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So last night after coming home from a gruelling hours 6 a side game I come home to find Mrs P and daughter watching the Miranda box set !!!??? WTF how many times can you find a fat woman with a stupid haircut falling over funny anyway this got me thinking of the worst comedian and how bad comedy is now
so top 3 worst comics at the moment
Miranda Hart Sarah F ucking Milligan David Williams - yes we know your camp it aint funny so feck off
And Bowles is onside, Swinburne has come rushing out of his goal , what can Bowles do here , onto the left foot no, on to the right foot
That’s there that’s two, and that’s Bowles
Brian Moore
the likes of Frankie Boyle and Jimmy Carr tend to divide opinion but i'm fine with both and going to see Frankie do a warm up gig in a small venue next month.
Miranda, Sarah Millican and the worst of the bunch Rosie Jones are pretty awful and in the latter's case a lot of box ticking by TV execs is to blame.
some of those mentioned on here are better live than TV. John Bishop is a good example, I can't stand his TV but had the chance to see an informal warm up gig and thought i'd give it a go and he was less smug and annoying and actually very good.
Tom Allen does some excellent crowd work and that for me is always a good sign of comedy talent; rather than the bake off type shite they all hope to get signed up for.
lots of comedians now doing sketches completely reliant on their race, sex etc as the woke take over the world.
Paul Smith from Liverpool is quite the opposite and worth going to see if you get the chance; apart from being a red that is.
Someone sent in a letter to the Times offering a far better joke than the one that was voted best at the Edinburgh Festival: I've just bought a genuine Van Gogh table How d'you know it's genuine ? It's got a bit of veneer missing.
agree re Frank Skinner ... Just plain boring now. Having to listen to him waffling on during his weekend radio show is infuriating (PLAY SOME BLEED'N MUSIC!!!)... He also has his team with him who seem to think he is still funny, including one member of the team who wets herself every time he says anything... He is also doing a poetry podcast too which sounds fun
I despair at modern humour. I read this morning that the funniest joke at this year's Edinburgh Festival was voted: “ I dated a zookeeper, but he turned out to be a cheetah” Yeah, roll over Chic Murray, Tony Hancock et al.
I did say earlier in this thread that there aren't really very many good female comedians but actually I can think of a couple of decent routines. See Sarah Kendall's at the bottom of this post. I quite like Maria Bamford also.
But anyway, this joke is dogshit and she's the first woman to win the funniest joke award since 2008. With that shit? It doesn't even really work.
Here's the competition. Weirdly the bottom three jokes are the three best ones.
The most British thing I've ever heard? A lady who said, "Well I'm sorry, but I don't apologise". (Liz Guterbock 41%); Last year I had a great joke about inflation. But it's hardly worth it now. (Amos Gill 40%); When women gossip we get called bitchy; but when men do it's called a podcast. (Sikisa 34%); I thought I'd start off with a joke about The Titanic - just to break the ice. (Masai Graham 33%); How do coeliac Germans greet each other? Gluten tag. (Frank Lavender 32%); My friend got locked in a coffee place overnight. Now he only ever goes into Starbucks, not the rivals. He's Costa-phobic. (Roger Swift 29%); I entered the "How not to surrender" competition and I won hands down. (Bennett Arron 29%); Nationwide must have looked pretty silly when they opened their first branch. (William Stone 28%); My grandma describes herself as being in her "twilight years" which I love because they're great films. (Daniel Foxx 26%);
It's all mostly shit though.
Anyway, I always quite liked this routine by Sarah Kendall.
Stefan Moore, Stefan Moore running down the wing. Stefan Moore, Stefan Moore running down the wing. He runs like a cheetah, his crosses couldn't be sweeter. Stefan Moore. Stefan Moore. Stefan Moore.
Taken far too soon. His best stuff is as good as anyone's.
Stefan Moore, Stefan Moore running down the wing. Stefan Moore, Stefan Moore running down the wing. He runs like a cheetah, his crosses couldn't be sweeter. Stefan Moore. Stefan Moore. Stefan Moore.
Who was the woman who lost her shit when that guy told her Sticks and stones but there will always be something to offend a feminist? She's apparently a comedian?
Who was the woman who lost her shit when that guy told her Sticks and stones but there will always be something to offend a feminist? She's apparently a comedian?
I'll give pretty much everyone a good few chances to make me laugh but Rosie Jones is one I just can't get on with. I've tried and tried but her timing is all over the place and jokes are tired.
I bloody love Count Arthur Strong. One of the funniest characters in the last 20 years.
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I was going to mention her. I have to switch over anything she's on. As funny as a fire in a children's home.
Only really one comic I saw live that bombed was Billy Connolly in the mid 90's at Hammersmith Odeon. He really struggled. Kept referring to notes on a little chair he had on stage. Maybe had an off night.
I saw Billy a couple of times. First time was in the mid 80's when he did a charity gig at The Half Moon in Putney and was totally brilliant.
Fast forward to Hammersmith in the mid 90's where he was still funny but nowhere near the gig ten years previous. At Hammersmith he seemed obsessed with saying f**k as many times as he could. Billy is however one of the best.
Plenty of lousy comedians about, certainly Sarah Millican. I don't like Brian Connolly either, I saw him do a routine that just took the p*ss out of Arthur Askey. It wasn't funny and it was also pointless as in his prime Arthur was a massive star with the sort of popularity the likes of Connolly could only ever dream about.
I’d have been all over this a few years ago, but now I think they’re not good or bad, you just like them or you don’t. For instance, Sharon Horgan. To me, her writing is grindingly obvious and stereotypical, her characters are cliched heroes, villains and buffoons, though all of them seem to whine about nothing serious. But all the women I know adore her. Where I hate the straight-to-camera “Am I right girls, am I right?”, they all shout, “finally, someone says it”. She’s the multi-millionaire, not me.
It’s very easy for you or I to mock a one-hit wonder, but that’s one more than we’ve managed between us. I thought Sarah Millican was quite funny when she first emerged, she had some original routines on some apparently everyday topics. But writing jokes is hard, and it’s easier to pay someone to write new jokes in the style of your old jokes and try to survive on brand recognition than admit you’re not up to it any more. No one is forcing you to watch them, do something else.
100%. His comeback tour was treated like the coming of the 2nd messiah. Maybe it's a northern thing but he's never raised so much as a chortle in the Benny household.
Curious one, Mr. Bean. My least favourite of Rowan's creations (more of Blackadder man myself) but his most popular in terms of global numbers. A diluted Benny Hill.
If memory serves me right, Mike Reid was scheduled to play at a pub in Acton shortly before his passing. Tickets were available via the club and I had at least a dozen friends and family of all ages who asked me to get some. Sadly, Mike had to pull out through illness and he was replaced on the bill by Bobby Davro. Every single one of my group requested a refund and who could blame them!
If memory serves me right, Mike Reid was scheduled to play at a pub in Acton shortly before his passing. Tickets were available via the club and I had at least a dozen friends and family of all ages who asked me to get some. Sadly, Mike had to pull out through illness and he was replaced on the bill by Bobby Davro. Every single one of my group requested a refund and who could blame them!
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I drunkenly bumped into Bobby Davro in Richmond probably about 30 years ago now.
Anyway, in my drunken state I got him mixed up with Freddie Starr, and started shouting at him about hamsters
I did say earlier in this thread that there aren't really very many good female comedians but actually I can think of a couple of decent routines. See Sarah Kendall's at the bottom of this post. I quite like Maria Bamford also.
But anyway, this joke is dogshit and she's the first woman to win the funniest joke award since 2008. With that shit? It doesn't even really work.
Here's the competition. Weirdly the bottom three jokes are the three best ones.
The most British thing I've ever heard? A lady who said, "Well I'm sorry, but I don't apologise". (Liz Guterbock 41%); Last year I had a great joke about inflation. But it's hardly worth it now. (Amos Gill 40%); When women gossip we get called bitchy; but when men do it's called a podcast. (Sikisa 34%); I thought I'd start off with a joke about The Titanic - just to break the ice. (Masai Graham 33%); How do coeliac Germans greet each other? Gluten tag. (Frank Lavender 32%); My friend got locked in a coffee place overnight. Now he only ever goes into Starbucks, not the rivals. He's Costa-phobic. (Roger Swift 29%); I entered the "How not to surrender" competition and I won hands down. (Bennett Arron 29%); Nationwide must have looked pretty silly when they opened their first branch. (William Stone 28%); My grandma describes herself as being in her "twilight years" which I love because they're great films. (Daniel Foxx 26%);
It's all mostly shit though.
Anyway, I always quite liked this routine by Sarah Kendall.
Re female comedians, Taylor Tomlinson is about my favourite comedian at the moment.
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