Unfunny comedians

[Binney on acid]

Lenny Henry is just an insult to the audience's intelligence. He mimed to a backing tape of Free's "Little bit of love" during a 'musical' interlude.It was probably funnier than his 'jokes'.

 

[spring hall convert]

I did like him in Gavin & Stacey.

I've always wondered how he managed to get into character for that. He's some method actor.

 

[Barry Izbak]

If nobody has yet mentioned Jeremy Hardy, that would be an oversight

 

[LamieRobertson]

If nobody has yet mentioned Jeremy Hardy, that would be an oversight

Quite enjoy him ..and they have

 

[brakespear]

Am I missing something with the whole Keith Lemon thing? I know it's meant to be a satire of some kind, and I haven't really tried very hard. But not sure I get it at all.

Oh I completely forgot Leigh Francis, whatever he does now is consistently terrible.

 

[brakespear]

richard herring - the paul mccartney of his double act.

I think he's really funny but maybe becoming a bit overdone at present. Love Stewart Lee too

 

[brakespear]

also lee nelson.

 

[alfredmizen]

Shappi Khorsandi.
Shappi Khorsandi.
Shappi Khorsandi.

Oh yes and Russell Howard.

went to see her in haywards heath , she was good , but got a bit whiny towards the end and started lecturing us on asylum seekers , which irritates me as she is/was one herself.

 

[alfredmizen]

Jim Jeffries is absolutely terrible, so vulgar and coarse, how could anyone find this guy funny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkFjCACCIus

Not sure if I'm being whooshed, he is superb !

 

[alfredmizen]

10 pages and no mention of Catherine Tate, the queen of rubbish unfunny.

She's very funny.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I think he's really funny but maybe becoming a bit overdone at present. Love Stewart Lee too

Stewart Lee makes me laugh so much I get cramps in my head.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Whilst we all agree on Lenny Henry some people have some very odd ideas about who isn't funny.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

also lee nelson.

Would agree under ever other circumstance anytime ever - apart from...

 

[alfredmizen]

'bitch' - nice use of gender-specific abuse. Can I join in and give a gender-specific insult about Hardy? Apart from being a smug, unfunny knob, he's also an IRA-lover who has even stumped up significant amounts of bail money for members of the IRA. He's a cock.

I never knew that , what a

 

[alfredmizen]

Morecombe and Wise. OK I know they are now dead but you cannot say that they ae no longer with us, as every Xmas they get wheeled out. Growing up in the 70s you couldn't escape the buggers but it's hard to even these days. For me they weren't funny in their pomp and they are even less funny now. Indeed a marker of the inevitable march of human progress (notwithstanding the profile given to D.Trump and of course R. Howard) should be the total eradication of M&W from our screens. Merry Christmas!

Never , ever understood how people found them funny.

 

[alfredmizen]

There was some bloke on Christmas at the Apollo earlier this week that was just desperate (the one Nina Conti hosted). Came on dressed in some sort of high-viz top with shoulder pads, proceeded to inflate his trousers and generally act like a pissed up 14 year old. Least funny 'comedian' I think I have seen on the telly.

I saw that, and agree !

 

[Wilko]

Roy Chubby Brown
Bernard Manning
Jim Davidson

All three had one stock in trade - find someone weak or different (in real life or in the audience) and bully them, either slyly or overtly. I like 'edgy' humour, but any element of bullying just kills it for me. That why I don't like Pricky Gervaise, either.

Again I do not get this, RG sides with the less fortunate. Derek for example is not taking the pIss, Derek is the hero in the show, the good guy!

 

[Buzzer]

Again I do not get this, RG sides with the less fortunate. Derek for example is not taking the pIss, Derek is the hero in the show, the good guy!

The character of Derek is so two-dimensional, it could have been written by Dickens. It could have lots of potential but Gervais reduces it to mawkish mediocrity.

 

[Wilko]

The character of Derek is so two-dimensional, it could have been written by Dickens. It could have lots of potential but Gervais reduces it to mawkish mediocrity.

The mawkishness (if that is a word) is a little overdone and forced in some episodes but I think the sweetness and kindness comes across well in others.

 

[Vicar!]

Rob Beckett
Noel Fielding
Leigh Francis