British disabled comedian Rosie Jones accuses critics of ableism

Example of her comedy

As funny as an ingrown pubic hair.

I've known about her for a while. She's pretty funny and I love her. Some of you won't purely for sport.

Oh boy. It's like a room full of people laughing in order to be polite.

She should tour with Geri Jewell.

Several things are true

1. Rosie Jones isn't very funny

2. There are lots of other comedians who aren't very funny

3. If a non disabled actor did the same routine as Rosie Jones they wouldn't get the same bookings

4. A certain amount of criticism aimed at Rosie Jones is because of her disability

5. A lot of the "I love Rosie Jones" sentiment comes as a instinctive response to R4, a sort of anti anti-woke kick

She's a TV station tick box.

Comedy is all about timing and sorry but you can see her (lame) punchlines a mile off because it takes her 5 minutes to tell a joke. Also the faux laughter is the ultimate virtue signal as most of her material is shite. And mostly consists of riffing on her disability or being a lesbian and swearing a lot. Ha Ha....No.

She talks too slow to be a comedian.

I say this a a person too short to play basketball.

She is a little difficult to understand. She's calling out ableism but in the quote in the article she's not saying if you don't find me funny, you're an ableist.

I just don’t find her funny. I struggle with most comedians to be honest. I think it’s great she’s on TV & we do need to give a platform to everyone but from a pure comedy perspective, she just doesn’t make me laugh personally.

HA! Every Brit show has a spot for a 'tard/amputee. Ohhh...if you were both, I bet you could be on a different one every week!

I’m tempted to declare that no one finds her act enjoyable purely as comedy. They are laughing and applauding her for essentially political reasons. Wit is quick, and stand-up is especially fast. If she really is funny, she should express herself in writing where her slowness wouldn’t matter. Not in a TV writers’ room, but in a medium where she could write alone of with a single, patient

She’s have similar problems trying to be a pilot or a surgeon. Is preventing her from those careers ableist or reasonable?.

^patient partner

The only funny thing she's ever been involved in is how much Sean Lock clearly despised her on Cats Does Countdown

Maybe earlier this year or last year there was a Channel 4 show which looked at a history of queer history to mark an anniversary and they had a bit where Rosie would "appear" in tv shows.

There was one bit where she was in the room with Aiden Gillen and Charlie Hunnam having sex in Queer as Folk and making faces and the laughter from the audience was quite surreal as it was just Jones making bizarre facial expressions and it was the funniest thing they'd ever seen. Sarah Millican or Judi Love could have made it funny with their observational humour but this was just so weak.

Similar thing sometimes happens to really attractive individuals that no one ever says no to. They just keep getting pushed up and up and up until they're under a bigger spotlight, and suddenly the people start asking why someone so clearly talent-free landed where they did. She's failed upwards thanks to the many boxes she ticks and now the bill's come due.

Were people making fun of her disability or her bad comedy?

It doesn’t work for the reasons already explained in this thread. I appreciate the obvious efforts she makes to work around and with her limitations. And she’s not entirely lacking in appeal/charisma. But it’s painful to try and listen to the clip.

She’d probably be quite good in a small acting role without any monologues. And maybe she’d be a good writer, too. I’d be very frustrated if I found myself in a situation where I had to sit through her whole act. The audience in the clip seems to be enjoying it, though.

Thank god Liz Carr left Silent Witness. She kept having a black eye as well as….well, everything else.

This skag is not funny. And her whining that the criticism is because she's a woman or because she has cerebral palsy is bullshit. That little tree stump in the wheelchair that befriended Arnold on Different Strokes was funnier than this beast.

Cringe.

I can’t really understand her so I can’t really rate her act.