Here's me doing some new (I mean some of it is brand new, never said before on stage) material about Pride Month. Join my Patreon for access to exclusive content - videos, podcasts, livestreams, roasts and standup! / leokearse
Hilarious as always. On a serious non comedic note though, acceptance month rather than "pride" makes far more sense. I'm not even proud of things I've actually achieved, let alone for simply being who I am.
@@That-Bond-Babe I understand it as proud for risking yourself in the past, and in countries where it's illegal to be openly homosexual etc. But there's no pride in it now it's accepted. In many ways, it seems like an attempt to regain the notoriety by a few outspoken groups, because everyone has stopped paying attention to it. Which is surely what was wanted? So yeah, acceptance month. EDIT: Which basically means not caring what people do if it isn't hurting anyone, so just June instead :)
@werxeh "if it's not hurting anyone" I draw the line at children. When children are bring predated upon then I will oppose whatever that movement or group is. That's after the fact that, as she says above, having pride over an intrinsic or trivial character trait (eye color, hair color, height, skin color etc) is utterly ridiculous. Who a person is, are their values/morals/principles as they live them through convictions. Not their skin color, not how they walk, not how they talk (vocal fry that lots of young women and gay men employ), not their favorite music or food. Humanity is having an identity crisis because having a true identity requires work, discipline and conviction. Whereas asigning your base character traits as your identity requires no work and is self affirming. The whole thing is a sham.
@@rickyspanish492 I fully agree with her and you, that is why I stipulated not hurting anyone. Physical or psychological abuse is still damage, and that is something everyone should discourage. Because that is illegal regardless of sexuality for anyone.
To be clear it shouldn't just be discouraged because it is illegal, it's illegal because it is wrong. But yeah if two adults want to go to town on each other and they both want to, we don't care right?
@@irreverend_ I don't think it should be given any avenue. Give an inch and they take a mile. As evidenced every time it happens in history, including this one. "Acceptance" was achieved which means it was never about acceptance. I would rather remove the alphabets and progressives from society than allow them to drag everyone else down with them. The greater good is what matters most. Not the minority. It's so funny how they will always shriek about "dEmoCraCy iN dAngEr" when the real threat to true democracy is allowing the minority to dictate the majority. Especially when that minority hates the majority.
@mcjeebus Eastern Europeans are the most shameless people I've ever met. I like to tell myself that I've only met the ones that abandoned their country for money but that's tempered by the belief that communism put a big wall between them and everything that is right in the world.
I don’t know, I feel like most of the time when conservatives or politicians bring this point up they never really care about people who serve. They only bring it up in relation that gay people don’t deserve to have pride. We actually do have a military appreciation month, but it’s just not as main stream in the general population, that’s why we celebrate Memorial Day in the month. I just hate how these people think we as gay people don’t “struggle” anymore and we don’t deserve to be recognise…when in other countries just our existence means death or imprisonment. If you really care about the military you would talk about the millions of homeless vets in our streets, the amount of sexism that occurs that still occurs to women serving, or rampant mental health crisis effecting a lot of those serving (it’s crazy the amount of sucides and sucide referral you see in the low enlisted community), but again that doesn’t matter at the end of the day to these people. The military and the people who serve are always just a pawn, only brought up in relation to others but never actually going in depth of what we can do for our service men and women
@@CloroxBleach-nu8voI have donated more than 30,000 dollars for homeless vets to build them a 1bhk home and I’m sick of pride month too. So, what’s your argument now? Flash news, if you are being executed in the mussel east, then your marches should be in the Middle East.you don’t increase the security on the playground when the bank is robbed
Speaking as a bona fide Glaswegian, I can say that Connolly really isn't that great. You'll find ten such people in any decent pub, so he's just not special. Terrible habit of overdoing his jokes with himself laughing first - it's embarrassingly bad. He's also really popular with the north London luvvies brigade which loses loads of credibility. Sorry, never could stand him.
This guy seems like a pupil of Billy. But if there are a lot of people with this level of sense of humor in Glasgow, I feel like maybe it is the place where I can retire and die laughing like I always wanted to.
@@oneironaut420 True, but bigotry affects many areas of society and it seems that the LGBT etc. etc. community seems to feel that it deserves some kind of special treatment; it doesn't, and it would be more respected if it would just shut up and get on with life.
@@jonb4020 We aren't going to be silent when people are actively trying to take away our rights and lying about our lives, families and relationships. YOU think that queer people think they deserve special treatment because you don't want to admit that we are seeking EQUAL treatment. Homophobia is an obstacle to that and if you don't see it it's because you don't WANT to. I didn't recite "with liberty and justice for all" in school every day for years to settle for anything less. And queer people contribute to society and are a part of every community. We fight your wars, teach your kids, bag your groceries, perform your surgeries and create your favorite entertainment. We're not going to live like dirty little secrets just to avoid offending your delicate sensibilities.
@oneironaut420 Everyone experiences bigotry. Slapping your private affairs in people's faces isn't gonna make things better. It'll just piss people off more. If gays wanna blend into society let's stop the flags, and pervy marches. FYI you aren't oppressed. You're attention seekers.
Of course it's still a problem. Look at all the people out there calling gay people groomers just for existing openly. Look at the local state legislatures that are STILL trying to find ways to undermine gay marriage. It was only a few years ago that LGBT people were ruled to be protected by our workplace and health care laws and right wing bigots STILL complained about it. Gay kids are still being thrown out into the streets by their "good" Christian parents. Maybe you should do your research before you spout such ignorance.
@@gln3276 Many people do have an irrational fear of it… they think kids can be “turned gay”, a lot of straight guys are afraid of gay men treating them the way they themselves treat women. But a phobia isn’t just an irrational fear, it’s also a strong aversion, which many people have towards it.
Thank god our founding fathers were God Chads and create the first amendment to stop 1984. Unfortunately they never plan for Demolition man. It’s sad I loved it and I cry
"They'll start a petition to get all the vikings out instead of fighting them, but will spend time making it not seem anti-immigration" laughing my ass off fucking brilliant
@@jacksonvilletaxman1 I said it doesn’t ‘just’ mean fear, so not sure why you’re straw manning me saying ‘instead of’ when it means both, just look in a dictionary. What do you mean by ‘real life’ It is literally used everyday to imply dislike or aversion, hence transphobia or homophobia. It’s only used to describe ‘fear’ when referring to disorders like agoraphobia and arachnophobia. It is also used in biology to describe organisms who dislike certain conditions (photophobia, hydrophobia). The opposite suffix is ‘philia’ or ‘philic’. You not being aware of the meaning of words is on you, not anybody else. Nobody is saying transphobia is a mental disorder. Simply disliking an agenda doesn’t make you transphobic, disliking trans people for no reason other than them being trans is what makes someone transphobic. I’m sure you’d agree people shouldn’t change the meaning of words just to suit them.
@@jacksonvilletaxman1 That was always the case. It’s when you start going out of your way to let trans people know you don’t like them simply because they are trans is where issues arise. Same applies to homosexuals etc. Don’t throw your toys out of the pram when you are referred to as transphobic. It’s just a word.
It's rare to find a genuine and honest comedian who keeps a great beat, knows when and how to leave an audience suspended and then deliver a highly unexpected punchline. You, Leo, are a Master of your craft. Well played, Sir. You left me in stitchee.
They need an entire month of pride and many days throughout the year to validate their behaviour, because they feel absolute shame for the depraved and dangerous acts they conduct.
But they only do that during pride month.... I mean that's the issue isn't it? If it was just a march of solidarity or some such, no one would care. But it's become people parading around in the middle of the day in gimp costumes half naked, and I'd be arrested for wearing that on a normal day (at least if I admit I'm not gay). I think it's a little unfair to say that the majority of people who fall into that group do take part in that parades though, and that most are just trying to get on with their lives and are quite happy you can't be hanged for consensual homosexual sex any more.
No, because there are still people out there who don't have the luxury of living openly and honestly. Do you even know WHY June is Pride month? Do you know the history of the holiday? No, you don't care, you just want to vilfy and demonize.
@@irreverend_ Exactly. Pride month is a REALLY BAD representation of the vast majority of gay/lesbian/bi people who don't agree with or subscribe to the agenda and just want to be left alone to get on with their lives quietly like most people. As with most things its a vocal minority getting all the attention while the much quieter majority are nothing like that and want nothing to do with it. It saddens me greatly when people look at pride parades and the trans agenda and all the other crazy shit associated with LGBTQIA+ like pronounds and language policing and think this has anything to do with most gay people. It does NOT!
Yeah! My local town has its Pride Parade in August… I’m thinking why the fuck don’t they just do it in June when all the fucking flags are everywhere already? We have to put up with it all for a whole Month, then they are coming back a short while later to do it again! It’s like Douglas Murray says: it started off as a Pride Parade. Then it went to Pride Day. Then Pride Week. Now Pride Month! But then really, they bang on about it all the fucking time, it may as well just be a perpetual Pride Lifetime, as we clearly need to know about their preference ALL THE FUCKING TIME!
@@CaptainDarling2020 I mean, straight people make their preference every day in every facet of society so why not gay people too? No sexuality is pushed on society more than heterosexuality.
My oldest friend is gay. He HATES being lumped in with all the other letters. He knows no trans folk, doesn’t like lesbians, doesn’t identify as queer (I had to ask him what the Q stood for) and doesn’t see why he should be categorised alongside people who like banging women now and again. I don’t know what the + means. He probably told me at some point after I got bored listening to him moaning about it all and drifted off. I do take his point though. We’ve been friends for 38 years (and he has been openly gay for 37 of those) so I’m allowed to get bored when he starts droning. This isn’t homophobia - gays can be boring too now and again. It is nice though to have this perspective, that the LGB etc (I’m not being flippant I’m genuinely afraid of missing out a recently added letter of which I am unaware) community is anything but. For comparison if you took all religious folk and called them the JMBCH community you would end up with something similar, a community made up of factions who really have little or nothing to do with one another. A fallacy. Here endeth the lesson. Straight people can be boring too 😊
Leo is the best comedian out of Scotland recently and swiftly replaced many of my favourites. Even UK favourites. Fucking hell, he was needed. And useful comedy and commentary it is. There’s never a bad clip. Never weak material. It’s never boring. I mean he’s killing with every line. I mean think about Frankie Boyle (became dull quickly), Billy Connolly (brilliant but not a lot of new material) and Leo doesn’t do lazy one liners and is politically reasonable and not retarded like so many of them now. So that’s many many reasons he’s the best on every level.
You really should get out to some comedy nights. There are some great comedians on the circuit who will never make it to TV because their material is not PC.
@@sarahhumphreys3980 absolutely. My son (a comedian) nearly stopped altogether as it was getting so difficult not to upset someone in an audience (and it was always someone who had nothing to do with the joke). And he's not even a particularly controversial comedian.
My work supports pride month and encourages staff to wear the rainbow flag in June. I wear a rainbow badge with George and Zippy with the slogan, “oh Geoffrey”. The can’t complain as it does have a rainbow on it 😂
Usually it's the gay son or daughter who ends up taking care of their parents when their siblings are too busy with their own kids to help out. Besides, many gay couples adopt kids that have been left behind by their straight parents. You're welcome.
@@fatmonkey4716 I hardly ever hear gay people in mixed company talk about who they have sex with. Homophobes bring up gay sex more than gay people do. And they always seem to focus on gay MALE sex for some reason; they always talk about how gross anal sex is even though half of gays are lesbians who don't have anal sex much at all. This says a lot more about the homophobes themselves than anyone else. It's OTHER people who focus on the sex they IMAGINE we have. THEY are the ones who can't see past the sex part to see us as human beings with actual feelings and relationships. Gays know that sexuality is about more than just sexual intercourse. It's also about who we are attracted to, who we love and who we form relationships and families with. But homophobes just focus on sex so that it's easier for them to vilify and demean our lives and experiences.
I'm bisexual and for many years now me and other bi and gay men I knew have been calling pride shame we call the gay village shame and the walk of shame the great unwashed we have a whole myriad of names for the gay village
LEO is brilliant and very funny. Had I been in the audience I would have been rolling over with laughter. Too many humans are too serious about themselves. LAUGH more at yourself and everyone else, that is what comedy is. Great job Leo.
Yes why isn't there a proud to be straight month why do gays need a charity they have full rights althoughbi know a lot if gays don't support what oxide has become. What us so special about theircsexualty that there's a month devoted to it oh no its gays transgenders bisexuality and assesuals. Do y think y are better than straight people is that it I believe Italy cancelled pride month and had family mo th instead.good for them 8 don't push my straight sexualty why should they push theirs
Aw man. I used to follow you on twitter, before I was banned despite never lying. Was always asking when you were gonna be gigging in Scotland. Glad I got to finally see some!
His Scottish accent makes the jokes even better. Non-Americans have such effective vocabulary and makes things a lot funnier than they probably are. It took me a _very_ long time to know I'm Ace, partly because I don't f*cking care about orientation or labels. Is it too much to simply exist without knowing some personal preferences? I'm all for figuring oneself out to have a peace of mind but, damn. The alphabet people have taken things **WAY** too far this year. Be happy with who and what you are but let's remember to keep some things to ourselves. Some gay guys I knew/know didn't show any "signs" as they didn't make it out to be their only characteristic. Very polite. Well spoken.They also just so happened to dress very well but doesn't every self-respecting person do that? Annnyway, the only real fact Leo didn't say about who's actually upset about us Asexuals is feminists. Feminazis in particular, the man-hating ones that want nothing more or less to wipe us off the Earth. When in college I read a passage which humored me. It was a bona fide statement backed up by some sources claiming Feminazis hate us Aces because we don't fit into that stupid rhetoric they're always saying: "Men only want one thing..." uh... if it means what I think it does, no we don't. Begone, Karen! Off to CVS for a boxed wine for your sorrows and bag of Whiskas for the cats! Try to figure out a more practical way to insult us Aces. Take your time. I can wait. By the way, if I understand the online community correctly, "we" don't want to have anything to do with the LGBTQRSTUVWXYZ+ people at all. Neither do black or Hispanic people, if that's what the triangle part on the rainbow flag means. It's demoralizing. Black coworker of mine said it makes him and the family come off as needy for support and want more attention like any other oppressed minority. Nope, nope. nope. He's pretty well off as a matter of fact. Nobody needs that and definitely doesn't need to be represented on a stupid flag.
I wrote a joke about gay pride/shame, about 2 years ago, for a set I haven't performed yet, but have tested the specific joke on comedian friends in London, so, I'm going to have to get rid of it now, and take it as encouragement that great minds think alike, or that it was worth nicking.
Great new material! The funniest 10 minutes I've heard from anyone in a long long time! I hope you are still touring with Andrew Lawrence by October in London.
We dont give our children, seniors, Christians, veterans sports heroes or gods a month long festival. So why should with have a month to celebrate sexual deviations?
The Scottish were able to fight off Viking hordes and give the British a run for their money, but political correctness has beat them into submission with a finger wag.
The Scottish ARE the Viking hordes. By the time they fought them off they'd already intermarried with previous generations of Vikings. Go to Largs and look at the locals. Scandinavia has been insufferably woke but it looks like they're getting over it so maybe Scotland will too.
No word of a lie but I worked for a rich Catholic who funded a conversion charity. He was so proud that the - male, obviously - leader of the charity had recruited loads of men to his conversion group. He was also proud that the leader had got his wife pregnant. About a year later my boss's donations had disappeared and the wife and baby were a single parent family. Leo was channelling the Big Yin on this set.
Hilarious! I was crying at one point from laughter. One of the absolute best comedians I've seen on RU-vid. Funny stuff. When has an asexual ever been discriminated against!! Laughing so, so hard.
