comic equivalent of a shop which sells Bagpuss teddy bears and toy Clangers to people who are too young to remember the shows but still think it is quite kitsch to own the merchandise. “Garlic bread?” he ponders to a room full of people who have all grown up with it but giggle along anyway.
Those same people no doubt also grew up with the 1,001 Jokes for Kids of All Ages book. I know I certainly did. It was a mammoth tome I picked my way through by torchlight throughout my formative years. Huddled under my Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles duvet I learnt an array of one liners (1,001 to be exact) which would make Tim Vine seem lazy.
It seems Kay did similar because stacks of his jokes seem to have been ‘borrowed’ from it. “How does Bob Marley like his doughnuts?,” Kay regularly asks his audiences, “Wi’ jam in!” A joke which was funny the first 100 times I read it. Twenty years ago. In comedy circles, stealing jokes is a cardinal sin. Up there with pissing on a granny. Shouting “that’s a joke,” after every pilfered punch line does not, a joke theft, OK make.
And woe betide anyone who points that out. The mammoth mummy’s boy who loves his Nan has a dark side. Rather than deal with hecklers with a quick-fire put-down, Kay has been known to have them forcibly ejected - reputedly refusing to carry on until offending audience members have left the building. Perhaps taking his Paddy and Max persona a bit too far.
“How does Bob Marley like his doughnuts?,” Kay regularly asks his audiences, “Wi’ jam in!” A joke which was funny the first 100 times I read it. Twenty years ago.
And therein lies another reason to hate Kay. While his main contemporary Ricky Gervais, gave the world Karl Pilkington, Kay gave us Patrick ‘Paddy’ McGuinness. Both Pilkington and McGuiness are essentially Gervais and Kay’s friends playing little more than themselves. One has gone on to achieve world fame, an army of fans and a comedic legacy of his own. The other has hosted a shit televised meat market with a gaggle of desperate harlots pouring scorn on hapless single men who believe they are God’s gift to the opposite sex because they are either buff, cute, smooth, wacky or simply not as likely to beat them when drunk or shag their better looking mate as their ex (*delete as appropriate).
And, while Gervais followed up the fantastic Office with Extras, Kay recycled the same, tired material from the shitter bits of Phoenix Nights in Max and Paddy. Kay’s subsequent stand-up has been much of the same standards as before, with jokes about Northern life peddled out on tours billed under the ‘isn’t he just a cuddly family man and not at all a fat, obnoxious prick’ title of Mum Wants A Bungalow. Does she? Or does Peter want another mass delivery of imitation Fray Bentos pies from Heron Foods to feed a stomach which struggles to grow as quickly as his ego?
A quick Google search of Peter Kay’s supposed best one liners reveals little more than a list of jokes fresh from the endlessly forwarded emails which were not funny the first time your dad sent them to you from his work account with the catch line: ‘Get ready to spit tea our of your nose when you read these’, and his routines have never reached either the gag-a-minute heights of Vine or Jimmy Carr, or the insightful, intelligence of acts like Richard Herring, or Gervais at his best.
No, Peter Kay is just a rotund little boy from Bolton who remembers his joke books, refuses to acknowledge the lines he has so brazenly stolen and won’t stop until he has eaten away at the very fabric of British comedy heritage.
He is to comedy what Nickleback are to rock music. Someone who people that work in insurance can watch and enjoy and then excitedly report back to the office that they went to see comedy the night before. It isn’t comedy. It is a tribute act to a thousands comedians who went before and simultaneously an insult to the people who first told the gags that have made Kay a fortune.
In the words of Liam Gallagher (incidentally, a proper, hard as nails Northerner): “Listen up fat fuck.” You might be big, but you certainly are not clever. Or funny. Or the least bit original.
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Agree 100%, can't stand professional Northerners.
Enemthough I dont care for Peter Kay I think you are missing the point of the Bob Marley jokes... They arent funny. He knows they arent funny. The audience knows the punchline. He'smaking a joke at his own expense. Not a very good one but it's clear to see.
"Liam Gallagher (incidentally, a proper, hard as nails Northerner)" Ha, only a southern shandy-drinker could think that.
Only one thing worse than watching a Peter Kay standup DVD is watching Peter Kay on a chat show. He's an embarrassment. Painfully unfunny and the only humour to be had from the whole experience is watching Alex Jones and Matt Baker squirm in their seats as he spouts nonsense, and gets fatter before your very eyes.
miserable get , and as for Liam Gallagher most northerners think he's a fucking joke
The tagline for this article should be as follows, 'Poorly named and obviously unsuccessful stand up comedian Jimmy Biscuits gives his opinions on Peter Kay stealing jokes from joke books (which is the whole fucking point behind a joke book) has hecklers violently escorted from their seats (with no evidence for this whatsoever other than his own good word) and how Ricky Gervais is literally the bestest thing ever (despite the fact Life's too short is just Extras with a dwarf pretending to be Ricky Gervais)' While I agree there are many reasons to hate Peter Kay these days, other than Paddy McGuiness, the reasons in this article seem to be nothing but a load of northern bashing excuses. Plus you haven't even mentioned how Kay has gotten away with pretty much flogging the same stand up DVD in a variety of different formats for the past 8 fucking years!
Well said Curtis.Broad humour popular with all ages North & South.Pointless attack.
100% spot on. I have been unfortunate enough to witness live recordings of this man. What struck me is how he doesn't have new material. Its the same stuff over and over. There was also something about him on TV or and article where it explained that he used to change the height of the mic stand so the comedian coming on after him couldn't go straight into their routine. Tosser.
Kay's stand up isnt the best BUT.... he is good when playing a role. That Peter Kay Thing is well worth a watch. The Ice Cream man with the Apocalypse Now Piss take is hilarious. But have to agree that Nickleback are fuckin wank.
Are you on glue ? Ricky Gervais hasn't done anything of note since "The Office"...Just because he's from darn sarf doesn't mean you have to stand up for him..witness "Cemetery Junction" and more...turgid shite.....gone all Hollywood that feller.
tweet from liam gallagher ffs, i know your trying to be all clever and ironic like your southern peers, but i doubt they would think thats a very 'insightful' or 'intelligent' way to end a piece of north bashing You talk about gervais at his best but then refer to many of kays lesser moments (max and paddy etc) which is a bit unfair. As people have noted, you must have started this rant before you saw lifes too short. He made 'that peter kay thing' first and actually reycled material from that for Pheonix nights, so a bit of research wouldn't go a a miss. PN also features dave spikey who is much funnier than mcguniess (who i agree is a div), but you choose not to mention that.
I agree with guy above. The Peter Kay Thing was superb. Leonard, the world's oldest paperboy. Genius!
Let it all down with the Liam Gallagher quip.
The article is a bit harsh really, Peter Kay's ok, I did enjoy Phoenix Nights but Max and Paddy was a bit gash. Would rather watch him than a number of smug middle class twats masquerading as comedians these days. If he can still make a decent living from knocking out the same stuff over and over again then fair play to him. Its not like other comedians don't do that, step forward Jimmy Carr...
Gervais must have wrote this. Lot of mention about Kay recycling material, at least that material was funny, the office wasn't fantastic, extras was shit and lifes too short is the worst comedy to come out of Britain in the last 10 years. Gervais can't write new material, all he has is the Brent character.
Most northerners dave? How long did you spend going around asking them all?
Leonard . Quality !!!! Well said mate.
Peter Kay is overweight? Thanks for pointing that out, again and again and again........ Knock Peter Kay by all means, but do it with a bit more class and a lot more wit.
I love how Southerners talk as if there are no poor people in the bottom half of England, and everyone down there speaks with R.P. accents. Shit, most people under 30 down there now talk like Ali-G!
Should have wrote a piece about how all modern day comedians (save for Doug Stanhope) are rubbish.
@ MICHEAL Sorry Micheal but that wouldn't 'stand up' now would it! I'm loving Paul Foot, Daniel Kitson and Nick Helm at the moment. There us good stufg out there, just don't get sucked into thinking that all comedians come from the telly.
All these failed stand ups are bitching and crying themselves to sleep simply because they don't make as much money as Kay. Pure jealously. Why don't you all give it up and go out and get a proper fucking job.
Liam Gallagher hard ? you're seriously joking aren't you ?
@brutaldeluxe09 very true, lot of people think a good stand up is someone with a DVD out, I know of many comedians who shun TV work because you can't beat the atmosphere of a live gig in a comedy club, Daniel Kitson being just one of them
not bad, apart from the pointless sexist digs at "harlots" and the pointless crack at Kay for being fat and for thinking Liam Gallagher a "proper northerner" and for thinking Ricky Gervais has ever done anything of worth.
North, south, east or west - fact remains - Kay hasn't been relevant, in comedy terms, for a decade. I'm a northerner with a similar background and upbringing and I've always found his stand up routines to be pretty lame. Phoenix nights was fantastic, I agree, mainly due to Dave Spikey and Neil Fitzmaurice's writing. Without their creative input you get max and paddy and riffs about garlic bread.
peter kay is shit but southeners are gobshites
Fuck me, Northerners seems to be a sensitive bunch going by these responses. Peter Kay is shit, just because he is from Bolton you shouldn't feel the need to defend him. Anyone would think you had an inferiority complex. If the article had been about what a cunt Jim Davidson is do you think you'd get indignant Londoners on starting another tedious North/South debate? Get over yourselves.
Would've been a far better article if you'd stuck to criticising his lack of talent as a comedian rather than repeatedly slagging him off for being a bit fat.
Michael Bisping - a PROPER hard as nails northerner. @Bill Murray - Agree. i've not really heard much anti-northern comments down south in teh past 15 years, i think the class 'system' has changed so much that 'southerners' cant point out that 'nortehrners' are poor/stupid - there is no difference anymore; southerners have their own chavs to laugh at. However, some northerners still want to keep the n/s divide going for, posterity i guess
Have you been busy? What time D'ya finish? Stupid fat cunt. #Taxi driver anti Peter Kay UK wide alliance.
Slagging off a comedian for not being funny whilst simultaneously missing the point of the jokes? Criticizing them for recycling material and than making comparison to the biggest one trick pony of in the business? Suggesting that Jimmy Carr is in some way a great comedian? Leaving aside the lame adolescent "I hate that fat cunt" attempt at gonzo journalism, I agree with most of the sentiments, but the article itself is the most piss poor pile of cobblers I've ever read.
Which is worse, the wind-up artist who put this pitiful worm on the hook or the fish who took it?
Peter Kay is pretty good. To attack him at a time when we have people like Russell Howard, Jack Whitehall and Miranda Hart masquerading as 'comics'.
Thanks for writing this article, the cheque is in the post
GB said "There's no difference anymore". Anymore?! What are you talking about? My father was a school headmaster, who was from the North and had never committed a crime in his life when he was stabbed in the throat in Deptford, London, by two muggers, back in 1999. No difference? I'd say he and they were very different.
So what if he's made a fortune at being shit at what he does. Does Adrian chiles get paid a fortune for presenting, does torres get a fortune for scoring goals and does Gordon Ramsey get a fortune for being a shit chef who swears a fucking lot.If people are happy enough to pay the price of watching shit. Well let them. I say nice work peter.
@Kingkerouac,thank you for slagging Jack Whitehall,the most punchable cunt in Europe
WHY ARE YOU SUCH A TW**! JUST BECAUSE YOU HAVEN'T GOT A FUNNY BONE IN YOUR BODY YOU DON'T HAVE TO PREACHE YOUR SH**E AT THE REST OF US.
Not a fan of Kay but he'd doing no harm and I don't watch him. Gallagher a proper hard as nails northerner? Has anyone met anyone from Burnage who talks like him? Apart from the ones now copying him? Another professional northerner.
'his routines have never reached either the gag-a-minute heights of Vine or Jimmy Carr' What an incredibly fun Christmas you're going to have.
You sir, are a southern bell end!! Go and put some strawberry in yer Stella you cock
I think Kay is a tail, but I also think Liam is great!
Very bitter, calm down .
The article by Mr Buscuits has many dubious points: The championing of Ricky Gervais' seriously average stand up routines, Liam Gallagher as something other than a fortunate clown who thinks he's ten men, jimmy Carr as the comedic benchmark. However, Peter Kay is well overdue a serious slating, so we'll done for raising the question of what the fuck is the emperor of comedy actually wearing. He has been taken to the nations hearts in a way disproportionate to his talent. Try mentioning in company that he isn't the funniest thing since laurel and hardy and see the collective look of horror on the faces of all. Phoenix nights definitely had some genuinely funny moments and showed that he had some writing talent. Gags were indeed stolen from Steve coogan and woody Allen to name but a few but there was a real warmth to it and like all sit-comes worth their salt, an original setting. The fact that Spikey and Neil fitzmaurice have subsequently been snubbed by Kay in so much as that he refused to acknowledge any contribution to the scripts by the two, shows the bill board grin we have on many a street is not all it seems. The DVD s released with the same material but with different titles have been going on for years with no out cry, as did the turgid book output such as the imaginavley titled 'the sound of laughter'. But the truth is he is loved so much that the people who buy the books/dvds dont actually care. He has become one huge money making machine which it seems channel four would pay him to show him painting his garden fence and still bill it as a comedic watershed. The lack of any resemblance of quality to what he does can be easily argued back by the fact that it is commercially successful, much in the way that Peter waterman can defend the Reynolds girls and steps. I am glad that johnny Buscuits has brought this national taboo out in the open. He is not funny and I question myself over and over when I see his tours sold out many times over. I feel better when a work colleague gleefully retorts one of his gags after another night at the MEN "what do you call a welsh man with a stick up his arse? Taffy apple. . . . Reminding the audience of things they do in their life does not constitute comedy gold. Quoting bullseye is something me and me mates used to do ad nauseous and now get told we are ripping of the master as he sells out stadiums on the strength of it. The Peter Kay is a twat campaign has started and long may it continue. He deserves alone, for infecting our screens with the phenomenon that is paddy macguiness. A thanks mr Buscuits - but please don't try and pin it on a north south split. Us Boltonians think he is a twat too.
I thought The Ice Cream Man Cometh was genius. And enjoyed the others in the series. Phoenix nights (Clinton Baptiste psychic show being the best part.) was also good. I have never witnessed him in stand up but have seen him an appearance of him on The One Show and it was a 'tad' uncomfortable to watch. As for the Gervais comparison. Again I have only seen The Office up until watching an episode of Life's To Short and wondering why there was a dwarf imitating Gervais as David Brent.
I'm beginning to worry about Sabotage Times. Most of the articles i have read recently have been written by people who feel so negative about everything. Peter Kay might not be your cup of tea but why be so nasty? He makes a lot of people happy (DVD, books, live performances) so he can't be all bad can he? Mr Biscuits why don't you use your ability to write - I don't in a 'wordsmith' way, just your ability to write - to write something positive. You seem to think Ricky Gervais is good, why not give us an article extolling his virtues (admittedly it would be a short article)? As GB said on a previous comment on the site 'people are so worried about being Nazi's they become fascists to stop it'. Grow up Mr Biscuit, stop being so bitter - how ironic am i using the word bitter in response to an article that mentions Liam Gallagher?
the three greatset stand up comics are all dead sam kinison and bill hicks and richard pryor, peter kay was ok in phoenix nights, but stand up, no , not for me, but he sells out gig's and ships loads of dvd so some one must like him.
theres a vid on youtube where Nickleback get bottled off stage at a Portugese festival . Now thats funny. Liams like the kid in the group who always gets the clothes wrong.
Kay is enjoyable. The biscuit in tea bit that he did had me in tears when I first saw it (I was about 12 but I don't think i'd have appreciated Richard Herring back then) Since i've started doing the odd bit of stand up I can't say that i've looked to Kay for inspiration, he's one of a kind, he doesn't have to even warm up a crowd anymore he is almost hypnotic. My only criticism of Kay is the gags he's stolen from current working comics and i'm not talking about the ones where he exclaims "thats a joke that". I also hate what he did to Dave Spikey and Neil Fitzmaurice when the two of them wrote Phoenix Nights and Kay was sort of their tea boy at the beggining, however he was the one with the typewriter and somehow it became Peter Kay's phoenix nights. Personally I look to the likes of Louis CK, Stewart Lee and Rhod Gilbert as my personal favs but I think for a person who isn't a comedy buff then Kay is a pretty decent gateway drug to the harder stuff.
Jimmy Biscuits. Comedy legend!
Oh Dear. How many points can one man miss? If Jimmy Biscuits ever had a career in writing, it has just ended. Pitifuly written, poorly thought out, pointless (like one of Gervais' Hollywood films) for all the reasons mentioned by previous posters. If you are looking for a one-trick pony, see Karl Pilkington. If you want to see a great comedic writer/ performer, then watch 'That Peter Kay Thing'
Of course he doesn't do new material. 90% of his audience are over the age of 60. Most of them can't remember what they had for breakfast, or when they had their last shit, let alone remember what Kay did in his last set. Poor boy is just trying to make his granny proud...
Absolue disgrace. Kay has given myself & many of a similar age as myself years of comedy pleasure with plenty of newly added material. Fantastic live with very little offence caused whilst using material that everyone can relate to unlike your article Biscuits!!
How bitter can one get? What you fail to see is: Kay's brilliance is not always in the content he comes out with. It's the way he performs it. Also, as a character comedian, he is certainly the best i've seen on TV apart from Steve Coogan. I also like Gervais, but many of his ideas do seem to follow a very similar line to "That Peter Kay Thing"... Yes i think it's a bit lame that he released all those old material DVD's but it's not like he put people into poverty. Anyone with half a brain would have known by reading the back what those DVD's were... Yes, maybe he was an arse to get his career going, but it's dog eat out there. Nice guys finish last. From what i gather from his commentaries on Phoenix Nights, i gather he's a decent, thoughtful man towards the people who matter in his life.
I love Peter Kay, and what the fuck is a professional northerner? At this time we should be looking at the amount of Professional and effete Southerners who are presently fucking our country, no?
The thing about Peter Kay is he has made a fortune out of nothing.... My mum always says 'Put the big light on' (and always has done). My late father was one of those men who wouldn't eat cheesecake, because he thought it would taste of chees, and they both dunked their biscuits in their tea... This wasn't (still isn't) funny. It was just how they were, and how they said and did things. Yet Kay says it and people think it is hilarious! What a way to make easy money...
What the fuck are you on? Peter Kay has made some of the best comedies to come from England. And to reiterate some comments, he knows the Bob Marley joke isn't funny he makes it funny. i.e. "What do Mexicans put underneath their carpets?" everyone knows the punchline and was only funny because it was told by peter kay. And I'm sorry but jimmy carr? An advertisement one of his comedies with a clip of what was meant to be some of his best jokes, consisted of "window seat or aisle?" replying "ill have a seat" not funny and then worse when told by jimmy carr.
i agree with a lot of this article but That Peter Kay thing is absolutely brilliant. He's just been flogging the same thing ever since. Also, he is astoundingly arrogant and annoying in interviews. so fat off pete.
I'm from the North and I have enough civic pride in it to feel comfortable about the great stuff we have produced - far more than anything from the South - but Peter Kay isn't one of them. At best he's a harmlessly amusing comic who had his day some 10 years back. At worst he's a deeply bitter petulant man who cheated Dave Spikey, Neil Fitzmaurice and Steve Edge, his co-writers of Phoenix Nights, out of fame and revenue from the publishing of the script books. As such, none of them speak to him any more. If you have to criticise the man, aim for that rather than 'he's not funny' funny is down to personal taste after all.
Peter Kay proved how useless he is at Live 8. That was a cringe worthy few minutes of my life
Christ, you sound like a barrel of laughs. It appears that you're one of those people who went into his live show with your mind made up. Jokes like the Marley one are clearly not his own, that's part of the joke. The way you've deconstructed his act would even make Stewart Lee rubbish. I do agree that he's run out of material somewhat and has become a caricature of himself but the first gig (I believe you even got the name wrong, it was the Blackpool tower gig you reference) was very funny. It was quintessentially English and was a lot of fun.
He's not just an average comedian. I know a few people who worked with him on Phoenix Nights and all said he was a total C**t!
Once again Sabotage Times, good point, but very badly made. Bashing popular mainstream comedians is easy, I could write the exact same article but replace Peter Kay with Michael McIntyre and make references slagging off Southerners. As for re-gurgitating material, every comedian, great or otherwise does it, it called honing your trade - just read the Bill Hicks biography "Love All The People" for ad nauseum repetition of material. Let's put it another way, you go watch a band expecting to hear a few old favourites, not just the stuff on the new album and something the lead singer knocked together on the way to the gig. Although I do agree Paddy "riding the Peter Kay coat tails" McGuinness is shit.
Anyone who references Liam Gallagher to help support their argument is desperate and usually wrong. Especially the originality critique from someone who has stolen every part of his persona from someone else, he even sang his brothers songs when he was any good. Any Peter Kay has a limited style that is 98% nostalgic. It was great for a while but that's 10 years ago now. That Peter Kay Thing, Top of the Tower and Phoenix nights were all classics of their time, and I still enjoy them now. Anything after these things IMO has been a rehash of earlier work and nowhere near as well done. I don't see any reason to hate him, I think you're just jealous he has been 1000's of times more successful than you. You sound like a bitter cunt, you should relax a bit.
Also, I think it worth mentioning that Gervais uses a line from Peter Kay's "Mum Wants a Bungalow" tour DVD in an episode of Extra, series 2, in fact.
He tells a shit joke, gets a laugh so repeats it over and over! Geezer's a length and he's not even funny!
Kay's tv stuff has been mainly good, apart from max and Paddy. His stand was funny 10 years ago but got boring. The article does come across as very bitter.Oh and i am from Bolton. He is not our favourite son.Nat Lofthouse and Fred Dibnah hold that title
Jimmy Biscuits sounds like a bitter failed comedian with depression.
Hahaha well coming from a person who's blogs consist of 5/8 about football and another about microwave kebabs, why should anyone listen to a stereotypical underclass person such as yourself on anything? The fact you like Ricky Jervais in any way shape or form says it all really.
Normally when I disagree with someone I can acknowledge that some of the points they make are valid and then put across why I don't think the same as they do. That's what normally happens in life. But not in this article. This article is just tosh. It's not even worth me picking it apart because it's that bad. Your mind obviously doesn't have the capacity to understand anything at all and as a result, the points you've made don't even make sense. And then towards the end I think you start to realise that you've spun out some bitter gripe into a 1,000 word nonsensical page of bollocks and have to resort to insulting Peter's weight and using a Liam fucking Gallagher quotation which is shoehorned into a sentence it doesn't even fit into. It's pieces of shoddy yellow journalism such as this which make the kids hate reading and newspapers and go and watch Made In Chelsea instead. I don't know what's annoyed me more, the fact I've wasted five minutes of my life reading this article and writing this comment or the fact people like you fucking exist.
Northern bashing, southern smuggery. Gervais's only real quality output is the office which was co written, though everyone seems to forget that. his contribution is usual abstract silliness of the in the Americans find hilarious. the show owes much of it's success to the brilliant cast Martin Freeman and Mackenzie Crook most noticeably. Peter Kay would be considered an ironic pastiche if he were southern but surely us Northerners don't understand irony? he would be whimsical and insightful if he were Irish but no he's a northerner. He's simple, fat and thick. there are genuine things to criticise about his oeuvre but non were mentioned. just a cheap broadside attack from a wannabe journo or social commentator. drag your soft southern arse north my friend and e'l give you a reception you won't soon forget.
karl pilkington is very northern though in his style, thats what makes him funny, karl pilkington is only special to southerners, in the north hes just a standard guy, so im not really following your logic
"In the words of Liam Gallagher (incidentally, a proper, hard as nails Northerner)" What?! Try Shaun Ryder. Gallagher is a prancing little tit.
i have been to 4 peter kay concerts and it was diff material most times, and there were plenty of drunken hecklers and not one was ejected he just played along, he always gives time to do autographs i have never seen him refuse on unlike some up your ass celebs, so jimmy biscuits you are talking s***e // now micheal mcintyre is not funny
what funny thing has peter kay done since phoenix nights... the whole x factor / cross dressing thing. I just don't get it.
if kay had been brought up in a childrens home with no mam or nan he woulnt have a career ,same old jokes
Jimmy Biscuits is a tosser. That is all.
Liam... Hard? About as hard as a slippery shite. Going on about life up tit North gets on my tits and I live there. The only comic who actually took the mick brilliantly out of the divide was Victoria Wood. Any one remember her southern news caster? "Here's a message for our viewers in the north... How awful for you." Brilliant.
He’s sold over 10 million DVD’s. Phoenix Nights is peerless, that was 12 years ago. Seems a bit late to have a dig now. It’s ok to like Gervais and Kay, you don’t need to turn it into North v South bunfight. People enjoy Kay, I can see the attraction to his take on light entertainment, and the awfulness of his gags is part of the show.
Biggest load of tosh I've read in all my life. He borrows the jokes not claiming them to be his, but he tells them in a way that they are his. Karajokie I think he calls it. He's funny because he relates to most, cracking jokes about the old days, which, like it or not, especially oop north thats how it was.
As a northerner myself, I find this extremely insulting. I doubt you have ever been up north otherwise you would understand that not everyone is poor, but at least the ones who are know how to enjoy themselves. It's not all about money in life, that's what we're brought up to know - you don't need money to be happy! And you obviously don't understand that as you are just a snob! And you make that clear in your words. You just stereotype people. And for the record, Peter Kay does NOT steal jokes! He includes well known jokes to involve the audience. But all you seem to care about is insulting people so you won't understand. You should take a look in the mirror before you judge others. Disgusting.
seriously biscuits you are a comedy genius, preceding the words; incidently a proper hard as nails northerer; with Liam Gallacher is genius. never will that sentence be used again too. your inferiority and jealousy stink the article out, let it go man.
I like Gervais and Kay. I'm from Bolton and I'm proud of Peter Kay. He's not in any way, shape or form a comic genius but he just has a funny way of describing the day to day mundane lives of ordinary people and eccentric characters like "Uncle Knob-head" - it's his facial expressions that make me laugh. I can't stand Paddy McGuinness however.
SABOTAGE
