Julian Joachim Jr Shabadoo Posted 8 January 2016 Share Posted 8 January 2016 I don't understand how you could outright no standup comedy is funny. That's like saying all live music is rubbish. Besides Phoenix Nights and Max & Paddy, Peter Kay is atrocious. Reminding people about chicken kievs and betamax cassettes is not humour James Corden has never once made me laugh, completely useless and I have no idea how he has even 1 fan. Andy Parsons is a massive ****, hate him. Jack Whitehall, Russell Kane, Michael Macintyre, Sue Perkins, Milton Jones, Patrick Kielty, Miranda Hart can all get in the bin Tim Vine - I swear he just spends a month opening thousands of Christmas crackers and stockpiles the "jokes" for his standup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonnieTodger Posted 8 January 2016 Share Posted 8 January 2016 Anyone that just shouts and think that might make their material funny like Chris Rock, Kevin Hart, Nick Helm etc. Also, the amount of money Sarah Millican makes is frightening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
separator Posted 8 January 2016 Share Posted 8 January 2016 Eddie Izzard is massively overrated. That cvnt Mcintyre can do one as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramboacdc Posted 8 January 2016 Share Posted 8 January 2016 dont get me wrong, there are some funny female comedians, there really are. but most of the ones on british TV are just **** awful. its not cuz they don't appeal to my tastes, its that they just are not funny. that american/canadian woman that is getting everywhere. she isn't funny at all, she just shouts and says dumb shit. genetically men are designed to be more funny to impress a mate (thats true) women comedians, i support 100% but there are less decent females than males anyway ones i cannot stand macintyre chubby brown peter kay (hey, remember the 80s?!) alan carr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DB11 Posted 8 January 2016 Share Posted 8 January 2016 Female comedians I find tend to be bad. Sarah Millican the worst Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davieG Posted 8 January 2016 Share Posted 8 January 2016 Stand ups were better when they weren't so over exposed on TV. When they did live tours they had a chance to hone their material now they have to churn out so much stuff the quality has plummeted. Oh and just saying **** every few words doesn't make a crap 'joke' funny. I see that **** now auto correct to Fuchs on my tablet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnderbyFox Posted 8 January 2016 Share Posted 8 January 2016 Jo Brand is about as funny as finding a lump in the shower. Hurrr my husband doesn't love me hurrrr I'm fat hurrrrr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samilktray Posted 8 January 2016 Share Posted 8 January 2016 Lee Evans is the worst. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adster Posted 8 January 2016 Share Posted 8 January 2016 This won't be popular but I seriously don't rate Lee Evans. He gets mixed opinions and I can see why some people don't rate him. Personally I think he's brilliant and his Monsters tour directly before he retired was one of the best things I've ever seen live. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julian Joachim Jr Shabadoo Posted 8 January 2016 Share Posted 8 January 2016 Lee Evans is the worst. I don't know about worst but his "impressions" are awful, he has two - really high pitched weasel, or low pitched and spitting into the mic for effect. Nothing in between. He also sweats an unhealthy amount for someone so slim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnderbyFox Posted 8 January 2016 Share Posted 8 January 2016 Russell Howard can get in the bin as well, you can tell a comedian is telling shit jokes when they're constantly doing weird voices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samilktray Posted 8 January 2016 Share Posted 8 January 2016 I don't know about worst but his "impressions" are awful, he has two - really high pitched weasel, or low pitched and spitting into the mic for effect. Nothing in between. He also sweats an unhealthy amount for someone so slimHe's uncomfortable to look at, aswell as not really being funny. I remember watching him for the first time when I was younger and he was sweating buckets and looked like he'd sniffed 2 bags of bugle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rain King Posted 8 January 2016 Share Posted 8 January 2016 I saw Gary Delaney at Just the Tonic before Christmas. Absolutely awful. I later found out he is married to Sarah Millican so that explains it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adster Posted 8 January 2016 Share Posted 8 January 2016 Frankie Boyle - biggest c*nt going. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 8 January 2016 Share Posted 8 January 2016 dont get me wrong, there are some funny female comedians, there really are. but most of the ones on british TV are just **** awful. its not cuz they don't appeal to my tastes, its that they just are not funny. that american/canadian woman that is getting everywhere. she isn't funny at all, she just shouts and says dumb shit. genetically men are designed to be more funny to impress a mate (thats true) women comedians, i support 100% but there are less decent females than males anyway ones i cannot stand macintyre chubby brown peter kay (hey, remember the 80s?!) alan carr Chubby Brown a great shout hes terrible. Didnt even know Alan Carr was a comedian. Irritant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julian Joachim Jr Shabadoo Posted 8 January 2016 Share Posted 8 January 2016 Any comedian who does a joke followed by a load "ERRRR" in anticipation of a roar of laughter from the audience to signal they are continuing a joke or to pretend that the "joke" they have just made might be controversial and they want to move on from that subject. I really hate this habit - Graham Norton and Jo Brand do it all the time, among other shit comedians Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MooseBreath Posted 8 January 2016 Share Posted 8 January 2016 There's a lot of plain unfunny comedians but Jimmy Carr is my least favourite at the moment. Can't stand the way he stares into the camera with that smug punchable face after he has told a shit joke whose only claim to potential humour is its mildly inappropriate nature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Footballwipe Posted 8 January 2016 Share Posted 8 January 2016 Have to say I do like McIntrye and Kay, but their stand-up only (though some of the sitcoms Kay has written are good). I think like Davie said above Kay is good because you don't seem him everywhere. He tours every few years, builds up to it with 'fresh' material (though can see how it can become samey) rather than appearing on every panel show, stand-up show going. So if you do enjoy his material it's not plastered everywhere all of the time. Equally I don't like McIntyre in all the TV he's on. Enjoy his energetic stand-up but not the TV stuff he does. John Bishop; first stand-up was amazing but stopped through his most recent one. Just wasn't finding it funny. His jokes were taking so long to crescendo. I don't want Tim Vine but come on, speed it up. Comedians these days hit with their tour then massively jump the shark by their next one. Either they've used up their material on TV or are trying too hard with the next stand-up DVD. Nina Conti did a great skit with puppets once. I loved it, but where do you go from there? Her comedy aside from that is pretty poor. Whitehall is everywhere and that doesn't help him at all (not that I ever found him funny anyway!) Chubby Brown's audience will be dying off soon and he's irrelevant these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
separator Posted 8 January 2016 Share Posted 8 January 2016 Jim Davidson, still touring and no doubt chucking out the same Irishman jokes he was in the 80's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bovril Posted 8 January 2016 Share Posted 8 January 2016 Any comedian who does a joke followed by a load "ERRRR" in anticipation of a roar of laughter from the audience to signal they are continuing a joke or to pretend that the "joke" they have just made might be controversial and they want to move on from that subject. I really hate this habit - Graham Norton and Jo Brand do it all the time, among other shit comedians Reminds me of Stewart Lee and rich herring's rules of comedy. 'And then I got off the bus errr... ' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julian Joachim Jr Shabadoo Posted 8 January 2016 Share Posted 8 January 2016 Reminds me of Stewart Lee and rich herring's rules of comedy. 'And then I got off the bus errr... ' I swear Richard Herring actually does this I listen to the RHLSTP podcast sometimes and he can be heard doing the ERRR! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndWhat? Posted 8 January 2016 Share Posted 8 January 2016 Can't stand Dara O'Briain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan LCFC Posted 8 January 2016 Share Posted 8 January 2016 I'm with you on that. Used to think he was alright when I was younger, but the last couple of times I saw him, I couldn't work out why I ever thought he was funny. I really don't like the songs he ends his sets with. Doesn't seem like they're even meant to be funny. Comes off a bit sentimental. To me he just tries far too hard. Needs to be a bit of a casual element about it for me to really make me laugh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan LCFC Posted 8 January 2016 Share Posted 8 January 2016 This. Stand up comedy just isnt funny. This is probably true. Do make me genuinely laugh there needs to be an element of surprise about it in my opinion. Where's the surprise in a show dedicated entirely to making you laugh? It's not to say I won't laugh at a comedian but I find my own uncle going off on one about something ten times as funny as anything I've heard at a stand up. Just the way it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iniesta Posted 8 January 2016 Share Posted 8 January 2016 Can't stand Stewart Lee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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