unfunniest "comedians"

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

― art crut (The Reverend), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 17:09 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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.