unfunniest "comedians"

imo if you love comedy then attend as many events as you feel enjoyable, I'm off my projecting this morning

this is the liveliest discussion ilx has had in a while

Ireland produces the most unfunny comedians per capita in the world, of course. Australia not far behind.

why Tom, I've never seen you at Cafe Lounge or Waywards or Camelot or the Union or Staves or Papa Gedes or the Factory or Fox or the Enmore or any of the other venues 5-60 minutes walk from my old house. surely you're not basing this assessment on seeing three terrible fuckwits do five minutes each on British TV shows, surely

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

darragh otm, case in point:

fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal

uh

― shackling the masses with plastic-wrapped snack picks (sic), Wednesday, December 6, 2017 8:17 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ending myself at this post

http://answers-in-reason.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/you-werent-there-man.jpg

I'd still ravish Andy Samberg for a night, but goddamn the 20 minutes of the Golden Globes I saw reignited my loathing for his tepid, inoffensive post-Fallon comedy. Fuck him and the culture that bred him.

A funny criticism given the Black Panthers bit (the only one I saw)

all comedians are unfunny

this desperate looking guy walked up to me when i was leaving a diner the other day and said 'hey buddy, can you help me out? i haven't had a bite in days'... so i jerked off on him

Ricky Gervais is to comedy what Imagine Dragons are to rock music

Shows up in car commercials?

i did hear the Black Panthers bit, but he kinda botched the delivery imho

i can't name a good comedian working rn. please help

pewdiepie

Mullaney was pretty good up until that last special. Now? Idk

yeah I've turned on him completely

Ron Funches is pretty good

Judah Friedlander, Rory Scovel, Pete Holmes all had funny specials w in the last couple years

xp - i like ron funches too! i also like stewart lee which prob makes british ilxors hate me but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

geez honestly i can probably think of more comedians i like, right? this isn't so much a "i hate comedians" as it is "my brains tired cant think of things right now"

I liked Emily Heller's album

xp. many british ilxors like stewart lee

most stand-up is bad. saw a recent mullaney special, if you are charitable you would say that it hits "mildly amusing" at best a few times.

saw a harry kondabolu one a while back: absolute garbage. like, this man is not a performer, how did he get past just doing open mics kind of bad.

Hannibal Buress is still good

I saw a Bo Burnham thing on netflix recently. I guess I can kind of see the appeal but it seemed way too youtube. And then I see that he was a youtube kid.

W. Kamau Bell's last special was one of the best I've seen in a really long time.

you have to be really careful on YouTube, you click on one Bill Burr video and your entire recommendations get stuffed with Joe Rogan garbage

urrrrgh Bill Burr. ugh Bert Kreischer. blurgh Doug Stanhope. I liked them all to a degree at some point but they're embarrassing now

Oh yeah ^^^ I enjoyed that (w. Kamau Bell) and the Ali Wong ones. Mullaney specials are kind of catnip. His ~transatlantic delivery is so soothing.

his first 2 were great. the third was kinds eh.

kinda*

Oh yeah the Ali Wong ones are great

I caught about 30 seconds of Russell Howard while channel surfing a couple of weeks back and he was so fucking hilar-e-i I fell off my chair/had an apoplectic follow through/split my sides etc.. Yeah, I can see how he packs out those arenas.

british standup is generally an order of magnitude worse than already mediocre/bad american standup

ali wong v good v sharp

wouldn't have called mullaneys delivery in any way mid-atlantic, unless camp somehow codes that way? but hes not good.

stewart lee obv a god

yeah, he's got that old timey, continental thing going on.

are you saying camp like effeminate? Because I can kind of see that too.

heh ok i must just not be seeing it. the harry connick jr of standups i could see, maybe

xp yeah id have said it was a standout part of his style tbh?

Adding to the chorus of Ali Wong love.

Can't stand Bill Burr. There's a clip of him talking shit about Yoko that occasionally pops up in my fb feed, and apart from being the laziest and hackiest shit imaginable, it's deeply misogynistic (he says some shit about, "Lennon, control your woman!"). So fuck that guy.

Now I am looking up the difference between mid-atlantic, transatlantic and continental accents. All kind of the same.

poll/thread lets get into it

we're funnier than stand up comedians anyway

Got really tired of Stewart Lee seeing how long his fans would tolerate him milking each joke. I know pretending to be smug is part of his act but I still get the impression he thinks his material is way smarter than it is.

I still quite like him and his best stuff is fantastic but never feel like seeing his new stuff.

Britsh guys: James Acaster, Simon Munnery, Sean Lock are still great, or at least last time I checked.

i found a good comedian yesterday, mark norman

we're funnier than stand up comedians anyway

― topical mlady (darraghmac), Wednesday, January 9, 2019 3:23 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Hey man, speak for yourself.

via vic berger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPcdpdF18dw

brad stine is one of those 'comedians' where it becomes 'funny' if you yell a lot. this same problem plagues many improv teams

this is a classic, he spends half of it screaming at a 16 year old because their parents made them wear a helmet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUdco-_bBeI

god he just tells all the same jokes over and over over decades. what a grifter

the "new yorker magazine" issue where he was called god's comedian was from 2004: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/08/09/standup-for-the-lord

jeez he's walking around so fast in that cpac clip it makes me uncomfortable

I just read this whole thread thinking Stewart Lee was Stewart Francis and wondering how he elicited such strong opinions.

I mean, he's no Milton Jones...

But he can crush a Grape.

Geoff Norcott is such a mediocre unfunny cunt and he keeps popping up on QT now because of course the bbc love his "I'm a tory voting bigot comedian - not a lefty, deal with it!" shtick. ppl who think comedy is a bastion of leftyism + trots are as laughably misguided as those saying the bbc is.