Unfunny Comedians

[Stan the Bat]

Chimune said:

e30m3Mark said:

AdeTuono said:

urquattroGus said:

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

That is, to be fair, the whole point of the character that he plays.

This is worth watching if you dislike him. (Also if you don’t)

https://youtu.be/78Puggk5MCA

Edited by e30m3Mark on Thursday 18th October 13:43

He is exploring a little known and rather specific Form of comedy with his character and explains this in depth in his books.

Look up the braveheart clip on yt. He stands in front of a Glasgow audience and explains how he is 'scotch', that braveheart is a gay peado.

Takes balls!

I like him, I thought that performance about Braveheart/Scotland was getting some of them in the audience a little worked up looking at some of the faces there.

[Steamer]

thebigmacmoomin said:

Ricky Gervais

Any particular reasons?

Fair play to him I think, come from nowhere - now incredibly wealthy.

The Office - love it or hate it.. everyone has worked with a David Brent, and many comics have imitated him.

Did wonders for Karl Pilkington.

Doesn't take himself too seriously, and rips the piss out of those that do. His latest stand up after 5 years is excellent.

His laugh does annoy me... but no where near as much as Jimmy Carr's laugh

[MrGTI6]

Zetec-S said:

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

Can't stand watching him on TV. He ends almost every joke with "EURRRRRGH".

[underwhelmist]

Chimune said:

I've seen several people walk out of a show in Edinburgh with a long story about jesus and vomit. We all paid.
Watching the crowd wax and wane between uncomfortable to bored to insulted to amazed, back to bored again and finally accepting that this is not normal 'comedy' - nore a battle of wits which SL will always win.

I think.

Ah, the joke that even Joe Pasquale couldn't steal.

He was so offended at Joe Pasquale stealing one of Michael Redmond's jokes he wrote a whole routine that Pasquale couldn't possibly steal. It's important to know the context.

[Chimune]

underwhelmist said:

Chimune said:

I've seen several people walk out of a show in Edinburgh with a long story about jesus and vomit. We all paid.
Watching the crowd wax and wane between uncomfortable to bored to insulted to amazed, back to bored again and finally accepting that this is not normal 'comedy' - nore a battle of wits which SL will always win.

I think.

Ah, the joke that even Joe Pasquale couldn't steal.

He was so offended at Joe Pasquale stealing one of Michael Redmond's jokes he wrote a whole routine that Pasquale couldn't possibly steal. It's important to know the context.

That's the one. I thought it was an amazing spectical tbh. However, a year later some friends who hadn't seen him before, invited me to a show, I absolutely knew they would hate it, so told them not to bother. Even though I would have loved to go again. Is that wrong of me?

[AdeTuono]

underwhelmist said:

Ah, the joke that even Joe Pasquale couldn't steal.

He was so offended at Joe Pasquale stealing one of Michael Redmond's jokes he wrote a whole routine that Pasquale couldn't possibly steal. It's important to know the context.

Pasquale should be on this thread. His plagiarism of others' jokes is well established. The Redmond gag in particular irked many. Squeaky-voiced tt.

[julianm]

Kiri Pritchard-McLean on HIGNFY last night - horrible cackling laugh & vague attempt at a couple of jokes. Grace Dent who appears to be a food critic of some sort - no contribution. It was the worst episode ever!

[Morningside]

julianm said:

Kiri Pritchard-McLean on HIGNFY last night - horrible cackling laugh & vague attempt at a couple of jokes. Grace Dent who appears to be a food critic of some sort - no contribution. It was the worst episode ever!

Plus Jo Brand, I turned off after 5 minutes. Utterly dire.

[V8covin]

julianm said:

Kiri Pritchard-McLean on HIGNFY last night - horrible cackling laugh & vague attempt at a couple of jokes. Grace Dent who appears to be a food critic of some sort - no contribution. It was the worst episode ever!

I had to Google them,no idea who they were.

Saw Rob Delaney on the Comedy channel,god he's rubbish

[Chimune]

Chimune said:

Tracy Ullman.
Funny for 10 mins in 1982 or something. Still living off it.

On Last Leg next week.

Yup. Laugh free zone for ol Trace.

She didn't like it when hills said it was a rubbish Oz accent. Accents is all she got!

[Steamer]

julianm said:

Kiri Pritchard-McLean on HIGNFY last night - horrible cackling laugh & vague attempt at a couple of jokes...It was the worst episode ever!

Jesus H... You couldnt fit enough nails on a blackboard to recreate how annoying and obnoxious her laugh is! it's worse than Jimmy Carr's laugh and thats saying something!

[e30m3Mark]

Chimune said:

Chimune said:

Tracy Ullman.
Funny for 10 mins in 1982 or something. Still living off it.

On Last Leg next week.

Yup. Laugh free zone for ol Trace.

She didn't like it when hills said it was a rubbish Oz accent. Accents is all she got!

I always wondered what it was people saw in her that was funny? I just never got her at all.

[mikal83]

julianm said:

Kiri Pritchard-McLean on HIGNFY last night - horrible cackling laugh & vague attempt at a couple of jokes. Grace Dent who appears to be a food critic of some sort - no contribution. It was the worst episode ever!

Plus the usual brexit crap from hislop

[Cledus Snow]

Jessica knappett.

[swisstoni]

Johnny Vegas
Seems like a nice bloke. Has a funny persona and all that. But just says cobblers.

[prand]

Cledus Snow said:

Jessica knappett.

Blimey, I just looked her up, I think I've been confusing her with Phoebe Waller-Bridge who I reckon is very good (not just funny, but can also write, and do serious as well - Fleabag, Crashing, the droid in Solo, and wrote Killing Eve.

[Mr2Mike]

thebigmacmoomin said:

Ricky Gervais

I used to think he was an unfunny, obnoxious cretin. I don't know if my tastes have changed or he has got better because now I think he is mostly unfunny and only mildly obnoxious.

[Steamer]

Oh look Paddy McGuiness is coming to Topgear with his joke.

(Stu Lee credit for the joke)

[elanfan]

Eddie Izzard - yes he does a lot of running for charity and I used to like some of his appearances on chat shows but I went to see him live at Motorpoint Cardiff with my wife who had a similar prior opinion on him.

I can honestly say neither of us laughed once, it was so painfully obvious that even his apparent adlibs and going off at a tangent were completely rehearsed.

Thread end?

Edited by elanfan on Monday 22 October 13:20

[Blown2CV]

Steamer said:

Oh look Paddy McGuiness is coming to Topgear with his joke.

(Stu Lee credit for the joke)

is he actually a comedian though? He's kind of a comic actor / presenter... ish. Not sure he does stand up.

I think as they recruited him and flintoff it seems they just wanted nuts magazine LADS, rather than comedians.