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This comedian’s joke about being a transphobe in Northern Ireland is borderline genius

Poke Reporter. Updated July 12th, 2024

Sometimes, humour can be one of the most effective ways to tackle a really serious issue.

Nobody proves that better than Scottish comedian Marc Jennings, who shared this viral clip from his stand-up on Twitter/X.

Here’s what Marc says in full:

I was talking to this guy in Belfast and he happened to be a big sorta DUP-voting loyalist/Unionist guy in Northern Ireland. Then he starts telling me his opinions about the trans community. And I’m all like, ‘oh here we f**king go’.

‘This is what he said: ‘If you’re physically a man, how can you identify as a woman?’

‘And I was like: ‘Well, to be fair mate, I mean, Northern Ireland is physically part of Ireland. You don’t seem to have a problem identifying as British’.

‘I mean, what is Northern Ireland if not a trans country, let’s be honest. And if there should be no-one who’s more pro-trans than a Northern Irish Unionist. Like this guy said to me: ‘These trans people, they’re called one name, and expect you to call them another?’

‘I said: ‘What? Like do you mean like Derry and Londonderry, for example, is that what you’re kinda talking about?’

Marc shared the clip to publicise his upcoming Edinburgh Fringe show. He also just so happened to time the tweet for July 12, the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne and the date of the annual Orange Order parades.

Here are some of the reactions from people who saluted Marc’s analogy.

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And you can see more of Marc and buy tickets and find all kinds of other stuff here.

And follow @MarcJennings90 on Twitter here!

Source: Twitter/X/@MarcJennings90