Welcome to the show. It's great to be back with a brand new special. My last special only dropped on Netflix, the Christmas before last.
And in that special, I talked about the previous special going to number one because of all the complaints.
And the silly cunts did it again.
Where will they learn? It's, honestly, it's, ban it, ban it from the number one everywhere.
My name, like, trended for three days, that Christmas. I wasn't the only comedian who trended that Christmas.
Do you know the comedian, Rosie Jones? She's got cerebral palsy and she was on a TV quiz show and the trolls came out on Twitter.
She's not funny. People say, you're only saying that because she's disabled. You're only defending her because she's disabled, sort of back and forth.
But that wasn't her biggest controversy of the year. This is a true story. Earlier that year, Rosie Jones made a documentary for Channel 4 about her condition, her plight, some of the trolling she gets, some of the insults she gets called, right?
And she provocatively called the documentary, am I a retard? Yeah. Great. Power to her. Now, the people who complained were disability campaigners. They had to go at her.
So, you can't use that word. She went, what? Why? Because you're physically disabled. That's a derogatory term for people with mental disabilities. If you want to use a derogatory term, you should use what it describes your particular condition.
So, basically, Rosie Jones said, am I a retard? And disability campaigner said, no, you're a spastic. That's harsh, isn't it?
I mean, it's context. She was using it to empower people. She was called that. She didn't know, no, that's not me. She sort of embraced it and reclaimed the word.
So, disability campaigners are saying, no, you've got to be very specific, right? Only people who are actually retarded can use the word retard, right?
But who's going to tell them? You know what I mean? Who's going to? You're not going to go into a room and there's, like, Baba sort of lying on the floor of crying in, right?
And you go, all right, Baba, he goes, you know, no, no, no, no, no. It's a tight vote. There's like that. He goes, yeah, you know, you can say retard. Why?
Think you think can't just think. Anyway, I think she should be allowed to use the word in context. If she can't use the word, then I've used the word now, so I'm in trouble again.
Actually, I didn't use the word. Did I? It's a point I want to make. But it's like, oh, he used the word so and so. I didn't use the word. Using the word would be calling someone that word. That's using the word, isn't it?
I said the word in a discussion about the fucking word. That should be allowed, shouldn't it amongst adults?
