George Carlin wasn't superb

I'm on a train!! Yeah!! A gig that I've not had to drive to! 

I don't like driving in London because I imagine stapling my bollocks to a cactus to be more appealing.

It's good to take a train to a gig though, I can fall asleep en route, I could do that driving too but it's not advised.

I don't need to stop for toilets either, bonus! Although I won't go for a poo on a train, this is because of the train crashes it's bound to be at this point.

I know a crashing train is bad no matter what but I don't want to survive if they find me naked from the waist down covered in my own and many other people's excrement, clutching what's left of the handrail still trying to figure out if the sliding door thing is just going to randomly open.

Anyway that awful imagery aside I was chatting with someone the other day who was insistent that as a comedian, our job is to educate and make a point, something which I disagree with. 

So often I see clips of Carlin with people raving about how spot on he was and I watch for 20 minutes as he tells maybe 2 jokes and spends the rest of the time dropping truth bombs... That's not comedy to me.

I'm not saying George Carlin wasn't superb at what he did but he was more a lecturer than a comic. 

There's a place for that, there's a place for education within comedy but primarily for me comedy is, make them laugh.

Ok so there's way more to it than that, personally I believe if you can make a point and it's hilarious then that's ideal but 1st and foremost it needs to be hilarious, just making a point is not what your average punter wants.

So maybe I'm just looking from a club comic or club punter point of view but I I would say that 80% of audiences are just that, the 20% of course, comedy savvy or fans to of specific comedy are the ones we all want at our gigs but the staples are these guys who buy their comedy ticket hoping to have a laugh not hoping learn something.

Of course not all audiences are deserving of the laughs, for a start anyone who just switches off once they see a female act (fellas it happens more than we realise) deserves to have his ticket taken from him and used to create paper cuts on the purple monster end of his tallywacker!

Anyone who thinks it's appropriate to just shout out whatever they like whenever they see fit should have their lips glued shut with dogshit in smeared over them so they have no choice but to inhale it, yeah we have to deal with your shit now have a whiff of some of ours!!

But my point, if I'm making one instead of just trying to be funny is, you don't have to make a point, and those that are adamant you do, who also seem adamant it's a regressive left wing point that has to be made (not all!) 

Andrew Lawrence for example tried to make a point, instead of allowing that point to be considered valid and engaging with him and challenging it he was called a cunt and blocked by many!!

So actually is making a point in comedy only considered valid when it's the same point as everyone is making?

Meh, I'm shrugging my shoulders thinking more about trying to be as funny and original as possible more than trying to say something political.

Comedy is magical and comes in many forms, but let's not assume there's something wrong with a good nob gag!

J x