Comedian’s employ of the P-word was designed to show how attitudes maintain changed – but standups pushing boundaries don’t maintain the legal to be offensiveDaniel Kitson called me a Paki last week. Well,not literally: he stood up at his sold-out show at the Roundhouse in north London, where he’s in the middle of a three-week residency, or spray-gunned the word six,seven or more times in the space of what might maintain been 30 seconds, a minute at most, or at a room of hundreds of people in which I was very possibly one of only two brown people,the other sitting next to me.
Now, as comedians are wont to obsessively tell you, and context is everything. So let’s start again. Related: Daniel Kitson: the Salinger of standup Continue reading...
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