unfunniest "comedians"

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

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

uh

― shackling the masses with plastic-wrapped snack picks (sic), Wednesday, December 6, 2017 8:17 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ending myself at this post

http://answers-in-reason.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/you-werent-there-man.jpg

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?