the saga of dan nainan, hungry millennial comedian is funnier than anything he's ever said in a comedy routine, by far
― mh, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 22:43 (six years ago) link
have we posted about dan naian yethttps://youtu.be/FDVkLDElFok?t=99
https://youtu.be/FDVkLDElFok?t=99
bahahaha at the comments in this video
even Neil Hamburger's early CDs don't have him bombing this hard. I'm 15 minutes in and he hasn't gotten a single laugh
― frogbs, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 22:43 (six years ago) link
btw my entire Twitter feed has an obsession with this guy. I saw him get quoted in a dumb newspaper article and it blew my mind
― frogbs, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 22:45 (six years ago) link
neil hamburger is a treasure and i'm amazed audiences didn't cotton onto this more quickly
― imago, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 22:54 (six years ago) link
I've met Nanian. He is a true sociopath irl.
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 22:57 (six years ago) link
Ouuuuuuuuuch @ that Nanian video. I couldn't get even five minutes into it. I kept thinking he seemed like some middle manager who fixated way too much on that one time an employee laughed at one of his dad jokes and then decided to just ditch the day job and go for it. And then he told an anecdote which basically confirmed that exact impression.
― Ripped Taylor (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 22:58 (six years ago) link
how does he have anything of a career, is it all russian money
― imago, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 22:59 (six years ago) link
fake amuse
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:03 (six years ago) link
holy shit craig shoemaker is unbearable
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:03 (six years ago) link
This, in every respect, is the opposite of what I think.
― Action of Boyle Man Prompts Visitor to Stay (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 22:35
You hate most comedians and want them to fail, most tv comedians are unlikable, which makes their successes make very comfortable for you?
I just can't hate a comedian for being unfunny, they need to come off like a prick.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:03 (six years ago) link
I'm more on the side of hate until proven good tbh and regard this approach as healthy
― imago, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:05 (six years ago) link
it's like the opposite of music
I don't want them to fail necessarily, I wouldn't care either way, but I hate most of them and they come across as deeply unlikeable.
― Action of Boyle Man Prompts Visitor to Stay (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:06 (six years ago) link
... and, more importantly, not funny.
There's also far too many of them, especially on TV on those fucking panel shows that are blight on our nation.
― Action of Boyle Man Prompts Visitor to Stay (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:08 (six years ago) link
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, December 6, 2017 2:57 PM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
any further info you can give us. I'm a big nainan "fan"
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:09 (six years ago) link
a question with rich pickings btw: who is the unfunniest British comedian
― imago, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:10 (six years ago) link
all of the bastards tbh
― calzino, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:11 (six years ago) link
Cast of thousands there.
― Action of Boyle Man Prompts Visitor to Stay (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:12 (six years ago) link
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:03 (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I hate anyone earning a living from doing useless work badly tbh
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:14 (six years ago) link
also even the funny comedians usually come off like pricks tbh
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:15 (six years ago) link
(xp) OTM. Ireland produces the most unfunny comedians per capita in the world, of course. Australia not far behind.
― Action of Boyle Man Prompts Visitor to Stay (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:17 (six years ago) link
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Wednesday, December 6, 2017 5:14 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
What did the USA ever do to u
― Ripped Taylor (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:18 (six years ago) link
The way some of our British ilx guys focus their hatred on comedians and celebrities is disturbing.
I generally like Sarah Milican despite finding most of her material weak.
I haven't really liked any Pete Holmes stand-up I've seen yet I can't help but like his big floppy goofiness and the way he claps and laughs in front of his guests on his chat show.
There's loads like this.
The thing I like least about stand-up comedians is how most of them (even the good ones) tell jokes less intelligent than they are to stay afloat. I've seen some of them say they'll compromise and tell a shitty joke just to bring the audience into the next bit.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:23 (six years ago) link
xp Assumed for ten years and more on ilx that anything true in the US was somehow normal and thats just for starters
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:23 (six years ago) link
Tom otm btw we somehow generate dozens of professional standups that eat and everything despite being only marginally funnier than Sean Hughes for example.
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:25 (six years ago) link
I think you'll find that it's not just British ilx guys who think this way, though our comedians are notably terrible.
― Action of Boyle Man Prompts Visitor to Stay (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:25 (six years ago) link
building a rapport with an audience by hooking them with some easy jokes, how terrible!
― mh, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:26 (six years ago) link
British ilx guys also use the word cunt a lot maybe that's throwing u
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:26 (six years ago) link
No, there's something different about the British hatred.
The worst comedians I've ever seen is usually on those American celebrity gossip clip shows. They just act in an over-the-top manner as if that's enough. Can't think of any British standups who are that bad.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:28 (six years ago) link
Are you British, American or bearable
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:29 (six years ago) link
― mh, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:26
If they're bad and stupid jokes, it is terrible.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:29 (six years ago) link
look i've got to go to bed can somebody cut and paste the wiki page on "all British comedians"?
― after "after cease to exist" (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:31 (six years ago) link
how is badly quipping on trash television anywhere near the same as stand-up
― mh, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:31 (six years ago) link
not all british comedians
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:31 (six years ago) link
fuckin a props to british dudes. keep on hating. i'd want to slit my wrists if shit like this was on tv here.
https://s2.thcdn.com/productimg/0/600/600/51/10048051-1345819895-435205.png
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:32 (six years ago) link
they don't even let Chubby on TV fortunately
― after "after cease to exist" (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:32 (six years ago) link
ahh my bad
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:34 (six years ago) link
tbh most of what makes it to TV is worse and smugger
― after "after cease to exist" (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:34 (six years ago) link
i think part of the misunderstanding here is the idea that comedic skill in one forum translates to another or is comparable I think there’s some ability to hone the craft by doing stand-up and transitioning into television but it’s definitely not universal. on the other hand, improv is something people should do recreationally for other improv fans, or in locked rooms to get good at thinking on your feet and shouldn’t be a thing generally attended
― mh, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:35 (six years ago) link
this is nearly every youtuber who tries to be "funny"
also just about every english comedian
― infinity (∞), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:35 (six years ago) link
that dvd cover is going to give me nightmares
― mh, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:36 (six years ago) link
bad news, he's done dozens of them
― after "after cease to exist" (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:36 (six years ago) link
i’ve many nightmares
― mh, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:37 (six years ago) link
I really really worry about celebs and mediocre comedians at times. What if they die and end up in the same section of the galactic plane as Jimmy Savile + Max Boyce, and then get trapped there forever.
― calzino, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:38 (six years ago) link
lets start w john oliver shall we
― infinity (∞), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:38 (six years ago) link
how is this not hatable? https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/S_rVZqXzSX825ewSrijkpXNzDLr7BvYco19HpkjO0M56f3hmVPKRsyNtTIok0GAukQI=w300
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:41 (six years ago) link
That's INCREDIBLY hateable and one of the least funny things ever to get 240 episodes on off-peak BBC television.
(Chubby Brown is a throwback really, somewhere between an old-fashioned club comedian and music hall turn, retelling playground jokes with all the cheap stereotypes and bigotry left in but not quite making the bigotry the focus in the same way his predecessor Bernard Manning relied on. there's a Viz comic element to his act but without any of the social commentary bits, and his audience continues to be surprisingly big but is almost entirely made up of working class people who are going to be telling the same jokes in the pub or at work tomorrow, which makes the success weirder imo.)
― after "after cease to exist" (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:43 (six years ago) link
i feel for you british ilxors
https://s2.thcdn.com/productimg/0/600/600/71/8430671-1309343167-384044.jpg
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:43 (six years ago) link
Lol British comedy
― sleepingbag, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:44 (six years ago) link