unfunniest "comedians"

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