Roy Chubby Brown: Britain's Rudest Comedian

roy chubby brown holds the unofficial title of britain's rudest comedian but is he offensive or just funny a gynaecologist yesterday you better come with me eh that's [ __ ] embarrassing watching sunblock feeling your weights means he's been playing live to over 150 thousand people a year for over three decades selling over forty million quids worth of tapes and DVDs he's operated largely off the cultural radar all these years never crossing into the mainstream because his act has been considered too offensive for television until tonight for a month I followed boy real name Royston Vaizey at work at home with family and with friends on stage he uses themes that most other comedians discarded several decades ago in a shoebox tell them it [ __ ] floors it all provokes uncomfortable questions what's an offensive remark what's harmless fun is it just a joke or does he really mean it now call me a dress like [ __ ] pillar boxes Dorner hey come over here you can't see this you can't see that well just [ __ ] off form Blackpool on a Saturday night in October where Roy is performing tonight as he's done for the last 18 years as I arrived ten nights stag doze and general Howard drinking is everywhere this is the wild wild northwest it's 8 p.m. and at the northpia theater rocking with laughter the early evening show starring the crankies is coming to an end backstage roy arrives at his dressing room with his wife Helen he's not on till 9:30 so spends his time signing posters and going through the chubby Brown merchandise every year every year I bring out a Christmas card I do the little drawings meself she'll be - Christmas card you know what I really like for Christmas there are a little bit of fill for you so what makes you so special lovely idea Santa me [ __ ] we ate some chips cracker or chips never been with a man before look what it says on my last Jimmy's log books so what if you are on in five minutes I've been done for five days look at that oh no business a cracker it's to give the fastening back rocking with laughter is over for the night the crankies wind down and pack up half an hour before showtime Roy goes through his handwritten comedy notes StuffIt they're small and I went wrong for the papers this morning all the papers on the mirror and the Express and some days I get this under people and I get the news of the world news the worlds where most comics get the material from things wouldn't appear the small it was the bad flow George best isn't really well written down me of it President of Iran has said he wants to wipe Israel off the map so bearing in mind he'll would you wish things drop things down when I what I normally do is that and I'll put like Jewish pork little hat Bible the Holy Land Bethlehem and then I'll sit and stared the page and trying to end to mingle you know if something comes up George best thing now attacked up to me I'm the one who has to decide I have to decide whether I'll get away with it what's your judgment call tonight would you would you try I'm not trying well he hasn't died yet the queue for chubby stretches half the length of the pier all the way to gypsy petrol ENGOs kiosk they're mostly but not exclusively male and mostly but not exclusively several sheets to the wind if you come see Chapel you can see chubby yesterday they just don't ask it's just not an angel it's not sniffing nose no it's just saying K just take every day it's a cycle if these offenses so what but then the day is what you're saying you pay your money you say you take it or leave it you know I wouldn't put 10 P in the machine I didn't want to play so chubby fat bastard the lights dim the music starts and the audience seemed to take their own cue as the ROI chubby Brown spectacle begins the classic chubby set boys begins with a few local in jokes but after that the jokes get bluer and bluer pull tameka's down to Annie's a [ __ ] acid means you still in them and there are more and more targets for Chubby's jokes doesn't [ __ ] bother me you crack gags about homosexuals say you homophobic [ __ ] for big means you frame this someone I am a friend of a cocky ass chubby style feels like a lock-in at a pub he's the gobby-o stuff go be blokes holding court there might be a thousand people gathered round him but it feels like he's amongst friends jokes a sexist misogynistic homophobic you name it and the audience men and women are in hysterics to be honest I was laughing a lot of it too but then Roy tells this joke that's not politically correct but you know of the cell milk and papers when they're not making [ __ ] bombs and the mood of the room changes in an instant now there are cheers as well as laughs it starts to feel a bit like a rally I mean I'm not saying all Muslims are terrorists don't misquote me wasn't it funny how all terrorists are [ __ ] Muslims a big part of Roy's act seems to be dealing with hecklers but tonight it gets out of hand they might be his fans but he can't control them you keep showing me and when he get piles you'll be bleeding at both [ __ ] ends with and as a result his axe starts to lose its thread by the time he comes off he's seething the [ __ ] the actor you do routines you can do any new stuff cuz I'm not listening that's what I said to Jay I would have come off after Ralph and I was [ __ ] sick tell ya I was just getting sick you know that's what fear there's sometimes so much must feel that really don't like yeah I think it's a bit dissolution when you sweat so I wake in this hour face and I mean I've known you I go up in the middle of the night about 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning is what you do and he says I've just thought of something funny I just go in the office and I sit down you know Spain's always ticking over and then you want to say it on the stage and there's somebody comes out and you think no spoilers and after all these years you think oh I'm on so in the be proud of now I've got induct it's fresh its new is inventive I created the characters doing well and they get this [ __ ] bloke so two pints and I'll fight anybody I'm talking to 12 to 40 in pencil agar I'm not talking or a human being he spent all day writing and rehearsing they're suddenly gone and he said did you read the paper there yeah we read the banner day you [ __ ] a big basket and then they expect me to go home and sit down and think what a great night of it I'm not I'm thinking it's from assistant yeah Roy has always maintained in interviews that there's a huge difference between Roy chubby Brown and Royston Vaizey but I wondered how true that was as spent a bizarre evening with chubby now as time to get to know Royston Royston Vaizey owns two properties one house in Lincolnshire where he lives with wife Helen and their two young children and this house in a village near his hometown of Middlesbrough where he does all his writing they sell full of stuff have written page is full of stuff I've written I wouldn't care if she could coax you made a cottage pie in the council came round and said that's coming down when she makes it Cory you have to have an asbestos [ __ ] I wasn't some working man's club about 20 years ago this oh he was one of my heroes was he yeah I'd never met Bob Monkhouse but I was driving along in the car one day and the phone rang and this voice said is this chubby I said yes he said it's Bob Bob he went Bob Monkhouse he said from start having a glass of wine in Barbados on rund and I've just had dinner with Robert and he told me you've been developed you've developed throat cancer I just wanted to wish you all a bit well I was gobsmacked I had to stop the car I didn't even know Bob Monkhouse knew why was if you always felt part of that kind of celebrity kind of Club Monkhouse what have you for Sai Baba I mean I've always felt part of that know what's strange enough I'm not of there ELQ am I really you know they're like Superstars and TV Land golf down a royal asketh you know they're there on their own Chloe feel like you've never felt part of I know I've never been part of that no I never felt part of that it's it doesn't interest me it just doesn't interest me I'm more of a entertain lorry drivers Lord sweepers and people like that it is welders the garage not only houses whose beloved Bentley but also the Roy chubby Brown rehearsal space this is a process of our work curry this is actually our work oh yeah some especially in the summer summer months because obviously this is the garage Oh cinema desk I'll put down what I'll think of follow suit as a script and then I'll write it down on board and I'll put it there then I will read the board and I will turn away from the board and then I will talk got the wife Serena not much copy over there that's too bit off this was godless a cordless ook in the Milkman's [ __ ] so that's two people off my Christmas card list and she's faking orgasms me mate told me I think my job keeps me sane keeps me alive if I was gonna pass away I'd like to do it like cope with it on stage might never be as famous as he is but I've I would like to think that the day I passed away everybody was talking about it you know see well you might have been controversial but he was funny every year Roy has a live in concert DVD out for Christmas this year's is called King thong and he's busy promoting it tonight with a phone interview on capital gold but out on mainstream media it's a rocky ride for Roy he wants to talk about his DVD but they want to confront him about his act somebody was ask me was it long ago I was being interviewed for a magazine a woman's magazine and this lady was all she was talking about was racialism sexism and feminism and all this suddenly other and she was really getting on markets and she went on and on and on about the rights and wrongs I said if I wanted to put the world's rights and wrongs I would have become a politician but I left school with with with no levels or anything like that when I left school I was as thick as two short planks I don't mind admitting it I'm at a topsy-turvy life and I've made so it's more remarkable now that I've made a little bit of something you don't talk about abusing children and things like that others on the subject by mentioning people it's in the news like Gary Glitter and Michael Jackson but personally it's not the kind of subject I talk about I don't do very many religious gangs because I don't know any funny ones and I don't I don't bend my mind that ways does not bother you that people think you just some thick fog that goes around doing the most outrageous humor and offending people because you're not like that a lot of people care you just can't see the man and then see the act it's two different people you call me schizophrenic if you want I'm not bothered that was hard welcome her go all right sometimes you ask your questions you know any of you haven't God of an answer Tom it's like a question on a question you said if I get to a personal you can always tell me that the [ __ ] off I said I can tell you that the live radio play on stage he's a multi-million pound success but offstage I could see that defending his material made Roy uncomfortable but it hasn't always been this way when he started off as a comedian in the early 70s Roy told clean jokes and the only work he could get on television was even more harmless and then one day in 1972 he had to make a decision my manager said you can be a clean comedian look I mean if you stay a clean comedian I'll get your opportunity knocks you want to be a blue comedian our career on television will be laying a living well except for God it was difficult you know I walked on stage and said good evening my wife's got two [ __ ] and one of them know to get away with that in 1972 how about me fierce to beat in beer glasses to happy fat bastard's at least of my worries he never looked back he began to play two huge sellout crowds and in 1985 Universal began to release a roy chubby Brown live in concert video every Christmas selling over 250,000 copies a year and the only work he did on television for the next 18 years was acting in the League of Gentlemen as the mayor of the town a town called Royston Vaizey move on thank you it's a [ __ ] pleasure Dartford east of London and another packed house are taking their seats backstage Roy is getting into costume a transformation that he asks me not to film so we talked through the door don't worry about this no ready for me I am without signing poncey and actually do you feel different when you suddenly look whether well you got to have you got you know you get it can't be seriously looking like this Kenya if Roy was aware how offensive some people might find his brand of comedy he also knew how others saw him as their unofficial spokesman there was a time when I thought should I mention asylum-seekers there's only a couple of months ago I thought we having a lot of trouble ourselves here I should I mention it will it create a bit of a stir you know there was a walks on stage better and when I mentioned asylum-seeker the whole room stood up and clapped and it was amazing because I thought that was your new one I was thinking about it because you do you think I'm the only one and suddenly the whole room stood up and clapped well that turns into is like a almost like a kind of a rally touched a nerve touched a nerve and haven't realized it he's [ __ ] asylum seekers I get on my busted there's it's said in the paper the other day when asylum seekers get the France they get a present we know [ __ ] raft how do you get 20 asylum seekers in a shoebox teleMed [ __ ] floors grows roots are resolutely working-class he was born and raised in Grange town near Middlesbrough in 1945 along with his older sister Barbara his mum was a housewife his dad worked at the local steel mill but they divorced when he was 10 years old Android and get to see his mum again for the next seven years I wanted to see Roy's hometown to get a feel for the place that formed his view of the world and so we're on a day trip to Grangetown your [ __ ] house you see the [ __ ] cars they see the [ __ ] cars there you're [ __ ] out after our [ __ ] up [ __ ] bones what this is a playground well my first fight that's our gymnasium Grangetown sits in the shadow of every type of industrial plant going the port chemicals works a power station and steel mills we're boys dad Colin worked for 50 years the pencil into the paint you don't like to drink off in LA I didn't drink whatever he's fooled used to drowned yeah I like to check everybody he likes to drink you got that on you that mawkish itself - elated ring growing up in Grangetown roy good into a lot of trouble he ran away from home aged 14 and then did spells in borstal and prison people don't know me this is she'll be about remarkable from where he's come from the way he's got to knowing what he's been through the wouldn't have me in the am because i was thick I joined the Navy I was in the Navy a couple years and the detentions parcel a couple of prison sentences I was in and out of trouble all the time I was mixing with people who used to say hey I've got an idea we'll rob this will steal and we'll kill out we'll fight that but Paulus will punch that you're mixing with them people you were you sent us stop thinking oh they think I'm just glad they got hold of it and I got out of it because I start to educate myself I've no bumper gas going by the way I know that another difference between right and wrong Roy takes me to see a house he'd lived in as a boy and we meet the present occupiers it's only one degree above freezing but one member of the household was just a pair of boxer shorts and an electronic tag and you come from this environment understand well you can I'll look here we have to get out of it because you can be easily does n't be an easy button of course we do yeah the first 20 minutes of my act for years was all about my life about what my father did I want my mother do about getting into debt about getting bath in an old cast-iron bath we had for coal I mean [ __ ] all if I haven't made a body out of had nothing to play with I to where my father's hand-me-down chosen to school which is [ __ ] embarrassing I'm doing the zip just to blow your busted nose we didn't even have a lavatory brush can you believe that I'll sell it a mere joke it was ticking ask you to hold his breath I never saw a black man until I was about 16 or 17 never saw a black man and then when I did how I couldn't stop staring at him because what was given to was at school wasn't what we were what we were taught at school was black men lived in Africa and had a ball through the nose and a spear now that people live in a much more sort of multiracial society obviously that's just 4050 years I know what you see it when you see it well that's that's the old stereotype walk through the nose and the spear and everything we'd be brought up on it it's like if you brought up on beans on toast you'll always like beans and sauce working do not think that sometimes the truth is funnier than a lie what I mean by that is say Frances I said you through the cool of girl last night the pubes were like a [ __ ] coconut man is that not funny because you know fact that colored girls pubes are like coconut man it's a truth is it I could tell that Roy has no idea how shocking his view of the world sounds his comments are more than just outdated and a couple of days later it would get even worse we went on tonight if we went on now after the gym as a Muslim sadly I would see what the [ __ ] about the other narrows out in a small recording studio Roy puts the finishing touches to his Christmas Roy and Helens house in Lincolnshire metaphorically speaking the chubby flag is flying Roy is in residence this breakfast time for Reese for and aiming to Helen gets the kids ready for school music is an important part of Roy's life he has a piano in almost every room in both of his houses and can spend hours on end composing writing not only songs like jingle bollocks and the dogs in Bangkok but balance like this one written for his wife Ellen it's the same for you wives wif AES Washington in phone extra [ __ ] sex yes look upstairs she said it make love to me I said make your mind up I can't do [ __ ] both I filmed for a couple of days and see Royston the devoted family man playing with his kids and doting on his wife Roy and Helen have been married for five years she is his third wife they met when she came backstage at one of his shows and have never looked back I didn't think this could ever happen whereas I would be this happy because I had relationships their marriages I've gone through life thinking the wrong things there's no airs and graces in this house I can drive five hours from say weston-super-mare and I arrived home here and called hungry tired and I walk in the door and I'm expecting daddy daddy oh hello them but it's not like that the air of their lives and I'm coming in after being awake I'm coming into their lives and I normally open from down here you have to go to the shops with little bread I said just drop well you'll have to go to the shelter no bread and there's only a little bit of milk left and if you want a biscuit you'll have to get some jammie Dodgers so he grounded three years ago Roy was diagnosed with throat cancer we just sat down and cried we just should be crying oh just come take it in the future funk faces chuckling you got there we just can't take it in and all night we just out it you said I've just I've just found you and I'm gonna lose you that well because that's how you think when you've been through all that that's what I mean you're to live each day as it comes and and live it God but what should we do don't weigh that's why we take money Ikey we just don't get chance Roy had to have one of his vocal cords removed he was unable to speak for seven months and thought his career was over his voice is now profoundly weaker than it was but since the operation he's been hitting the gym on a regular basis today with his mate Keith there's time for a workout whether better people supple having sugar ground since 1973 calling trubbish 21 store double chin and this at the farmers have sugar ground so then you were like bilberry rain gear ratio we talked about the early chubby years and whether he's been aware of offending people I have made mistakes in their past I was once I was being interviewed by a radio station and the news control that Bob Marley had out and you know what comics brilliant works I was on the air now said what's that said the news has just come in that Bob Marley is dead an acetal that's good warship for everybody well the radio station was inundated with calls especially from West Indians were dreadlocks we're gonna kill me stop that bastard there was hair so one of them came to the video station that was still on air want to speak to me but we sneaked out the back door do you consider that an offender you said all day it's just comedy man working in it whenever you're offstage whenever you're not doing a gig you know yeah radio station all right and hub or whatever you you must have the kind of slightly sort of filter yourself as far as well so you where the situation yeah you can call the [ __ ] that dwarf or a [ __ ] what's he gonna do he's a [ __ ] [ __ ] for God's sake but if a bloke six foot seven is built like a brick [ __ ] you don't call him lovely you think your head let's have a cup of tea a workout over it's time for a snack we're having sausage sandwiches with on the inside Roy and Keith are joined by another mate saucy sandwiches and [ __ ] on the same path they start to talk about what's in the papers today and then without warning I see a side to Royston I'd not seen before BAM Christmas gifts for children because it might affect non-christians it's offensive to other people sick now call me a dress like [ __ ] pillar boxes doing yeah you can't see this she can't see that well just [ __ ] off or all of August and is the Indians here when they go on my night to go on to an Indian family about Seminole Pakistani family we've gone to our family we went norm tonight if we went on now after the chimney as a Muslim sat there would see what the [ __ ] heavy odor narrows out then we do a mix we don't get lumps as simple as that Sodom seagulls all right let them come away from the water country skills getting a kid to get me killed and I let him come again but don't take the piss you get all these do-gooders here well they have a right to be here never got a [ __ ] right to be here we aren't we the ones who feel fine that's my [ __ ] buttocks our play finances after the bastards there's incoming here the other right for this now I've arrived for that well if they have a right dress like us work like was the thing like cause be like us it's because you and personally have a great deal of experience of asylum seekers missile wait you know in your lifestyle where you live what you do when you write you unlike everybody else it's all in the papers isn't it you read about these things and you go oh my god and it builds up a picture that we live in a country now where you don't form an opinion you den fond opinion because the down your throat straight away so we'll be having an Indian tornado we yeah to build our energy put in the mall yeah the line between Royston Vaizey and roy chubby brown was becoming alarmingly blurred it sounded like the act but without the punch lines that's even the ROI shall be brown to hit Scarborough in his dressing room Roy prepares by steaming his vocal cords and then if you understand the vocal cords are not it sound yeah don't explain this to you but your vocal cords are shaped and mine aren't because I haven't removed because of the cancer the air comes from your lungs it was across the topper and I've got to shape them and to shape them you've got a steamy throat an hour before curtain up Roy grants an audience to two local fans money well cause we all have ten yeah Jeff testicles tonight's show isn't sold out in fact it will only be half full Roy believes the entire live comedy business is in decline I think this business is on its ass our better days were the 80s and the 1990s maybe the 70s as well we're all better dears we had the great ears then well what is it about the business now that was doing it at all I am the clue I mean to perish on like this you know I ever bought eight let's work for me to British are they with your backdrop engineers your sound engineers the lighting technicians and your fan drivers in your blood ourselves the merchandise and Allah it's all expenditure you have to have you I mean I am I have to sell I don't know what I'm giving trade see us we're but I have to sell 500 tickets before the pennies me on because everybody needs pins when it wherever you I above 500 you into profit but below you're below 500 everybody else is getting pin not me after Roy's earlier rant about asylum seekers watching his act tonight seems like an altogether different experience there's a hundred and twenty thousand black millionaires in this country now we'd know now where to pick our own [ __ ] cotton one way you damn [ __ ] laughter yeah yes we got one in case you get a [ __ ] spear in the back the racist jokes tonight have been the worst I've heard from Roy and just when it seems the day can't get any stranger he takes us in just one day my impression of Roy had changed dramatically with the views of Roy stand Vaizey and the comedy of chubby Brown sitting uneasily together it all painted a confusing picture of Roy a few days later Roy is in London for his appearance on the Frank Skinner show his first appearance on network television for 18 years together with his mate Keith the two of them like two large likely lads from Middlesbrough are on their way to the studios in Palace as a cleaner there's a light on Phil we do all the Karma chips I brought a box of biscuits Skinner she's getting a full card else what do you think about this Frank is gonna show you excited about this yeah yeah I've never met him before apparently the shores good everybody watches in it it should be okay it's a big our TV show yeah I don't mean I don't know it's 18 years that was on TV so I don't know what to expect that's kind of a big moment for you that you yeah that's that the beam end all I'm told I'm too all Delta make any air in here you know inroads to TV but yeah I'm happy about this if you had a chat with him beforehand no I haven't now don't even know where he's gonna ask me I haven't got a clue what its gonna ask me I just have to be on guard having seen some of Roy's off guard moments I'd have to agree with him I get the feeling he's nervous about tonight not that he admits it he'll be appearing on a mainstream show on ITV as himself not Roy chubby Brown this is an alien environment for Roy and the stakes are high he said let's just enjoy it I said don't worry Frank I know what you think and I will be able be self Roy's appearance on the Frank Skinner show begins and it's not long before he has to defend his comedy I could have been absolutely honest with you well I watched the DVD the new one and there was a few ganks on it that I upset me you did I did and I'm kind of known as a bit of oh yeah back because she I mean you do do what I would call racist game I'd oh yeah yeah and like reason why they're not racist to me Frank I'll tell you why because that's not my 40 if I wanted to put the world's wrongs at right I'd have been a politician I would have gone into that field and that would have been you know there's I want to do good as I always say this about do-gooders it's all complain about something it's fun there's no there's no laws in comedy no rules it personally if they say you crack a joke about the colored block I've never met a colored block yet I didn't like the lovely people is still one bustards I have trouble with just marry Chinese joke yell at your fat joke thin jog to aft York [ __ ] joke does it matter it's a bit of fun look in the dictionary under humor and see what it says my money I mean I'm talking from from God now I know from head because I know I watched I laughed at a lot of this stuff and that particular stuff I just you know I don't know yeah I don't often get I don't was not so much it didn't piss me off so I just found it a bit upsetting I'm conscious of it Frank also talks about Roy's acting in the League of Gentlemen I think you're a really good comedy actor but nobody's asked me before now but I think you could okay you know rice this bastard when he called me a big vicious bastard all my mates were saying why didn't you get up and punished the [ __ ] you can't do that rosin you shouldn't not to [ __ ] her out I said you can't do that you never work on television again but in the scheme of things I mean to you but that hurt you for somebody to say that to you would you feel offended by it in everyday conversation that if somebody said that would you admit away from the Contini cameras we have from the TV cameras I wouldn't have thought anybody would call me that right two minutes after the front Skinner show the next morning 9:30 I have a phone call from Burning Man and he said chubby I was proud of you last night mitt you stuck by a guns you told him yo just like me you call a spear this beard and that's all he is to it I said well I've spent 37 years doing this material you can't change now he said neither can i good night I was coming to the end of my time with Roy and regardless of whether he'd be interested or not I decided to give him my feedback I've been for about a month watched a lot of your staff watch a lot of gigs what's a lot of other stuff and a lot of it I find hilarious a lot of it I find you know the kind of self-deprecating War of the sexes kind of yes fat Daffy bloke yeah women hate him more you know all that kind of stuff I think is bragging about having a big [ __ ] and really you know it's obvious by looking at him there's no where exactly but any joke based on race for me leaves me cold yeah it just doesn't it seems like well it's because you're not in fact you're not in the same you don't live in the same environment as us we I have to admit does anywhere north of Watford with a little bit behind the times can I ask you something here is it fair to take the piss out of women's families and tits and men's dicks and bollocks and homosexuality and not talk about Asian Pakistanis blacks West Indians is it do you think is that a different concept to you than except personally yeah it is because and where the players talk about sex is kind of you're the underdog yeah and when it's talking about Ray it's something you're not the underdog you're these are these are very political statements yeah as jokes but yeah they are still they have a political and that's why you know that seems like what people aren't the laughing as much they're cheering you're getting reaction yeah but it's not actually they're not laughing it's a lot more lot more cheering you know what I mean if you if you asked any of my well if you asked the majority of my audience do they like the fact that I tell racial humor they've probably seen what you're talking about what I mean explain to me what you're talking about then they're not that not politically minded do you know it's a joke mate it's a joke makes you laugh man yeah are you West Indian I thought you were a piano with a lid up when you smiled it's a joke it's a joke if you if you're gonna walk on eggshells all your life and you're gonna be frightening you you know you're letting them win you letting these people win I'm not inciting a riot I'm not inciting to go out there and hit these people or them to hear you we're all entitled to our own opinions why why do we always blame the comics why is it the job part of it that's no no I still wasn't sure whether Roy was trying to justify his politics his act whether it all came down to him earning a very good living I'm not about what other people think as llamas my wife my kids are all right then I'm financially secure to help them and I can live as long as I can it's a very very very selfish attitude and always here know you could be thinking tonight will be Roy's last show of the season in Blackpool it's a chilly Sunday night and the town is empty but despite this voyeurs still managed to sell 300 tickets for this evening's performance even so he'll make no money tonight despite the costume I think there's very little to separate row chubby brown from Royston Vaizey but I genuinely believe that he'd be upset to think that people were offended by his material over the years he's probably offended very few after all his fans know exactly what to expect when they turn up to see one of his shows or buy a DVD and as long as they do continue to turn up and laugh at his act he'll keep doing it away from the mainstream preaching to the converted behind closed doors

Channel: Swift Thrush

Views: 920,471

Rating: 4.4935379 out of 5

Keywords: roy chubby brown britain's rudest comedian

Id: dRfaI1Od0GI

Length: 52min 16sec (3136 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 05 2015

Reddit Comments

[u/[deleted]]

Before Reddit goes into melt-down, there's a time and place for his work, and I do laugh at some of it - typical daft 'club' humour that is dying out, but with some excellent piano playing.

[u/Randyslaughterhouse]

Christ, is he still alive?

[u/CharredChicken]

I remember this documentary and I remember having a couple of his videos years ago. Was he the rudest? Maybe. I think these days he definitely wouldn't be popular with people on Reddit and I can totally see why. His humour was crass, racist, homophobic etc but I'm not gonna pretend it didn't make me laugh at times because it did. The same with the likes of Jim Davidson, Jimmy Jones, Jethro, Bernard Manning and people like that.

Times have changed a lot.

[u/chilejon]

Jerry Sadowitz would like a word...

[u/ZeroArchetypes]

Best thing he did was League Of Gentlemen, isnt his real name Royston Vasey?