"Topical" Comedy on Radio 4

[Europa1]

Dermot O'Logical said:

Smiler. said:

The Now Show is due for it's revolving slot again soon.

Am I alone in thinking that Hugh Dennis simply isn't funny?

I haven't found The Now Show funny for a long while. There's something rather self-congratulatory about it, a bit like The Mash Report - they're just so swept up in the brilliance of their biting satire.

[eldar]

care of punts. Most excellent on isihac.

[Johnnytheboy]

Slightly off topic but here as good a place as any.

Mash Report's Nish Kumar booed off stage at charity lunch

[RC1807]

eldar said:

care of punts. Most excellent on isihac.

I was listening to that with headphones on in the gym. I had a jolly good giggle to myself.

[AdeTuono]

Johnnytheboy said:

Slightly off topic but here as good a place as any.

Mash Report's Nish Kumar booed off stage at charity lunch

I think he's confusing his 'talent' with his choice of material as an excuse. He should go on tour with Michael Legge; that'd be a night to stay indoors for.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCoQZh7ehl0

Pitiful.

[55palfers]

He failed Comedy 101 - Know your audience

[Blackpuddin]

Likening himself to Bob Dylan tells you all you need to know about his opinion of himself. Utterly unfunny.

[james_TW]

Blackpuddin said:

Likening himself to Bob Dylan tells you all you need to know about his opinion of himself. Utterly unfunny.

Bob Dylan: Brilliant poet or whiney git...

[Blackpuddin]

55palfers said:

He failed Comedy 101 - Know your audience

Whoever booked him failed that test too.

[irocfan]

Johnnytheboy said:

Slightly off topic but here as good a place as any.

Mash Report's Nish Kumar booed off stage at charity lunch

wasn't it Nish Kumar who had the skit about Brexit has already been tried once - when the UK left India? IIRC that was quite funny. WRT this, I'd imagine that as soon as you start abusing your audience you're onto a loser

[Smiler.]

Dead Ringers returns tonight.

Usually good for a laugh.

Plenty of ripe material too.

[colonel c]

Dead Ringers. Spot on as usual. A master class in satire. Other BBC producers would do well to take note.

[Doofus]

colonel c said:

Dead Ringers. Spot on as usual. A master class in satire. Other BBC producers would do well to take note.

Can they also take note of the fact that whatever impression John Culshaw does, it sounds like John Culshaw?

[dxg]

Smiler. said:

Dead Ringers returns tonight.

Usually good for a laugh.

Plenty of ripe material too.

"A wombat that wants to be a pirate, and Diiiiiaaaaaannnnnneeeee Abbot!"

hehe. gets me every time.

[james_TW]

dxg said:

Smiler. said:

Dead Ringers returns tonight.

Usually good for a laugh.

Plenty of ripe material too.

"A wombat that wants to be a pirate, and Diiiiiaaaaaannnnnneeeee Abbot!"

hehe. gets me every time.

You can see it coming, you know it's coming and it cracks me up every time anyway

[MC Bodge]

dxg said:

"A wombat that wants to be a pirate, and Diiiiiaaaaaannnnnneeeee Abbot!"

hehe. gets me every time.

Me too.

"Jewwemmy..."

[Europa1]

The latest series of the News Quiz is being hosted by Nish Kumar. This is not a good thing.

[nonsequitur]

rscott said:

Could we worse - they could have commissioned another series of Count Arthur Strong.

Or 'Fags, Mags and Bags'. The nadir of the 6.30 comedy slot.

[Silverage]

Now I don’t mind Fags, Mags or Count Arthur. I’ve actually got the first few series of CA on CD. It has worn a bit thin latterly I admit and the TV spin-off wasn’t anything special.

I gave up on the News Quiz and the Now Show years ago though.

[Johnnytheboy]

nonsequitur said:

Or 'Fags, Mags and Bags'. The nadir of the 6.30 comedy slot.

FBM is brilliant, but yhen I realised long ago that I share no tastes with nonsequitur whatsoever.