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I appreciate this is all personal taste, but Iam going to moninate some people who when i watch them leave me stony-faced, scratching my head, wondering why people are laughing

you can try to convince me otherwise, or add nominations of your own....


exhibit one.

Just deeply unfunny

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exhibit two

I appreciate this is a character, but the TV show makes me want to poke my eyes out with knitting needles . Even worse, i co-habit with someone who finds it hilarious

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exhibit three

Began to believe his own publicity towards the end of his mock the week run, now just deeply unfunny, often overly offensive for the sake of it and just annoying

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over to you

"Punch me now".

No problem mate.


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Russell Brand, he's a total clown also...

Lee Evans.

Obviously Jim Davidson.

Lee Evans.

I couldn't bring myself to watch him if you paid me good money.


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Lol. You beat me to it by less than a minute.

First time Lee Evans has made me laugh :D

Spot on

Saw him "live" in Brighton with an ex.

Crowd laughing before he even came on stage must be hell of an advantage as funny as piles


Actually less funny

Interestingly, someone bought me tickets for Xmas to see Lee Evans because my step brothers liked him.  Not being one to turn my nose up at a free night out, I went and I don't think I've laughed so much at a stand up.  Still can't stand watching him on telly though.

Russell Brand and Frankie Boyle in my top 10 favourite comedians though.

McIntyre abso tezz.  Imo ofc.

Oh, I saw Kevin Bridges live too and he was dog shit.

Come the revolution he'll be the first lined up against the wall!

All of them.  I just don't get the whole manufactured set piece funny sketches thing.  The best comedy is always unintentional, and it always happens in the course of real life.

Almost everyone who appears on Live at The Apollo, any TV panel comedy show, etc.

If I have to plump for one just now it's Lee Mack.  It's almost as if his jokes are quick and quippy but seriously lack humour, if that makes sense.  I can't warm to him at all.

I'd much rather see a thread on decent comedians woth watching.

I've particularly liked two recently: Reggie Watts and Marcel Leconte.

I got offered a second stand-up gig myself two days ago, but I've turned it down.  Location, time, length of spot, - none of it amounts to there being much in it for me.  My comedy is not easy either.  I'm not being pretentious with that.  It's not high brow or anything.  It's more that the jokes are for me.  Odd approach you might say.  Odd bloke I say.

I like Lee Evans and Russell Brand.

Frankie Boyle developed into a sort of early 90s alternative comedian over his MTW stint, where the comedy was in its shock, rather than in the humour itself. To call him a stand up is kind of missing the point. Not my cup of tea, but I can "get" what he's doing.

Agree on the others.

Mrs Brown's Boys is passé and dated in concept, woefully stilted in application, yet somehow wins awards and plaudits from critics and fans alike. The chap at the helm should have wrapped it up years ago. It is basically complete and utter Arsenal.

Micky Flanagan's success is baffling, absolutely baffling. He delivers weak material poorly.

John Bishop exactly the same - just terrible.

Michael McIntyre I'm going to defend - even if his style of comedy is not to your taste, he can deliver a joke and his exuberance on stage works well, he is an engaging performer.

Also, Mrs Brown - essentially old music hall jokes with added swearing but each episode will give me a good couple of belly laughs. It's like a pantomime - even if you can see the punchline coming a mile away the sheer force of delivery can be hilarious.

Saw Mark Thomas earlier this year, after being a fan for over a decade.  Excellent.  Back to his activism roots, bot preachy with it, and reminds you what a good stand-up he is in spite of him not really delivering a stand-up routine.

Also saw, Paul Chowdhry.  Wasn't expecting lots, but found myself laughing despite not being that into much of his material.  I guess the ocassion of being there and he is a funny bloke naturally I think, despite material being a bit weak.  Had it's moments in that element though for sure.

Generally shite, but I did enjoy seeing his first DVD a few Xmases ago now.  Again, sometimes you can just be in the mood.  Saw him in Jongleurs, Edinburgh before TV famous and did a good set - first-half delivered in a broad Glaswegian accent and all about the Scots, before reverting to his own persona.

Worst ever live comedy gig - Peter Kay.  People laughing so hard it was literally unreal.  You know the old glance at your mate, throw back of the head, slap of the thigh, tears.  Weird.

As to my own personal unfavourites, right at the top of the list is Noel Fielding. Dressing like a low-rent Russell Brand is not a career. He's only ever done The Mighty Boosh and that was shit and he's now made Buzzcocks unwatchable.

He's not really a TV comedian but Robin Ince is a nightmare as well - does his best to ruin the Infinite Monkey Cage with his sneering, hectoring, 'I'm so clever because I've read some books'.

Favourites on TV are The Alternative Comedy Experience & Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle.

Can't think of anything else I can stand to watch.  Dave Gorman has some decent stuff usually.

Agree with Noel Fielding, just don't get why people like him.

Pains me to say it but Vic Reeves and Bob are a bit cringe these days.  Used to enjoy them when they first started but these days it's outdated.

This thread just serves to highlight how subjective the whole thing is.

Some are well observed, deserving choices that I totally agree with, others are just the foolish, misguided blatherings of people who's opinions don't matter anyway. Often, both examples are in the same post.


 

This.

Also how does this get to two pages before anyone mentions Sarah Millican  dreadful.

Recently saw Paul Foot - strangest gig ever as a member of the audience leapt on stage and stole all his props, and ran out of the building - he coped very well.

The new Jim Jefferies special "bare" is proper stand up (available on You tube) - best thing I have seen since the last time I saw Saddowitz.

Chelsea Handlers new special on net flix is "interesting" too - can't decide if I like it or not, it makes me laugh so that's a start.  Ladies doing very blue routines I find difficult for some reason.

Not seen Lee Hurst for a long time, now he used to make me laugh....

Everyone on 'They Think It's All Over' was pretty funny.

Is that the Scottish lady with the dreadfully high shrilly voice?

I can't really think of anyone that I think is really shit, but I don't actually watch any comedians now.

The last 'Live at' DVD I watched watched, was one of Jimmy Carr's, and I think he is excellent.

The very same.

/end thread :)

No that's Mrs Doubtfire.

She's from the North East.

not funny, not funny and even less funny

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really not sure if he is funny

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Alan Carr another annoying one...

Rich Hall's Things Snowball is one of the funniest things I've ever read.

Al Murray's Pub Landlord satirises the very people who are paying him to perform. How is that not glorious? Maybe it's a little Oxbridgey for some, but I can't think of something else so conceptually perfect.

Interesting thread, nevertheless.

But the reason the Pub Landlord character got so big is precisely because so many of the audience don't get the joke, and are laughing with and not at him. He'd go down a storm at a gig full of UKIPpers.

Cannot understand the strange obsessions with Sarah Millican ( all of her 'jokes' revolve around her being slightly overweight and obsessed with food) and Michael McIntyre who makes me want to simultaneously poke out my eyeballs and puncture my eardrums. Neither as bad as that long haired Geordie buffoon who appears surprisingly regularly on QI. As much as I love QI, I insta-delete from my Sky+ box if he's on. I think he's called Ross something. Absolutely horrendous.

Went to see Adam Buxton do his youtube-centred show last year and it was gloriously funny. So well crafted and his observations and delivery were excellent. Shows how a simple concept that is well delivered can be incredibly funny.

The wife and I are also enjoying Dave Gorman's 'Modern Life is Goodish' on Dave. Again, it's just Dave ranting against modern life whilst pulling pointless but amusing pranks on unsuspecting corporations/websites etc. All very harmless, gentle humour.

At the other end of the comedy spectrum, I would also recommend : Jim Jeffries ( watch his show 'Legit' if you've not seen it) and the incomparable Louis C K. Watching Louis deal with hecklers is absolute car crash viewing - both horrendous and hilarious at the same time which is a difficult line to walk.

Also got a soft spot for Tim Minchin, but he can be a bit hit and miss. Some of his songs are brilliant. Here's a link to one called 'Inflatable you'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6raVzrbqrM&list=UUz5wnzqxdlrhdpaVoRwKe2A

Gahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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But the thread is funny comedians and he is one. The fact that two levels of people find the Landlord funny is to his credit, no?

God yes. Falling off chairs is funny, about a hundred years ago. Piss off Miranda

Glad so many agree. Mike McIntired/Noel Wtf/Lee Evans/Sarah Millican how have these people got rich?

Happy with a bit of Frankie Boyle but even I cringe after a while. Do like Sean Locke, but thats not for here.

GTF!

Best thing to have come out of Scotland since Square Sausage and Stornoway Black Pudding.

Flannagan, Merton, Skinner, Hart, Alan Carr, Andy Parsons, Bishop, are all not funny. 

How anyone can say Bridges and Boyle aren't funny is beyond me.  Both are absolutely brilliant.  I'm a menber at The Stand in Glasgow and get to see lots of good local comedians and also some dross. 

Locally I like Janey Godly and Raymond Mearns really dislike The Reverend Obadiah Steppenwolfe III

Damn you Galloway, you killed the thread.

WHO on earth would pay to watch Miranda?

Joobie.

Thankfully I have managed to resist buying the overpriced tickets.

Somehow she managed to sell out the Echo Arena in Liverpool around last Christmas. The actual "gig" was in 2015!

+1

That Noel Fielding is just terrible imo

If he or John Bishop were performing in my front garden I would close the curtains....

I really like what Dave Gorman does in his TV show but it's not really a stand up comedian show.

In answer to the original question though - I have seen Paul Foot live and it was just a bit poo. No laughs at all. Half the audience were absolutely crying with laughter, the rest of us were just looking around going WTF?

Roy Chubby Brown is another one. He was good when you were 14 but as you grow up you realise he's just a dirty, old, unfunny fat bloke with a million names for a girl's bits. How he is still going is beyond me.

Micky Flanagan and Sarah Millican were the two that came straight to mind when I saw the thread title.  I quite like Miranda - Dan can't stand her.  As for Frankie Boyle, I'm all for 'close to the bone' comedy, but he's taken some things just too far for my taste, and I can't see past that.

Oh and Mrs Brown's Boys is obviously one of the worst sit-coms ever.

I got the Mrs tickets for her Christmas.  One of the worse live gigs I have gone to, full of 12 year old kids.  I like the TV show though, but it just doesn't work as a stand up routine.

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Have you seen any of them live? Or just on panel shows?

From above
Seen Reg D Hunter live twice. First time was a 20min set at the Komedia, very good
2nd time was his own gig at the Brighton comedy festival. Bloody awful, all he done was swear as much as possible.

IMO most of the comedians listed in this thread are very funny seeing them the first time on the live comedy circuit. Seeing them again is usually a disappointment.

Jo Brand and Alan Davies on QI, then Micky Flanagan on Graham Norton - it's a right shitfest on the BBC tonight.

Noel Fielding is so unfunny, no idea how he's made it where he has.

Although I don't mind David Mitchell I can't stand some of his shows (such as Peep Show, so dreadful as a programme)

no why would i see them live if i don't like them?

these days the first exposure most of us get is via panel shows

if i don't like the persona they project on there, i am not shelling out "tour" prices to see them live

I appreciate that getting on board with them in the early days, before they make it to TV, would give me a different impression of them

Years ago I used to enjoy "Home Improvement" with Tim Allen.

In Vegas, maybe 4 years ago he was doing a stand up show at the Venetian and I was at a loose end so I bought a ticket/

I should have walked out when he started the show with "Honestly I don't mean to offend anyone, it is just the way I see the world"

I soon found out sees the world through racist, sexist, misogynist and xenophobic eyes.

I didn't laugh once.

Don't go and see the Absinthe show at caesars palace next time you are in Vegas then  ;angel;

I saw Absinthe.

I wasn't offended, but couldn't see why everyone was raving about it.

OK, but nothing special.

Lucy Porter, saw her a few years ago on Brum, she got some hecklers thrown out,

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On the same billing as Lucy was Marcus Brigstocke, he was an arrogant, unfunny giant cock.

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Fk me I thought that compare might has ruffled your feathers a little bit lol.

A black group left when I went and he started laying into them. In fairness he took the piss out of just about everyone!!!

A mate of mine went out with Lucy Porter for a few months just before she started to become famous.

Confirmed not funny.

She went on the Ladrokes cruise a few years back, decent looking bird to be fair.

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Was ok on Mock The Week but his Good News show was pretty poor imo. Whenever he said something that was supposed to be funny he just got a bit shouty and waved his arms a bit.

Thought she was, but the whole trip was very hazy, and couldn't remember if it was the same bird :D

Harry Hill.  Not funny at all, woeful and annoying

Alan Carr
Phil Jupitus
Chris Addison
Jack Whitehall

Couldn't disagree more about Addison.

Very funny IMO

Excellent in The Thick Of It, but I find him painful as a stand-up.

Agree about the show, but his stand up live is pretty deece.

so many views and opinions here that you might start to believe that people actually have different tastes :)

I saw Alan Carr in the comedy tent at Leeds Festival over ten years ago and he was hilarious, maybe i caught him on a good day. I certainly caught him at the optimum point in his career for my tastes and it's unlikely that i would buy tickets to see him now.

I've seen Phil Jupitus twice at the Fringe. The first was his return to stand up and was top class stuff. Carefully crafted and really well delivered. The next year, hmmm, not so much
 Had i seen the second gig first i wouldn't have seen him twice, but now i'd book again.

maybe we need a thread along the lines of
"If you like X then you are likely to appreciate Y"

Steve Punt.

The man is stealing a living.

Pretty much everyone mentioned so far (I like Al Murray and Rich Hall, but everyone else nah).

IMO there are simply not many good British comedians right now. They all tow a very safe line, because stand up has become big business now (ie. get on Live at the Apollo, get on a panel show, then bring out a Christmas DVD, rinse, repeat).

Saddens me to say, but I look to the yanks for 99% of my comedy now.

From who?