Gone but not forgotten and certainly not the death list

[Flamey]

Bill Oddie was funny at least to me....but admittedly the humour probably doesn't translate to 'nowadays'.

[Trav Le Bleu]

9 hours ago, Flamey said:

Bill Oddie was funny at least to me....but admittedly the humour probably doesn't translate to 'nowadays'.

No, I watched the Icky Thump sketch on YouTube a couple days back when I heard of his death. It's still funny, but it includes a needlessly blacked up, afro wearing Graham Garden.

[Raj]

On 28/07/2026 at 09:01, Jimothy said:

Humour is subjective, so I can't tell you you're wrong. She's made a career in comedy so must have something some people like. What is it about her comedy you don't find funny? 

I need to explain to you why i don't find her funny?

Really?

[Dr Marco]

Kavinsky, music producer

 

 

[Jimothy]

14 minutes ago, Raj said:

I need to explain to you why i don't find her funny?

Really?

I'm just curious. I've wouldn't say I'm a fan, I wouldn't personally pay to go watch her, but I've seen her on shows and she is funny in her own right, in my opinion obviously. She was on Taskmaster and I thought she was very good. 

 

I'm curious because often when people cite her as being unfunny its purely down to her being disabled and not the nature of her comedy or material. They can't pinpoint what they don't like about her comedy style or matrial and when you scrape the surface they opinion often lands her being disabled.

 

As an example I don't particularly enjoy Gary Delaneys style of comedy, the one liners aren't for me. Also I find Rosie seems to get the brunt of people hate. Its ok to not like a comedian, I've just mentioned one I don't like. Would I or anyone else have posted his face on here as if he's the poster boy for unfunny comics? Probably not.

 

 

[Raj]

19 minutes ago, Jimothy said:

I'm just curious. I've wouldn't say I'm a fan, I wouldn't personally pay to go watch her, but I've seen her on shows and she is funny in her own right, in my opinion obviously. She was on Taskmaster and I thought she was very good. 

 

I'm curious because often when people cite her as being unfunny its purely down to her being disabled and not the nature of her comedy or material. They can't pinpoint what they don't like about her comedy style or matrial and when you scrape the surface they opinion often lands her being disabled.

 

As an example I don't particularly enjoy Gary Delaneys style of comedy, the one liners aren't for me. Also I find Rosie seems to get the brunt of people hate. Its ok to not like a comedian, I've just mentioned one I don't like. Would I or anyone else have posted his face on here as if he's the poster boy for unfunny comics? Probably not.

 

 

I dont care she's disabled.

She's not funny.

 

Nish Kumar. Hes a brown boy like me but hes not funny at all.

 

 

 

 

[MaidstoneFox]

1 hour ago, Dr Marco said:

Kavinsky, music producer

 

 

Shocked by this, he was still relatively young. Nightcall is a masterpiece. RIP

[Zear0]

On 28/07/2026 at 09:01, Jimothy said:

Humour is subjective, so I can't tell you you're wrong. She's made a career in comedy so must have something some people like. What is it about her comedy you don't find funny? 

The content and delivery are my issues with her

[21st Century Fox]

2 hours ago, Dr Marco said:

Kavinsky, music producer

 

47 minutes ago, MaidstoneFox said:

Shocked by this, he was still relatively young. Nightcall is a masterpiece. RIP

****, this is genuinely gutting. I was listening to Reborn the other day.

 

The version of Nightcall he did at the Olympics with Phoenix and Angèle was awesome.

 

 

[MC Prussian]

6 hours ago, Dr Marco said:

Kavinsky, music producer

 

 

Dead at 50. No age.

2013 feels like yesterday.

 

An iconic song, will always remind me of „Drive“ (2011).

R.I.P.

Edited 22 hours ago by MC Prussian

[bovril]

5 hours ago, Jimothy said:

I'm just curious. I've wouldn't say I'm a fan, I wouldn't personally pay to go watch her, but I've seen her on shows and she is funny in her own right, in my opinion obviously. She was on Taskmaster and I thought she was very good. 

 

I'm curious because often when people cite her as being unfunny its purely down to her being disabled and not the nature of her comedy or material. They can't pinpoint what they don't like about her comedy style or matrial and when you scrape the surface they opinion often lands her being disabled.

 

As an example I don't particularly enjoy Gary Delaneys style of comedy, the one liners aren't for me. Also I find Rosie seems to get the brunt of people hate. Its ok to not like a comedian, I've just mentioned one I don't like. Would I or anyone else have posted his face on here as if he's the poster boy for unfunny comics? Probably not.

 

 

Haven't seen much of her but she seems to lean quite heavily on observational and identity based comedy which is very popular right now but I don't really enjoy. Not wanting to blame the Americans for literally everything but I think they are responsible to some extent in this case. I like slightly surreal and esoteric humour or absurd parody which I realise typing it out now makes me seem a bit pretentious and smug and is of course purely subjective. For example I much prefer the first couple of seasons of South Park when it was more surreal and scatalogical than satircal. 

[Sampson]

I'm not a big fan of Kumar or Jones either but they're obviously popular and sell tickets, so people obviously like them as comedians and not just because they're disabled or an ethnic minority.

 

Oddie I just think was of his time.

Edited 3 hours ago by Sampson

[Free Falling Foxes]

Most (all?) of the references to Bill Oddies death in this thread seem to refer to his comedic side. Whether you were a fan or not, his career stretched back into the 60s. Also, he was not just a performer but comic writer. That's some achievement. 

Plus, he had another equally successful career in nature programmes, especially relating to our feathered friends.

Then he was one of the first to go public with his MH struggles 

All in all, I think that deserves respect and acknowledgement.