Jimmy Saville is still alive...

grimmer police

learning since i posted that the book was extremely heavily lawyered which may explain the aspect which frustrates me -- i shd reread it probably

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EozUAEWWMAEmatf?format=jpg&name=900x900

yoikes! I can vaguely remember in the 70's when my my mum was a registered childminder he was the face of registered childminding. I know I'm not making this up because I can clearly remember some govt childminding pamphlet in the house with a pic of a black haired Savile on the cover.

Jerry OTM ... in 1987! nowthennowthen young Billy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwUHNGq96iw

saw sadowitz in a pub in ealing once, rehearsing his tour, and it was one of the funniest things i’ve seen (partly because it definitely wasn’t for a lot of the people there).

then i went to see pretty much exactly the same show at the royal festival hall (bit weird) and it felt offensive and flat.

possibly worth noting i generally loathe comedy and esp stand up comics (numerous notable exceptions aside)

god how pompous. but i just don’t like the whole stand up comedy thing. every fibre of me resists violently.

agree. there's just something cringe about the whole setup. an audience pays to have someone be funny for them. no wonder so many stand-up comics are assholes. i'm not sure why i don't feel this way about theater. the older i get the more my definition of humor turns to spontaneous riffing among friends.

OTM. Jerry is a magician though! I mean, literally a magician.

You'll like this you cunt, not a lot, but you'll like it! tbf he was a much better magician than Paul Daniels and he's often made me laugh than any comedians do.

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