unfunniest "comedians"

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Venga, Sunday, 25 January 2004 10:24 (twenty years ago) link

Controversial, this one, I fear...
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Venga, Sunday, 25 January 2004 10:28 (twenty years ago) link

TIM VINE ROX U R ALL HUMOURLESS!

Johnney B (Johnney B), Sunday, 25 January 2004 10:29 (twenty years ago) link

That guy who is sometimes on Have I Got News For You, and is an old school leftie, no not him, the other one.

jel -- (jel), Sunday, 25 January 2004 10:35 (twenty years ago) link

Mark Steel, jel?

Venga, Sunday, 25 January 2004 10:38 (twenty years ago) link

i think most people mentioned here have been very funny at some point in their time

i'll vote for poor Richard Blackwood again

stevem (blueski), Sunday, 25 January 2004 11:39 (twenty years ago) link

Richard Blackwood is maybe the most pointless person in comedy today. Maybe his appeal is selective.

Johnney B (Johnney B), Sunday, 25 January 2004 12:50 (twenty years ago) link

For this pic alone;
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Nick H (Nick H), Sunday, 25 January 2004 12:53 (twenty years ago) link

disturbing photo - looks like all his limbs are stumped and malproportioned

stevem (blueski), Sunday, 25 January 2004 12:55 (twenty years ago) link

Harry Hill, I just do not get. And yet another vote for Richard Blackwood.

ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 25 January 2004 14:48 (twenty years ago) link

i find that pic quite sexy - he is a nob though.

jed_ (jed), Sunday, 25 January 2004 14:59 (twenty years ago) link

he is a total spanner.

Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 25 January 2004 15:09 (twenty years ago) link

Bingo venga! Yeah, that's the chap.

Ricahrd Blackwood is more a presenter than a comedian per se. He hasn't been on telly this century, has he?

jel -- (jel), Sunday, 25 January 2004 15:10 (twenty years ago) link

oh my God, I have ytpo disease.

jel -- (jel), Sunday, 25 January 2004 15:12 (twenty years ago) link

That Paula Poundstone stand-up thing (at Harvard?) they used to show on Comedy Central all the time was pretty funny.

NA (Nick A.), Sunday, 25 January 2004 15:14 (twenty years ago) link

oh yeah, I agree 100% with the inclusion of Lee Evans, give me Joe Pasquali anyday.

jel -- (jel), Sunday, 25 January 2004 15:23 (twenty years ago) link

The Thin Blue Line was absolutely devoid of redeeming features.

Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Sunday, 25 January 2004 15:33 (twenty years ago) link

I agree about Izzard. Comic waffling: big deal.

R the bunged up with jollop of V (Jake Proudlock), Sunday, 25 January 2004 15:43 (twenty years ago) link

Eddie Izzard is a comic genius, if only for his shtick on the genesis of Arnold George Dorsey’s showbiz name, Engelbert Humperdinck.

The Thin Blue Line was absolutely devoid of redeeming features.

Pah! What’s the difference between the manager of Barclays having a fight, and Fred Nerk?... One’s a warring banker, and the other’s a boring…

The Thin Blue Line is practically perfect in everyway --

Rowan Atkinson: I’m not sure about you, darling, but I had lots of fun last night: Flatulation on top of fornication…


It was the best
Scrabble score I’ve ever had!

Charles Hatcher (musenheddo), Sunday, 25 January 2004 19:22 (twenty years ago) link

I'm glad someone else likes Paula Poundstone. When she was on To Tell The Truth she consistenly cracked me up.

Leee Majors (Leee), Sunday, 25 January 2004 19:26 (twenty years ago) link

Anyone who's not Dave Chappell or Steven Wright.

nickalicious (nickalicious), Sunday, 25 January 2004 22:08 (twenty years ago) link

Paula Poundstone is cool.
Bobcat Goldthwait is probably the most nauseating, unfunny creature around. Followed closely by Gilbert Gottfried.

Moon Afari, Sunday, 25 January 2004 22:21 (twenty years ago) link

is Robin Williams still considered to be a comedian? if so, him.

Jackie Mason wins this one hands-down. plus he's a miserable sack of shit.

Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 25 January 2004 22:32 (twenty years ago) link

Mike Bullard wins. The Canadians know what I'm talking about.

sym (shmuel), Sunday, 25 January 2004 22:39 (twenty years ago) link

Jay Leno.

latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 25 January 2004 22:43 (twenty years ago) link

Gilbert Gottfried's schtick is a horror. Never funny, not even for a second.

Sean (Sean), Sunday, 25 January 2004 23:26 (twenty years ago) link

Tom Wolfe considers Jackie Mason to be in the tradition of Mark Twain. Not sure if that says more about Mason or Wolfe.

gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 25 January 2004 23:33 (twenty years ago) link

I disagree. Gottfried's screaming voice IS very funny, but
it's kind of thing you only need to hear once or twice - after
that you just scratch your head and wonder "what's the point?"
He's especially boring when playing a character.

For me, it's amazing how Tom Green can veer from abdomen
crampingly funny to desperately unfunny - from one sketch to
the next.

Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Sunday, 25 January 2004 23:34 (twenty years ago) link

No mention of Carrot Top yet?

miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Sunday, 25 January 2004 23:40 (twenty years ago) link

There's quite a few old-school British comedians/comic actors who could be put forward: Dick Emery, Benny Hill, Kenny Everett,
Norman Wisdom, Jimmy Tarbuck, Frank Carson, Russ Abbot,
Jiminy Cricket (ok Irish), Freddie Starr, Brian Conley.
Oh and Angus Deayton.

pete s, Sunday, 25 January 2004 23:43 (twenty years ago) link

"No mention of Carrot Top yet?"

Blueberry Head is even worse.

latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 25 January 2004 23:47 (twenty years ago) link

"for when yer passin' gas!"

nate detritus (natedetritus), Sunday, 25 January 2004 23:48 (twenty years ago) link

CHASE ME!!!
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Venga, Sunday, 25 January 2004 23:49 (twenty years ago) link

This guy's pretty unfunny.

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Leee Majors (Leee), Monday, 26 January 2004 00:23 (twenty years ago) link

I thought for sure my name woulda been on here.
I second Mike Bullard, though.

Exactly Who You Think It Is, Monday, 26 January 2004 00:24 (twenty years ago) link

New Zealand is v good at producing unfunny commedians. Anyone who has watched anystandup show will know what I mean, and all those ones on TV1. especially Willynilly and all who sail in it.

isadora (isadora), Monday, 26 January 2004 02:11 (twenty years ago) link

The Thin Blue Line was absolutely devoid of redeeming features.

i think it deserves some respect for the line "your cockup, my arse!"

the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 26 January 2004 04:25 (twenty years ago) link

I think the modern Medusa is here.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 26 January 2004 04:46 (twenty years ago) link

Rita Rudner and Andrew Dice Clay should get married
...and then sterilized

jim wentworth (wench), Monday, 26 January 2004 04:49 (twenty years ago) link

that pic scares tha hell out of me.

Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 26 January 2004 04:52 (twenty years ago) link

David Cross. Yeah, 'hipster', you heard me.

Aaron A., Monday, 26 January 2004 05:23 (twenty years ago) link

Jackie Mason was pretty good as Krusty's rabbi dad on The Simpsons, though.

J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 26 January 2004 07:43 (twenty years ago) link

Graham Norton, Julian Clarey.

mei (mei), Monday, 26 January 2004 08:19 (twenty years ago) link

Momus

M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 26 January 2004 08:53 (twenty years ago) link

Graham Norton, Julian Clarey.

Homophone much? ;)

Anyway, Julian Clary has his moments.

Charles Hatcher (musenheddo), Monday, 26 January 2004 09:17 (twenty years ago) link

David Cross is good as a comedic actor (see Arrested Development), but David Cross as David Cross, well, it's a little much, and pretty forced.

The Luge (Horace Mann), Monday, 26 January 2004 14:51 (twenty years ago) link

Phil Jupitus.

Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 26 January 2004 14:54 (twenty years ago) link

I love Gilbert Gottfried, personally, but I can see how some might find him irritating.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 26 January 2004 14:56 (twenty years ago) link

Ricahrd Blackwood is more a presenter than a comedian per se. He hasn't been on telly this century, has he?

He claims to be the UK equivalent of Eddie Murphy, although surely that would involve starring in films? He was on Channel 4's Top 100 worst songs (many which were actually dead good) defending his soiree into the music world (which wasn't). He was also on the Brass Eye paedophile special, sniffing keyboards and feeling "susceptible". He seems to be a particular bugbare of mine. I really dislike the man. He's also started to remind me in mannerisms of Harvey from So Solid Crew.

Nick H (Nick H), Monday, 26 January 2004 15:48 (twenty years ago) link

another for the list.

calzino, Sunday, 7 April 2019 17:05 (five years ago) link

I have seen literally 3 seconds of his act. I was channel flipping on the TV one evening something like ten years ago, when I alighted on his standup act. He said "Why are goths always so miserable?". I thought "fuck you, you unfunny wanker" and flipped the channel.

just another country (snoball), Sunday, 7 April 2019 17:26 (five years ago) link

oh yeah, he goes on the unfunny comedians list as well!

calzino, Sunday, 7 April 2019 17:30 (five years ago) link

The Grade II listed Georgian mansion comes with 28 acres of land and is described by Historic England as late 18th Century with French windows and entrance hall, a chandelier and ornate fireplace.

hahaha.
I mean throw all the hate you want at the unfunny man (and he is truly dire), but singling out a chandelier and fireplace is next level barrel scraping, not to mention the place has a f*cking 'entrance hall'.

mark e, Sunday, 7 April 2019 17:36 (five years ago) link

an entrance hall could mean looking right at the stairs from the front door or anything up to a fucking warehouse sized thing tho! I presume in a £2 - 6 m valued prop it's more likely towards the latter.

calzino, Sunday, 7 April 2019 17:41 (five years ago) link

Good lawd, Brad Stine is literally the worst. Come back Gallagher and Carrot Top, all is forgiven.

I honestly don't understand the Frankie Boyle hatred. When he rips on the audience, it's understood he's going to do that (though he doesn't seem to be doing it that much these days) and it seems like an honor to be roasted by him. He reminds me of Don Rickles in that way. I love Boyle; he's my favorite comedian of all time. He "crosses the line twice", to quote a common trope, and I'm here for it.

The Colour of Spring (deethelurker), Sunday, 7 April 2019 17:53 (five years ago) link

John Bishop maintains his opposition to HS2.

And yet he's made £4.5M from it.

He is unhappy, like many others affected by the proximity of the proposed line, that he was left with no choice but to sell his family home to HS2.

This family home, this ancestral seat of the Bishop clan that he's lived in for six years. Also it's 150 metres from where the proposed line will be. One hundred and fifty metres. My family used to live in a terraced house that backed onto one of the main railway lines going into London. Seriously, fuck this guy.

The proposed line had rendered it unsellable on the open market - thus destroying all he and his family had worked for.

Except it hasn't 'destroyed' anything because he's made a considerable profit from the sale and can go and buy another mansion somewhere else. Presumably not 'near' (150 metres!) a proposed railway line.

just another country (snoball), Sunday, 7 April 2019 18:00 (five years ago) link

Good lawd, Brad Stine is literally the worst. Come back Gallagher and Carrot Top, all is forgiven.

I honestly don't understand the Frankie Boyle hatred. When he rips on the audience, it's understood he's going to do that (though he doesn't seem to be doing it that much these days) and it seems like an honor to be roasted by him. He reminds me of Don Rickles in that way. I love Boyle; he's my favorite comedian of all time. He "crosses the line twice", to quote a common trope, and I'm here for it.

― The Colour of Spring (deethelurker), Sunday, April 7, 2019 10:53 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Was watching a frankie boyle special from about ten years ago recently and his crowd work had him say that 3 different men looked gay or "a bit camp to be at one of my shows".

findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Sunday, 7 April 2019 20:50 (five years ago) link

Which, forget call-out culture here, is just not very creative

findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Sunday, 7 April 2019 20:51 (five years ago) link

Perhaps he figured that would be the audience members he was directing those words toward would consider that the most humiliating thing to be called? He strikes me as far too left-wing to be genuinely homophobic.

The Colour of Spring (deethelurker), Sunday, 7 April 2019 21:09 (five years ago) link

You think left wing people can't be homophobic?

Angry Question Time Man's Flute Club Band (Tom D.), Sunday, 7 April 2019 21:10 (five years ago) link

If he actually is left wing or that's just another aspect of his act.

Angry Question Time Man's Flute Club Band (Tom D.), Sunday, 7 April 2019 21:11 (five years ago) link

last year he did a Jezza is an anti-semite rant in one of his shows that shows why he still gets work with the bbc despite being *so controversial*. Maybe if Jerry Sadowitz had ripped into the LOTO he'd have got a beeb show as well. Rather than disappearing into obscurity, despite having more talent in his left toe than what that cunt has in his whole body!

calzino, Sunday, 7 April 2019 21:19 (five years ago) link

the Vic Berger edit of the Brad Stine set is incredible

http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=xhXPzFG6b3M

frogbs, Sunday, 7 April 2019 21:37 (five years ago) link

the homophobia in some of Boyle's past sets - and not even that long ago - is utterly indefensible and because of it i can't really enjoy him, even when he's being otherwise funny or right-on about something else. he has never apologized for any of it as far as I'm aware.

Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 7 April 2019 21:54 (five years ago) link

stine's a piece of work. reminds me of the mitchum line when he was asked about scripts he's turned down.

I turned down 'Patton' and I turned down 'Dirty Harry.' Movies that piss on the world. If I've got $5 in my pocket, I don't need to make money that fucking way, daddy.

Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 7 April 2019 21:59 (five years ago) link

just saw the Brad Stine CPAC clip, this dude is on the same diet pills Trump is on, all this pacing and shouting

frogbs, Monday, 8 April 2019 14:55 (five years ago) link

boyle is one-paced and even when he constructs a real filthy zinger i find its a pace i dont like

im not in any way convinced his comic persona or his public persona is indicative of any deeply held beliefs other than what gets him the attn he likes but thats obv irrelevant

i cant even dignify (hignify?) the post that lauds a diet rik mayall like acaster but mildly shades s lee

fremme nette his simplicitte (darraghmac), Monday, 8 April 2019 16:02 (five years ago) link

when the people's court are sending bbc execs to isle of man gulag, whoever was responsible for cancelling stewart lee's comedy vehicle should get the death sentence.

calzino, Monday, 8 April 2019 17:47 (five years ago) link

xp. i think it's reasonable to assume that his persona reflects his genuine feelings. a working class celtic supporter from glasgow who hates the tories and is anti-austerity, is pro-palestine, supports scottish independence, and is homophobic. not a rare combo in the wild

findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Monday, 8 April 2019 17:55 (five years ago) link

... and thinks he's a comedian. Bingo.

Angry Question Time Man's Flute Club Band (Tom D.), Monday, 8 April 2019 17:57 (five years ago) link

Kumail Nanjiani

flappy bird, Monday, 8 April 2019 18:47 (five years ago) link

a lot of contemporary alt-comedy is 💩

findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Monday, 8 April 2019 18:49 (five years ago) link

i see ive already criticized hari kondabolu itt

findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Monday, 8 April 2019 18:54 (five years ago) link

what is a good brit comedian is that a thing

Nick Chiveon (rip van wanko), Monday, 8 April 2019 19:14 (five years ago) link

tony hancock, sid james, kenneth williams, kenny everett .. it all goes to shit after them.

calzino, Monday, 8 April 2019 19:44 (five years ago) link

Larry Grayson, of course.

Angry Question Time Man's Flute Club Band (Tom D.), Monday, 8 April 2019 22:54 (five years ago) link

dave allen

fremme nette his simplicitte (darraghmac), Monday, 8 April 2019 23:28 (five years ago) link

... British >:(

Angry Question Time Man's Flute Club Band (Tom D.), Monday, 8 April 2019 23:37 (five years ago) link

😎😎😎

fremme nette his simplicitte (darraghmac), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 00:14 (five years ago) link

when the people's court are sending bbc execs to isle of man gulag, whoever was responsible for cancelling stewart lee's comedy vehicle should get the death sentence.

― calzino

alan tew better fucking still be doing the theme, that's all i'm saying

Jaki Liebowitz (rushomancy), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 00:32 (five years ago) link


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