unfunniest "comedians"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_h1euQKJsr4

I have recently cultivated a love of Stewart Lee, though I suppose this is the wrong thread to discuss that.

im sure there's at least one "we <3 stewart lee" thread.

i liked the uk office when i first saw it but am totally on board with the gervais haters now. wish we could deport him/ban him from hollywood

stewart lee is my fav. current stand up; wish the bbc would give him another show

Wasn't a thread on him so I started one
Stewart Lee appreciation thread

ENBB: Rong on Katt Williams, Rong for America

ben stiller isn't really a comedian
― akm

Ex-ACT-ly! But heh, if we're restricting ourselves to standup-types, I'm surprised no one has mentioned Larry the Cable Guy yet. Terrible. Also, when I was watching the newest Monty Python docs I kept wanting to punch Russell Brand repeatedly in the face. Not sure that counts though.

ENBB: Rong on Katt Williams, Rong for America

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I'm sorry I just can't get behind him. I watched one stand up special and it was like OK dude I get it you smoke weed and weed is funny - enough already. Maybe I need to watch more but there was something about him I just didn't like.

Not enough weed...?

Yeah . . . don't think that's really an issue tbh.

Gina Yashere. Shading it over McIntyre in a really close-run thing, with Al Murray Pub Landlord romping home in third.

I would hazard a guess that a routine abt weed is not the best entry point to any comic but the last 60 seconds (to isolate a bit) of that Jacko routine posted above is jawdropping in the best way

Recent evidence suggests that Yashere is no funnier now she's thinnier. How the hell is she working in LA?

Doing nothing, absolutely nothing that day

at a guess

wait that doesn't work never mind

i got it

Katt Williams not funny is insane - the man is freaking hilarious. and I'll actually defend Ralphie May a little bit - I virtually ignored the guy until my sister dragged me to see him (the key here is off-TV)and I was pleasantly surprised at not just how funny he was but how much of an individual voice he has.

my unfunniest:

tim & eric (biggest case of emperor's new clothes i can think of today)
eugene mirman (just falls completely flat for me)
definitely that ventriloquist asshole (please)

okay, so mirman is very funny live and tim and eric are HORRIBLE live
but good on tape.
so.

I've said this before, but it's always bewildered me how for like 5 years Katt Williams was just this annoying unfunny little dude in 80% of the videos I saw on BET providing half-assed 'comic relief,' and then out of nowhere he was suddenly the most popular black comic since Chappelle. He does have an individual voice, I'll give him that, but I don't know, he still comes off as kind of a douchebag who's better at acting the fool than really writing and performing funny stuff. Weirdly enough I think he reminds me of David Spade more than anyone else.

Funny comedians would be a much shorter thread.

people downstairs are laughing at russell howard :(

laughing at is okay, laughing with, notsomuch.

I was a bit wrong about Harry Hill upthread. Still can't go his standup, but TV Burp is great.

New addition to the Yashere/McIntyre axis of rubbish comedy: Steven K Amos (that thing he did on Sport Relief pretending to be Nelson Mandela in a parody of Invictus made me want to kill myself on the spot), Omad Djalili, Lucy Porter.

Russell Howard is a bit shit, but sort of likeable in the sort of way where you'd tolerate him talking random shit if he was your mate. I can't imagine wanting to pay money to listen to him tell blatantly invented stories about things that really never happened to him.

okay what is this fucking abomination called the Lee Nelson show?

fuck
me

Shappi Khorsandi

Chris Addison.

addison's alright imo

McIntyre.

The hatred only makes him stronger you know

Enfield

yeah i prefer the Lisa Simpson "just don't look" approach to these tossers

mind i don't really like stand-ups so this is best not the thread for me eh?

you have to sift through a lot of shite but i'll rep for dara o'brian and even dylan moran as worth taking time out to catch.

non-standup comedians can be unfunny too

but they're easier to over-look

Dylan Moran is one of the select few standups i would actually consider seeing live. Louis C.K. as well. Can't actually think of any others.

I actually came in to mention Louis CK! I think he does some interesting stuff with his show but I've never once even considered laughing while watching his standup. Is he better live?

i find his controversiality too considered and forced. He bunches up before he swears. I think i prefer someone like tim minchin's approach to offensiveness.

... be actually offensively horrible in every aspect of your persona and stage show? it's a look

well, yeah!

The Aristocrats features performances and commentary from some of Hollywood's biggest power players in comedy, TV and film.[3]

Rumors cited in this film suggest that Chevy Chase used to hold parties at which the goal was to tell the joke for an hour, without repeating any of the acts contained in its performance. Penn Jillette notes in the movie that, no one has ever been able to listen to Chevy for an hour.[4]

otm

everybody who has ever appeared on BBC3 ever

Penn Jillette

Chevy Chase could be the unfunniest asshole in the universe - which he certainly isn't - and he wd still be funnier than outspoken Libertarian fucknut Penn Jillette

not rly into "comedians" with inverted commas in the title as if unfunny comedians are somehow betraying or excluded from the type rather than exactly typifying it

otm

You can tell it's Christmas when half the threads in New Answers are about unfunny comedians.

i can't believe how fucking bad Christmas TV is so far this year, like next level fuck all on all night bad

Mickey Flanagan. Fuck off.