unfunniest "comedians"

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.

i think it's important that the BBC gives air time to mediocre unfunny cunts from all parts of the right wing spectrum

Comedian John Bishop sells mansion to HS2 for £6.8m

The comedian brought it for £2.25m in 2013 - meaning he has made a £4.5m profit from the deal.

another for the list.

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.

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

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'.

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.

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.

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.

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".

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

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.