HAHA, SHE'S FAT.
Good one.
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I did not see the show in question but I suspect for "sneerily" one should read "ironically".
It was on Frank Skinner. And wasn't there something a bit shallow about the woman? Like she would only date massively rich men? Maybe. I can't really remember.
Quote: zooo @ July 4 2011, 9:11 PM BSTHAHA, SHE'S FAT.
Good one.
Millican has made a few remarks that could, if one chooses to interpret them literally, show her in a none-too-tasteful light. But really Alfred, most of that is baseless, obnoxious bile.
But the little bit that wasn't was getting at the fact that she is on TV more and more and more. I chose the expanding balloon metaphor to illustrate this. Sometimes I'm too subtle for my own good I suppose. Ho hum. her rapidly rising star is a complete mystery to me, I'm afraid.
And yes there was a dual point being made about her notable defensiveness about the subject of weight, and an odd apparent assumption on her part that women obsessed with being skinny are just doing it to comply to a desired stereotype that society and especially men find pleasing, and there is no substance or real point to complying to it, it can't change who you are or make you happier. The woman who picqued her proved that she did it for herself and it did transform her life and make her happy! Weight and self esteem are inextricably linked, and I'm tired of militant attitudes like Millican's who seek to debunk this as a myth, because it isn't.
SM has taken a rather self righteous, feministic stance over the female weight issue, I feel, and certainly uses it, and her love of food, in her act (as if no other other woman comedian has before, Sarah! groan), and I thought I'd comment on it, this is all. But no, Alfred is nasty. Again. 
Jeez Alfred you can be odd.
Ok loads of funny fat ladies; Roseanne Barr, Vicotria Wood et al. It's a focus about taking a perceived negative stereotype and reowning it.
Same as camp gay comics, neurotic Jewish comics or street black comics.
It's a case of saying "you say this about me, well I'll take back the ownership and make it 19 times as funny."
Except making jokes about being unattractive and weak and other negative things. They grind you down especially when they become your shtick and the audience demands little else.
Dave Chapelle pissed off to Africa after his second season of his show. Woody Allan makes nothing ut dreary art house films.
I don't especially find SM funny, her "we're all girls together" style of humour leaves me a bit cold. But she's a talented, hard working perform with many, many fans.
Alfred your posts feel so bitter at times, bitter and more than a little paranoid. Where does this come from?
Kipper, you seem curiously obsessive about female comedians and their weight. Out of a zillion or more Millican appearances on panel shows you zero in on one exchange on the Frank Skinner show. You specifically look for the tiniest things to back up your bonkers theories.
Quote: chipolata @ July 5 2011, 8:45 AM BSTKipper, you seem curiously obsessive about female comedians and their weight. Out of a zillion or more Millican appearances on panel shows you zero in on one exchange on the Frank Skinner show. You specifically look for the tiniest things to back up your bonkers theories.
As bonkers as conkers in a pine tree.
Wasn't it on Lee Mack's show with Alice Cooper?
Quote: Chappers @ July 5 2011, 7:56 PM BSTWasn't it on Lee Mack's show with Alice Cooper?
The Millican exchange with a weight loss woman was on Frank Skinner. Don't tell me she had another exchange with a woman who lost a lot of weight on Mack too!
Quote: chipolata @ July 5 2011, 8:45 AM BSTKipper, you seem curiously obsessive about female comedians and their weight.
Maybe he's crossing them out of his little black book one by one?
Quote: TopBanana @ April 27 2011, 7:05 PM BSTI've got some gift vouchers for the Symphony Hall in Brum and noticed that Sarah Millican is playing there later this year. Is it worth it..? I can't see anything else in the schedule that is appealing.
Do it. Her last Ed show Chatterbox was absolutely briliant.
And despite what Kipper would have you believe, not that much of it is about her waistline.
Sarah makes me laugh and comes across as very likeable- a winning combination whether she's a size 6 or size 26.
But, I agree that she does mention food quite a lot and that does kind of seem old hat.
Does she? Always thought her quite a thoughtful comedian, her strength being class-war and positive northern working class?
OK I will be honest I weigh 9.10 and measurements are 38/30/36 and I'm blonde.
I am still a funny woman, has anyone changed their opinion?
Exactly; it doesn't matter SIZE, lots of amazing fat/thin comedians male or female.
The entertainment factor counts NOT the body, that is why radio comedy is so non sizeist medium.