unfunniest "comedians"

xp Assumed for ten years and more on ilx that anything true in the US was somehow normal and thats just for starters

Tom otm btw we somehow generate dozens of professional standups that eat and everything despite being only marginally funnier than Sean Hughes for example.

The way some of our British ilx guys focus their hatred on comedians and celebrities is disturbing.

I think you'll find that it's not just British ilx guys who think this way, though our comedians are notably terrible.

building a rapport with an audience by hooking them with some easy jokes, how terrible!

British ilx guys also use the word cunt a lot maybe that's throwing u

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.

Are you British, American or bearable

building a rapport with an audience by hooking them with some easy jokes, how terrible!

― mh, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:26

If they're bad and stupid jokes, it is terrible.

look i've got to go to bed can somebody cut and paste the wiki page on "all British comedians"?

how is badly quipping on trash television anywhere near the same as stand-up

not all british comedians

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

they don't even let Chubby on TV fortunately

ahh my bad

tbh most of what makes it to TV is worse and smugger

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

this is nearly every youtuber who tries to be "funny"

also just about every english comedian

that dvd cover is going to give me nightmares

bad news, he's done dozens of them

i’ve many nightmares

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.

lets start w john oliver shall we

how is this not hatable?
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/S_rVZqXzSX825ewSrijkpXNzDLr7BvYco19HpkjO0M56f3hmVPKRsyNtTIok0GAukQI=w300

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.)

i feel for you british ilxors

https://s2.thcdn.com/productimg/0/600/600/71/8430671-1309343167-384044.jpg

Lol British comedy

not illustrated in that video box - one of the main characters was an indian played by a white English actor in makeup

Those are sitcoms, we're talking more about smug unfunny shit comedians clogging up our screens in thousands of panel shows.

Also that is 40 years ago, Romesh Ranganathan is now.

aye a sitcom's a sitcom, i can see their functional purpose. grown adults making a living from standup and panel shows are the worst. the least beautiful work of anything aspiring to be a cultural product.

is the UK sick of Noel Fielding yet or is he still cool? I could imagine yall could be burnt on him like we are on Russel Brand

Where is all this hatred when we need it for discussion of each new version of Movie-Movie: The Movie? Or the comic book threads?

if you do or don't like a given piece of music it at least has some quality with potential to connect to the higher emotions, watching standup is just like going for a shit except most of the time it ends up being diarrhoea

https://i.imgur.com/Gz6vV3l.gif

RAG i try to keep my hatred out of other people's discussion threads whereas this thread kind of invited it also i'm procrastinating going to bed

look let's keep Mr. Bean out of this ok? he's an angel on earth and a treasure to comedy and humans in general.

ya

no

RAG i try to keep my hatred out of other people's discussion threads whereas this thread kind of invited it also i'm procrastinating going to bed

It's a thread about unfunny comedians, but maybe it could be conducted in a gentler more loving way........

hate is good and sometimes it can even bring people together. remember Dane Cook?

RAG, speaking as someone who has been responsible for inflicting 'comedy' upon an audience and mixed it up with a good number of people who do likewise, I wholeheartedly endorse this very necessary thread.

Edward John Izzard is an English stand-up comedian, actor, writer and political activist. His comedic style takes the form of rambling, whimsical monologue, and self-referential pantomime.

I'll take a million panel shows before talent contests and their infernal audiences clapping in that idiotic British rhythm.
And I find bad panel shows funnier than most of those bad sitcoms.

What's got u RAG cmon out with it

RAG i try to keep my hatred out of other people's discussion threads whereas this thread kind of invited it also i'm procrastinating going to bed

― after "after cease to exist" (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, December 6, 2017 3:49 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i specifically never look in any of the blockbuster (mainly comic book movie) threads to prevent myself from pouring out my mundane hatred for that junk

is Jethro still about? he seemed to work on the same business model as Chubby Brown (never on TV but put out a video/DVD every year)

I'll take a million panel shows before talent contests and their infernal audiences clapping in that idiotic British rhythm

i don't watch either usually, but at least i get why people might enjoy singing and dancing, there's a grim "one of us" collusion to watching panel show comics make the same crap unfunny observations that me and everybody else on the internet has already been making for a week

you're on the money about clapping along on the beat tho, it's agony and i say that as a musical theatre fan

fwiw I think it's something inherent to the medium that dictates that nobody but nobody will go to bat for a mediocre standup comedian and his art whereas there's an entire decades-long board on ilx dedicated to people passionately and often in a very personally invested manner defending the work of usually deeply mediocre musicians

In Scotland we had a forerunner to Chubby Brown, a 'blue' comic, this guy:

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/xY1P_80YnVo/hqdefault.jpg

Jethro must still be doing the rounds, maybe him and Chubby have carved up some kind of north/south turf situation

You don't carve turf you foot it