The Last Leg Illuminates The Importance of Disability Inclusion on Purple Light Up Day |The Last Leg

[@adi-sharma]

"less leg than Adam" killed me.

[@Gwakkle]

Comedy shows like The Last Leg have been showing people how it's done for so long - showing people how it's not even that hard to be inclusive!

[@RIXRADvidz]

They're totally ripping into each other but nobody is getting offended. THAT'S the Big Difference. You take offence, if someone intentionally hands it out, they're a dick. This is just good humoured banter. Loads of laughs for Everyone.

[@MichaelJohnson-kq7qg]

George Carlin (of all people) explained why this kind of comedy works - no one here is punching down. No one here is scoring a cheap laugh at a group even less enfranchised than themselves, so it comes across as teasing rather than tormenting, and it's respectful, and it's funny.

[@philoshaughnessy906]

I don't know if he would accept it, but Adam Hills work highlighting the disabled community deserves a knighthood. The man is terrific.

[@saoirsevicteoiria2759]

He'd have to if Josh gave him one.

[@Nosliw837]

Chris McCausland slayed this section! Legend.

[@invisiblecxnt9599]

He's quickly becoming one of my favourite comedians, brilliant on everything I've seen him on

[@carpevinum8645]

There is a difference between being supportive and patronising. And it is a really fine line sometimes.

[@DomWeasel]

And where that line is varies from person to person. Some people couldn't be happier saying 'No thank you' when asked if they need assistance because at least they were asked. Others feel insulted from the start.

[@LeadTrumpet1]

Yes, we should be marketing towards disabled people and include them in marketing. It not only improves the mental health of younger disabled folks who see positive representation (and not inspirational porn) in advertising and know that they aren’t alone and there can be a place for them in society, but accessible products and services designed with the UD (universal design) standards benefit more than just disabled people. As someone who has dealt with the pink tax (items marketed towards those who identify or were assigned female at birth) and the purple tax (adaptive items and services for disabled people), the purple tax is worse. For all the economic activity disabled people generate, the cost of essential goods and services shouldn’t be out of reach of most disabled people.

[@exessex3522]

We had a blind history teacher once. It was fascinating asking him about how he coped. A hell of a lot of it was timing and counting and then having strict rules at home like doors had to be wide open or fully closed. I remember asking him what he did when fried an egg.

[@jodievdw]

You can't leave us hanging like that, friend - we need eggsplanations! ETA: I mostly learned to cook from a uni mate with vision impairment, NGL she was way better in the kitchen than me.

[@idc5309]

Chris is absolutely hilarious, first time I've ever encountered him

[@tropicalels4143]

Definitely watch him on Would I Lie To You! He's hilarious on there as well :)

[@SaintPhoenixx]

He has a great attitude towards his disability, he'll make joke about it but never in a way that you feel uncomfortable or bad for laughing. It's a fine line between being funny about it and just relying on sympathy laughs and he walks that line brilliantly.

[@mikepictor]

He is absolutely brilliant.

[@grahamstrouse1165]

@@mikepictor Literally a bit, too. 🙂Saw him on 8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown a year or two ago. He pretty much carried Jon's team (and Jon's pretty good.) And of course Chris had to do everything from memory.

[@kirstygunn9149]

He started his TV career on children's TV.

[@adam346]

Immediately calls out the problem with using a visual sign of support... god I love this show. Oh man, the way they had her going.. it really is when you are not supposed to laugh.. and you try not to.. that you end up just killing yourself laughing.

[@minibus9]

this is great, i think as a disabled person myself that there needs to be more proactive action, sure you can light up a place or a computer screen or whatever purple but what are you going to do the make the workplace more accesable? what are you going to do to educate employers? these and other questions are very important to conisder i should say this is not me having a go at the last leg but at soceity as a whole on how it treats disabled people

[@didderjade]

London is an absolute *delight*. Her true and genuine appreciation for comedy is infectious.

[@hannahalice1000]

"1 thought the voice was a symptom" Roasted early for Christmas

[@chopperboi89]

I laughed at this so hard that my stomach hurts!

[@kennedyhalfdollar]

“Josh, you havent got a disability?” 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@JEEEVANJOHN]

Accessible trouser pockets for wheelchair users please.

[@hannahk1306]

Even for able bodied people - it's like fashion designers think we don't sit down (assuming the pocket is actually functionable in the first place).

[@Charliefarley170287]

This is one of the reasons I started making my own trousers. I was sick of tiny pockets that I can’t get into when I’m in my wheelchair or mobility scooter. They need to be big and on the waist or thigh, not in the bend of the hip.

[@Nilguiri]

How about a bum bag or a rucksack?

[@JEEEVANJOHN]

@@Nilguiri I mean that is useful too, but it gets in the way sometimes.

[@Nilguiri]

​@@JEEEVANJOHN Well, I can see how a rucksack would, but a bum bag worn on your front would just sit in your lap, wouldn't it? You could even strap it to your thigh, I guess.

[@U2QuoZepplin]

I think this lady is my new favourite person in the world ! Gorgeous and excitable and "laughs like a drain," isn't even the word.....! ( or "words."

[@RIXRADvidz]

The ripping into each other like that, when you have acceptance of yourself as well as others, you can have this kind of fun, because NO ONE IS GETTING THEIR FEEWINGS HUWRT. We all know we're different, it's not a problem for us, it's a problem for you all because you think you're going to catch it. Apparently in the UK you can.

[@benbearrobinson]

Why is Chris McCausland not in everything!

[@kholdanstaalstorm6881]

I don't know what the guests have done before, but based on the 2 clips I've seen today I've got to find out what else these champs has done before!

[@jodievdw]

Chris is good value in Would I Lie To You.

[@louisinjoliet8546]

I think that London had an epiphany within all that humor (sorry, this Yank cannot add the extra U). Despite all the hardships she has endured for who she is, there are other battles that still need to be fought that she was completely unaware of.

[@suemccarthy853]

She'll still make sure she's as loud as possible while screaming about how she should keep her mouth shut.

[@just-tess]

What did Alex say about the Gillette advert? Ironic for @TheLastLeg to not have proper captions...

[@Nilguiri]

I realise you wouldn't get me doing, like, a Gillette advert, people would be, like, is the five blades how he done it?

[@mrbearbear83]

Are we allowed do the voice lol

[@analogdistortion]

Did he honestly mean a disabled person's voice?

[@mrbearbear83]

@@analogdistortion no, he meant someone who says "when is it able bodied persons day". It's a riff on telling able-bodied people they aren't allowed imitate disabled people.

[@wonky_shoebox7514]

I thought purple day was for epilepsy, or is that just in Ireland?

[@simonvanderheijden432]

😂

[@DonovanBanks]

Josh got his Christmas Roast early...

[@Charliefarley170287]

He got a sick burn

[@Lottie-Lou]

London Hughes needs to get over herself. She went on a show about disability and is complaining about disabled jokes made by disabled people. These jokes were not ill-intended. The fact she was doing it on International Day for People with Disabilities is actually insulting.

[@poeiabird]

The answer to when's the day for people without disabilities -- we have 364 of them every year.

[@analogdistortion]

Not exactly a comedian's joke is it?!

[@Charliefarley170287]

It’s every day of the year. Abled snowflakes will somehow manage to make our one day about them.

[@Nilguiri]

1:07 There's a woman not wearing a mask!

[@johnwhittington2998]

Probably exempt

[@Nilguiri]

​@@johnwhittington2998 Yeah, that's not a real thing. If she doesn't want to wear a mask in public, she should stay at home with the windows and doors taped up. I would immediately chuck her out; I don't want to die yet.

[@elizabetholiviaclark]

That guy: "So, when's the International Day for Persons without Disabilities?" Me: "Every day but this one." Borrowed from a beloved, African American, former co-worker's remark about Black History Month. "I don't know how I feel about Black History Month. It means that y'all have the other eleven."

[@fraserkatie]

Who is London Hughes? Her laugh is awful!

[@simonvanderheijden432]

Couldn't agree more.. Loud and irritating. But that's often the case with people who have nothing intelligent to say..

[@falconfightteampresents5992]

How did Adam not call it "Secret Spacka" ???