Scott Cheggs’s very British humour.
Humour varies from person to person and varies even more so from country to country and culture to culture. American humour sometimes baffles me and I understand that British humour with it’s cynicism, subtlety and wordplay doesn’t always hit the spot with Americans. Shared cultural and communal values go a long way to explain why something might be funny to a Briton but not funny to an American and why, as hard as I try, because it is cultural and linguistically specific, I can’t find much in the way of German humour that I can understand.
Satire and the mockery of the powerful and of the so-called ‘betters’ in British society have been a feature of British humour for centuries. You only have to look back at the cartoons by James Gillray and Thomas Rowlandson from the 18/19th centuries or Gerald Scarfe in the 20th to see that this sort of humour has been around for so long that it has become part of British culture.
The mockery of the powerful and the pompous was once done with pen and ink but is not increasingly being done digitally. It has enabled humourists to do stuff that would have been unimaginable not just for the satirists of Gillray’s generation but those working just half a century ago.
One person who has made a big impression with his satirical and slapstick mockery of the British political, cultural and media elites has been Scott Cheggs. Now I need to say here that I’m not even sure that Mr Cheggs really exists as an individual but for the purposes of this article I will assume that he’s real.
The premise of Mr Cheggs’s humour is this. Cheggs appears in various AI created scenes with different high profile public personalities mostly from the world of politics. Cheggs, nearly always dressed in a pair of Union Flag swimming trunks and occasionally a matching bikini top covering his manboobs, then proceeds to pour buckets of water/runny shit or some other nasty all over the politician or public figure being targeted. However it’s not all shit flinging for Mr Cheggs, sometimes he mocks the obsessions of the elites in the UK such as their Islamophilia and other times Mr Cheggs uses a virtual frying pan to bash the objects of his mockery.
If you want to have a look at Mr Chegg’s satirical and mocking ‘faecal features’ (and much more of Mr Chegg’s stuff) the please go to the link below. It might be available elsewhere but this is where I tend to find Mr Chegg’s stuff.