Modified On August 5, 2005
Edinburgh is going on right now. An article in The Scotsman tells of some difficulty being encountered by some of the acts:
Artists and performers are reacting in many ways to global terrorism in shows at the Edinburgh festivals this year – but some have altered their acts after the London bombings. […]
The leading Irish comedian, Andrew Maxwell, said he had originally written a large segment of his show on the theme that it was impossible to have a British suicide bomber.
“That was a very key section of my show, about the Britishness of Muslims, more interested in the car and making a cup of tea than extremism,” he said.
“It was in a nutshell that you would never get a British suicide bomber, that the ‘normalness’ of British Muslims would preclude them ever being fanatical enough.
“The audiences loved it but it proved to be completely wrong and irrelevant.”
On the other hand, dick jokes are never wrong and/or irrelevant.