I don’t like Frankie Boyle, Jimmy Carr or Jim Davidson. But I still recognise what they do as humour, just not the kind I enjoy.
I find it genuinely odd that some people can’t see the humour in the Smiths.
I don’t expect everyone to like it, but it’s pretty obvious that it’s there.
Oh, no hero worship from me btw, politically, he’s a bellend.
He always has been. Most musicians are.
Great frontman and lyricist, though.
And very funny, in a northern miserableist, LesDawson/Rob Wilton/Hovis Presley/John Cooper Clarke kind of way.