unfunniest "comedians"

Even Pete "May God Have Mercy On Your Soul If You Vote Labour" Murray was funnier than Al Murray.

All Murray, admittedly, is pretty hit and miss on telly, but his stage shows are usually great - his forte is playing every audience very specifically, a skill which gets more or less completely lost on TV.

Al Murray is just a watered down Alf Garnett. I find him (as I found AG) funny in small amounts but the joke wears thin pretty quickly.

i can't believe you all watch Al Murray

I don't, I switch it over

Hopefully not to the Froiday Noight Projact.

Spoiled for choice really

in what way? (slight return)

...Punt and Dennis...
-- pete s, Sunday, 25 January 2004 02:12 (4 years ago) Link

Four years on has anyone ever met anyone who finds Punt and Dennis funny? Ever?

There were some very unfunny comedians on the Wall.

Increasingly, in this day and age, Jimmy Carr is being made to look funny.

The Now Show is a British radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4, which satirises the week's news. The show is a mixture of stand-up, sketches and songs presented by Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis. The show also features skits from Jon Holmes (with jokes about his height), Laura Shavin (earlier series had Emma Kennedy, or occasionally Sue Perkins, for the female voices), a monologue (usually more of a rant) by Marcus Brigstocke, and music by Mitch Benn.

And they're up to series 24!

Four years on has anyone ever met anyone who finds Punt and Dennis funny? Ever?

finds, no. found, yes.

I rather like the now show, especially now that the brigstocke slot rotates between several comedians.

Omid Djalili = Alexei Sayle, but funny

Newsweek Nails It.

okay when the funniest people on your list are Emo Phillips (who can be legitimately funny) and Yakoff Smirnov, you have assembled some terrible, terrible comedians

lol at Carrot Top being described as a low-budget Gallagher and them BOTH being on the list

newsweek taking on the tough news of today

taking a bold anti-andrew dice clay stance

omfg what the hell did Gallagher smash in that picture

evidence points towards "incontinent baby"

finally taking gallagher down from his ivory tower

launching harsh zings at zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

not the typical pointed cultural criticism you expect from newsweek's photo gallery section

yeah, i didn't think newsweek did culturally commentary

esp since i smugly assume that much of their readership actually finds half of these dudes funny

am currently judging the hackney empire' "new act of the year" auditions and... man i'm seeing some unfunny acts

http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2009/11/hackney-empires-new-act-of-the-year-audition-3/

Pretty much the 12 easiest targets imaginable. Is Newsweek a college paper?

Also, Emo Phillips is hilars

Posted By: pjrigazio @ 11/17/2009 10:55:38 AM
Seems like this writer is just trying to feel better about himself by attacking 12 people who have been extremely successful at doing exactly what the writer is claiming they have no talent for. Sounds like this guy might need a couple glasses of 'get over yourself'.

^^^ that person is a republican

"Hey, guy whose career has been dead since the '80s. Yeah, you. You SUCK."

I'm not gonna lie, I've def laughed at some Gallagher and Carrot Top in my day. I think they're generally considered "OMGROFLWTF bad comediansOMG!!11" because they rely so heavily on schtick. Gallagher could prolly do OK even if he wasn't smashin melonz

Emo's joke about religion is really funny

i saw emo live like 15 yrs ago. he was funny as hell.

i have mentioned it ad nauseum on here but: carrot top ("CT" to his friends) is a v friendly person

i will also go on record as thinking pauly shore is basically hilar

yeah there was one tape of his that I thought was real funny in high school

just remember, if newsweek makes fun of washed-up comedians, it's lame, but if idolator makes fun of washed-up musicians, it's hilaAAAAAArious

I was walking across a bridge one day, and I saw a man standing on the edge, about to jump off. So I ran over and said "Stop! don't do it!" "Why shouldn't I?" he said. I said, "Well, there's so much to live for!" He said, "Like what?" I said, "Well...are you religious or atheist?" He said, "Religious." I said, "Me too! Are you christian or buddhist?" He said, "Christian." I said, "Me too! Are you catholic or protestant?" He said, "Protestant." I said, "Me too! Are you episcopalian or baptist?" He said, "Baptist!" I said,"Wow! Me too! Are you baptist church of god or baptist church of the lord?" He said, "Baptist church of god!" I said, "Me too! Are you original baptist church of god, or are you reformed baptist church of god?" He said,"Reformed Baptist church of god!" I said, "Me too! Are you reformed baptist church of god, reformation of 1879, or reformed baptist church of god, reformation of 1915?" He said, "Reformed baptist church of god, reformation of 1915!" I said, "Die, heretic scum", and pushed him off. -- Emo Phillips

that's not really a very funny joke

silence *cough* silence

i went fishing the other day, and i caught a big beautiful fish. i wanted to mount it, but... there were people around.

Emo Phillips is a genius. And he was married to Judy Tenuta for a few years. Imagine that household.

P.S. ILX killed Danny Gans.

"I like going to the park and watching the children run and jump around, because you see, they don't know I'm using blanks." — Emo Philips

commode-ians

The wit and wisdom of Emo Phillips:

"Women: You can't live with them, and you can't get them to dress up in a skimpy little Nazi costume and beat you with a warm squash or something..."

_______________________________

"My girlfiend said to me in bed last night' 'you're a pervert' I said, 'that's a big word for a girl of nine'."

Ew!

If you didn't learn from Gallagher, beware of prop comedians.

what was even the point of them running that list if they weren't going to go after Dunham?

yeah, isn't he the most "current" ?

Emo Phillips is great.