Middle Class Snobbery
I am getting fed up with middle classes assuming that they know what is "proper" comedy. These are the sort of people who howled over "Burn After Reading", a woefully unfunny, and god awful, film that should never have been financed.
Roy "Chubby" Brown's comedy derives from his working class upbringing and the pubs and clubs he used to perform in. As a working class lad myself I find everything he says hysterically funny. Why? Because that's the way we talk. We do spew forth expletives at every given opportunity. We do tell sexist jokes. It's just the way we talk. The working class don't work in offices. We work in factories and warehouses. The older generation worked down the pit. "Chubby" Brown is somebody that we can identify with. Go to one of the old fashioned pubs in a mining village and they still have "turns" on on a Saturday night after the bingo. They're not wine bars where everybody drinks fancy spirits. Proper pubs where people have there own seat and they all know each other. A real community.
All the negativity thrown at the likes of Bernard Manning and "Chubby" Brown nearly always come from London's middle classer's with no idea of real life outside the capital. They seem to think that anybody who doesn't live in London lacks intelligence. But they do laugh at other "middle classer's" like Michael Macintyre or Jimmy Carr.
In short it's nothing more than middle class snobbery.