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slemslempikeThursday was a gooooood night, although unfortunately Ese was too ill to come, so it was just me and Rebecca. We ate at Pizza Express (£9, so with the metro fare it was about £11 for the whole night), who don’t let you have pineapple on your pizza. So I had parma ham, but I was thinking about pineapple the whole time.
Adam Hills was fantastic. So funny, so lovely. We were sitting in the second row, because we thought that the front row would be rather too exposed. Unfortunately no-one was sitting in front of us, but luckily he went to the other side of the audience to drag someone up on stage to do a James Brown impression. I’d not seen him before, but I read his column on BBC’s Ouch! site, and heard him to compering on some radio thing. I think.
At the end of the first bit, he reiterated what I’d heard on the radio, telling women that women’s magazines are full of shit and designed to make us feel bad about ourselves. Well, duh. It rubbed me up the wrong way. Partly it’s because whenever I hear men say things like that I always think that if it was a woman saying it, she’s be dismissed. Men (if they chose to do so) are not only not dismissed automatically, but gain points for being so thoughtful. And also his premise seemed to be that we didn’t know that they were telling us we were ugly to sell us things – we’re not stupid. Somewhat masochistic, yes, but not stupid.
In the second bit he talked a lot about Disney, and how they have policies about not allowing disabled children to have photographs taken with the characters, because it undermines their “happy” image. He talks about it in one of his columns as well, here. Disgusting. (Oh, and while on the BBC site he doesn’t name it, he definitely says Disney in his stand-up.) It was all so funny, (when it wasn’t horrifying), and he does cute accents. Mmmm, funny cute men.
At one point he called a woman’s husband who was meant to come to the show but had to work late. There was a frisson amongst the people behind me, who were really hoping that he would be Discovered in a Lie. He was, in fact, at work, and Adam Hills said that he could have a ticket for the show in Liverpool for missing this one. Bless.
He had a sign interpreter with him (but apparently no deaf people in the audience). When I saw Eddie Izzard he also used an interpreter, and it’s really cool watching the signs for different words. I did wonder about some things, like did the innuendo come across when he said “bang the person next to you…well, don’t bang them”, and whether the sign for “fanny” was different from the sign for “cunt”. I think UK sign language and Australian sign language are similar if not the same, but I know Ameslan is completely different.
Adam Hills was fantastic. So funny, so lovely. We were sitting in the second row, because we thought that the front row would be rather too exposed. Unfortunately no-one was sitting in front of us, but luckily he went to the other side of the audience to drag someone up on stage to do a James Brown impression. I’d not seen him before, but I read his column on BBC’s Ouch! site, and heard him to compering on some radio thing. I think.
At the end of the first bit, he reiterated what I’d heard on the radio, telling women that women’s magazines are full of shit and designed to make us feel bad about ourselves. Well, duh. It rubbed me up the wrong way. Partly it’s because whenever I hear men say things like that I always think that if it was a woman saying it, she’s be dismissed. Men (if they chose to do so) are not only not dismissed automatically, but gain points for being so thoughtful. And also his premise seemed to be that we didn’t know that they were telling us we were ugly to sell us things – we’re not stupid. Somewhat masochistic, yes, but not stupid.
In the second bit he talked a lot about Disney, and how they have policies about not allowing disabled children to have photographs taken with the characters, because it undermines their “happy” image. He talks about it in one of his columns as well, here. Disgusting. (Oh, and while on the BBC site he doesn’t name it, he definitely says Disney in his stand-up.) It was all so funny, (when it wasn’t horrifying), and he does cute accents. Mmmm, funny cute men.
At one point he called a woman’s husband who was meant to come to the show but had to work late. There was a frisson amongst the people behind me, who were really hoping that he would be Discovered in a Lie. He was, in fact, at work, and Adam Hills said that he could have a ticket for the show in Liverpool for missing this one. Bless.
He had a sign interpreter with him (but apparently no deaf people in the audience). When I saw Eddie Izzard he also used an interpreter, and it’s really cool watching the signs for different words. I did wonder about some things, like did the innuendo come across when he said “bang the person next to you…well, don’t bang them”, and whether the sign for “fanny” was different from the sign for “cunt”. I think UK sign language and Australian sign language are similar if not the same, but I know Ameslan is completely different.
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Date: 2004-10-15 11:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-15 11:08 pm (UTC)At both the signed events I've been to, the comedians made a point of saying rude words, and then whipping round gleefully to see what the sign was. The interpreter only hesitated once, at having to translate "fuck me up the arse!", which (to me) looked rather similar to the sign to "fuck", and I wonder if there's a distinction.
Sexual Sign Language
Date: 2004-10-15 11:25 pm (UTC)I might have to steal this line of conversation for use among friends.
Re: Sexual Sign Language
Date: 2004-10-15 11:32 pm (UTC)Re: Sexual Sign Language
Date: 2004-10-16 09:43 am (UTC)not to mention this don't know if the leer he had was part of the sign, or an added bonus made me laugh...
Re: Sexual Sign Language
Date: 2004-10-16 11:46 am (UTC)