The thing about Martin Luther King Jr. was, and let's all be honest here, he was a bit of a drag. All you ever saw was him wandering around the US, constantly harping on about 'segregation' this, 'civil rights' that and 'non-violent resistance to racial predjudice' the other. How boring can you get? Snooze alert, MLK. Serious snooze alert.

Luckily, while Marv was doing his thing over in America, we had a fledgling Jim Davidson formulating his comedic recipe over here, and we can tell you one thing, it was certainly a lot more entertaining than some stupid speech about dreams.

Now, 45 years on and with years and years of solid, practiced xenophobic material under his belt, good old boy Jimbo Davidson has once again struck out at those boring non-racist liberal fairies that are running our proud nation into the ground (via Newsnight):

'New comedians tend to not [cover] subjects that might be deemed as racist, sexist and homophobic and all those other 'ists'. I think comedy is the victim.

 

'I think it is too safe. Or it can be just as bad as I was in the 1970s and it hides behind the I word, irony... 'I was being ironic'. I went to university, I can't be racist.'

 

'I never used to be ironic, I never knew what it meant. I just did it to have a laugh, become rich and famous... and get better-looking women.'

Yeah, right on. Fucking students. £10 grand a year and all they do is masturbate, learn about other cultures and protest against the illegality of the Iraq war*. Pussies.

"I always thought I wasn't a racist. I never thought I had to deny it because that was back in the 1970s and '80s when I did Chalky. Chalky ceased to exist 20 odd years ago and I would like to seriously apologise for any harm it did, but it would be like the Bay City Rollers apologising for making music that was acceptable in the 1970s.

 

"It is not something I would choose to do now and it's not something I have chosen to do for 20 odd years. But you can't just go around apologising for these people who have this perception of you."

 

"All these people were packing theatres - if the theatres were empty, I would have stopped. I would have made a financial decision, not a moral one. I was doing what I could do in the 1970s."

 

"I think we've moved on now. I don't think racism exists like it did in the 1970s. For instance, I wouldn't do Chalky now because all my black friends don't have West Indian accents.

 

"I think racism and the talk that this play has stirred up is old hat. I don't see any racism at all really. We see the fear about Islam and the protesters, but that's only a lack of knowledge. I don't feel there is a great deal of racism and certainly not from me anymore."  

It's not just the young and middle aged he'd reserved his ire for though, Jim's also acutely aware what a bunch of jelly-spined oxygen thieves the elderly are, especially Bruce Forsyth (via The Sun):

"He's hanging on. No one really wants Bruce on there [TV], do they? Not really.

 

"But they have him there so they can say, 'How dare you say we're ageist? Moira Stuart is wrong!'.

 

"Look at Bruce - he needs ironing before the show! There's a bit in my new play where someone says, 'You only watch Strictly Come Dancing to see if Bruce drops dead live on air'. Miserable old bastard!"

Oh Jim. Not Bruce, come on, not Bruce. He was your mentor. Is nothing sacred anymore?

Still, we couldn't agree with you more about modern comedians being too tame. That Frankie Boyle for example, why doesn't he make jokes about black disabled children instead of just disabled children, and how about Come Fly With Me? Those chinese children didn't even look chinese, and there's no way anyone's going to believe that coffee shop owner is black, she needs at least a few more coats of boot polish and maybe big white lips as well.

Come back Jim, show us how it's done, Big Break style.

*May not include any degree with 'media' in the title.