Saturday, August 22, 2009

A Late-Night Anecdote About My Mother

Okay, this one is a bit weird. I was watching the Jimmy Carr 'Live in Concert' show on Channel 4 with my mum and dad. Jimmy was up to his usual nonsense of a pile of extremely squeamish-inducing gags.

He was posing a lot of very awkward moral conundrum questions. These, he says, can show how an audience rate in terms of decency. There are no correct answers, but the answers usually raise a laugh.

One of them was, "Would you kill a whale to save two pandas?" and the audience yelled "Yes"


He continued this for a while as my parents and I laughed along. Suddenly something awful happened. Jimmy asked the ultimate question,

"Would you fuck your father to save your mother?"


There was silence...horrible silence in the living room. I chugged my wine with gusto, hoping that I wasn't blushing, and avoided my parents' eyes.

Suddenly my mother turned to me, and in deathly seriousness said, "You'd fucking better"


Priceless.

3 comments:

  1. OMG! OMG! This made me laugh out loud!! Too funny!!

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  2. I was watching the same show...

    Bit of a simulcringe moment there, sir!

    My mother didn't say anything like that though, as we've already come to some kind of arrangement for situations of that particular vein.

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