unfunniest "comedians"

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

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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.