So why, in a site full of great comedians, did I include this one? Because he is
in his own way very funny. If you like a rude joke, then there is no-one better at
telling them. I am no prude, and I have laughed at hundreds of rude jokes, as well
as passing them on via email and text and so on. This man however, is a 'one trick
pony'. That is all that he does, and although I have seen him on DVD, after about
10 minutes I get fed up with him. However, he is hugely popular, and is the very
opposite of the type of comedy that I like to watch. So I have put his bio in here
for those that might be interested. It comes from here.
Dave Edwards.com
I have used this information as it was the best available. I mean no ill will to
this excellent site and beg for forgiveness if I have offended by using it. If that
is the case please contact me and it will be removed.
Roy 'Chubby' Brown the self proclaimed 'crudest and rudest' comedian was born
in the depressed steel-making town Grangetown. Middlesbrough and left home when he
was 14. His father was a steelworker and his mother 'a typical housewife who washed,
cleaned and went to bingo'. When his parents divorced it made the local paper it
was so rare. "You used to live every day as if it was your last, I never saw a future
beyond getting a job at the steelworks."
He lived rough until he found his first job followed by a stint in the Merchant
Navy and then jobs as cook, waiter, van driver, hod carrier, scaffolder and steelworker.
Music has always been one of his great loves so he started to play drums in the late
fifties and joined a band playing the northern mens working clubs circuits. It slowly
evolved into a musical comedy act as he realised that comedians got better pay and
found that he could get the laughs.
His blue-period came to the fore after an appearance on Opportunity Knocks in
the mid seventies where he came fourth to a spoon player. His manager George Forster
suggested that he should go completely blue as there were so many clean comedians
around struggling to make a living. At first he had difficulty with the swearing
but now it is the swearing that the people come to expect. He is really poking fun
at himself and male inadequacy, a third of his audience are women who can relate
his act to the men in their lives. "I decided to go right over the top and be the
rudest man in the country and I haven't looked back."
Roy has two sons who haven't followed in his footsteps, one is a roofing contractor
and the other one owns an ice-cream van. He is very keen on family values and will
not let his grandchildren see his videos, although he seldom worries if the family
disapproves of his act. "I knew I'd written a good joke when the ex-wife didn't laugh."
He uses swearing as part of his act when he's on stage but believes that there is
a time and place for bad language. "I hate swearing in front of women and kids off
the stage, I don't think there's any need for it. I try to keep my family values
and if I hear someone effing and blinding in the street I give them a look."
He didn't let his late mother come to see the show but didn't want her to feel
as though she was being neglected. One day as he was taking her home she turned and
said "Son I'm proud of you." He was very surprised as she was never one to express
her feelings. She died at six o'clock that day.
He has built his career on word of mouth and audio cassettes. For every person
who has walked out in disgust, five more have come to his next performance. He's
been threatened, and had beer poured over him, Alsatian dogs set on him and when
he pushed a man off stage the police arrested him. He doesn't play the club circuit
anymore concentrating on local theatre, civic halls etc. as he has built up the following.
"I've been broke a few times, been on the verge of packing it in thousands of times
but I've always kept going."