I have recently discovered Roy 'Chubby' Brown, a controversial comedian. After watching a few videos of his stand up I concluded that what was more offensive than his 'blue' humour was the fact that he just wasn't funny.
Take a comedian like Frankie Boyle. He is constantly treading the boundary between taste and tasteless, with jokes on the subject of rape and ethnicity. However his jokes have a level of sophistication Chubby's lack.
Chubby's jokes consist of making a 'wanking' gesture with his hands and delivering puerile punchlines. His audience are regular moron types, with missing teeth and thick regional accents, who probably consider a big picture of an arse to be comic genius. In other words Roy 'Chubby' Brown's humour is that of a 15 year old school boy, albeit less funny.
So what do you think? Is he funny? Can someone explain the science behind why Roy 'Chubby' Brown is funny? What demographic enjoys such basic, puerile humour?
