Blindboy (Host)

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7,390 appearances 9 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 1 Sep

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The Blindboy Podcast · A cultural history of Englishman, Scotsman and Irishman Jokes · 1 Sep 2026 podcast

Irish people were working on the construction sites. voice-verified

Why the fuck would they not know what a pick is? voice-verified

Um what you caught an Irishman under a wheelbarrow? voice-verified

A mechanic. voice-verified

Fair enough, now now you're making sense. voice-verified

If we're in Sheffield or Coventry in the 1950s, big industrial, wealthy cities, and you're trying to make fun of an Irish immigrant. voice-verified

Who comes from a very poor rural background where they may not have seen a car? voice-verified

Now that joke works. voice-verified

Now we're making sense with your racism. voice-verified

Paddy has never seen a car, he thinks a wheelbarrow is a car. voice-verified

Fair enough, you have me there. voice-verified

But don't like did you hear about the Irishman who blew up a bus? voice-verified

Yeah, I did. voice-verified

It devastated the financial centre of London and now Margaret Thatcher wants to negotiate. voice-verified

But anti-Irish, racist anti-Irish jokes were completely normalized. voice-verified

You had comedians, 1970s English comedians like Frank Carson, Jim Davidson, uh fucking Mike Reed, who used to be East Endard's Barnard Manning, would have a comedy routine. voice-verified

Based around one-liners, and a huge part of that comedy routine was anti-Irish jokes, and then anti-Pakistani jokes, anti-West Indian jokes, and then you'd have the they were the famous comedians, and then you had thousands of copycat comedians with this one-liner racist humor, and the stinger is that a lot of this humor would take. voice-verified

Take place in what was called working men's clubs. voice-verified

In England, working men's clubs were very important. voice-verified

So they weren't they weren't just like pubs. voice-verified

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