I don't understand the joke, was the target BB, making them out to be as bad as Nazis in concentration camps ?

anyway, that's not all he said in the house , with his form he has shown he is a bit of a **** and I hope he is never on telly again, I hope he is reduced to doing PAs with Stephen Bear for the rest of his life

Yes, and the other HMs just weren't told why he had been ejected, as far as I know.

she should but you can see why she isn't, if papers are willing to pay her, I am sure she's not a rich woman

I doubt there is a Jewish person alive who wouldn't take offence at a Holocaust-related 'joke'.

Her Granny is more famous!!

they should have had a sweepstake, was it the transphobic, sexist or racist comments ?

ETA : I think it was Ryan who was transphobic, I am getting my Big Brother bellends mixed up, that's right, Biggins had a go at the bisexuals didn't he ?

I disagree. I think that a Jewish person would probably be more likely to make jokes about the holocaust than anybody else. Plenty of Jewish comedians have joked about it.
Not that they think that the holocaust is a funny thing in itself, but because they're making jokes and creating humour out of something bad.

Jewish people of course would, but it would be a bit too close to the bone to hear Biggins the panto darling doing holocaust gags

though Katie, I suspect is a bit of a moron, and probably didn't even get his joke

It's funny how she wasn't offended in the BB house.

We only have BB's word that she ran off crying and had to be counselled. But when she came out of the house and spoke about Biggins, she said she didn't know why he'd left.

I'm doubting BB's story of events. I think they 'enhanced' what had happened to get him out of the house because of his bi comments.

Katie couldn't have been offended as if someone told a bad joke to you, that had you crying and upset, when you heard their name you wouldnt react at all? and even appear, and say, you were concerned about them? It doesn't make sense.

Someone is blowing this all out of proportion and given her the 'script' to play when she came out. She obviously didn't get the script in that first interview. That question and her answer is conveniently edited out of the official this morning video.

I'm sure Katie's been told to keep saying how disgusted she is as it keeps her in the spotlight.

Yes, that is true, but that's quite different. He's not Jewish and she is.

I very much think that the Holocaust is one of the few things that qualifies as extremely poor taste in terms of humour. I laugh at all sorts; cancer jokes, disability jokes, extremely lewd humour.... I think you should be able to joke about pretty much anything. But the Holocaust? Just so monumentally horrific and important, as a lesson in the dangerous potentials of an angry society, that it deserves a particular respect and solemnity.

As to why Biggins is 'forgiven' so easily; I think it's because his removal seemed so monumentally unfair when that ridiculous asswipe Bear was kept in.

the thing is - Biggins lives very much in the showbiz world , and Jewish people and Jewish comedy is very much a big part of that world , and I would imagine that off-camera the jokes are even more 'bad taste' than on-camera .

I would guess that 'Joan Rivers' type of comedy and jokes is pretty rife amongst actors as they're sitting around between takes .

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The problem for Biggins is that there's an undercurrent of seriousness under his 'joking'. He wasn't, for instance, in any way sympathetic towards bisexuals and he can call it humour all day long - it's blatant prejudice.

oh yeah , his little theories about bisexuals were prejudice .


I don't know how mean-spirited it was from Biggins , but tbh a lot of people have these kind of theories where they generalise about some group or other , it's boneheaded and I do think he probably felt he could get away with it .

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I think that the big mistake Biggins made was that this time he didn't cackle after he said it.
Usually a bit of a cackle after everything he says makes everything okay.

I doubt it was mean spirited, he'd have at least had to have done it under the pretence of being ironic, that's how Jimmy Carr gets away with it

maybe the cackle has just past it's sell by date, it's had a good run ?

I think he gets away with it because he usually hasn't said anything that bad going by the general standards of what we consider to be truly offensive. That's what annoys me the most about Jimmy Carr, he pretends that he's offended everybody in the audience by saying something taboo. It's demonstrated by the way he suddenly stops and looks around defensively saying "What?" as if he's gone too far. It appears to be his schtick.
You said the word 'shit' Jimmy. Nobody has been offended by that word since 1934.
Comedians who are truly considered to be offensive simply don't get on television.

Well said Katie. The nation's favourite anti-semite and his "I'm mates with Lesley Joseph" is just another version of "some of my best friends are black".
Whenever UKIP need an after dinner speaker I'm sure Biggins will be grateful for the gig.

Oh don't be fooled. Biggins can only do mean spirited. He's well known for it behind closed doors. Ask anyone who ever attended one of his dinner parties where he holds court to a host of eager wannabes and faded hasbeens. The cackling and giggling are there to mask the mean spiritedness.
Recall the spite and anger he exhibited when ranting about "those bisexuals".

Absolutely agree - he managed to display ignorance, bigotry and insensitivity all at once and there was no punchline in sight.

I actually only started watching because I heard about his removal so I watched what he said very closely and even though I was floored by the extent of his unenlightened bullshit, I don't think he should have been removed for it.

Mind you, by doing so, BB probably saved whatever's left of his career.

Can you imagine another week or two of his unrestrained errant blathering

I think he showed himself for what and who he really is. He's become some kind of 'establishment' gay man who is so accepted in his luvvie circles, he thinks he can say whatever he likes about whoever he likes, with impunity.

He's an embarrassment.

A bore like Biggins who loves to hold court and drone on about any and everything will eventually have said something far worse. He wouldn't have been able to stop himself. Getting him on the subject of race would have been enlightening...

Only some in the luvvie circuit love him. Many don't. Precisely because he is a bitter old queen.

It was really weird to watch/listen to.

A man who sleeps with men, who cannot wrap his head around the concept of other men wanting to sleep with men......................and women.

Just because he himself doesn't wish to and/or can't

I wonder if he's a tad jealous?

It's like a vegan having a strong dislike of vegetarians. A lunatic.