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'The
1940's'
        
So why, in a site full of great comedians, did I include this
one? Because he is in his own way very funny. If you like a rude
joke, then there is no-one better at telling them. I am no prude,
and I have laughed at hundreds of rude jokes, as well as passing
them on via email and text and so on. This man however, is a 'one
trick pony'. That is all that he does, and although I have seen him
on DVD, after about 10 minutes I get fed up with him. However, he is
hugely popular, and is the very opposite of the type of comedy that
I like to watch. So I have put his bio in here for those that might
be interested. It comes from here.
http://www.dave-edwards.com/chubbysworld/biography/
- Roy 'Chubby' Brown the self proclaimed
'crudest and rudest'
comedian was born in the depressed steel-making town
Grangetown. Middlesbrough and left home when he was 14.
His father was a steelworker and his mother
'a typical housewife who washed,
cleaned and went to bingo'. When his parents
divorced it made the local paper it was so rare.
"You used to live every day as if
it was your last, I never saw a future beyond getting a
job at the steelworks."
- He lived rough until he found his first job followed
by a stint in the Merchant Navy and then jobs as cook,
waiter, van driver, hod carrier, scaffolder and
steelworker. Music has always been one of his great
loves so he started to play drums in the late fifties
and joined a band playing the northern mens working
clubs circuits. It slowly evolved into a musical comedy
act as he realised that comedians got better pay and
found that he could get the laughs.
- His blue-period came to the fore after an appearance
on Opportunity Knocks in the mid seventies where he came
fourth to a spoon player. His manager George Forster
suggested that he should go completely blue as there
were so many clean comedians around struggling to make a
living. At first he had difficulty with the swearing but
now it is the swearing that the people come to expect.
He is really poking fun at himself and male inadequacy,
a third of his audience are women who can relate his act
to the men in their lives. "I
decided to go right over the top and be the rudest man
in the country and I haven't looked back."
- Roy has two sons who haven't followed in his
footsteps, one is a roofing contractor and the other one
owns an ice-cream van. He is very keen on family values
and will not let his grandchildren see his videos,
although he seldom worries if the family disapproves of
his act. "I knew I'd written a
good joke when the ex-wife didn't laugh." He uses
swearing as part of his act when he's on stage but
believes that there is a time and place for bad
language. "I hate swearing in
front of women and kids off the stage, I don't think
there's any need for it. I try to keep my family values
and if I hear someone effing and blinding in the street
I give them a look."
- He didn't let his late mother come to see the show
but didn't want her to feel as though she was being
neglected. One day as he was taking her home she turned
and said "Son I'm proud of you."
He was very surprised as she was never one to express
her feelings. She died at six o'clock that day.
- He has built his career on word of mouth and audio
cassettes. For every person who has walked out in
disgust, five more have come to his next performance.
He's been threatened, and had beer poured over him,
Alsatian dogs set on him and when he pushed a man off
stage the police arrested him. He doesn't play the club
circuit anymore concentrating on local theatre, civic
halls etc. as he has built up the following.
"I've been broke a few times, been
on the verge of packing it in thousands of times but
I've always kept going."
-
His act is frank and crude and has yet
been compared to the Donald McGill seaside
postcard style humour. "As soon as I put on the hat and goggles my
whole persona changes, I always feel that I
can get away with anything."
-
He plays on his northern working class
roots and his jokes are created to calculate
a common bond with his audience. He can
begin his act with a digression about paying
the phone bill. "The
phone rang which was a surprise because I
thought I had been cut off."
-
He works hard to keep his act topical
and spend hours pouring through the papers
every day as well as keeping up with
television. He could be accused of being a
woman hater but he loves women and says that
in his act he's just saying what men want to
say about womens bodies. He uses himself as
a subject worth poking fun at
"If you see a fat
fella in goggles taking the piss out of
himself, you've got a lot of jokes that you
can use."
-
His live shows are rarely advertised, a
simple poster outside is often enough to
fill a venue. Punters are warned
'If easily offended,
stay away' and on the doors doormen
discourage people who look out of place.
-
He is a workaholic and only takes three
weeks off a year. He always does a summer
season in Blackpool and spends the rest of
the year touring the whole country.
-
One of his singles
'Living next door to Alice (Who the f**k is
Alice)' recorded with Smokie came out
because Smokie used to play over in Ireland
a lot and whenever they sang the main line,
all the audience used to say
"Who the f**k is Alice
?". Smokie decided to do a spoof of
their own song and thought that Roy was
ideal to join in. Unfortunately shortly
after the song was recorded the lead singer,
Alan Barton was killed in a car crash so the
rest of the band and Roy agreed to donate
all their royalties to Alan Bartons' first
wife and they all went out of their way to
appear on Top Of The Pops.
"I'm the first bloke
ever in the charts with a song with f**k in
it."
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He released another single in the winter
of '96 called 'A
rocking good Christmas' written by
Ray Hedges who has written for Boyzone, Take
That and PJ & Duncan.
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