Unfunny Comedians

[BigMacDaddy]

Cupramax said:

Chimune said:

Aside:
Anyone see bob mortimers Chris Rea bathtime egg story on Lie For You?

Proper funny!

Thanks for that, found it on YouTube, sat here almost crying

Yeah I just about held it together until David Mitchell's meltdown at the end, lost it at that point though

[urquattroGus]

Blown2CV said:

urquattroGus said:

Stewart Lee.

Went to see him once as a friend had spare tickets and did not find him funny at ALL.

I felt he was trying to be high brow and cutting edge, and failing - I just don't get his humour!

he is quite clever, and therefore not for everyone.

I've taken the bait.... Sanctimonious is the word that comes to mind when I think of Stewart lee. Look at me I'm so clever etc

[Shakermaker]

BigMacDaddy said:

Cupramax said:

Chimune said:

Aside:
Anyone see bob mortimers Chris Rea bathtime egg story on Lie For You?

Proper funny!

Thanks for that, found it on YouTube, sat here almost crying

Yeah I just about held it together until David Mitchell's meltdown at the end, lost it at that point though

It was amazing. It came on just as we finished watching a recording of something else, and I think the contrast of that from a dark episode of "Criminal Minds" made it even better.

[toon10]

I was at a surprise comedy event last night organised by my cousin as a belated birthday night out. If anyone remembers Tony Slattery of Whose Line is it Anyway fame, it was an improv night with him and a group called the suggestibles. Now time has taken a very heavy toll on old Tony but he was off his nut on something. It was quite sad. The group were great and had to work extra hard to improvise with someone who quite clearly, wasn't with it. A fun night but not necessarily for the right reasons.

I'm not sure if the Whose Line is it Anyway format would work today but I remember it being a must see back in the day.

[Blown2CV]

urquattroGus said:

Blown2CV said:

urquattroGus said:

Stewart Lee.

Went to see him once as a friend had spare tickets and did not find him funny at ALL.

I felt he was trying to be high brow and cutting edge, and failing - I just don't get his humour!

he is quite clever, and therefore not for everyone.

I've taken the bait.... Sanctimonious is the word that comes to mind when I think of Stewart lee. Look at me I'm so clever etc

Well people think I am a smartarse sometimes too, but I've always felt people do get angry at intelligence they don't get. Anyway the thing you've described is that not just how comedy works? They stand on stage, people look at them, they say clever and funny things... it's not like he's all over mainstream TV anymore anyway. You have to really seek him out in order to insist upon feeling inferior. Don't get me wrong I don't quite think i'd like to be friends with many of the people i find funny. Not sure those things are linked.

[swisstoni]

toon10 said:

I was at a surprise comedy event last night organised by my cousin as a belated birthday night out. If anyone remembers Tony Slattery of Whose Line is it Anyway fame, it was an improv night with him and a group called the suggestibles. Now time has taken a very heavy toll on old Tony but he was off his nut on something. It was quite sad. The group were great and had to work extra hard to improvise with someone who quite clearly, wasn't with it. A fun night but not necessarily for the right reasons.

I'm not sure if the Whose Line is it Anyway format would work today but I remember it being a must see back in the day.

It was indeed and it’s sad to hear about Tony Slattery. He had a real dangerous side to his humour (no doubt fuelled back then too). You could tell that the other people on the show were slightly scared of what he might do next.

He or someone like him wouldn’t get on TV today. Too risky.
They’d rather hammer the old formats like HIGNFY and Mock the Week into the ground.

[Blown2CV]

toon10 said:

I was at a surprise comedy event last night organised by my cousin as a belated birthday night out. If anyone remembers Tony Slattery of Whose Line is it Anyway fame, it was an improv night with him and a group called the suggestibles. Now time has taken a very heavy toll on old Tony but he was off his nut on something. It was quite sad. The group were great and had to work extra hard to improvise with someone who quite clearly, wasn't with it. A fun night but not necessarily for the right reasons.

I'm not sure if the Whose Line is it Anyway format would work today but I remember it being a must see back in the day.

there's no doubt that improv takes some wit and a very agile mind... however it makes my skin crawl! I am sure it can be funny but it isn't always, and it doesn't always seem to be the main point of it either. It's a bit like what wacky amateur dramatics people do to let their hair down.

christ you're right about Tony!

[Shakermaker]

toon10 said:

I was at a surprise comedy event last night organised by my cousin as a belated birthday night out. If anyone remembers Tony Slattery of Whose Line is it Anyway fame, it was an improv night with him and a group called the suggestibles. Now time has taken a very heavy toll on old Tony but he was off his nut on something. It was quite sad. The group were great and had to work extra hard to improvise with someone who quite clearly, wasn't with it. A fun night but not necessarily for the right reasons.

I'm not sure if the Whose Line is it Anyway format would work today but I remember it being a must see back in the day.

I used to love Whose Line, and some of it really is amazing. but I never really "got" Tony Slattery and he was forever corpsing rather than doing what he was meant to do. A less-funny version of Colin Mochrie's visible disdain for the Hoedown round.

[kowalski655]

Is it actually posssible to be LESS funny than Colin Mochrie?
All I ever remember him doing was gurning stupidly to Ryan Stiles's *actual* jokes

[carguy45]

Used to love that show, though admittedly Ryan Stiles was far and beyond the best person on it. Hard to believe he's almost 60 now.

[Junior Bianno]

carguy45 said:

Used to love that show, though admittedly Ryan Stiles was far and beyond the best person on it. Hard to believe he's almost 60 now.

What's amazing is he's still doing it. Was in the US in the summer - turned on the TV and there are "old" Ryan Stiles and Colin Mochrie doing a new series of Whose Line is it Anyway. I had no idea...

[Halmyre]

AdeTuono said:

Merton has been there from the first episode, in 1990, and has done a huge amount of work besides HIGNFY.

Paul took a short break from one series from HIGNFY some years ago (during the Deayton era); personal issues IIRC, although he was one of the guests on the first show of that series. I think Ian's been on every show; can't remember him ever being absent.

[zygalski]

Has anyone mentioned Aisling Bea yet?

[silverfoxcc]

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[Dog Star]

Amy Schumer.

Don't get me wrong - I could look at her all day, but she just does my head in, trying to be political and edgy and it's mostly just st.

[Zetec-S]

Blown2CV said:

Fastpedeller said:

Dara O'Briain - mildly funny at times, but mostly latches on to a joke another comedian has said at the time (on MTW) and just keeps repeating/modifyig slightly to try to get a laugh. For a very intelligent guy he doesn't appear to put it to much use as a comedian.

i think maybe you've only seen him on mock the week? That's kind of his job on that show.

Yep, check out some of his stand up routines, they're nothing like MTW...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVxOb8-d7Ic

[Fastpedeller]

Zetec-S said:

Blown2CV said:

Fastpedeller said:

Dara O'Briain - mildly funny at times, but mostly latches on to a joke another comedian has said at the time (on MTW) and just keeps repeating/modifyig slightly to try to get a laugh. For a very intelligent guy he doesn't appear to put it to much use as a comedian.

i think maybe you've only seen him on mock the week? That's kind of his job on that show.

Yep, check out some of his stand up routines, they're nothing like MTW...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVxOb8-d7Ic

Thanks for trying...... I checked out several clips, and still don't find Dara funny. I guess it's good that we are all different.

[Tycho]

bingybongy said:

If you like Bob Mortimer's flights of fancy try his podcast Athletico Mince.
Ostensibly it's a football pod', it's not though.

I've just recently started to listen to this and it is properly funny, especially the Peter Beardsley parts.

[Zetec-S]

Fastpedeller said:

Thanks for trying...... I checked out several clips, and still don't find Dara funny. I guess it's good that we are all different.

Fair enough

[Europa1]

Tycho said:

bingybongy said:

If you like Bob Mortimer's flights of fancy try his podcast Athletico Mince.
Ostensibly it's a football pod', it's not though.

I've just recently started to listen to this and it is properly funny, especially the Peter Beardsley parts.

I find him hit and miss. The worst I heard him on was Chain Reaction on Radio 4 with Vic Reeves. It's usually an enjoyable show: someone is interviewed, then next week they are the interviewer and choose the interviewee, and so on. This particular episode sadly descended from an interview into a self indulgent competition of who could say the most outrageous, random, off-the-wall thing next, like a couple of children who don't know when a joke has stopped being funny.