unfunniest "comedians"

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

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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

jameson scotch

Part of the pain is that Strictly Come Dancing didn't need to be so bad. Get rid of the pop tunes and bring in audience who can clap appropriately and who can shut the fuck up when the judges are talking and you've got a bearable show.

There's a whole host of different criticisms for X-Factor and Britain's Got Talent but I'm sure you all know them. Definitely worse than panel shows.

My dad had some Jethro videos.

Two Pints was indeed awful but it wasn't as hateable as the more competent Seth MacFarlane cartoons.

Definitely worse than panel shows

nope

i'd poll this but i know where the silent centrist majority lies

Two Pints was indeed awful but it wasn't as hateable as the more competent Seth MacFarlane cartoons.

let the hate flow through you

I'll defend a mediocre standup as much as saying they're not as bad as some of the other primetime shit.

why isn't there a talent show for comedians? tranches of chancers being torn apart by (other) poisonous egomanics might thin out the worst of the herd

obviously i wouldn't ever watch it

I'll defend a mediocre standup as much as saying they're not as bad as some of the other primetime shit

still wrong

jameson scotch

Well spotted!

could do a ballot poll for hypothetically worst panel show team

(xp) Uh, except it isn't Jameson.

It's the rise of 'arena comedy' I can't be doing with; your funny mate in the pub in front of 10,000 people...the ultimate "will this do" on a night out

why isn't there a talent show for comedians?

uh

Part of the pain is that Strictly Come Dancing didn't need to be so bad.

I think there are probably more painful things to be endured and, hopefully, overcome in a person's life.

Mark S- I'm genuinely surprised anyone here would prefer X-Factor, Britain's Got Talent, Strictly Come Dancing etc over the panel shows. I find Mock The Week difficult to watch now but I generally don't mind the others.

x-factor and strictly come dancing are both much better than any panel show i can currently think of

Can't wrap my head around that.
You don't like anyone who appears on them?

I can't be the only person who despises the voiceover guy on Come Dine With Me?

Don't watch X-Factor but Strictly is obv. better than a panel show stuffed full of desperate comedians whose agents have said, "It'll be good for your career, believe me".

Come Dine With Me is better still. Or used to be. Bit tired these days tbf.

it definitely fits my requirements of "doesn't make me screamingly angry when i have it on as background noise while i'm playing nonograms"

It's not bad but that voiceover guy completely shits on the whole thing.

Whoever choose the music for that show has a great job though.

eh, he's occasionally trying to hard but you need some way of gently undercutting the idiocies of the players

Funnier than Aisling Bea. Cancer is funnier than Aisling Bea though.

yeah i find the come dine guy a bit exhausting and i'm not really a fan of that particular kind of self-deluded humiliation: my sister and her partner can't get enough of it, as they cheerfully admit

i mind the same thing less with talent shows bcz there's a learning curve a little out of the delusion for some people and that's interesting, plus actual opinions and a little discussion of the effectiveness of technique* (i mainly watch cooking comps but i watch a LOT of them)

i think a deep part of the problem with comedians on TV is that they run through their material REALLY quickly and after that it's just congealed shtick all the way down

*not sure where the asterisk was pointing