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Comedians that are just not funny

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  • Hal1x
    Hal1x Posts: 4,265
    Seth Plums crappy jokes

  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,641
    Hal1x said:
    Seth Plums crappy jokes

    Whilst I’ve heard a couple of them before, most of them have made me laugh.
  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,503
    charente addick said:
    hoof_it_up_to_benty said:
    Nish Kumar is deeply unfunny.
    Saw him in Plymouth around 4 years ago, absolutely hilarious. If you are a Brexiteer I could understand you not liking him.
    Just find him smug and predictable - I'm not a Brexiteer.
  • Charlton and on
    Charlton and on Posts: 986
    Is there one comic that everyone can agree is shit?

    I'll put forward Miranda and the bloke that does Mrs Brown's boys. Surely no one would admit to finding them funny?
  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 11,005
    Charlton and on said:
    Is there one comic that everyone can agree is shit?

    I'll put forward Miranda and the bloke that does Mrs Brown's boys. Surely no one would admit to finding them funny?
    Sarah Pascoe
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,416
    All very subjective of course.  Anyone that bases a comedic career around politics, I find off putting and not remotely amusing.
  • Hal1x
    Hal1x Posts: 4,265
    seth plum said:
    Hal1x said:
    Seth Plums crappy jokes

    A colon can completely change the meaning of a sentence. For example:

    • Jane ate her friend's sandwich.

    • Jane ate her friend's colon.
    erh?😕
  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,213
    hoof_it_up_to_benty said:
    charente addick said:
    hoof_it_up_to_benty said:
    Nish Kumar is deeply unfunny.
    Saw him in Plymouth around 4 years ago, absolutely hilarious. If you are a Brexiteer I could understand you not liking him.
    Just find him smug and predictable - I'm not a Brexiteer.
    I saw him at the Roundhouse recently. Absolutely superb, but then as this thread shows, comedy is massively subjective. 
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,207
    soapy_jones said:
    All very subjective of course.  Anyone that bases a comedic career around politics, I find off putting and not remotely amusing.


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  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,503
    Uboat said:
    hoof_it_up_to_benty said:
    charente addick said:
    hoof_it_up_to_benty said:
    Nish Kumar is deeply unfunny.
    Saw him in Plymouth around 4 years ago, absolutely hilarious. If you are a Brexiteer I could understand you not liking him.
    Just find him smug and predictable - I'm not a Brexiteer.
    I saw him at the Roundhouse recently. Absolutely superb, but then as this thread shows, comedy is massively subjective. 
    I find him as bland as Michael McIntyre- he does know his audience.
  • PopIcon
    PopIcon Posts: 5,970
    I find Jack Whitehall about as funny as testicular cancer.
  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,213
    hoof_it_up_to_benty said:
    Uboat said:
    hoof_it_up_to_benty said:
    charente addick said:
    hoof_it_up_to_benty said:
    Nish Kumar is deeply unfunny.
    Saw him in Plymouth around 4 years ago, absolutely hilarious. If you are a Brexiteer I could understand you not liking him.
    Just find him smug and predictable - I'm not a Brexiteer.
    I saw him at the Roundhouse recently. Absolutely superb, but then as this thread shows, comedy is massively subjective. 
    I find him as bland as Michael McIntyre- he does know his audience.
    Extraordinary comparison. Nish delivered an absolute zinger about every 7 seconds. Michael Macintyre will get three minutes out of repeating the same word. 
  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,503
    Uboat said:
    hoof_it_up_to_benty said:
    Uboat said:
    hoof_it_up_to_benty said:
    charente addick said:
    hoof_it_up_to_benty said:
    Nish Kumar is deeply unfunny.
    Saw him in Plymouth around 4 years ago, absolutely hilarious. If you are a Brexiteer I could understand you not liking him.
    Just find him smug and predictable - I'm not a Brexiteer.
    I saw him at the Roundhouse recently. Absolutely superb, but then as this thread shows, comedy is massively subjective. 
    I find him as bland as Michael McIntyre- he does know his audience.
    Extraordinary comparison. Nish delivered an absolute zinger about every 7 seconds. Michael Macintyre will get three minutes out of repeating the same word. 
    Not really - find them both bland. 
  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,213
    That’s that then. 
  • swordfish
    swordfish Posts: 4,242
    soapy_jones said:
    All very subjective of course.  Anyone that bases a comedic career around politics, I find off putting and not remotely amusing.
    Boris Johnson did alright at the polls 😉
  • SporadicAddick
    SporadicAddick Posts: 6,917
    This is a great thread but is in itself slightly funny. It generally goes in these stages:-

    he/she is rubbish

    i think they are brilliant

    no they are not

    yes they are

    Now Bernard Manning, he was funny

    No he wasn’t, he was racist

    No he wan’t

    what about Jim Davison

    brilliant

    racist

    one of our own

    Apart from when he was a Bournemouth fan

    This thread proves comedy is subjective

    thead goes quiet for several months

    …and start again


  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,416
    swordfish said:
    soapy_jones said:
    All very subjective of course.  Anyone that bases a comedic career around politics, I find off putting and not remotely amusing.
    Boris Johnson did alright at the polls 😉
    Fine lines,  that's building a political career around comedy, surely?
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,373
    If you think a comedian is funny, you're right. 

    But if you think a comedian isn't funny, you're right. 

    (It was Jimmy Carr who said that. He isn't). 
  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,285
    charente addick said:
    hoof_it_up_to_benty said:
    Nish Kumar is deeply unfunny.
    Saw him in Plymouth around 4 years ago, absolutely hilarious. If you are a Brexiteer I could understand you not liking him.
    This is something that has long been with comedy. If you find/found Ben Elton funny you must be a hardline Liberal Labour voter or if you like someone like Geoff Norcott nowadays you must be a brexit voting gammon. Bollocks to that, if something is funny, its funny be that something pointed at me or at someone else. I was at one of Geoff Norcotts shows last week and a percentage of the audience were only there to cheer at something they agreed with as opposed to laugh at a side splittingly funny megamix of impressions he did before the interval. Same with the last Frankie Boyle show and Katherine Ryan show I went to. 

    Its really dull and predictable when comedians just bash the conservatives as half the time they aren't necessarily saying anything funny but its popular with their crowd, that disappoints me but does make me wonder where they will get their material/cheap cheers from the crowd from when Labour are in power 



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  • NornIrishAddick
    NornIrishAddick Posts: 9,623
    IMHO, a lot of the problem involved in identifying comedians that are deemed funny by most is the issue of longevity (particularly when we become more aware of the person behind the act), there are many comedians who are very funny for a very short time, but then drift away into anonymity.

    Then they run out of things to say with which the audience can relate, which is clearly an issue for observational comedians.  It's the equivalent of the difficult second album.  In some ways, it's easier for older style gag comedians.

    Comic actors, provided they have the right writers working for them, can be much more successful.

    That said, were kinder to comedians when they're dead...

    ...and, for some (not looking at anyone Woody Allen), their reputation would clearly be greater if they had.

    But, even before they died, I would have said Berry Cryer and Marty Feldman were hilarious (but they were just as funny in their writing as in their comedy acting/stage personas).
  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,090
    Uboat said:
    hoof_it_up_to_benty said:
    Uboat said:
    hoof_it_up_to_benty said:
    charente addick said:
    hoof_it_up_to_benty said:
    Nish Kumar is deeply unfunny.
    Saw him in Plymouth around 4 years ago, absolutely hilarious. If you are a Brexiteer I could understand you not liking him.
    Just find him smug and predictable - I'm not a Brexiteer.
    I saw him at the Roundhouse recently. Absolutely superb, but then as this thread shows, comedy is massively subjective. 
    I find him as bland as Michael McIntyre- he does know his audience.
    Extraordinary comparison. Nish delivered an absolute zinger about every 7 seconds. Michael Macintyre will get three minutes out of repeating the same word. 
    If you think a “zinger” means saying something very loud, then I can understand why you would like Nish. If you enjoy comedians who are actually funny I could see why you wouldn’t.
  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,285
    Whilst I think Mrs Brown's boys has run its course Brendan O'carroll is a very funny man 

    Miranda Hart chucks red meat out to a mass audience, which is a shame as I saw her do stand up, and I could be wrong with my dates but about 20 years ago and she was hilarious. 

    Then there are comedians who absolutely kill it, everytime I've seen them live but are completely overlooked by TV David Johns is my immediate example, barring a brilliant turn in I, Daniel Blake I can't recall seeing him on screen 




  • charlton4ever
    charlton4ever Posts: 1,736
    Saw Dan Renton Skinner/aka Angelos Epithemiou last month at the Tramshed = silly, wonderful, side splitting Comedian, brilliant. If Carlsberg made comedians ......................
  • DRAddick
    DRAddick Posts: 3,592

    Hannah Gadsby. No-one else comes close to being as unfunny. Thank fuck she doesn't get any coverage over here. 
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,373
    Russell Brand
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,942
    Chizz said:
    Russell Brand
    He will be fucking hilarious when he gets put away, the dirty wrong un.
  • SporadicAddick
    SporadicAddick Posts: 6,917
    DRAddick said:

    Hannah Gadsby. No-one else comes close to being as unfunny. Thank fuck she doesn't get any coverage over here. 
    Apparently there's more than one of her:-

    "Hannah Gadsby is an Australian comedian, writer, and actor. They began their career in Australia after winning the national final of the Raw Comedy competition for new comedians in 2006".
  • DRAddick
    DRAddick Posts: 3,592
    SporadicAddick said:
    DRAddick said:

    Hannah Gadsby. No-one else comes close to being as unfunny. Thank fuck she doesn't get any coverage over here. 
    Apparently there's more than one of her:-

    "Hannah Gadsby is an Australian comedian, writer, and actor. They began their career in Australia after winning the national final of the Raw Comedy competition for new comedians in 2006".
    My apologies. I will cancel myself immediately as is the law.
  • king addick
    king addick Posts: 3,739
    Micheal Macintyre. One of the most over hyped, unfunny bellends. Talks really fast and bobs his head alot like pigeon. 

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