Jokes

We were in Torquay and, at the hotel we stayed at, it seemed that everyone was going to see Jim Davidson at the theatre. So we went too. The show was filthy, racialist, nasty..... in short, it was very funny. Don't think I'd like to see another of his shows; one was quite enough and since things have become more and more politically correct (from fear in some cases) one can't help being affected by the trend. So now Jim Davidson is out. But who else is there out there who's worth seeing?
One thing I was struck by in Davidson's show was that the racialist stuff was funny up to a point; the point being when he stopped making jokes about the Irish and West Indians and started making jokes about the Welsh to which tribe I belong. Strange: you laugh at Irish jokes but not ones which are pointed in your direction. The smile began to wither on my face, my tongue began to get dry and I began to be a trifle annoyed.
So I shouldn't perhaps draw any attention to a couple of Irish jokes in The Wiki Man's column in The Spectator last week. But I will.
He wrote: "In the less politically correct age which was my childhood, a series of stocking-filler paperbacks sold in their millions. The first was called 'The Official Irish Joke Book - Book Three (Book Two to Follow)' The only joke I remember concerned the Irish Nobel Prize for Medicine 'awarded to a man who had discovered a cure for which there was no known disease' "