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Jingle Bx@!cks

Roy Chubby Brown

PolyGram Video · 1994 · 56 min

Britain's most profane comedian defiles the spirit of Christmas in Newcastle.

Roy Chubby Brown leans completely into his reputation as Britain’s most offensive working comic for this holiday-adjacent hour of stand-up. There is no attempt at warmth or seasonal cheer. Instead, the man in the flying goggles delivers exactly what his audience showed up for: an unrelenting barrage of profanity, aggressive premises, and dirty songs.

Filmed at Newcastle City Hall, Jingle Bx@!cks arrived in November 1994 as part of Brown’s highly lucrative direct-to-video strategy. Advertised as a show that would never be allowed on television, he built a massive audience on physical media—and this tape shot into the top tiers of the UK’s Special Interest video charts upon release. The set heavily features his signature crude musical comedy, culminating in his festive rendition of “My Nuts Roasting on an Open Fire”.

The set list

3 bits

  1. My Nuts Roasting on an Open Fire

    A filthy Christmas parody song performed live for the audience.

  2. Dolly Parton's tits

    Comedic musical routine centering on Dolly Parton.

  3. Material on his big member, masturbation, and his wife

    Explicit, high-profanity blue stand-up jokes and crude one-liners.

How it plays

Tone
Filthy, blue, X-rated, and aggressively vulgar.
On stage
Crudely offensive, self-deprecating working-class comic appearing in trademark flying helmet and patchwork tails.
Pace
Rapid-fire profanity with a recorded count of 148 f-words over 56 minutes.
About
Christmas, sex and masturbation, male inadequacy and anatomy, marriage and the wife

What the critics said

Rated 1/5 on AllMovie and given a 2/10 on the 'gagometer' by Mark Wareham in The Independent, who noted 148 instances of the word 'fuck' across its 56-minute runtime.

In the room: Raucous live crowd dynamic recorded at Newcastle City Hall.

Summed up from reviews, articles and listings. Sources: allmovie.com, polygram-video.fandom.com, imdb.com, watch.plex.tv, independent.co.uk, officialcharts.com, discogs.com, en.wikipedia.org.

Backstory

Released under an 18 certificate for home video via PolyGram Video during the 1990s UK comedy video boom, avoiding broadcast television due to extreme profanity and vulgarity. The release was banned on video by the Irish film censor on 30 September 1994.

Details

Released
Taped
City Hall, Newcastle Upon Tyne
Runtime
56 min
Where
PolyGram Video
Director
Ian Bolt
Honors
Peak position #5 on the UK Official Video Chart
Topics
Before
Exposed (1993)
After
Live at City Hall (1994)

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