Favorite stand up comedian?

Algarveaddick

This was different - he had a theme, pretending that he had been a spy, and the story of that. Still quite a few one-liners though.

MuttleyCAFC

Henning Wehn makes me laugh. I have seen Would I lie to you being filmed three times so far. I would recommend it. A lot can't be used and they don't care. Lee Mack is brilliant.

buckshee

Going to see Geoff Norcott in Maidstone tonight.

hoof_it_up_to_benty

MuttleyCAFC said:

Henning Wehn makes me laugh. I have seen Would I lie to you being filmed three times so far. I would recommend it. A lot can't be used and they don't care. Lee Mack is brilliant.

Wehn is especially funny when you consider he's not speaking in his first language. Mack is very sharp and I love the delivery of Jack Dee.

paulie8290

Algarveaddick said:

paulie8290 said:

bobmunro said:

paulie8290 said:

Watching this tonight at Bromley, looking forward to it really like Milton Jones

Seeing him in Stoke next Friday.

2 warm up acts before hand
Miltons Grandad who suspiciously looks and sounds like Milton lol
And some comedian called Tom Houghton who was quite funny, his dad is this guy

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Houghton


Can't believe you didn't mention the cheer when Charlton was mentioned and Milton's response?   

Was you there @algarveaddick

paulie8290

orpingtonRED said:

paulie8290 said:

Watching this tonight at Bromley, looking forward to it really like Milton Jones

how was it?

Very funny

Alot of Charlton fans there aswell, towards the end of the show Milton asked what people where doing tomorrow, I shouted Watching Football, to which he replied who do u support, when I said Charlton there was a load of cheers 

LargeAddick

Saw Bob Monkhouse once whilst on holiday in Jersey. He was hilarious.

LargeAddick

i_b_b_o_r_g said:

Sarrf_London said:

Haven't read previous ten pages but Henning Wehn is my current favourite. Who said Germans don't have a sense of humour. Once employed Ronnie Corbett for a corporate gig. Very funny man and down to earth. Richard Herring very dry if it is the guy I'm thinking of.

Been watching a lot of Would I lie To You and 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown one YouTube, reminds me how funny Henning Wehn is. James Ancastor has grown on me an all.

Still don't think Lee Mack can be beaten for razor sharp wit though

I like James Acaster. Very deadpan. On WILTY my favourite was a story about a friend's young son and involved cabbages. Very funny.

i_b_b_o_r_g

LargeAddick said:

i_b_b_o_r_g said:

Sarrf_London said:

Haven't read previous ten pages but Henning Wehn is my current favourite. Who said Germans don't have a sense of humour. Once employed Ronnie Corbett for a corporate gig. Very funny man and down to earth. Richard Herring very dry if it is the guy I'm thinking of.

Been watching a lot of Would I lie To You and 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown one YouTube, reminds me how funny Henning Wehn is. James Ancastor has grown on me an all.

Still don't think Lee Mack can be beaten for razor sharp wit though

I like James Acaster. Very deadpan. On WILTY my favourite was a story about a friend's young son and involved cabbages. Very funny.

Or the one about his mate who was the keyboard player in their band, but weren't very good so they turned the sound down

MuttleyCAFC

I love the Henning Wehn routine were he starts with a terrible joke about his mate eating a sponge then goes on to say, first rule of German comedy is to start with your best joke. It is the way he does it, like he believes it. You need a natural comedian to make that work and he does.

orpingtonRED

paulie8290 said:

orpingtonRED said:

paulie8290 said:

Watching this tonight at Bromley, looking forward to it really like Milton Jones

how was it?

Very funny

Alot of Charlton fans there aswell, towards the end of the show Milton asked what people where doing tomorrow, I shouted Watching Football, to which he replied who do u support, when I said Charlton there was a load of cheers 

Cheers. I would like to have gone but found out a bit late. Ive got on Churchill Theatres mailing list, some good stuff they have coming up 

SuedeAdidas

Seeing Clinton Baptiste at Leicester Square next month. Really looking forward to it. The podcast cracks me up. 

Stig

LargeAddick said:

i_b_b_o_r_g said:

Sarrf_London said:

Haven't read previous ten pages but Henning Wehn is my current favourite. Who said Germans don't have a sense of humour. Once employed Ronnie Corbett for a corporate gig. Very funny man and down to earth. Richard Herring very dry if it is the guy I'm thinking of.

Been watching a lot of Would I lie To You and 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown one YouTube, reminds me how funny Henning Wehn is. James Ancastor has grown on me an all.

Still don't think Lee Mack can be beaten for razor sharp wit though

I like James Acaster. Very deadpan. On WILTY my favourite was a story about a friend's young son and involved cabbages. Very funny.

If you get the chance you should see his 'Repertoire'. It's absolutely hilarious. 

orpingtonRED

LargeAddick said:

i_b_b_o_r_g said:

Sarrf_London said:

Haven't read previous ten pages but Henning Wehn is my current favourite. Who said Germans don't have a sense of humour. Once employed Ronnie Corbett for a corporate gig. Very funny man and down to earth. Richard Herring very dry if it is the guy I'm thinking of.

Been watching a lot of Would I lie To You and 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown one YouTube, reminds me how funny Henning Wehn is. James Ancastor has grown on me an all.

Still don't think Lee Mack can be beaten for razor sharp wit though

I like James Acaster. Very deadpan. On WILTY my favourite was a story about a friend's young son and involved cabbages. Very funny.

That cabbages story was hilarious. Bob Mortimer always tells a good atory on WILTY too

MuttleyCAFC

Some of the stories are good but too long to be included. Rob Brydon goes through a few alternative scores at the end to match up with what they put in. I was at the Christmas episode in May! and Sharon Osborne came over as a right cow - they gave her another one at the end and I thought they wouldn't use the one about the house fire, but they did! 

Big_Bad_World

None of the best comedians are on mainstream TV. There's a reason for that.

Algarveaddick

paulie8290 said:

Algarveaddick said:

paulie8290 said:

bobmunro said:

paulie8290 said:

Watching this tonight at Bromley, looking forward to it really like Milton Jones

Seeing him in Stoke next Friday.

2 warm up acts before hand
Miltons Grandad who suspiciously looks and sounds like Milton lol
And some comedian called Tom Houghton who was quite funny, his dad is this guy

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Houghton


Can't believe you didn't mention the cheer when Charlton was mentioned and Milton's response?   

Was you there @algarveaddick

Yes I was. @paulie8290

ThreadKiller

Big_Bad_World said:

None of the best comedians are on mainstream TV. There's a reason for that.

Too busy selling out big venues like the O2?

McBobbin

orpingtonRED said:

LargeAddick said:

i_b_b_o_r_g said:

Sarrf_London said:

Haven't read previous ten pages but Henning Wehn is my current favourite. Who said Germans don't have a sense of humour. Once employed Ronnie Corbett for a corporate gig. Very funny man and down to earth. Richard Herring very dry if it is the guy I'm thinking of.

Been watching a lot of Would I lie To You and 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown one YouTube, reminds me how funny Henning Wehn is. James Ancastor has grown on me an all.

Still don't think Lee Mack can be beaten for razor sharp wit though

I like James Acaster. Very deadpan. On WILTY my favourite was a story about a friend's young son and involved cabbages. Very funny.

That cabbages story was hilarious. Bob Mortimer always tells a good atory on WILTY too

His all time classic was when he said that on the advice of Chris Rea, he always cracks an egg into his bath

Stig

Big_Bad_World said:

None of the best comedians are on mainstream TV. There's a reason for that.

If you see a comedian a lot, no matter how funny they are, you quickly get to the point where they exhaust their repertoire. From that point on, you're largely getting repeats, re-workings and formulas. That's where most tv comedians are operating. For lesser known comics working in clubs, they can keep repeating their best suff without fear, because it's a new audience every night and only a handful of appreciative and forgiving fans will see their stuff repeated.   

Solidgone

Trevor Noah