ILXors in Wheelchairs, a question.

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On a weekly basis, how many people do you get oh so funnily going "I want that one" or "Yeah, I know" to you?

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

If I was in a wheelchair I would respect anyone who quoted Ironside, X-Men or even Phoenix Nights at me. But would kill anyone doing Lou and Andy.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

Actually the X-Men thing would be pathetic too.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

Thing is, i actually find that routine really funny. and i was my wheelchair-bound dad's main carer for about ten years. its sick and wrong and also quite true. i feel guilty laughing, but... it *is funny.

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

[not that i am speaking for people in wheelchairs, more for their carers, i guess]

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

[I guess they could have a vicarious laugh at it. More about people in the wheelchair that have more intelligence than the 'sketch' would suggest]

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

oh, definitely, i mean, the 'does he take suger?' meme is still virulently strong, but the sketch makes me laugh in the same way the brasseye thing about the people in wheelchairs just being lazy makes me laugh. but i think the thing suggests the matt lucas character *is intelligent, getting what he wants and winning over his carer in every sketch i've seen.

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know any people in wheelchairs, but I'd assume they can laugh at wheelchair jokes just like gays can laugh at gay jokes, provided they aren't mean-spirited. That said, I have no idea what the first post refers to.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

it's a sketch in Little Britain.

― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

i wonder what Ricky Gervais and Ash Atalla (wheelchair-based colleague who co-produced The Office, and the target of some extraordinary mockery when the two of them accepted gongs for the show at comedy awards shows here in the past - but not without giving as good as he got back to Gervais) think of Lou and Andy (but not much of often).

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

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