Comedians could be prescribed on NHS to help patients struggling with trauma: Bristol Uni

Article in Mirror;

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/comedians-could-prescribed-nhs-help-25831867

 

If I had been recently traumatised and I was told to go and see a comedian I would feel that my experiences were being made fun of and were not being taken seriously.

 

Comedians could be prescribed on NHS to help patients struggling with trauma: Bristol Uni

Esther Crawley perhaps?

 

Absolutely! It wouldn't be any different than bringing in a clown to a support group to 'help' grieve the lose of a loved one.

 

You've got to be joking.

 

Its a farce for good.

Clearly the quest to discover the inner idiot is bearing fruit.

 

Apparently Angie Belcher is an Associate Lecturer in Comedy at University of Worcester, as well as being the Comedian in Academic Residence at University of Bristol.

I wonder whether "comedy" stopped being funny at the time as universities started to offer courses, or whether the fact that the BBC had already promoted the new genre of unfunny comedy led to the possibility of the teaching of the subject.

 

This is the actual service: https://www.bartonhillsettlement.org.uk/health-and-wellbeing/social-prescribing/

 

What

 

https://twitter.com/user/status/1477711851773440012


Not even sure if that makes it more sensible. Some traumas probably shouldn’t be reframed as stand up routines.

 

In my opinion this makes the whole idea even worse.

 

I feel mean now.

I guess if its self selected then it could be a fun option for some people who feel like it.

Its just the idea of trying to be funny about ME kind of flops. Ricky Gervaise and Jack Dee tried it and ... erm ... it didnt raise a titter, more a kind of stoney silence... next joke please!

 

It strikes me as horrible and I hate the whole way it was Press Released but - this is happening in an economically and socially challenged inner city area where there are widespread health deficits. It's part of a package of giving people ways of doing something new and outside their experiences that might build a bit of resilience to help cope with crap lives. I think it's probably not evil, just a bit naff.

There's a certain irony though in that similar sort of well meaning outside influence has been going on that facility for at least the last 40 years without any change in the well being (or ability to laugh) for the local population.

 

They're aware that the Internet exists? As if comedy is hard to find and people need to be given a little paper to do it. WTF? Medicine is becoming a parody of alternative medicine.

 

Most people aren't funny. That's not at all better.

Not a dig at anyone. Most people are bad at tragedy as well. Performance is not for everyone. These people have no idea what they're doing. This is what happens without accountability, it just gets worse and worse and the participation are evermore plentiful.

 

To me the it’s the ‘economically challenged area’ aspect that makes it a whole lot worse.

In this case building ‘resilience’ might be laughing you poverty house less ness and bleak prospects away instead of having access good quality housing medical and social care and all the good stuff you could have if others weren’t profiting out of your misery.

 

Yeah - but good quality housing medical and social care aren't on offer so something that helps you mentally survive another year without going under might be welcome. With this sort of humour ? Four decades ago we nearly went to live around there - but the flat got firebombed by someone unhappy with the previous tenant before we got allocated. True story.

 

That sounds like a good basis for a stand-up routine, but it still needs a bit of work doing on it.

 

At least the thread title made me smile.