Being at the Butt of a Joke
Apparently comedian Jason Manford has much to laugh about these days. Even after his social network sex scandal became public. The funnyman is back to making gags on his one man show Off On Tour We Go.
Audiences should expect to have the comedian spit out a few cheeky jokes about his fall from grace –– you know: the time he famously quit BBC One’s The One Show (a job he’s had for only four months) after he admitted that, yes, he had been sending some naughty messages to approximately 12 female fans.
One of these female fans is Debra McNamee, a 22-year-old who gave Manford two racy pics of herself in lacy underwear after they’d exchanged messages on Twitter. “When I first sent a message to him I thought he would never reply. Famous people never do and I was surprised when he got in touch,” she said to the Sun newspaper. “At first he just asked me about my dog and what I was up to and things like that. But after a while it started to get a bit more flirty.”
“He’d ask me for photos and then tell me how excited he was by them,” she said.
But to Manford, it was all just fun and games. “I can see now that what started out as a bit of messing about and having a laugh on Twitter has been misjudged and I’d like to apologize to anyone that this has offended as that was the last thing I ever intended to do.”
But McNamee isn’t the only femme he’d hit up for sexy photos. An anonymous lapdancer from Manchester said that, after sending Manford pictures of an American model and claimed they were her, the comedian replied by sending her sexually explicit messages. And that’s not all –– porn model Lucinda Turner, who Manford allegedly contacted after glimpsing her photos on adult website Adultwork on June 2010, spoke out about trading raunchy messages with the father of three. Turner admitted to the Sunday Mirror that they had exchanged tons of sexy messages and phone calls during the summer –– even once when the comedian’s pregnant wife was doing housework upstairs.
“He told me I had the best boobs he’d ever seen in his life,” claims Turner. “He’d spend a fortune ringing me, normally calling up in the middle of the afternoon when he was at home.”
“’Every conversation would start the same – he’d ask me if I would like to see ‘the daddy’ then he’d demand I start talking dirty to him,” she said.
Manford’s a prick, if you ask me. He’s also a lucky man, considering his wife is sticking by him, even if the world gave her evidence that the man she married was a jerk. But still, it’s pretty refreshing to see a woman willing to stick by her man, what with all the divorce these days.
“It has been a tough day in the Manford household,” he told the audience during a show of his in Newcastle. “My wife’s all right about it. She’s fine. She just said, ‘You dick.’ But we’re all right.”
Manford did apologize over his “stupidity.” He even took a break from comedy and quit The One Show to concentrate on his family.
“We would start off flirty, then innuendo and then a bit saucy. They were the moments I thought, ‘I shouldn’t be saying that.’ It was just nice to have some interaction I suppose,” he said. “But the next morning I would wake up and think, ‘Oh my God.’ I don’t drink or do drugs, so it’s not like I’ve those to blame – just my own stupidity.”
Honestly, I don’t enjoy listening to stand-up comedians. Don’t get me wrong –– I love comedy as much as the next person, and once or twice I’ve been known to rein in full-fledge donkey laughter after listening to a comical anecdote complete with goofy faces and over-the-top arm gestures.
Still, if I wanted a laugh, I’d rather hit up a funny website or read a funny book or watch a laugh-a-minute comedy DVD instead of listening to a comedian. No offense to any comedians out there, but most of the time, comedians tend to get a little too insulting for my taste. Jokes said are nearly inappropriate at times, as they can be too cruel or too judgmental. I get it –– we live in a world where sarcasm and thinly veiled barbs are considered amusing and witty. And, yes, like every other person, I too have laughed at cruel jokes. Still, I find it distasteful the way they capitalize on the pain of others –– and I’m sure the people these comedians are laughing at feel the same way.
I guess now Manford feels what it’s like to be at the other end of the jokes.
References:
· Laura Blyth, Express & Star. (2011). Jason Manford is off on tour again. Available: http://www.expressandstar.com/entertainment/2011/06/17/jason-manford-is-off-on-tour-again/. Last accessed June 19 2011.
· Mail Online. (2010). Jason Manford quits The One Show following sex message claims. Available: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1331097/Jason-Manford-quits-The-One-Show-following-sex-message-claims.html. Last accessed June 19 2011.
· Mail Online. (2010). Further agony for Jason Manford’s wife as porn model reveals dirty web chats. Available: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1331760/Jason-Manfords-porn-model-Lucinda-Turner-reveals-sex-message-web-chats.html?ito=feeds-newsxml. Last accessed June 19 2011.
· Nick Collins | Telegraph. (2010). Jason Manford apology over Twitter flirting. Available: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/8111907/Jason-Manford-apology-over-Twitter-flirting.html. Last accessed June 19 2011.
· Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. (2011). Jason Manford. Available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Manford. Last accessed June 19 2011.
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