I got this tape as part of a group of videos and, being totally unfamiliar with Roy "Chubby" Brown, viewed it with low expectations. My conclusion was that the video was not a loss because I could still use the tape to record something else! Sigh… a sad attempt to sell the film to compulsive masturbators and teenage boys. Actually, as the second group is a subset of the first, let’s leave it at compulsive masturbators. It was reviewed poorly, with Empire calling the film "a stand-up show, allowing the comedian to tell his sexist jokes to a race of aliens who charge him for being a misogynist" and rating it 1/5. [2] Geoffrey Mcnab from Sight and Sound said it was "wildly uneven, often offensive, but with a cheerful inanity which goes some way to compensate for its grosser shortcomings". [1]

Your theory might not be sane. How do his piss-poor song and dance routines challenge the powerful? And had licence to say those things that could not be spoken by others, Fools frequently caused offence by using bawdy language to undermine pomposity…a b Stenning, Paul (24 November 2013). Success – By Those Who've Made It. P. 163. In Flight Books. ISBN 978-1628475869. Royston Vasey (born 3 February 1945), better known professionally as Roy Chubby Brown, is an English comedian. His act consists of offensive humour, high profanity, forthright social commentary and outspoken disdain for political correctness. [3] Early life [ edit ] Joke's on Chubby as Rasaman leaves him feeling blue". The Observer. London. 20 April 2008 . Retrieved 29 July 2008. In 2014, Vasey was fined for reading The Sun newspaper whilst driving on the A19 road in North Yorkshire. [18] Stand up releases [ edit ] Roy Chubby Brown: Filmography". BFI. Archived from the original on 18 October 2021 . Retrieved 31 May 2023.

The brief snippit of Gloria Gaynor’s I Will Survive” is a rare moment of quality in an otherwise endless sea of shite. Chubby' couldn't stomach swearing". Evening Gazette. Middlesbrough. 7 August 2003. Archived from the original on 11 April 2009 . Retrieved 3 January 2015. I think it is possible to see him as forming part of the great tradition of The Fool in motley, hence Chubby’s ludicrous clothing. It is a tradition that has passed down through the generations from the courts of the great kings of the Dark Ages… Roy Chubby Brown fined for reading newspaper while driving". The Guardian. Press Association. 21 August 2014. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 12 August 2019. It certainly challenges one’s preconceptions of what is funny, but I think it is more enlightening to view the film as a post-modern challenge to what we call “the joke”. Take the opening sequence which features a supposedly humorous conjunction of bare arses and nuns, no one has laughed at anything like that since the 1970s. Assuming, as we must, that a modern performer will be aware of the inherent inanity of such a “joke”, we are forced to conclude that this is actually a deliberate attempt to create an inversion in our expectations, a post-joke, post-comedic commentary on what it means to be “funny” in the post-Soviet era.

Vasey has seven children from three marriages. He met his current wife Helen in Scarborough in the late-1990s, and lives with her and their two children in Tetney, Lincolnshire. [12] This issue we descend further into the pits of hell to bring Matrix readers the bad and the ugly in science ficton film. Join us as we reach a new level of terror and explore the tortured mind of troubled auteur Roy “Chubby” Brown through his seminal 1993 masterwork U.F.O. The Movie. a b c d e "Comedy saved me - says Ipsiwch-Regent bound Roy Chubby Brown". East Anglian Daily Times. 24 November 2011.