Unfunny Comedians

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oobster

7,126 posts

213 months

Friday 26th July 2019
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Angela Barnes is quite good on MTW, as is Kerry Godliman.

Would quite happily do mankind a favour though by running Zoe Lyons and Gina Yashere over with a bus though.

I enjoy watching Rachel Parris and Ellie Taylor, both look like they'd be great company in the pub, can't stand Nish Kumar though so can't watch The Mash Report without wanting to smash the television.

krisdelta

4,567 posts

203 months

Friday 26th July 2019
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Fern Brady, Lauren Pattison and Katherine Ryan all very good, albeit different styles. If you like ventriloquism as well, Nina Conti is brilliant.

Newc

1,891 posts

184 months

Monday 2nd December 2019
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Nish 'one joke' Kumar apparently presented his one joke (buildup: brexit brexit brexit. Punchline: brexit brexit brexit) at a cricket charity event at the Grosvenor.

Satisfyingly, he was bread rolled off after about 60 seconds. Though he refused to leave at first, causing further booing and hails of baked product.

Apparently there is video of it, guess they won't be showing it on the BBC.

Driver101

14,376 posts

123 months

Monday 2nd December 2019
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I was taken to see Alan Carr. Really outdated, predictable and not funny at all.

Honk

1,988 posts

205 months

Monday 2nd December 2019
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Newc said:
Nish 'one joke' Kumar apparently presented his one joke (buildup: brexit brexit brexit. Punchline: brexit brexit brexit) at a cricket charity event at the Grosvenor.

Satisfyingly, he was bread rolled off after about 60 seconds. Though he refused to leave at first, causing further booing and hails of baked product.

Apparently there is video of it, guess they won't be showing it on the BBC.
...Kumar is as funny as a perianal abscess.

The Li-ion King

3,768 posts

66 months

Monday 2nd December 2019
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Driver101 said:
I was taken to see Alan Carr. Really outdated, predictable and not funny at all.
Jimmy Carr is just as bad, and Ricky Gervais has lost his edge too.

Flibble

6,477 posts

183 months

Monday 2nd December 2019
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The Li-ion King said:
Jimmy Carr is just as bad, and Ricky Gervais has lost his edge too.
Did he ever have an edge?

The Moose

22,918 posts

211 months

Tuesday 3rd December 2019
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Flibble said:
The Li-ion King said:
Jimmy Carr is just as bad, and Ricky Gervais has lost his edge too.
Did he ever have an edge?
I have seen Gervais live. Maybe 10 years ago now. Did not enjoy it at all.

HoHoHo

15,011 posts

252 months

Tuesday 3rd December 2019
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The Moose said:
Flibble said:
The Li-ion King said:
Jimmy Carr is just as bad, and Ricky Gervais has lost his edge too.
Did he ever have an edge?
I have seen Gervais live. Maybe 10 years ago now. Did not enjoy it at all.
I felt the same, I spent a year with him one evening....

I’ve also seen Micky Flanagan who for the entire show simply kept reminding the audience how wealthy he was now..... yawn.....

The Moose

22,918 posts

211 months

Tuesday 3rd December 2019
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HoHoHo said:
The Moose said:
Flibble said:
The Li-ion King said:
Jimmy Carr is just as bad, and Ricky Gervais has lost his edge too.
Did he ever have an edge?
I have seen Gervais live. Maybe 10 years ago now. Did not enjoy it at all.
I felt the same, I spent a year with him one evening....

I’ve also seen Micky Flanagan who for the entire show simply kept reminding the audience how wealthy he was now..... yawn.....
Glad it's not just me about Gervais. Everyone else seems to think he's the best thing since sliced bread.

The Li-ion King

3,768 posts

66 months

Tuesday 3rd December 2019
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The Moose said:
HoHoHo said:
The Moose said:
Flibble said:
The Li-ion King said:
Jimmy Carr is just as bad, and Ricky Gervais has lost his edge too.
Did he ever have an edge?
I have seen Gervais live. Maybe 10 years ago now. Did not enjoy it at all.
I felt the same, I spent a year with him one evening....

I’ve also seen Micky Flanagan who for the entire show simply kept reminding the audience how wealthy he was now..... yawn.....
Glad it's not just me about Gervais. Everyone else seems to think he's the best thing since sliced bread.
Gervais is as stale as the last doughnut still in the Greggs display at 4:40 in the afternoon... I made the mistake of watching his last "film" where he went on tour around Berkshire with a struggling band he'd set up. "The Office" format was only funny once. Most times, he just sets out to be offensive, but he doesn't have it to a cheeky art like Frankie Boyle.

I guess Nish Kumar had to roll with it when he got pelted with bread the other day with his crap jokes... getmecoat

ukbabz

1,561 posts

128 months

Tuesday 3rd December 2019
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I think Gervais works well in the written format, After life was very good for his recent work.

As for live, have seen a few comics in the last couple of weeks - Alfie Moore was a bit flat but still funny, Mark Watson was good and Jack Whitehall was really funny.

For me, the better comics are able to skirt political issues and make clever jokes about it (or just avoid it) rather than the politics being the punchline itself.

Coolbanana

4,417 posts

202 months

Tuesday 3rd December 2019
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I like Gervais. Frankie Boyle not so much.

All Comedians are funny...and unfunny...subject to their audience. Everyone has their own sense of humour and what appeals to me, might not appeal to you. The measure of a comedian being confirmed as 'funny' is their relative success. Anyone who is able to make a decent living from it is successful and therefore 'funny' as they have an audience - even if they are unfunny to you or I.

kev1974

4,029 posts

131 months

Tuesday 3rd December 2019
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Newc said:
Nish 'one joke' Kumar apparently presented his one joke (buildup: brexit brexit brexit. Punchline: brexit brexit brexit) at a cricket charity event at the Grosvenor.

Satisfyingly, he was bread rolled off after about 60 seconds. Though he refused to leave at first, causing further booing and hails of baked product.

Apparently there is video of it, guess they won't be showing it on the BBC.
https://twitter.com/JonCAustin/status/120153186185...

Edited by kev1974 on Tuesday 3rd December 11:33

Shakermaker

11,317 posts

102 months

Tuesday 3rd December 2019
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kev1974 said:
Newc said:
Nish 'one joke' Kumar apparently presented his one joke (buildup: brexit brexit brexit. Punchline: brexit brexit brexit) at a cricket charity event at the Grosvenor.

Satisfyingly, he was bread rolled off after about 60 seconds. Though he refused to leave at first, causing further booing and hails of baked product.

Apparently there is video of it, guess they won't be showing it on the BBC.
https://twitter.com/JonCAustin/status/1201531861853442048
It's on the Independent website as well

mikal83

5,340 posts

254 months

Tuesday 3rd December 2019
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Gervais wins yet another award, yep he's so unfunny.
Gervais's show for next year massively out sold he's had to add several more.....yep so unfunny!

Edited by mikal83 on Tuesday 3rd December 14:14

RemyMartin81D

6,759 posts

207 months

Tuesday 3rd December 2019
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Bit longer of the tough crowd lol

https://youtu.be/1uOMCb0JYkI

wrencho

286 posts

67 months

Tuesday 3rd December 2019
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HoHoHo said:
Micky Flanagan
I have it on good authority that the bloke is an absolute bellend

RedWhiteMonkey

6,879 posts

184 months

Tuesday 3rd December 2019
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Newc said:
Nish 'one joke' Kumar apparently presented his one joke (buildup: brexit brexit brexit. Punchline: brexit brexit brexit) at a cricket charity event at the Grosvenor.

Satisfyingly, he was bread rolled off after about 60 seconds. Though he refused to leave at first, causing further booing and hails of baked product.

Apparently there is video of it, guess they won't be showing it on the BBC.
No video but the story has made the BBC.

Fonzey

2,076 posts

129 months

Tuesday 3rd December 2019
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RemyMartin81D said:
Bit longer of the tough crowd lol

https://youtu.be/1uOMCb0JYkI
Christ on a bike that's painful hehe Even before the boo'ing nobody was paying any attention to him, good stage presence.