unfunniest "comedians"

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