unfunniest "comedians"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cambridgeshire/stage/2003/07/images/comedy_vine_150.jpg

I was born and bread in a bakery... and raised in an oven.

I live in a teapot... I know what you're thinking: pour me.

Handel was my favourite musician, but then he joined up with Hinge and Bracket to form The Doors.

He said “I'm going to chop off the bottom of one of your trouser legs and put it in a library.” I thought, "That's a turn-up for the books."

So I was getting into my car, and this bloke says to me "Can you give me a lift?" I said, "Sure, you look great, the world's your oyster, go for it.”

So I went down my local ice-cream shop, and said, “I want to buy an ice-cream.” He said, "Hundreds & Thousands?” I said, “We'll start with one.” He said, “Knickerbocker-glory?” I said, “I do get a certain amount of freedom in these trousers, yes.”

So I went to the dentist. He said, "Say, ‘Aaah.’" I said, "Why?" He said, "My dog's died.”

Now, most dentist's chairs go up and down, don't they? The one I was in went back and forwards. I thought, “This is unusual.” And the dentist said to me, “Mr Vine, get out of the filing cabinet.”

So I rang up a local building firm, I said, “I want a skip outside my house.” He said, “I'm not stopping you.”

So I was in my car, and I was driving along, and my boss rang up, and he said, “You've been promoted.” And I swerved. And then he rang up a second time and said, "You've been promoted again.” And I swerved again. He rang up a third time and said, “You're managing director.” And I went into a tree. And a policeman came up and said, “What happened to you?” And I said, “I careered off the road.”

For his "One Day as a White Man" sketch on SNL alone, Eddie = classic x1000.

I got them here, so, um, possibly?

*

Surely Ben Elton has his moments: Blackadder, The Thin Blue Line? And leave Victoria Wood alone, if only because of her Alternative Tango.

Maybe Baby (2000) (novel Inconceivable)

Blackadder Back & Forth (1999) (television series Blackadder II, Blackadder the Third, Blackadder Goes Forth)
"Ben Elton Show, The" (1998) TV Series
Ben Elton Live (1997) (V)
Best Bits of Mr. Bean, The (1997) (V)
"Thin Blue Line, The" (1995) TV Series
Stark (1993) (TV) (also novel)
Rowan Atkinson Live (1992) (TV)
... aka Rowan Atkinson on Location in Boston (1992) (TV)
... aka Rowan Atkinson: Not Just a Pretty Face (1992) (TV) (USA)
"Ben Elton: The Man from Auntie" (1990) TV Series
... aka "Man from Auntie, The" (1994) (UK: new title)
Last Laugh, The (1990) (TV)

"Mr. Bean" (1989) TV Series
"Blackadder Goes Forth" (1989) TV Series
Blackadder's Christmas Carol (1988) (TV)
"Friday Night Live" (1988) TV Series
Blackadder: The Cavalier Years (1988) (TV)
"Blackadder the Third" (1987) TV Series
... aka "Blackadder 3" (1987) (UK)
... aka "Blackadder III" (1987) (USA: video title)
"Filthy Rich & Catflap" (1987) TV Series
"Saturday Live" (1986) TV Series
"Lenny Henry Tonite" (1986) TV Series
Comic Relief (1986/II) (TV)
... aka Utterly Utterly Rude Video Live, The (1986) (TV) (UK: video title)
"Blackadder II" (1986) TV Series
... aka "Black-Adder II" (1986)
"Happy Families" (1985) TV Series (writer)
"Spitting Image" (1984) TV Series (writer)
"Black Adder, The" (1983) TV Series (writer)
... aka "Blackadder" (1983)
"Alfresco" (1983) TV Series (head writer)
"Young Ones, The" (1982) TV Series

It's surprising how many there are, when you come to think of it.

i'll vote for poor Richard Blackwood again

Ricahrd Blackwood is more a presenter than a comedian per se. He hasn't been on telly this century, has he?

The Thin Blue Line was absolutely devoid of redeeming features.

Pah! What’s the difference between the manager of Barclays having a fight, and Fred Nerk?... One’s a warring banker, and the other’s a boring…

The Thin Blue Line is practically perfect in everyway --

Rowan Atkinson: I’m not sure about you, darling, but I had lots of fun last night: Flatulation on top of fornication…

It was the best Scrabble score I’ve ever had!

Jackie Mason wins this one hands-down. plus he's a miserable sack of shit.

For me, it's amazing how Tom Green can veer from abdomen
crampingly funny to desperately unfunny - from one sketch to
the next.

Blueberry Head is even worse.

http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2003/Aug-15-Fri-2003/photos/lifestyle.jpg

i think it deserves some respect for the line "your cockup, my arse!"

Homophone much? ;)

Anyway, Julian Clary has his moments.

He claims to be the UK equivalent of Eddie Murphy, although surely that would involve starring in films? He was on Channel 4's Top 100 worst songs (many which were actually dead good) defending his soiree into the music world (which wasn't). He was also on the Brass Eye paedophile special, sniffing keyboards and feeling "susceptible". He seems to be a particular bugbare of mine. I really dislike the man. He's also started to remind me in mannerisms of Harvey from So Solid Crew.

Danny Gans, ladies and gentlemen.

Lisa Lamapanelli

Dane Cook.

How about Lenny Bruce? No seriously, I mean he told stories, more than he delivered knee-slapping laffs. I'm trying to assume this thread isn't just about naming comedians you don't like.

try harder.

interesting pic under the lee evans one there.

Brian Reagan makes Dane Cook look like Richard Pryor.

Harry Hill. Just awful!

http://i17.tinypic.com/6ptj2ua.gif

snoop's thinking of benny hill obv

Tringelbert Wangledack.

Never heard of him, but those Tim Vine jokes are all great.

OMG at Danny Gans!

i don't know anything about lee evans' standup but he gets a free pass for 'funny bones,' he was great in that

Tommy Fawkes (Oliver Platt) is a struggling stand-up comedian who has tried for years to get out from under the shadow of his father, George Fawkes (Jerry Lewis), himself a famous humorist. Tommy finally scores a showcase spot at a major resort in Las Vegas, but when opening night rolls around, Tommy's act is an unqualified disaster, with the failure made even more painful by his father's presence in the audience. In search of a fresh start, Tommy heads to Blackpool, England, where he was born and raised, to look for a new act. Hoping to buy material from local performers, Tommy auditions a large number of acts, most of whom are utterly hopeless, until he sees a hilarious vaudeville team, the Parker Brothers. Their act seems more than a bit familiar, however, and Tommy soon realizes that they're doing his father's old material. But they have every right to be doing George's schtick -- it seems George stole his act from the Parkers ages ago. What's more, the younger and more eccentric of the Parker Boys, Jack (Lee Evans), is actually Tommy's half brother, the product of a fling with a Blackpool showgirl years ago. Veering between comedy and drama, Funny Bones has more than its share of effective moments on either side of the fence, and features fine supporting performances from Oliver Reed, Leslie Caron and Harold Nicholas.

OMG at Danny Gans!

Yeah, that's amazingly awful stuff. I was thankfully unaware of his existence until the other day.

Thanks! Fascinatingly bad. I'm completely hooked.

Just that impersonation alone which 'welcomes' you. Good lord.

Kathy Griffin is like that sort of pop culture savvy high school theater girl who thought she was funny, but never really was and still isn't.

^^^

people who mention harry hill, bob monkhouse or kenny everett are wrong.

mention in which way? wrong about what?

Harry Hill. Just awful!

-- Dr.C, Monday, 21 April 2008 14:31 (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

This is the only prgramme mt whole family finds funny, from my 6 year old daughter to my 70 year old mum. Consistently hilarious.

alexei sayle. his act was 80% saliva and 0% laughs.

i love that he lives like an oligarch nowadays, he even talks like a grand old man of industry. prick.

What was the other 20%?

Harry Hill. Just awful!

-- Dr.C, Monday, April 21, 2008 3:31 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

wtf?

Al Murray

What was the other 20%?

-- Michael Jones, 22 April 2008 10:28 (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

lefty bandwagon and shouting, as far as i could tell.

Nothing wrong with that!

well, ok i admit he's funnier than al murray.

no 'Steamboat Fatty' on youtube sadly

Even Pete "May God Have Mercy On Your Soul If You Vote Labour" Murray was funnier than Al Murray.

All Murray, admittedly, is pretty hit and miss on telly, but his stage shows are usually great - his forte is playing every audience very specifically, a skill which gets more or less completely lost on TV.

Al Murray is just a watered down Alf Garnett. I find him (as I found AG) funny in small amounts but the joke wears thin pretty quickly.

i can't believe you all watch Al Murray

I don't, I switch it over

Hopefully not to the Froiday Noight Projact.

Spoiled for choice really

in what way? (slight return)

...Punt and Dennis...
-- pete s, Sunday, 25 January 2004 02:12 (4 years ago) Link

Four years on has anyone ever met anyone who finds Punt and Dennis funny? Ever?

There were some very unfunny comedians on the Wall.

Increasingly, in this day and age, Jimmy Carr is being made to look funny.

The Now Show is a British radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4, which satirises the week's news. The show is a mixture of stand-up, sketches and songs presented by Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis. The show also features skits from Jon Holmes (with jokes about his height), Laura Shavin (earlier series had Emma Kennedy, or occasionally Sue Perkins, for the female voices), a monologue (usually more of a rant) by Marcus Brigstocke, and music by Mitch Benn.

And they're up to series 24!

Four years on has anyone ever met anyone who finds Punt and Dennis funny? Ever?

finds, no. found, yes.

I rather like the now show, especially now that the brigstocke slot rotates between several comedians.

Omid Djalili = Alexei Sayle, but funny

Newsweek Nails It.

okay when the funniest people on your list are Emo Phillips (who can be legitimately funny) and Yakoff Smirnov, you have assembled some terrible, terrible comedians

lol at Carrot Top being described as a low-budget Gallagher and them BOTH being on the list

newsweek taking on the tough news of today

taking a bold anti-andrew dice clay stance

omfg what the hell did Gallagher smash in that picture

evidence points towards "incontinent baby"

finally taking gallagher down from his ivory tower

launching harsh zings at zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

not the typical pointed cultural criticism you expect from newsweek's photo gallery section

yeah, i didn't think newsweek did culturally commentary

esp since i smugly assume that much of their readership actually finds half of these dudes funny

am currently judging the hackney empire' "new act of the year" auditions and... man i'm seeing some unfunny acts

http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2009/11/hackney-empires-new-act-of-the-year-audition-3/

Pretty much the 12 easiest targets imaginable. Is Newsweek a college paper?

Also, Emo Phillips is hilars

Posted By: pjrigazio @ 11/17/2009 10:55:38 AM
Seems like this writer is just trying to feel better about himself by attacking 12 people who have been extremely successful at doing exactly what the writer is claiming they have no talent for. Sounds like this guy might need a couple glasses of 'get over yourself'.

^^^ that person is a republican

"Hey, guy whose career has been dead since the '80s. Yeah, you. You SUCK."

I'm not gonna lie, I've def laughed at some Gallagher and Carrot Top in my day. I think they're generally considered "OMGROFLWTF bad comediansOMG!!11" because they rely so heavily on schtick. Gallagher could prolly do OK even if he wasn't smashin melonz

Emo's joke about religion is really funny

i saw emo live like 15 yrs ago. he was funny as hell.

i have mentioned it ad nauseum on here but: carrot top ("CT" to his friends) is a v friendly person

i will also go on record as thinking pauly shore is basically hilar

yeah there was one tape of his that I thought was real funny in high school

just remember, if newsweek makes fun of washed-up comedians, it's lame, but if idolator makes fun of washed-up musicians, it's hilaAAAAAArious

I was walking across a bridge one day, and I saw a man standing on the edge, about to jump off. So I ran over and said "Stop! don't do it!" "Why shouldn't I?" he said. I said, "Well, there's so much to live for!" He said, "Like what?" I said, "Well...are you religious or atheist?" He said, "Religious." I said, "Me too! Are you christian or buddhist?" He said, "Christian." I said, "Me too! Are you catholic or protestant?" He said, "Protestant." I said, "Me too! Are you episcopalian or baptist?" He said, "Baptist!" I said,"Wow! Me too! Are you baptist church of god or baptist church of the lord?" He said, "Baptist church of god!" I said, "Me too! Are you original baptist church of god, or are you reformed baptist church of god?" He said,"Reformed Baptist church of god!" I said, "Me too! Are you reformed baptist church of god, reformation of 1879, or reformed baptist church of god, reformation of 1915?" He said, "Reformed baptist church of god, reformation of 1915!" I said, "Die, heretic scum", and pushed him off. -- Emo Phillips

that's not really a very funny joke

silence *cough* silence

i went fishing the other day, and i caught a big beautiful fish. i wanted to mount it, but... there were people around.

Emo Phillips is a genius. And he was married to Judy Tenuta for a few years. Imagine that household.

P.S. ILX killed Danny Gans.

"I like going to the park and watching the children run and jump around, because you see, they don't know I'm using blanks." — Emo Philips

commode-ians

The wit and wisdom of Emo Phillips:

"Women: You can't live with them, and you can't get them to dress up in a skimpy little Nazi costume and beat you with a warm squash or something..."

_______________________________

"My girlfiend said to me in bed last night' 'you're a pervert' I said, 'that's a big word for a girl of nine'."

Ew!

If you didn't learn from Gallagher, beware of prop comedians.

what was even the point of them running that list if they weren't going to go after Dunham?

yeah, isn't he the most "current" ?

Emo Phillips is great.

The Dunham blurb was the only one that made me laugh!

Famous prop comic Bobby Hill did not make the list.

my bad somehow i skipped past Dunham in the gallery, thought he wasn't there

emo's bit about the dog getting run over is hysterical. i can't believe he's on any list like that at all it's just baffling.

I thought you meant Emo Phillips' religious joke was:

"I prayed to God for a new bike, but my mom told me God doesn't work that way.
So, I stole a bike and prayed to God to forgive me!"

Feel bad for saying it but... Stewart Lee

Feel bad for asking this but . . . who is Stewart Lee?

Sorry, I got it.

i thought stewart lee is pretty funny.

He is also due to appear on Celebrity Mastermind, with jazz-improv guitarist Derek Bailey as his special subject.

Seems like a great bloke, heart's in the right place, good taste, not funny

I think Stewart Lee's very funny. But his style is quite... singular.

emo philips is funny: "I was pulled over in Massachusetts for reckless driving. When brought before the judge, I was asked if I knew what the punishment for drunk driving in that state was. I said, "I don't know... reelection to the Senate?"

Emo Philips can write a damn good joke, but I can't really stomach his delivery.

quite liked that church one actually. better if PBPhilBrown was the guy trying to stop the person from jumping though

More to comedy than saying a funny line, of course

Emo's wonderful, I agree. And I love his delivery.

The only Emo line that I can ever remember is something like: 'My cousin died from a bee sting. He was a tightrope walker'

More to comedy than saying a funny line, of course

So many comedians rely on the delivery and never bother to write a funny line that I'll settle for a funny line any day of the week and twice on Tuesday.

those last two emo jokes were pretty good!

Yes, but imagine him saying it

While Cook isn't inherently unfunny, and has some very good material, he's suffered from spreading himself too thin...

This Newsweek article was written by an ardent Dane Cook apologist. It's borderline evil. Don't read it!

i have never seen/heard emo phillips

Emo Philips is great with a punchline. Once you get his whole groove, you understand that swallowing the punchline is his exaggerated way of being uncomfortable with consistently writing such funny goddamn punchlines. All comedians hate themselves, after all.

thanks for the psychiatric pro-tip

Hey, I only know what I hear on television.

From comedians.

Feel bad for saying it but... Stewart Lee

He does have some good material, it's just that Richard Herring came up with it in the '90s.

BTW, Andrew Dice Clay may be horrifyingly offensive, and he did enjoy the profits from the most Nazi batshit audience following ever for a comedian, but when he has a joke to tell, he knows how to tell it.

I could never listen to Emo Phillips long enough to hear the jokes, his voice and delivery are too off-putting.

xp ...and when he doesn't have a joke, he knows how to not tell it. Look, the guys first comedy album was a double-CD 2-hour affair called "The Day The Laughter Died", was produced by Rick Rubin (!), and had a sticker on the front that said "Warning: This album contains no jokes." He has a bit about being pissed off at the price of shampoo, so he dumps the contents of a cheaper bottle on the supermarket aisle "like somebody's load" and fills it with the more expensive stuff. It takes a certain bent to get it, I grant you, but the dude could be really funny. Almost as an art project, more than as someone who tells jokes.

After a while, I don't think he got the joke anymore either. Which is a problem.

swapping cheap stuff at supermarket with expensive stuff is one step up from the wonky trolley wheel, i suppose

Ok but imagine someone actually doing that, and you see the level of absurd he's going after.

again, as someone who hasn't seen the guy: sounds like he's in hedberg territory w/some of that? like that tightrope walker joke is v v hedberg

i've done it with freerange eggs (swapped loads of caged hen ones into the freerange box) - animal welfare sponsored by someone better off.

granted, none of them are stephen wright. "In my house there's this light switch that doesn't do anything. Every so often I would flick it on and off just to check. Yesterday, I got a call from a woman in Germany. She said, "Cut it out."

"My school colors were clear. We used to say, "I'm not naked, I'm in the band."

"I was watching a football game with my grandfather. They made a touchdown, and when they showed the replay, he thought they made another one. I didn't correct him. I figured the game he was watching was better."

I like the Wright bit about having an apartment that ran on static electricity. If you wanted to make toast, you had to take your sweater off really fast.

once there was this kid who wanted me to draw him a sheep, so i drew him a few sheep but he wasn't happy with any of them, so in the end i drew a box and told him the sheep was inside the box, and he was very happy.

and then i went to work at the cafe, and then a man came in and he said he wanted coffee. he was a smelly man. tommy did not like him. tommy said 'we didn't have any coffee' .. and then the man just went!

NEW YORK – Comedy Central won't be renewing "The Jeff Dunham Show" for a second season.

The show, featuring comedian Jeff Dunham and his repertoire of puppets, attracted plenty of attention, both positive and negative. Its debut drew 5.3 million viewers, a season premiere record for Comedy Central. But most of the reviews were terrible, and ratings dwindled during the season.

Comedy Central spokesman Steve Albani says the network will continue "to be in business with Jeff in a big way," including a live tour, standup special, DVDs and consumer-products partnership.

Comedy Central signed a multi-platform deal with Dunham in March.

Albini give up producing records then?

James fucking Cordon deserves to have his name on this thread a million times over. I read as far as Dom calling out Ben Elton and thought, fuck me, that guy wrote for Black Adder and there is shit waaaaaaaaaaaaay worse out in this forsaken hell hole. Gavin and Stacy doesn't have jokes. Even Michael fucking Macintyre has bad jokes, Gavin and Stacy is just the worst 'oh working class life and welsh people are funny, right?' bullshit.

I hate Bill Hicks

Now we beat up on Neil Hamburger

Is John Mayer really funnier than David Cross?

Nah, Gavin and Stacey is alright, as current sitcoms go anyway. It's not meant to have "jokes", it's just... gently amusing. Rob Brydon saves it. I do hate Cordon though. I hate him as much as I hate Ricky Gervais.
Despite this, I still like both The Office and G&S. Seems even obnoxious fuckpigs like Gervais and Cordon can create one thing that's any good. Look, I don't make the rules.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWzI_Wn0ZwM

can't believe marcus brigstocke only gets the one mention on here, he's everything bad about current UK comedy (hi cordon!), a smug self-satisfied slobbery jokeless TWAT

corden sorry. also i once saw some clips of kevin bishop's ch5 sketch show and it was gut-wrenchingly shit.

Brigstocke can be pretty funny as a standup but in everything else I've seen him he has been terrible.

Yeah Brigstocke occasionally redeems himself with an actual lol between being a prick. Corden doesn't. And sorry but a sitcom shouldnt be the biggest thing in the country for just being gently amusing without any jokes. We need some sort of punk version of comedy, to wipe away all the self indulgent shite that is currently getting tv endorsments. The fact that Harry Hill is pretty much the funniest thing on telly these days shows how low british comedy has sunk.

Ralphie May

any youtube clips of brigstocke funnies? i based my kneejerk opinion on his appearance on have i got news for you where everything he said made me think "if i knew you i would HATE you"

I may be alone on this but I find Ben Stiller one of the most profoundly unfunny comedians in the world.

i've never heard brigstocke be funny. just does route-one smug-wanker radio 4 landfill shite.

You are not alone.

(xp)

http://blogs.citypages.com/gimmenoise/2009/12/gallagher_and_m.php?page=1

ben stiller isn't really a comedian

http://www.mediabistro.com/unbeige/original/blue%20steel.jpg = funnier than marcus brigstockes career

Aw, don't hate on Neil Hamburger, Chuck. I wouldn't actually consider him a comedian, either. He's a performance artist whose schtick had a limited range of efficacy. It's neither as fun nor as funny as it was when not everyone was in on the joke.

One who a lot of ppl I know think is funny but I just don't get - Kat Williams.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_h1euQKJsr4

I have recently cultivated a love of Stewart Lee, though I suppose this is the wrong thread to discuss that.

im sure there's at least one "we <3 stewart lee" thread.

i liked the uk office when i first saw it but am totally on board with the gervais haters now. wish we could deport him/ban him from hollywood

stewart lee is my fav. current stand up; wish the bbc would give him another show

Wasn't a thread on him so I started one
Stewart Lee appreciation thread

ENBB: Rong on Katt Williams, Rong for America

ben stiller isn't really a comedian
― akm

Ex-ACT-ly! But heh, if we're restricting ourselves to standup-types, I'm surprised no one has mentioned Larry the Cable Guy yet. Terrible. Also, when I was watching the newest Monty Python docs I kept wanting to punch Russell Brand repeatedly in the face. Not sure that counts though.

ENBB: Rong on Katt Williams, Rong for America

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I'm sorry I just can't get behind him. I watched one stand up special and it was like OK dude I get it you smoke weed and weed is funny - enough already. Maybe I need to watch more but there was something about him I just didn't like.

Not enough weed...?

Yeah . . . don't think that's really an issue tbh.

Gina Yashere. Shading it over McIntyre in a really close-run thing, with Al Murray Pub Landlord romping home in third.

I would hazard a guess that a routine abt weed is not the best entry point to any comic but the last 60 seconds (to isolate a bit) of that Jacko routine posted above is jawdropping in the best way

Recent evidence suggests that Yashere is no funnier now she's thinnier. How the hell is she working in LA?

Doing nothing, absolutely nothing that day

at a guess

wait that doesn't work never mind

i got it

Katt Williams not funny is insane - the man is freaking hilarious. and I'll actually defend Ralphie May a little bit - I virtually ignored the guy until my sister dragged me to see him (the key here is off-TV)and I was pleasantly surprised at not just how funny he was but how much of an individual voice he has.

my unfunniest:

tim & eric (biggest case of emperor's new clothes i can think of today)
eugene mirman (just falls completely flat for me)
definitely that ventriloquist asshole (please)

okay, so mirman is very funny live and tim and eric are HORRIBLE live
but good on tape.
so.

I've said this before, but it's always bewildered me how for like 5 years Katt Williams was just this annoying unfunny little dude in 80% of the videos I saw on BET providing half-assed 'comic relief,' and then out of nowhere he was suddenly the most popular black comic since Chappelle. He does have an individual voice, I'll give him that, but I don't know, he still comes off as kind of a douchebag who's better at acting the fool than really writing and performing funny stuff. Weirdly enough I think he reminds me of David Spade more than anyone else.

Funny comedians would be a much shorter thread.

people downstairs are laughing at russell howard :(

laughing at is okay, laughing with, notsomuch.

I was a bit wrong about Harry Hill upthread. Still can't go his standup, but TV Burp is great.

New addition to the Yashere/McIntyre axis of rubbish comedy: Steven K Amos (that thing he did on Sport Relief pretending to be Nelson Mandela in a parody of Invictus made me want to kill myself on the spot), Omad Djalili, Lucy Porter.

Russell Howard is a bit shit, but sort of likeable in the sort of way where you'd tolerate him talking random shit if he was your mate. I can't imagine wanting to pay money to listen to him tell blatantly invented stories about things that really never happened to him.

okay what is this fucking abomination called the Lee Nelson show?

fuck
me

Shappi Khorsandi

Chris Addison.

addison's alright imo

McIntyre.

The hatred only makes him stronger you know

Enfield

yeah i prefer the Lisa Simpson "just don't look" approach to these tossers

mind i don't really like stand-ups so this is best not the thread for me eh?

you have to sift through a lot of shite but i'll rep for dara o'brian and even dylan moran as worth taking time out to catch.

non-standup comedians can be unfunny too

but they're easier to over-look

Dylan Moran is one of the select few standups i would actually consider seeing live. Louis C.K. as well. Can't actually think of any others.

I actually came in to mention Louis CK! I think he does some interesting stuff with his show but I've never once even considered laughing while watching his standup. Is he better live?

i find his controversiality too considered and forced. He bunches up before he swears. I think i prefer someone like tim minchin's approach to offensiveness.

... be actually offensively horrible in every aspect of your persona and stage show? it's a look

well, yeah!

The Aristocrats features performances and commentary from some of Hollywood's biggest power players in comedy, TV and film.[3]

Rumors cited in this film suggest that Chevy Chase used to hold parties at which the goal was to tell the joke for an hour, without repeating any of the acts contained in its performance. Penn Jillette notes in the movie that, no one has ever been able to listen to Chevy for an hour.[4]

otm

everybody who has ever appeared on BBC3 ever

Penn Jillette

Chevy Chase could be the unfunniest asshole in the universe - which he certainly isn't - and he wd still be funnier than outspoken Libertarian fucknut Penn Jillette

not rly into "comedians" with inverted commas in the title as if unfunny comedians are somehow betraying or excluded from the type rather than exactly typifying it

otm

You can tell it's Christmas when half the threads in New Answers are about unfunny comedians.

i can't believe how fucking bad Christmas TV is so far this year, like next level fuck all on all night bad

Mickey Flanagan. Fuck off.

anything good coming up on UK tv? like at all?

http://ryanseacrest.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/whitney-cummings-600-400-10-27-11-b.jpg

I wonder why Christmas season comedy is such a bigger thing in the UK. I found this really curious last year, during my first UK Christmas, whilst being bombarded on the tube by so many ads for terrible looking dvds by comics I'd never begun to have heard of (e.g. Alan carr, lee Evans, etc.) Such that I almost have a masochistic curiousity to see if and how bad their routines actually are.

alan carr is far from the worst.

smdh @ 'stewart lee' up above, smdh

it is possibly the most challopian post i've ever read

the answer to this thread is ALL OF THEM WITHOUT EXCEPTION

OTM x 100000000

answer to this thread: lex

shakey otm

serious r&b fan is serious

the worst comedian is probably some no-name that had an appearance on "comic view" in 2001

lex, what do you find funny?

I come to this thread to find new funny comedians - it seems as if everyone who's ever told a joke on stage is mentioned.

was at the Broadway Comedy Club on 53rd and 8th in NYC at their 11 pm show last Saturday.

they sat me in the front, which meant I knew I'd get picked on, but I didn't care, cos if someone gets in some good zings I usually find it hilarious.

the MC of the evening was this unfunny guy whose name I forget (other than he was Irish). His brand of humor was telling me that I looked like a rapist, asking me if I was there by myself (which I was, as I took the trip alone as my bro couldn't make it), and then saying "he says that like it's not the creepiest thing in the world to go to a comedy show by yourself" and started telling everyone I was 'scaring' him.

nobody laughing, really hella awkward. I wasn't mad so much but I just sat in silence (as did most of the audience, cos his set wasn't funny at all). Rest of the show was fun and in bounds but man....that's acceptable now?

Frankie Boyle.

I will never understand why someone would feel it's their calling to stand up in front of an audience and make them laugh, only to derive your entire act on mean-spirited pisstaking. Maybe these people have always done it, taking the piss out of people, and mistaken the awkward murmuring that ensues as genuine mirth

So many amateur stand up nights are like this aren't they?

mistaken the awkward murmuring that ensues as genuine mirth...

i mean, watching an actual standup do crowd work can be funny. but yeah 99% of crowd work is going to be like that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la6-r5adiEI

I usually enjoy being made fun of by standups, but saying I look like a rapist was a weeeee bit over the line, especially since I wasn't heckling or being disruptive or anything.

trevor noah

jeff garlin

i never did that shit when i was a standup. at most, when someone was opening birthday presents at the first table, i asked what they got.

gonna need to see a WDYLL, Neanderthal

luckily you have years of them to choose from

maybe you do look like a rapist? maybe you carrying a knife and wearing a mask wasn't the best outfit for the evening?

are you a man, neanderthal? then you do look like a rapist!

makes you think

ilx outdoing the shittiest open mic hosts each and every day

also the very few times I've been to stand-up comedy shows someone on stage has said something really horrible about a crowd member. last time the first act made a comment about how low-hanging the breasts of a woman were who was with a guy who was getting ejected for being a sloppily drunken heckler, the entire crowd turned against him and the rest of his 10 minute set was a complete failure

Who was the comedian who El-Kabonged a heckler in the head

no clue but lmao at that reference

My answer:

Craig Shoemaker (born November 15, 1958) is an American comedian, writer, and voice actor.[1] He is best known for his baritone-voiced character, The Lovemaster, which he routinely portrays in his comedy act. In 1997 he was named Funniest Male Stand-Up Comic at the American Comedy Awards.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieIisdMdIOg

xpost he clocked a heckler with a guitar, and the audience roared in anger and he was asking like "wasn't I in the right?" and one audience member said "YOU WENT TOO FAR" and dude just walked off stage after that

I love the fake audience on that Walt G Love clip.

There a whole Rudy Ray Moore movie like that from the 70s

no way is this Craig Shoemaker guy real

https://cont-2.p-cdn.com/images/public/gracenote/albumart/7/5/0/8/800028057_500W_500H.jpg

I was reminded of him when I was reading wiki about The Magic Johnson Show. He was the "comedy relief" sidekick. I can't believe he consistently wins comedy awards.

http://youtu.be/gKkAPzXReT0

no guitar but classic heckler takedown.

that's i believe greg giraldo.

have we posted about dan naian yet

https://youtu.be/FDVkLDElFok?t=99

http://youtube/FDVkLDElFok?t=99

Dude at an improv show walked offstage and swiped my phone mid-text (nb, this was years before doing so became the ubiquitous source of annoyance it now is, and I was trying to be discreet about it) and wrote something like 'I am an asshole' and hit send. Closest I've come in my adult life to decking someone.

Not that many comedians I have a strong dislike for. Even when they're not good I still kind of want them to succeed and think most of the ones I see on television have a basic level of likeability that makes their failures very uncomfortable.

For years I felt very awkward watching comedy on tv because I'd have a strained smile as if they were in the room with me. It was exhausting and depressing because very little comedy succeeds at a comfortable level.

I'm scared I'll make friends with comedians someday and be asked to watch them or give feedback. They'd have to be in the tiny elite for that to be a comfortable relationship.

Given how difficult stand-up comedy is, it seems insane to me how long the sets are and how many people want to do it.

a young man with face tattoos stole my phone and typed boonk gang whole lotta gang shit xp

http://youtu.be/IyE78eyFRa8

say what you will about the man's politics

I assume this thread's heyday did not overlap with Carlos Mencia's and that is why this post is the first invocation of his name.

Not that many comedians I have a strong dislike for. Even when they're not good I still kind of want them to succeed and think most of the ones I see on television have a basic level of likeability that makes their failures very uncomfortable.

This, in every respect, is the opposite of what I think.

Colin Quinn is the unfunniest comedian

I can probably count the number of times Colin Quinn has made me laugh because of a joke and not because of how viciously he was bombing on one hand.

the saga of dan nainan, hungry millennial comedian is funnier than anything he's ever said in a comedy routine, by far

have we posted about dan naian yet

https://youtu.be/FDVkLDElFok?t=99

bahahaha at the comments in this video

even Neil Hamburger's early CDs don't have him bombing this hard. I'm 15 minutes in and he hasn't gotten a single laugh

btw my entire Twitter feed has an obsession with this guy. I saw him get quoted in a dumb newspaper article and it blew my mind

neil hamburger is a treasure and i'm amazed audiences didn't cotton onto this more quickly

I've met Nanian. He is a true sociopath irl.

Ouuuuuuuuuch @ that Nanian video. I couldn't get even five minutes into it. I kept thinking he seemed like some middle manager who fixated way too much on that one time an employee laughed at one of his dad jokes and then decided to just ditch the day job and go for it. And then he told an anecdote which basically confirmed that exact impression.

how does he have anything of a career, is it all russian money

fake amuse

holy shit craig shoemaker is unbearable

This, in every respect, is the opposite of what I think.

― Action of Boyle Man Prompts Visitor to Stay (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 22:35

You hate most comedians and want them to fail, most tv comedians are unlikable, which makes their successes make very comfortable for you?

I just can't hate a comedian for being unfunny, they need to come off like a prick.

I'm more on the side of hate until proven good tbh and regard this approach as healthy

it's like the opposite of music

I don't want them to fail necessarily, I wouldn't care either way, but I hate most of them and they come across as deeply unlikeable.

... and, more importantly, not funny.

There's also far too many of them, especially on TV on those fucking panel shows that are blight on our nation.

I've met Nanian. He is a true sociopath irl.

― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, December 6, 2017 2:57 PM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

any further info you can give us. I'm a big nainan "fan"

a question with rich pickings btw: who is the unfunniest British comedian

all of the bastards tbh

Cast of thousands there.

I just can't hate a comedian for being unfunny, they need to come off like a prick.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:03 (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I hate anyone earning a living from doing useless work badly tbh

also even the funny comedians usually come off like pricks tbh

(xp) OTM. Ireland produces the most unfunny comedians per capita in the world, of course. Australia not far behind.

I hate anyone earning a living from doing useless work badly tbh

― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Wednesday, December 6, 2017 5:14 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

What did the USA ever do to u

The way some of our British ilx guys focus their hatred on comedians and celebrities is disturbing.

I generally like Sarah Milican despite finding most of her material weak.

I haven't really liked any Pete Holmes stand-up I've seen yet I can't help but like his big floppy goofiness and the way he claps and laughs in front of his guests on his chat show.

There's loads like this.

The thing I like least about stand-up comedians is how most of them (even the good ones) tell jokes less intelligent than they are to stay afloat. I've seen some of them say they'll compromise and tell a shitty joke just to bring the audience into the next bit.

xp Assumed for ten years and more on ilx that anything true in the US was somehow normal and thats just for starters

Tom otm btw we somehow generate dozens of professional standups that eat and everything despite being only marginally funnier than Sean Hughes for example.

The way some of our British ilx guys focus their hatred on comedians and celebrities is disturbing.

I think you'll find that it's not just British ilx guys who think this way, though our comedians are notably terrible.

building a rapport with an audience by hooking them with some easy jokes, how terrible!

British ilx guys also use the word cunt a lot maybe that's throwing u

No, there's something different about the British hatred.

The worst comedians I've ever seen is usually on those American celebrity gossip clip shows. They just act in an over-the-top manner as if that's enough.
Can't think of any British standups who are that bad.

Are you British, American or bearable

building a rapport with an audience by hooking them with some easy jokes, how terrible!

― mh, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:26

If they're bad and stupid jokes, it is terrible.

look i've got to go to bed can somebody cut and paste the wiki page on "all British comedians"?

how is badly quipping on trash television anywhere near the same as stand-up

not all british comedians

fuckin a props to british dudes. keep on hating. i'd want to slit my wrists if shit like this was on tv here.

https://s2.thcdn.com/productimg/0/600/600/51/10048051-1345819895-435205.png

they don't even let Chubby on TV fortunately

ahh my bad

tbh most of what makes it to TV is worse and smugger

i think part of the misunderstanding here is the idea that comedic skill in one forum translates to another or is comparable

I think there’s some ability to hone the craft by doing stand-up and transitioning into television but it’s definitely not universal. on the other hand, improv is something people should do recreationally for other improv fans, or in locked rooms to get good at thinking on your feet and shouldn’t be a thing generally attended

this is nearly every youtuber who tries to be "funny"

also just about every english comedian

that dvd cover is going to give me nightmares

bad news, he's done dozens of them

i’ve many nightmares

I really really worry about celebs and mediocre comedians at times. What if they die and end up in the same section of the galactic plane as Jimmy Savile + Max Boyce, and then get trapped there forever.

lets start w john oliver shall we

how is this not hatable?
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/S_rVZqXzSX825ewSrijkpXNzDLr7BvYco19HpkjO0M56f3hmVPKRsyNtTIok0GAukQI=w300

That's INCREDIBLY hateable and one of the least funny things ever to get 240 episodes on off-peak BBC television.

(Chubby Brown is a throwback really, somewhere between an old-fashioned club comedian and music hall turn, retelling playground jokes with all the cheap stereotypes and bigotry left in but not quite making the bigotry the focus in the same way his predecessor Bernard Manning relied on. there's a Viz comic element to his act but without any of the social commentary bits, and his audience continues to be surprisingly big but is almost entirely made up of working class people who are going to be telling the same jokes in the pub or at work tomorrow, which makes the success weirder imo.)

i feel for you british ilxors

https://s2.thcdn.com/productimg/0/600/600/71/8430671-1309343167-384044.jpg

Lol British comedy

not illustrated in that video box - one of the main characters was an indian played by a white English actor in makeup

Those are sitcoms, we're talking more about smug unfunny shit comedians clogging up our screens in thousands of panel shows.

Also that is 40 years ago, Romesh Ranganathan is now.

aye a sitcom's a sitcom, i can see their functional purpose. grown adults making a living from standup and panel shows are the worst. the least beautiful work of anything aspiring to be a cultural product.

is the UK sick of Noel Fielding yet or is he still cool? I could imagine yall could be burnt on him like we are on Russel Brand

Where is all this hatred when we need it for discussion of each new version of Movie-Movie: The Movie? Or the comic book threads?

if you do or don't like a given piece of music it at least has some quality with potential to connect to the higher emotions, watching standup is just like going for a shit except most of the time it ends up being diarrhoea

https://i.imgur.com/Gz6vV3l.gif

RAG i try to keep my hatred out of other people's discussion threads whereas this thread kind of invited it also i'm procrastinating going to bed

look let's keep Mr. Bean out of this ok? he's an angel on earth and a treasure to comedy and humans in general.

ya

no

RAG i try to keep my hatred out of other people's discussion threads whereas this thread kind of invited it also i'm procrastinating going to bed

It's a thread about unfunny comedians, but maybe it could be conducted in a gentler more loving way........

hate is good and sometimes it can even bring people together. remember Dane Cook?

RAG, speaking as someone who has been responsible for inflicting 'comedy' upon an audience and mixed it up with a good number of people who do likewise, I wholeheartedly endorse this very necessary thread.

Edward John Izzard is an English stand-up comedian, actor, writer and political activist. His comedic style takes the form of rambling, whimsical monologue, and self-referential pantomime.

I'll take a million panel shows before talent contests and their infernal audiences clapping in that idiotic British rhythm.
And I find bad panel shows funnier than most of those bad sitcoms.

What's got u RAG cmon out with it

RAG i try to keep my hatred out of other people's discussion threads whereas this thread kind of invited it also i'm procrastinating going to bed

― after "after cease to exist" (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, December 6, 2017 3:49 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i specifically never look in any of the blockbuster (mainly comic book movie) threads to prevent myself from pouring out my mundane hatred for that junk

is Jethro still about? he seemed to work on the same business model as Chubby Brown (never on TV but put out a video/DVD every year)

I'll take a million panel shows before talent contests and their infernal audiences clapping in that idiotic British rhythm

i don't watch either usually, but at least i get why people might enjoy singing and dancing, there's a grim "one of us" collusion to watching panel show comics make the same crap unfunny observations that me and everybody else on the internet has already been making for a week

you're on the money about clapping along on the beat tho, it's agony and i say that as a musical theatre fan

fwiw I think it's something inherent to the medium that dictates that nobody but nobody will go to bat for a mediocre standup comedian and his art whereas there's an entire decades-long board on ilx dedicated to people passionately and often in a very personally invested manner defending the work of usually deeply mediocre musicians

In Scotland we had a forerunner to Chubby Brown, a 'blue' comic, this guy:

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/xY1P_80YnVo/hqdefault.jpg

Jethro must still be doing the rounds, maybe him and Chubby have carved up some kind of north/south turf situation

You don't carve turf you foot it

jameson scotch

Part of the pain is that Strictly Come Dancing didn't need to be so bad. Get rid of the pop tunes and bring in audience who can clap appropriately and who can shut the fuck up when the judges are talking and you've got a bearable show.

There's a whole host of different criticisms for X-Factor and Britain's Got Talent but I'm sure you all know them. Definitely worse than panel shows.

My dad had some Jethro videos.

Two Pints was indeed awful but it wasn't as hateable as the more competent Seth MacFarlane cartoons.

Definitely worse than panel shows

nope

i'd poll this but i know where the silent centrist majority lies

Two Pints was indeed awful but it wasn't as hateable as the more competent Seth MacFarlane cartoons.

let the hate flow through you

I'll defend a mediocre standup as much as saying they're not as bad as some of the other primetime shit.

why isn't there a talent show for comedians? tranches of chancers being torn apart by (other) poisonous egomanics might thin out the worst of the herd

obviously i wouldn't ever watch it

I'll defend a mediocre standup as much as saying they're not as bad as some of the other primetime shit

still wrong

jameson scotch

Well spotted!

could do a ballot poll for hypothetically worst panel show team

(xp) Uh, except it isn't Jameson.

It's the rise of 'arena comedy' I can't be doing with; your funny mate in the pub in front of 10,000 people...the ultimate "will this do" on a night out

why isn't there a talent show for comedians?

uh

Part of the pain is that Strictly Come Dancing didn't need to be so bad.

I think there are probably more painful things to be endured and, hopefully, overcome in a person's life.

Mark S- I'm genuinely surprised anyone here would prefer X-Factor, Britain's Got Talent, Strictly Come Dancing etc over the panel shows. I find Mock The Week difficult to watch now but I generally don't mind the others.

x-factor and strictly come dancing are both much better than any panel show i can currently think of

Can't wrap my head around that.
You don't like anyone who appears on them?

I can't be the only person who despises the voiceover guy on Come Dine With Me?

Don't watch X-Factor but Strictly is obv. better than a panel show stuffed full of desperate comedians whose agents have said, "It'll be good for your career, believe me".

Come Dine With Me is better still. Or used to be. Bit tired these days tbf.

it definitely fits my requirements of "doesn't make me screamingly angry when i have it on as background noise while i'm playing nonograms"

It's not bad but that voiceover guy completely shits on the whole thing.

Whoever choose the music for that show has a great job though.

eh, he's occasionally trying to hard but you need some way of gently undercutting the idiocies of the players

Funnier than Aisling Bea. Cancer is funnier than Aisling Bea though.

yeah i find the come dine guy a bit exhausting and i'm not really a fan of that particular kind of self-deluded humiliation: my sister and her partner can't get enough of it, as they cheerfully admit

i mind the same thing less with talent shows bcz there's a learning curve a little out of the delusion for some people and that's interesting, plus actual opinions and a little discussion of the effectiveness of technique* (i mainly watch cooking comps but i watch a LOT of them)

i think a deep part of the problem with comedians on TV is that they run through their material REALLY quickly and after that it's just congealed shtick all the way down

*not sure where the asterisk was pointing

The desperation to succeed is somehow more naked with comedians than other performers, I find that increasingly more unpleasant to watch.

I always found 'Who's Doing the Dishes?' with Brian McFadden very watchable, it's like a combination of Come Dine With Me, Through The Keyhole and the little comedy skits they do to fill time on Strictly.

(on the subject of Light Entertainment vs Unfunny Comedians, the David Frost/Lloyd Grossman version of Through The Keyhole >>>>> the unwatchable comedy version with Keith Lemon, this kind of bad comedy panel show overspill is something that needs to be taken into account when weighing them up imo)

I definitely get that sometimes, made me miserable a few times.

That Come Dine With Me voiceover guy is the worst. Now I've found a sort of comedian beyond the obvious ones whose work I fucking hate.

Also, with Britain's Got Talent and the pop singer shows, I don't think anything else matches their exploitation of the contestants for awfulness.
Nothing with Sean Lock or James Acaster can be as bad as something that humiliates kids and uses real tragedy as story arcs for people who probably aren't going to go far.

First sentence was regarding the naked desperation.

Is the Come Dine With Me guy a comedian? He's just an actor reading lines surely?

I'd like to see panel shows replaced by live show trials tbh. 5000 workers, currently in precarious poverty level employment, voting whether a haggard looking Robert Webb lives or fucking dies, depending on how smug they think his his offbeat childhood memoir is.

the unfunniest comic novels thread is here: Ben Elton - where did it all go wrong?

Dave Lamb has worked on a bunch of comedy and I'd say his Come Dine With Me job makes him a comedian.

it makes him a comic actor (except he already was one, albeit extremely minor)

Having searched his face, I feel remorse, but there's no getting away from how bad the voiceovers are.

i never did that shit when i was a standup. at most, when someone was opening birthday presents at the first table, i asked what they got.

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, December 6, 2017 3:20 PM (yesterday)

Holy shit, Morbius actually is Dennis Perrin! So much makes sense now...

A typical stand-up show starts with Brown dancing to the audience chanting, "You fat bastard!" Brown then approaches the microphone and says, "Fuck off!", "How did you know it was fucking me?!" or "Recognise me, then?"

if sitcoms are topical, I still find it kind of hilarious that my local american public broadcasting station had some british comedy but it was mostly:
monty python
are you being served
keeping up appearances
take a letter, mr jones

apparently it was either cheap to use or some american decided a narrow subset of old-ass british shows were the best material for midwestern aspiring anglophiles

are you being served is the weirdest

the fact they tried to mix it up by having all of them move to a completely different setting was a fucking trip

i don't even know what's going on in here but are you being served owns

"Are you free"
"I'm freeeeeee"

Love it

They aired those shows on the NY PBS stations too.

Ireland produces the most unfunny comedians per capita in the world, of course. Australia not far behind.

why Tom, I've never seen you at Cafe Lounge or Waywards or Camelot or the Union or Staves or Papa Gedes or the Factory or Fox or the Enmore or any of the other venues 5-60 minutes walk from my old house. surely you're not basing this assessment on seeing three terrible fuckwits do five minutes each on British TV shows, surely

xp Assumed for ten years and more on ilx that anything true in the US was somehow normal and thats just for starters

darragh otm, case in point:

fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal

uh

tbh for at least five years my dream "idea for ilx" has been an automatic week-long temp ban for any cunt who posts opinions about stand-up based entirely on sitting in their own living room

posted from my phone in a bar in LA before seeing my fifth people-on-stage-doing comedy show of the week

wait so the scenes sic has insinuated himself into, despite his considerable intellect, are independent comic books and irish comedians

our world is a ruin

oh shit he's in LA now, too

the best comedy is finding someone who knows their regular audience and being able to present it to both regulars and newcomers

just find a bar to sit in forever

PUTTING THE LA IN LADS

there are at least a couple ilxors who have had to cover the “just for laughs” festival in montreal and having to see that much comedy in a brief period sounds like a living hell

Milking the audience is very difficult to do well, but looks easy. And for each one that does it well, entitles a hundred that do it badly.

Even with the good ones, you can laugh for an hour-and-a-half but when you think back you realise there was nothing to take away.

I lived in Australia, not Ireland, update mh.xls

appreciate the blandishments though

as far as accurately telling me that I've completely squandered my life and career potential counts as praise, that is

So are you an Irish comedian or an Australian one?

come FP with me

how were all 200 new posts here not about Dan Nainan

I don't know but I think I need more videos of stand-ups who take regular laugh breaks only to be met with stony silence and the occasional muffled cough.

if brit ilx turned off their TVs and got out more this could be all of them

Have all the greatest ilx humourists been british

no

our two most celebrated humourists are antipodean

*counts to 'one' several times, looks confused*

the mighty esteban

greatest lack-of-humourists is what's at issue here surely

best part of that Nainan video is the slideshow where he shows bizarre street signs and just asks, "what do you think happened there?", effectively asking the audience to think of a funny punchline. I bet Gregg Turkington is kicking himself for not thinking of that as a Neil Hamburger bit

Did you count estela?

nah the other one's brodie

Brodie jeez that was a shit effort

"I still find it kind of hilarious that my local american public broadcasting station had some british comedy"

that stuff was NOT cheap. but it has always had hardcore fans in the US, in those days when it was much more difficult to ever see any british shows over here.

was a little too abrasive in an attempt to be authentically australian

imo if you love comedy then attend as many events as you feel enjoyable, I'm off my projecting this morning

this is the liveliest discussion ilx has had in a while

Ireland produces the most unfunny comedians per capita in the world, of course. Australia not far behind.

why Tom, I've never seen you at Cafe Lounge or Waywards or Camelot or the Union or Staves or Papa Gedes or the Factory or Fox or the Enmore or any of the other venues 5-60 minutes walk from my old house. surely you're not basing this assessment on seeing three terrible fuckwits do five minutes each on British TV shows, surely

xp Assumed for ten years and more on ilx that anything true in the US was somehow normal and thats just for starters

darragh otm, case in point:

fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal

uh

― shackling the masses with plastic-wrapped snack picks (sic), Wednesday, December 6, 2017 8:17 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ending myself at this post

http://answers-in-reason.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/you-werent-there-man.jpg

I'd still ravish Andy Samberg for a night, but goddamn the 20 minutes of the Golden Globes I saw reignited my loathing for his tepid, inoffensive post-Fallon comedy. Fuck him and the culture that bred him.

A funny criticism given the Black Panthers bit (the only one I saw)

all comedians are unfunny

this desperate looking guy walked up to me when i was leaving a diner the other day and said 'hey buddy, can you help me out? i haven't had a bite in days'... so i jerked off on him

Ricky Gervais is to comedy what Imagine Dragons are to rock music

Shows up in car commercials?

i did hear the Black Panthers bit, but he kinda botched the delivery imho

i can't name a good comedian working rn. please help

pewdiepie

Mullaney was pretty good up until that last special. Now? Idk

yeah I've turned on him completely

Ron Funches is pretty good

Judah Friedlander, Rory Scovel, Pete Holmes all had funny specials w in the last couple years

xp - i like ron funches too! i also like stewart lee which prob makes british ilxors hate me but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

geez honestly i can probably think of more comedians i like, right? this isn't so much a "i hate comedians" as it is "my brains tired cant think of things right now"

I liked Emily Heller's album

xp. many british ilxors like stewart lee

most stand-up is bad. saw a recent mullaney special, if you are charitable you would say that it hits "mildly amusing" at best a few times.

saw a harry kondabolu one a while back: absolute garbage. like, this man is not a performer, how did he get past just doing open mics kind of bad.

Hannibal Buress is still good

I saw a Bo Burnham thing on netflix recently. I guess I can kind of see the appeal but it seemed way too youtube. And then I see that he was a youtube kid.

W. Kamau Bell's last special was one of the best I've seen in a really long time.

you have to be really careful on YouTube, you click on one Bill Burr video and your entire recommendations get stuffed with Joe Rogan garbage

urrrrgh Bill Burr. ugh Bert Kreischer. blurgh Doug Stanhope. I liked them all to a degree at some point but they're embarrassing now

Oh yeah ^^^ I enjoyed that (w. Kamau Bell) and the Ali Wong ones. Mullaney specials are kind of catnip. His ~transatlantic delivery is so soothing.

his first 2 were great. the third was kinds eh.

kinda*

Oh yeah the Ali Wong ones are great

I caught about 30 seconds of Russell Howard while channel surfing a couple of weeks back and he was so fucking hilar-e-i I fell off my chair/had an apoplectic follow through/split my sides etc.. Yeah, I can see how he packs out those arenas.

british standup is generally an order of magnitude worse than already mediocre/bad american standup

ali wong v good v sharp

wouldn't have called mullaneys delivery in any way mid-atlantic, unless camp somehow codes that way? but hes not good.

stewart lee obv a god

yeah, he's got that old timey, continental thing going on.

are you saying camp like effeminate? Because I can kind of see that too.

heh ok i must just not be seeing it. the harry connick jr of standups i could see, maybe

xp yeah id have said it was a standout part of his style tbh?

Adding to the chorus of Ali Wong love.

Can't stand Bill Burr. There's a clip of him talking shit about Yoko that occasionally pops up in my fb feed, and apart from being the laziest and hackiest shit imaginable, it's deeply misogynistic (he says some shit about, "Lennon, control your woman!"). So fuck that guy.

Now I am looking up the difference between mid-atlantic, transatlantic and continental accents. All kind of the same.

poll/thread lets get into it

we're funnier than stand up comedians anyway

Got really tired of Stewart Lee seeing how long his fans would tolerate him milking each joke. I know pretending to be smug is part of his act but I still get the impression he thinks his material is way smarter than it is.

I still quite like him and his best stuff is fantastic but never feel like seeing his new stuff.

Britsh guys: James Acaster, Simon Munnery, Sean Lock are still great, or at least last time I checked.

i found a good comedian yesterday, mark norman

we're funnier than stand up comedians anyway

― topical mlady (darraghmac), Wednesday, January 9, 2019 3:23 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Hey man, speak for yourself.

via vic berger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPcdpdF18dw

brad stine is one of those 'comedians' where it becomes 'funny' if you yell a lot. this same problem plagues many improv teams

this is a classic, he spends half of it screaming at a 16 year old because their parents made them wear a helmet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUdco-_bBeI

god he just tells all the same jokes over and over over decades. what a grifter

the "new yorker magazine" issue where he was called god's comedian was from 2004: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/08/09/standup-for-the-lord

jeez he's walking around so fast in that cpac clip it makes me uncomfortable

I just read this whole thread thinking Stewart Lee was Stewart Francis and wondering how he elicited such strong opinions.

I mean, he's no Milton Jones...

But he can crush a Grape.

Geoff Norcott is such a mediocre unfunny cunt and he keeps popping up on QT now because of course the bbc love his "I'm a tory voting bigot comedian - not a lefty, deal with it!" shtick. ppl who think comedy is a bastion of leftyism + trots are as laughably misguided as those saying the bbc is.

i think it's important that the BBC gives air time to mediocre unfunny cunts from all parts of the right wing spectrum

Comedian John Bishop sells mansion to HS2 for £6.8m

The comedian brought it for £2.25m in 2013 - meaning he has made a £4.5m profit from the deal.

another for the list.