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Alistair Barrie

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Comedian, allegedly. Latest special 'Woke in Progress' out now on ITVX: www.alistairbarrie.com

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Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 27m

I’m not disagreeing with the dumbness and the losernrss, but surely, given the entire Trump edifice is built on grievance, all he has done here is create another one. The fact it is based on a complete falsehood is now very clearly a feature, not a bug.

Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 2h

I’ve know Omid 25 years and I suspect his motives are a bit more nuanced than that, especially given his very public stance against the Iranian regime.
Chapelle not so much.
And I do think you can subtly shift perceptions through comedy, if not effect change.
I just don’t agree with his call here.

Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 2h

‘I feel there is enormous change coming to South Africa, and that is why I played Sun City’ is the same argument, basically.
Except, it’s not like Paul Simon employing black SA musicians is it?
Excellent piece here on what it’s REALLY like being a Saudi comic…

‘Amoral, evil’: vitriolic backlash builds against comics who played Riyadh festival

Murder by bone-saw, lashings for rape victims, punishment amputation, jail for satirists … these are the Saudi human rights abuses fuelling the fury being directed at the likes of Louis CK, Dave Chapp...

www.theguardian.com

Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 2h

We’re back to the ‘Boots’ theory of why poverty is so expensive.

Omid is a good friend & a great comic. He makes some fair points here. Given his heritage, I can’t lecture him. But given the ‘geopolitical’ state of the planet right now, especially post-Khashoggi, I’m very disappointed he went.

Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 4h

Yup. Britain’s oldest person at the time apparently. Go Gladys!

Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 4h

Ah, another person accusing me of ‘snooping’.
I gave that up in about 1984 when I stopped looking for my Christmas presents. I snooped that entire house from top to bottom years ago.
My parents are not going to be there much longer.
There is a world of difference between ‘snooping’ and ‘finding’.

Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 4h

Wow. Way to let me down gently. 😜

Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 4h

Absolutely it is.
But I would suggest any reasonable person would agree it’s at least an…’interesting’ choice of bedside decor for the spare room. 😊

Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 4h

Aw. What a nice take. 😊

(Paging all the pompous LACK OF RESPECT people who are so bound up
in their self-important notions of respect they forget to show any of their own…)

Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 4h

Oh, could not agree more. Some incredibly pompous asses presuming they can speak for both my parents and the friends they’ve lost. Which reveals a great more about them than they realise. (And not in a good way!)
My mum and I laughed. That’ll do for me. 😊

Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 4h

Slightly cynical take.

(Also suspect you’re completely correct. 😜)

Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 4h

It says you have a sense of humour, but also compassion and respect.

Nothing wrong with that. 😊

Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 4h

Pretty sure my mum’s eyeing the century as a sign to whizz past rather than a milestone to reach!

Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 4h

Thank you Atlas. Sadly you’re wrong about the ‘lack of respect’ thing, but that is their problem, not mine.

And I very much appreciate the comment about my dad. I love him dearly. The last few days have been very difficult, but hopefully we have helped him. And my mum. x

Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 4h

I have no problem with it at all. Just might not have chosen to sleep between them all!
They’re my family. Not sure any guests would be quite so pleased. 😊

Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 4h

Hey! He’s not an unhappy one. Which is the best you can do! 😉

Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 4h

Yup. Although we have discovered from experience we need to wait until our little ones are a little less little!

Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 4h

That’s kind of sweet though. And rather lovely they got an…afterlife, so to speak.

Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 4h

Hahahohgod..!

Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 4h

I am not criticising my parents who I love very much. But I’m afraid your assertion that ‘you don’t save memorials of people you don’t love’ is not quite right. ‘Unable to throw away booklets of any funeral they’ve ever been to’ is more like it.
But that didn’t make it a bad thing to do.

Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 12h

No mockery. Plenty of compassion, but also a little wry amusement at the placement of their hoard either side of my pillow, which I hope you’ll be glad to hear my mother shared.

Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 12h

Ah. But did he make you sleep in the cabinet? 😊

Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 12h

Knowing my mother, she’s probably mainly regarding it as a challenge. 😊

Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 13h

No, I’m the same. It’s just at this stage I’m glad to say I have A LOT less than my folks!

Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 13h

It’s usually spelt ‘vial’. I wouldn’t normally be so pedantic, or frankly as rude as to correct you. But given the circumstances I thought I’d better just check it wasn’t deliberate? 😳