Nasty Comedians

I recently went to one of the comedy nights the university holds and the main act didn't swear or be rude about anyone apart from people who were in the audience or who only he knew, it was actually really refreshing and funny. I think this proves that comedians don't need to be nasty about people to be funny.

Channel 4 have recently started a comedy roast programme where celebrities such as, Sharon Osbourne, Bruce Forsyth and Chris Tarrant, appear on the show to be roasted by comedians such as, Jimmy Carr, Jack Dee, Sean Lock and Alan Carr. Jonathon Ross appeared on the show to roast Bruce Forsyth and "several papers let loose their latest wave of fury at Jonathon Ross last week for his "outrageous attacks" on Bruce Forsyth. Ross, the Mirror claimed demurely had labeled Forsyth "f**cking ugly" and told him he had missed out on a knighthood because he "had done a lot of s***"."

Other celebrities have got themselves into trouble with the media for saying nasty comments about other people while they were trying to be funny; for example Jeremey Clarkson called Gordon Brown a "Scottish one-eyed idiot".

It's true that we have all laughed at someone or made a joke about a friend which we knew was going too far as soon as the words left our mouth. However I think that when these main stream celebrities say nasty things about other celebrities it is bad because they're not just embarrassing them in front of a small live audience it's pretty much in front of the world, which must be absolutely mortifying!

www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/apr/05/comedy-roasts-channel-4
www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/feb/06/jeremy-clarkson-gordon=brown-insult