Why it's OK to say the word "black" | Sophie Duker at Live at the Apollo - BBC

Funniest female comedian:

Bland, boring, stale, dreary, typical Woke comedy in a nutshell.

Although the African Americano thing made me chuckle.

She's racist. Generalisation based on superficialities is racism. "Of colour" means "non-white". Everyone from the sub-sahara and the carribean must be the same eh?

Gratz on taskmaster ❤😊

What a lovely black girl!!!

She may say black, but she is, truth be told, a stunning mahogany.

How could anyone send you hate? Except for being too intelligent and it scares people. Truly gorgeous.

Unfunny black woman is a good description.

No jokes, not funny, and quite racist against white men. Certainly couldn't get away with it , if the "jokes" were reversed.

Went on for 2 minutes, felt like 8

About as funny as a fire in an orphanage.

No one feels threatened by your terrible comedy or gives a shit that you are black. Get over yourself.

Still waiting for Sophie to address the mass wholesale stabbings and murders amongst black youth in boroughs she would never pass through. Standing on the heads of her supposed ‘brothers’ for ‘food’.
The smug leftist comedians are just atrocious. Same old stuff.
Thank the heavens for David Chapelle.

Anyone who gets heat from Laurence Fox is OK in my book!

I have found out to my chagrin that it's not ok to say 'Not White'

wow so edgy and cool, yaay

Terrible, please stop.
Paint drying is more amusing

Wheres the jokes

AFRICAN AMERICANO 😂😂😂

You have to remember that ‘Black’ was swapped out for ‘coloured’ in the 60s as a more polite term. Lots of people from that generation still think of the word ‘black’ as being offensive which is why they hesitate to use it

What’s actually wrong with African American, because it has African in it? Interesting

A black comedian joking about race? That’s original!

When she put her hand out and said "Sir, what colour would you say I am", she was clearly talking about skin colour, which is just not black.

Lame

she's right, I got told off for saying "black paint" just last week.

bloke had the gall to tell me I can't say that. I have to say "Leeroy, would you please paint my fence?" it's PC gone mad

I don't think its ok to say 'black'. Genius comic tbhh

I don't like comics who base the majority of their material on their ethnicity or where they're from. Use it in the act, but don't make it the core.

How do you say “black illegitimate son without a father” ?

she's funny and I enjoyed her set but as British ppl aren't we all comfortable with black?? is being worried abt saying "black", a southern thing?? I mean no disrespect to southerners by that I'm genuinely curious bc noone here has an issue with it, and saying "people of colour" is weird and clunky and feels unnecessary bc it's not like "black" is a slur?? It's a descriptive term??

How about everyone just stopped getting offended by just about anything? Black people are black, white people are white. Those are colours, not insults. Anyone being offended by being labelled as 'black' or 'white' even though the premise is not meant to be offensive has some serious mental issues.

I mean where's the equality in this? Black people always joke about white people, White people this, white people that, white people can't jump, nerds being labelled as 'the whitest people' etc etc etc and that's okay but then there are people who lose their jobs or become a target of disgusting and violent hatred for saying an innocent joke about black people or even worse, describing a black person as black. And I'm sorry but as long as this is happening, which it is and that's not nearly the whole of it, then this is not a laughing matter. Peoples' lives are ruined because of that.

The point is that as long as black people can't be racist, which is the current status quo, there's no equality and these things are just not funny. I mean has anyone ever heard about a black guy getting into trouble for being racist to white people? Because I know a guy who got suspended from their job for calling his spanish speaking friend 'mate' in Spanish (the word is 'negrito') and also I know a black person who got a commendation for heavily implying that white people are inferior. And why do you think that is? Because no black person has ever been racist to a white person? No, it's because that somehow is okay.

Not funny

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I'm an angry white American!, and I love you Sophie.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!!!!

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this deffo angered some yt look at the like ration lmaoo

Not funny in the slightest - that audience are either easily impressed or overly polite.

White people are afraid to say black because black Americans have been telling us we can't say that for 20 years.

I saw this on tik tok just now and the very last joke about coffee is what sold me on her 💀💀💀

The irony is that she’s only on that stage because she’s black

Still waiting for the joke

Wait can i ask for an african americano?

Because it’s simply a colour

She seems lovely! I think I would have said brown for colour but black for race...but that's only cos I'm very literal!

Americans need to learn 1 thing
Everything is allowed in conversation. If a black person feels attacked because of the Word black then he is mentaly not steady and you should clearly ignore him since black people use the word white in every situation they can use(my personal experience)
Same for the N word. No one is every allowed to say it since its a word we dont need in our language but if black people use it while forbid you to say it then theyre definetly not better then the slaverys back in the Days. We are Humans, colors or Nations are so irrelevant.
Want equality? Live it - dont talk about it.

Take a moment to scroll through the comments here - a real gammon-fest. It's clear what the clip is all about from the thumbnail, so they're only here for the jeer. Bad joke, not sorry.

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This is so stupid. If someone’s black then they are. No one has any issue calling white people white, if someone’s black just call them black

Another race baitor how witty

Labels like Black, White, and Asian only make sense outside of their contexts. In Britain Sophie is Black, but I'm not White.