Cherie Blair v Laurence Clark
- 28 Sep 05, 12:00 AM
Ah, here's the disability news story of the week: comedian and Ouch regular Laurence Clark has been hobnobbing with royalty - well, Cherie Blair, the Prime Minister's wife, which is nearly the same thing (that's satire, by the way).
According to reports all around the media - we particularly liked The Scotsman's headline - Mrs Blair was introduced to the "31-year-old funnyman" at a Labour Party conference fringe meeting in Brighton yesterday, and asked him: "Are you a stand-up comedian or a sit-down comedian?"
Sorry, I'm just picking myself up off the floor and wiping the tears of laughter from my eyes.
Laurence's reply? "Everyone makes that joke." He then invited Mrs Blair to stick around and watch the ten-minute set he was performing as part of a discussion forum being staged by , but she chose to give it a miss.
Later, Laurence is reported as having said: "I don't think she made a mistake in what she said. I think she was cracking a crap joke. I think she should stick to the law. I did not take offence at all. She was not embarrassed, but she did seem a little nervous around disabled people".
Reports that the sequel to Laurence's show The Jim Davidson Guide to Equality will be entitled The Cherie Blair Guide to Comedy could not be confirmed as this blog post went live. But I really hope it's true.
Comments
Odd that the journalist should highlight a potentially disablist remark, but use the highly disablist term "wheelchair-bound" to describe Laurence. Do Scots people understand irony?
This has also been reported on . Notice their quality opening sentence.
It is the job of such adults to make awful comments. I don't know how to stop them.
so thats why cherie and tony are so compatable niether indulge in original thought.how surprising.