No joke: 77% of comedy venues in UK face closure within a year, finds survey

Three-quarters of British comedy venues face closure within a year without financial support, according to a survey of hundreds of people in the industry who say they fear the government is ignoring the sector.

No shit and it's not down to covid-19, but the politically correct woke nonsense

'Did you hear about all these venues shutting down? What's all that about?' [in a Peter Kay voice]

Read the Room!

Good comedy requires our ability not to be offended. I was always told 'sticks and stones', you took pride in your mental robustness. Now you get rewarded for being an upset victim of words. Only words FFS! Comedy is dead thanks to the tyrants in our country.

You’ve only got yourself to blame I’m afraid. Comedy has gone woke and PC and just not that funny any more. It’s funny because the left want the right to pay for the utter crap. Unreal 🤷‍♂️

It's fine. The comedians were awful anyway in the main. I've been going to alternative comedy since the late 80s and it became tired a decade or more ago.

Comedy?

When comedy was funny did venues have this problem 🤔 strange that

The fall in good comedians is 85% So there's still plenty of slack

Thanks to all the geniuses who believed lockdown to be a rational response.

'F**k Trump!'

They’re shite anyway, the more that close the better.

GET WOKE, GO BROKE!!

Baboom

100% when you and the leftie brigade close them for hate speech.

Twitter has too many laughable stock

PC cancer strikes whainy

maybe some of these multi millionaire comedian's can help out?

We are running out of legal jokes.

Including the Guardian?

MMTRUTHORLIE Stand up comedians are not funny anymore. There’s nothing funny on tv either. Nearly all of them are to political to even raise a smile.

Comedy doesn't exist anymore it's been cancelled. But thank god we still have Roy 'chubby' brown

People became too sensitive for comedy anyway... feelings would have been hurt... it’s for the best

Ive got news, 100.% of the excludeduk will die of starvation before then, how important id that?

Real comedy was cancelled years ago.

Good.

That's a joke

Go woke go broke

Sadly pubs were more given more priority than talented artists that entertain our souls for living.

Why because of woke culture which you are promoting ?

That's ok .. British standup comics aren't funny, they are just mean. Quality British comedy requires 'situations' and scene-based complexity with multiple participants.

In a socialist utopia, there is no room for comedy how we know it today

Not a laughing matter!

Thank God

w are a laughing stock

Omg

It was already dying thanks to the authoritarian, entitled far left anyway.

Well this is what happens when you run continuous scare stories.

The left have destroyed comedy anyway

It's a good thing Netflix has been getting into the comedy game the last few years. Soon, it'll be the only place you'll be able to see comedy.

You gotta be kidding me

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