Hat tip to Bupendra Bhakta in the comments for this gem.
My Life in Travel: Marcus Brigstocke, comedian
Best holiday?
I went to the Maldives the year before last… I’ve also had some of my happiest holidays in Mallorca with family and friends. It’s a very beautiful island. We stay in great place called Camp de Mar near Andratx. So it’s a toss-up between the opulent, unforgettable paradise of the Maldives and calamari by the beach, waterskiing and nightclubbing in MallorcaWhat have you learnt from your travels?
I have learnt that I am incapable of packing the right amount of clothing, probably because I start 10 minutes before I’m supposed to leave; and that I truly hate airports. I rarely fly, for environmental reasons more than anything else.Where has seduced you?
I went to China for a brief working visit and I thought that Shanghai was interesting, but Beijing totally grabbed meWorst travel experience?
My son, sister, niece and I were sea kayaking in Mexico and got caught in a rip tideWorst hotel?
A resort hotel in Varadero, Cuba.Dream trip?
I have never been to India.Favourite city?
New York. It has great restaurants and is a part of the US that you can enjoy as a liberal Brit.Marcus Brigstocke will be performing at Altitude at Volvo Snowbombing from 4-9 April in Mayrhofen, Austria
“…is a part of the US that you can enjoy as a liberal Brit.”
The smug snobbish hypocrisy of that statement makes my skin crawl.
‘One really dislikes having to mingle with those ghastly pieces of white, working/lower-middle class scum’
“I rarely perform at events sponsored by car manufacturers, for environmental reasons.”
Gotta luv that ‘rarely’.
Weasel-speak for, ‘I perform at every event sponsored by car manufacturers that I get asked to as it pays bloody well. Unfortunately I don’t get asked to very many of them’.
Old Granny Bhakta used to call that. ‘making a virtue out of a necessity’.
If he’s so liberal, he won’t mind me burning all the fossil fuels I can afford if I so wish, amirite?
And the rest of the US is the part I can enjoy because I know it’s not crawling with smug liberal gits..I mean…Brits
Sadly, Brigstocke is right about New York City being a comfort zone for Leftoids. At least the parts of it he’d deign to visit.
No comments necessary . . . .
The list of words that the BBc and its employees have a ‘unique’ interpretation of grows daily…
Impartiality, Hypocrisy, double-standards…. ‘rare’….
What a typical, Leftie, hypocrite, prat.
But , at least, the “poor” boy’s worst hotel was in Cuba !
I rarely fly, for environmental reasons.
I wish he would stay at home and keep his mouth shut – for environmental reasons of course.
Left-wing BBC ‘comedian’ is a hypocrite.. Stop the presses.
On the plus side, this is probably as close as we’re ever going to get to a Beeboid admitting they are, in fact, a liberal.
Doubtless the usual suspects will be along in a minute to tell us he meant ‘liberal’ in the sense of ‘liking cheese’ or ‘being scared of fish’, just like the call for more ‘left of centre’ thinking actually turned out to be a demand for more programs about llamas.
I rarely fly, for environmental reasons”.
This is Brigstocke racking up more air miles in his hilariously ironic mission to save the planet? This jaw achingly, self-righteous, self-serving twat says he cares for the planet, but flies far more than most people will ever do in a lifetime!
The route of environmentalism is the one favoured by “comedians” who eventually wake up out of their trance and realize there is no f***ing way people will part with hard-earned cash to watch gobshites spouting politically correct dross.
Face it Brigstocke, you patently unfunny fool, the only reason the BBC employ people like you is because they’re subconsciously dedicated to the idea of failure!
Considering he rarely flies for “environmental reasons”, the mind boggles how much flying he would do if he wasn’t so environmentally conscious.
How did he get to all those places then?…….walk?
There’s a word that BBC employees have said by mistake three times in the last few months, begins with CU and ends in T (no, not CUTS, they say that all day everyday)
I wonder if, when Marcus was in China, the State broadcaster paid him vast sums of money for his “edgy ” anti-conservative “humour” ?
I never fly for environmental reasons, I always fly for anti-environmental reasons.
Not Fred,
But you are still bowling subtle off-spinners !
I rarely fly because I can’t afford it because I don’t work for the BBC.
Puuuufick 😀 ! Tick and a star for the best comment yet.
Next National Carbon Footprint Day, October 2nd, 2010
“Climate change has become an urgent climate crisis.
Registering your carbon footprint is an important step towards effective personal action”
Marcus Brigstock , Patron, National Carbon Footprint Day
http://www.nationalcarbonfootprintday.org/
Hypocrite……do as I say, not what I do.
“do as i say, not as I do”
Yeah, bit like his demand for more subsidies for photovoltaic panels so that people like him can delude themsleves that they’re doing good while people on the other side of the world have to live with the consequences.
Glory be! Brigstocke finally says something funny.
Methinks Dr Frankenstein forgot to put in the brain!
Smug leftists with no sense of irony? We know why the BBC loves him so much now. Elitist hypocrisy from a leftist hypocrite and the favourite of a BBC stuffed to bursting with them.
Pump out that harmless plant food eh Marcus? After all its good for the planet. Theres hypocrisy and then theres beeboid hypocrisy. If the proles use less it simply translates in Brigstockes tiny mind that he can use more because he is a legend in his own lunchtime and deserves the very finest things in life which the rest of us would be unable to appreciate as much as he does.
Liberal “ Favoring proposals for reform, open to new ideas for progress, and tolerant of the ideas and behavior of others; broad-minded.”
No Brigstocke “comedian” – you do not qualify.
With Brigstocke you have to bear in mind he is a mass of inner contradictions. By his own admission he had a middle class upbringing, public school education in West Sussex and Somerset, and in his teens he was grossly obese. He had more than a passing acquaintance with drugs and I rather think he had non-NHS treatment, though I’ve never seen it admitted.
All this liberal lefty stuff is a form of self-loathing of his origins. When he starts spouting eco-boll*x and right-on stuff it’s a delusional attempt to disown who he is. He is comical, though not in the way he thinks he is.
Its why the BBC love him. Most of them are out of the same box.
Did you know Marcus Brigstocke is an anagram of
MARCUS IS A TOTAL COCK. (well it should be anyway)
All the self righteousness of an ecofascist. He preaches yet he has the carbon footprint of a fucking power station.(sorry for the expletive the the knob boils my piss)
Unfunny Nomark home counties workinclasswannabe.
We should exile him to Taransay where he could commune with nature and recycle his poo. If we leave him there for about 30 years his footprint will revert to the national average.
Marcus says ” So it’s a toss-up ” !!! And I agree with him !
Yes make you wonder how many biscuits he was forced to eat at school?
I’d like to see a Venn Diagram of (Pretrendie) Lefties and (Pretrendie) Environmentalists.
Both beliefs warm the cockles of people who are happy to do the things themselves that they believe everyone else shouldn’t be allowed to do.
How I love the smell of rank hypocrisy in the evening.
Hey, Bup, I hear you went to the same university as the grandson of John Venn. Was it at the same time?
We overlapped.
I think that’s a rhetorical question, no? A Venn Diagram showing the intersection between those two groups would just be a plain old circle.
Hey, Marcus, you can use that one.
God knows but you need some decent material.
He and lots like him need a size 10 carbon footprint right up the arse — I didnt actually mean insertion, although maybe some folks might enjoy that kind of thing.
Take good run-up. Wear boots.
Just watching the Salem Witch Trials on one of the more obscure Freesat channels. It’s spooky I imagine the poor “witches” as being the evil “Climate Deniers” (of which I am one, may heaven help me – or should it be Satan?). I am trembling in my isolated French hovel, wondering what spirits from the Warmist Brotherhood may be lurking outside, wishing me harm, and hell-bent on tearing me asunder and/or tying me to a stake in a pyre of faggots (no, not THAT sort of faggot…) and burning me as a heretic. I have locked all the doors, and set Eric the cat on guard duty. Pray God I shall sleep safely this night…
Mind out, Natsman:
Tis now the very witching time of night,
When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world: now could I drink hot blood,
And do such bitter business as the day
Would quake to look on. – Hamlet
Shiver, shiver… 😀
My daughter is working out on the ski slopes in France.
Guess who came through to entertain the apres skiers?
Maybe he uses a recycling bag for his sled or snowboard like we oiks have to do-by the way they are VERY good, and at last we have a use for the bloody things-put a pillow in and chocks away!
Remember where you saw this first.
By the way, my girl thought him better than I had led her to expect…having heard Lenny Henrys riotous comedy on Radio4, she may be right!
Actually I’ve become quite a fan of that Lenny Henry disaster. As I commented a couple of weeks ago, even the studio audience (usually – in this kind of effort – guaranteed to erupt into hysteria at the merest glimmer of a joke) is mostly stunned into silence by the complete absence of humour. It’s like listening to a shipwreck: the vessel is going down with all hands except that a generous dollop of taxpayers’ money will find its way to Cap’n Henry’s bank account and the BBC can be relied on to launch another lifeboat to save Henry’s career in “comedy”.
For the BBC it does not matter if Henry is funny, he is the right colour and he has done and said nothing to upset the BBC commissars.
BTW Henry has not ben funny for twenty years and in fact as soon as the multiculti thin lips got hold of him he became as funny as Brigstocke. Choosing a comedian not for his talent but for his political reliability and skin colour does anyone else not find that a little creepily racist?
DB you’ve made it to the Telegraph.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/edwest/100076305/green-party-supporter-marcus-brigstocke-must-have-a-carbon-footprint-the-size-of-godzilla/
It’s all down to Bupendra.
Grade A hypocrite. But aren’t they all I’m pretty sure that these people won’t be the ones living in caves.
slightly off topic, watching the Brit Awards, the brainwashing continues a pace, I kid you not there is a Brit ‘Climate Change’ award, sponsored by one of the usual crowd. FFS where will this nonsense end. (As for the music – a few good songs, but mostly garbage. We used to be pioneers in music. La di da di da…)
RGH
Coincidentally, Bishop Hill has a thread today http://bishophill.squarespace.com/blog/2011/2/15/real-sceptics.html on the hypocrisy of Gore and friends about carbon offset payments (which I’m sure Marcus religiously pays). Gore, effectively, pays himself every time he “pays” a carbon offset for his private jet tours of the world. In any event, as commenter Richard Verney at Feb 15, 2011 at 1:48 PM on the Bishop Hill thread points out, carbon offset payments involve “merely purchas[ing] a certificate which means nothing at all since no one is actually making any physical reduction [my emphasis]. The bankruptcy of the Chicago Carbon Exchange together with the continuing frauds at the its European equivalent are both a comment on and a metaphor for the whole AGW structure.
However, I could forgive Marcus for being an idiot concerning AGW and the rest of the junk he believes in, were he in the least bit funny. Unfortunately laughing at (or even with) Marcus is the equivalent of laughing at somebody with learning difficulties: genuinely offensive to those with any taste or, indeed, any sense of humour. In a rational world Marcus would be ignored, and would be even in this one if only the BBC would stop pushing his “comedy” and earnest (but oh so fashionable) ignorance in our faces.
I want to thank you all for the excellent slagging of the ridiculous Brigscocke. More good news. It’s still going tits up for Ben Elton down under.
The smug two-faced hypocrites are getting filleted… globally… and where it hurts.
‘I love it when a panning comes together’
Brigstocke ooozes overbearing, smug, BBC-suckled liberal. And the use of the term ‘comedian’ to describe him is arguable at best.
OT… but there are parallels…
http://autonomousmind.wordpress.com/2011/02/15/mehdi-hasan-what-an-unpleasant-piece-of-work/
‘He may use his frequent BBC appearances [to] spout the usual buzz words such as ‘equality’, ‘diversity’, ‘multi-culturalism’ and ‘Islamophobia’ but we can now see what exists behind the carefully moderated public face.’
Now, why does the BBC seem to be such a comfortable home for those who say one thing (in carefully moderated places) but evidently feel and do quite another?
so why is that git never off the tv?
oh,that’s right
he’s a mozzie-trumps everything,doesn’t it?
I clicked on that link and then the link where he is debating and he admitted that he loves the Prophet more than his two year old son (not exact words). I found that completely shocking but when I thought about it I realised I wasn’t surprised.
I wasn’t surprised when I thought how, one incident I remember being shown on the BBC some years ago – some Palestinian fathers were holding their sons in front of them to act as human shields so they could throw things at the Israeli military. Then of course, the rockets are deliberately fired from schools, houses and anywhere that children are so that when Israel targets the sources of the rockets they kill children and the world condemns Israel for killing them. They also use children as the front line in attacking Israeli settlers and indoctrinate children into becoming suicide bombers. No, shocked yes but surprised, no.
“Now, why does the BBC seem to be such a comfortable home for those who say one thing (in carefully moderated places) but evidently feel and do quite another?”
That kind of hypocrisy was rampant in the USSR, a rancid ideology that the BBC basks in and thrives on, a corruption of humanity that we have not yet stamped out with the utmost vigour and until we do its spectre will haunt us.
and as well all know
there’s nothing as intolerant as a liberal
“and as well all know
there’s nothing as intolerant as a liberal”
And hypocritical and two faced and hate filled and arrogant and elitist?
Q. What’s the difference between Marcus Brigstocke and a bucket of sh*te?
A. The bucket.
You can use that one, Marcus.
Brigstock called on us to ‘register’ our carbon footprint. I call on him to make his public.
Congratulations Mr.Bhakta, this appears to have pretty much gone viral.
Brigstocke has unintentionally made more people laugh with this than he can ever hope to intentionally.