Greetings fellow humanoids, can somebody explain the Irish part of the joke to me pls

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1. It’s Spike Milligan There is no explaining the mind of Spike Milligan.

2. Irish people are stupid. That’s the punchline.

3. The Fly was in distress and needed saving ~ ~ The kind hearted Irishman just couldn’t help himself.

4. > depict a bizarre situation that proved fatal for both involved individuals. Since neither individual necessarily had to “die,” however, the poem proves a statement of how the general quality of self-interest among humans is not only sometimes absurd, but dangerous. This is the theme of the work, and Milligan uses the casualness of conversation and the unusual happenings in this fatal scenario to showcase that concept—all the way down to the narrator showing that same lack of care. You can read the full poem.

   [https://allpoetry.com/Have-A-Nice-day](https://allpoetry.com/Have-A-Nice-day)

5. Irish people being stupid was a trope of British entertainment for at least 150 years going back to the Punch cartoons. The comedy Irishman used to be a regular feature of light entertainment through the 70s & 80s.

6. British humour has always been obnoxious to the point of delusion.

7. I’m sure they genuinely felt it was just a laugh, but that they can’t even have a go at themselves, despite the opportunity, tells you everything you need to know about the imperialist national psyche at the time.

8. Spike Milligan liked absurdist humour

   The lead-up is a set of crass stereotypes. Then he does something absurd. The absurdity is the joke.

   He considered himself Irish even if this subreddit doesn’t – so this is him doing the absurd thing as him.

9. The humour is from the eighties & seventies. Stereotypical national traits – Irish stupid, Jewish mean etc. Milligan was proud if his Irish heritage & very often made fun of it. I loved just humour

10. Not sure why it’s so expensive but I read this book many years ago and it outlines answers to many of your questions. You might find a copy at the library.

    https://www.abebooks.co.uk/9780950738154/Nothing-Old-Story-Roots-Anti-Irish-0950738158/plp

11. The woman is Katie Boyle, she was the presenter for the Eurovision Song Contest in the UK on four occasions – 60, 63, 68, and 74. Impossible to explain Spike Milligan’s humour!

12. Irish people are stupid. That is all.

13. When the anti woke crowd moan “you can’t make a joke any more” I always feel like this is the kind of half brained shite humour they’re talking about