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This was mentioned in the "heckling" thread in "Entertainment" a month or two back, but I don't think whether it was true or not was established.
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A quick Google for "Well, stop bloody clapping then!" just returns a number of joke sites and a few Myspace profiles. The rest of the text is pretty much identical.
"Stop clapping then" retuns several more sites, which again appear to be primarily joke sites, blogs and messageboards.
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I know I've heard this before...is it already a topic? Not sure...
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It was the heckling thread I started in entertainment, with an article from a newspaper where people had sent in funny stories about heckling. There was no supporting information to go with stories, and times and places weren't identified (though this particular story is pinned to Glasgow - and it is certainly funnier if you imagine the accent).
I wouldn't normally want to chow Snopes - but it seems quite appropriate in relation to heckling - where the outsider barges in to have their say and talk over the person who is actualy running the show.
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I read an old joke from the UK about a politician and a heckler.
The MP says, "I mourn for my bleeding country," and someone in the audience responds "And so you should; you're the one what's been bleeding her!"
The Bono story, with it's punchline of "stop clapping," also reminds me of a man who went to the doctor, complaining (holds his arms up), "Doc, it hurts when I go like this." So the doctor replies (holding his arms up), "So don't go like this."
I guess that one isn't so funny, but I love the first one. Very English.
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Jimmy Carr tells this as a joke on one of his DVDs:
"Has anyone else seen those incredibly powerful advertisements in cinemas where each time a famous person clicked their fingers, an African child dies? I watched those, and couldn't help thinking, 'Well stop clicking your fingers!'"
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An older variation? I remember this quip on the Mary Whitehouse Experience, in the early 1990s:
"Every day an area of rainforest the size of Belgium is destroyed. Why not just destroy Belgium?"
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Again, Jimmy Carr pinches this in his show:
"Every day an area of land the size of Wales is destroyed. Why is it never Wales?"
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