unfunniest "comedians"

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