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Diabetic comedian - Ed Gamble

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Matt Cycle

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Someone sent me this. I didn't see it at the time but it was on Live at the Apollo on Beeb 2 last week. Was going to post it in the entertainment section but most of it is about diabetes. Talking about injecting and blood testing. I thought it was quite funny. :D

 
Is he meant to be funny?

Do not find jokes about medical conditions funny anyway, even if someone is referring to themselves, cheap laughs.
 
Well I thought it was quite amusing, and so did my daughter. If you can't poke fun at yourself, who can you poke it at?!

Although I looked at another clip of him when he wasn't talking about diabetes and didn't find it funny at all. And that wasn't because of the lack of diabetes jokes, it just wasn't funny. Comedy is like that, sometimes it's hilarious and sometimes it completely misses the mark, and different people will have a different take on it. Loads of people used to find Little Britain really funny but that did nothing for me at all, I thought the characters were really gross and I don't see what's so funny about the same joke all the time, as soon as a particular character appears on the screen you know exactly what the joke will be about. Yeah yeah, seen it already.

A friend told me a joke about drunk bus drivers, which normally I'd think well that's a bit bad taste but quite funny, but given that her dad had just got caught driving over the limit it put a totally different spin on it and wasn't funny at all. And that didn't occur to my friend until I pointed it out!
 
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I saw a clip on FB and thought it was funny, I laughed at the “ is that your phone?” I have the same meter and it does look like a mobile phone. He is coming to my home town in March, thought about getting tickets for my daughter and her boyfriend to see him, they love going to see comedians, I won’t bother, these young comedians are sometimes a bit near the knuckle for me sometimes! 😱
 
What do people think about his quip "it doesn't count if you do it to yourself" when referring to T2? My take is that there is sarcasm in his voice as he says it, so is more highlighting that it isn't reasonable to say it doesn't count, when comparing T1 and T2. Do T2s find it offensive?
 
I've seen him on Mock the Week a few times, didn't find him very funny. Comedy is one of those things isn't it, some love a particular style that others don't. There's a chap called Oliver Double who has a Type 1 son and he has a diabetes-related comedy show which is quite funny 🙂
 
I agree. For a comedian, his big failing is not being particularly funny. Or, indeed feeling funny at all.

Anyone who saw the Last Leg yesterday will have seen Rosie Jones, a comedian with cerebral palsy, whose every painstaking utterance was funny. She didn’t once mention her disability, other than to say in response to a joke about benefits, that her benefits had been stopped as a result of her success, and even that was said jokingly.
 
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I agree. For a comedian, his big failing is not being particularly funny. Or, indeed feeling funny at all.

Anyone who saw the Last Leg yesterday will have seen Rosie Jones, a comedian with cerebral palsy, whose every painstaking utterance was funny. She didn’t once mention her disability, other than to say in response to a joke about benefits, that her benefits had been stopped as a result of her success, and even that was said jokingly.
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Yes, I saw Rosie - particularly liked her joke about 'International Disability Awareness Day' :D
 
I think the difference between cerebral palsy and diabetes is that cerebral palsy is visible. I've no idea what the rest of his material is like. I'm not sure if I wasn't diabetic I would have been that interested but it's not often you get someone on stage making jokes about insulin pens and bg meters. All comedy is subjective whether you find it funny or not.
 
We find The Last Leg pretty funny anyway most times - but that comment by Rosie re International Disability Awareness Day had us both in complete fits!

Thus proving that disabled people are not catered for properly whatsoever.

Exactly the same as publishing Balance in such a tiny font ……. and on coloured paper making it even more difficult to read. I don't have bad eyesight at all really - lenses for reading are only +1.25 now, though I am astigmatic so that has to be corrected and I am 68. Not anywhere near as bad as people with diabetes complications of the eyes or any number of other things - and if I find it bloody difficult unless it's bright sunshine or I move to where I'm sitting to right under a very bright lamp - thousands of other readers must too. I sometimes don't bother because far as I know, it isn't supposed to be a chore.
 
I believe there was a letter about the print in a recent issue about it being difficult to read.
 
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