Comedian Dave Longley "told the stunned audience at Liverpool's Baby Blue club that "you think parents would have learned about putting their children in Everton shirts after Maddie and Rhys". The red-faced comic, who was a hit at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, was booed off stage.
Everton FC spokesman Ian Ross added: "I certainly speak for every Everton fan in this city and probably all the Liverpool fans when I say they'd be eternally grateful if this man never performs in this city again."
Longley's manager, Lee Martin, said: "Dave was having a great gig and got a little carried away. By his own admission he made a stupid mistake and greatly regrets the ill-chosen joke." "
I AM NOT saying that I think this is an overreaction, I am just asking your own opinion. Not giving my own. Did the Everton FC spokeman overreact?
2007-09-25 12:36:13 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Current Events
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91210-1285715,00.html
2007-09-25 12:36:30 · update #1
I dont think he did overreact.... i dont usually get involved in the "did they, didnt they debates" that are going on, but at the end of the day we are talking about 2 innocent children the joke was sick
2007-09-25 12:41:04 · answer #1 · answered by smithzer luvs bowie :) 7 · 9⤊ 0⤋
It depends on the delivery. Anything can be funny. Ian Stone told a Madeliene McCann joke to a packed crowd every night at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and people laughed every time. It's not about Rhys and Madeleine, it's about tone and inflection. If the comedian failed, which it seems he did, then it's not a joke he'll re-use. In that respect it's much furore about a joke that will never be re-told.
It was insensitive. It was wrong. I just don't think people should get so angry over something that to another crowd might have at least got a wry smile.
2007-09-29 03:46:52 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Normally, I'd say that anything can be funny. However, there really are taboo subjects and this is one of them.
There are two children, one missing (perhaps dead?) and one dead. Two families are now broken and incomplete. One of those families will never be whole again. The other--maybe. But it's a thin maybe.
What has happened to these two children is every parent's worst nightmare. As a result, nearly everyone who has a child can empathize with the plight of these two families. Their pain, their loss, their sorrow is hard enough to bear on its own. But then, enter a comedian who makes a joke about these two children and expects people to laugh. It's beyond tasteless. In fact, it's downright cruel. I don't think even time would make it acceptable to joke about. (For instance, in 1981, a six year old by the name of Adam Walsh was kidnapped from a Sears store in Florida. His severed head was found a couple of weeks later. Now, even after 26 years have passed, a comedian making a joke about him would not be welcome anywhere.) It's a fact: the loss of a child is just...not...funny. Ever.
I don't think the Everton FC spokesman overreacted, either. This comedian, whether intentionally or not, implicated that Everton is bad luck, which could hurt their image. They have every right to try to protect that.
2007-09-26 03:48:38 · answer #3 · answered by Avie 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
To be fair the Mccanns is an exceptionally interesting case whatever the result is it will be an outrage. If the parents are guilty it's horrific and If they are innocent the police behaviour has been unfathomable. I know Rhys Jones killer is still at large and that is truly awful and unjust especially for his family and friends. My thoughts are with his family and Friends and all those who were close to him. I hope his killer is caught and bought to justice. What more can one say.
2016-05-18 21:22:06 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like a joke but that wasnt funny. He's lucky he was only booed off he could have ended up getting hurt.
2007-09-30 09:38:20 · answer #5 · answered by mumma claw 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No - I don't think he overreacted! FFS! These are two innocent children - one recently dead and the other nobody knows. It wasn't as if it was old news. Dave Longley should be ashamed of himself.
2007-09-25 13:08:25 · answer #6 · answered by Tamayah 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Like the Imus incident, It time that we put more limits on taste. Hurtful humor is not humor. Its nice when are skin thickens and time dulls pain, but those who try to brush away time too soon deserve what they get.
2007-09-27 04:02:13 · answer #7 · answered by paul 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It wasn't an over reaction at all, he behaved insensitively and downright appalling!
Why would someone want to make jokes on the backs of dead/missing kids? I don't get it!
2007-09-25 12:52:48 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Not an over-reaction at all
Sympathies and feelings for those killed and their families run very high
Longley was completely out of order
2007-10-01 06:22:43 · answer #9 · answered by StretfordEnder 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No I dint think he did, I really feel for the parents of Rhys, and I feel for poor little Maddy but not her parents.
The fella who played Les Battersby in Corrie got the sack for making racist jokes, so why shouldn't this man lose his job.
2007-09-25 13:23:36 · answer #10 · answered by itsjustme 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋