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Ed Byrne makes two audience members faint

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  • #52
    Too Tough To Die
    Registered Users Posts: 2,056 ✭✭✭Too Tough To Die


    I have very little time for modern comedians. Miss the likes of Bob Monkhouse, Dave Allen and Frank Carson. Proper comedians.

    Don't wanna hear about some cnuts faulty toaster.


  • #53
    Crooked Jack
    Registered Users Posts: 5,678 ✭✭✭Crooked Jack


    beakerjoe wrote: »
    My problem is I don't like ED personally, his look and smugness get under my skin. These lads mentioned above aren't my cup of tea either but id easily watch these guys as they seem more likeable. None of the make me double up in fits of giggles (well Peter Kay did in Phoenix Nights) but I don't hate them. Ed Byrne just comes off an arrogant dickhead with an undeserved sense of accomplishment any time i see him.

    Do you know him personally?


  • #54
    Crooked Jack
    Registered Users Posts: 5,678 ✭✭✭Crooked Jack


    Too Tough To Die wrote: »
    I have very little time for modern comedians. Miss the likes of Bob Monkhouse, Dave Allen and Frank Carson. Proper comedians.

    Don't wanna hear about some cnuts faulty toaster.

    What should they talk about?

    Where's me washboard?


  • #55
    beakerjoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,753 ✭✭✭✭beakerjoe


    Crooked Jack wrote: »
    Do you know him personally?

    Ive seen enough of his stand up and appearances on panel shows to say the personality he portrays on stage is not for me.


  • #56
    chopper6
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,214 ✭✭✭chopper6


    Crooked Jack wrote: »
    Celebrity? Thickos?
    God, you're really reaching now.
    Have you ever actually seen any of his proper stand up shows. He's actually a pretty good comedian. Not the best but definitely not deserving of this bile.
    I wonder where it comes from.

    He's not a good comedian...the only thing funny about him is his haircut which also makes him look like a nonce.

    Anybody who thinks he's funny is indeed a thicko.


  • #57
    Birroc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,070 ✭✭✭Birroc


    chopper6 wrote: »
    He's not a good comedian...the only thing funny about him is his haircut which also makes him look like a nonce.

    Anybody who thinks he's funny is indeed a thicko.

    I can't argue with that logic.


  • #58
    chopper6
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,214 ✭✭✭chopper6


    Birroc wrote: »
    I can't argue with that logic.


    I used to go out with a girl whose sister had similar hair to him...we rechristened her Ed Byrne untill she grew so unhappy she cut it all off.


  • #59
    Savoir.Faire
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 326 ✭✭Savoir.Faire


    chopper6 wrote: »
    He's not a good comedian...the only thing funny about him is his haircut which also makes him look like a nonce.

    Anybody who thinks he's funny is indeed a thicko.

    What comedians do you like? Your abrasive and cutting style of post reminds me in many ways of David McSavage.


  • #60
    chopper6
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,214 ✭✭✭chopper6


    Savoir.Faire wrote: »
    What comedians do you like? Your abrasive and cutting style of post reminds me in many ways of David McSavage.


    I like that fat guy who's always falling over....what's his name...pretends to be a woman....


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  • #61
    Tzardine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,884 ✭✭✭Tzardine


    chopper6 wrote: »
    I like that fat guy who's always falling over....what's his name...pretends to be a woman....

    Dawn French ?


  • #62
    chopper6
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,214 ✭✭✭chopper6


    Strituck wrote: »
    Dawn French ?

    Thats the one...or the Sea Monster as she likes to be known.


  • #63
    Too Tough To Die
    Registered Users Posts: 2,056 ✭✭✭Too Tough To Die


    Crooked Jack wrote: »
    What should they talk about?

    Where's me washboard?

    Don't talk about anything. Just bang out the funnies.


  • #64
    chopper6
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,214 ✭✭✭chopper6


    Actually hand on heart i cant think of a single irish comedian that i find funny.


  • #65
    pundy
    Registered Users Posts: 673 ✭✭✭pundy


    what's yer mans name that does the one-liners? Stewart Francis? now he's good...
    no bullsh!t, just jokes and silly humour.

    Ed byrne... i literally, actually just shuddered at even typing his name again.

    HOW!? WHY!? he makes me cringe so bad, i'd nearly pull a redner for him when i see him on the telly, just knowing he's going to be the annoying one that nobody wants on a panel, just ruining their jokes, and trying his best to get his few minutes on the telly.


  • #66
    chopper6
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,214 ✭✭✭chopper6


    pundy wrote: »
    what's yer mans name that does the one-liners? Stewart Francis? now he's good...
    no bullsh!t, just jokes and silly humour.

    Ed byrne... i literally, actually just shuddered at even typing his name again.

    HOW!? WHY!? he makes me cringe so bad, i'd nearly pull a redner for him when i see him on the telly, just knowing he's going to be the annoying one that nobody wants on a panel, just ruining their jokes, and trying his best to get his few minutes on the telly.


    Annoying as he is he's not a patch on that unfunny Nordie Kevin McAleer.

    there used to be a show called Don't Feed The Gondolas on rte which was a rip-off of have i got news for you and amazingly it was actually quite funny.

    Fatman Brendan O'connor started out on it as did Sean Moncrief and it actually looked like the show could be a success..what happened? They get McAleer on to derail the show with his whinging "surrealist humour",waffling and prattling on in his nordie whine til the whole show became an unfunny mess and had to be axed.


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  • #67
    grenache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,477 ✭✭✭grenache


    Crooked Jack wrote: »
    Well that really depends on whose cancer it is.
    Have you ever actually seen any of his stand up shows, they're bloody good and the huge crowds of people laughing the whole way through them would agree with me.
    I was taken along to one of his shows in the Olympia a few years back. 90 minutes of my life I'll never get back.


  • #68
    Rothko
    Registered Users Posts: 12,908 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    pundy wrote: »
    hahaha maybe he's bad, but... i dunno... have you ever REALLY seen/listened to Ed Byrne though - he's like the guy in everyones office/school that always has to have the last say in a joke... points out the obvious a LOT and ends up ruining what would be the joke from another comedian. he is especially annoying when he pops up on a panel show.... UUUGH he's so cringe.

    Ugh


  • #69
    Cody Pomeray
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,648 ✭✭✭Cody Pomeray


    Ed Byrne is everyone's unfunny cousin/ sister's boyfriend/ old college mate. We all know an Ed Byrne (complete with the accent, oh God, the accent)

    I'm convinced people only go to his shows because they think they recognize him.


  • #70
    chopper6
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,214 ✭✭✭chopper6


    Cody Pomeray wrote: »
    Ed Byrne is everyone's unfunny cousin/ sister's boyfriend/ old college mate. We all know an Ed Byrne (complete with the accent, oh God, the accent)

    I'm convinced people only go to his shows because they think they recognize him.

    Thats just it...everybody knows somebody like him and i know twenty people who are funnier than him but if you're not moving in the right circles in rte etc you'll get nowhere.

    Look at that complete are des Bishop....his shtick is to insult various subsets of irish people in an approximation of thier regional accents..he's a mean-spirited ,spoilt american with a superiority complex yet poor thick paddy irshman laps it up.

    If he went to Harlam and started doing impressions of Black americans he's be shot dead in ten minutes.


  • #71
    Oranage2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,128 ✭✭✭✭Oranage2


    Is he the one with the blond hair or a pony tail?

    Either way I don't like him.


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  • #72
    chopper6
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,214 ✭✭✭chopper6


    Oranage2 wrote: »
    Is he the one with the blond hair or a pony tail?

    Either way I don't like him.


    He's got a generic woman's hairdo...the sort of thing that would get him kicked to death in the street or make him very popular in prison.


  • #73
    cournioni
    Moderators, Regional North East Moderators Posts: 12,739 Mod ✭✭✭✭cournioni


    I think Ed Byrne is very under rated. Probably one of the best of the Irish comedians around anyway. Pedantic and Whimsical is a great DVD.


  • #74
    chopper6
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,214 ✭✭✭chopper6


    cournioni wrote: »
    I think Ed Byrne is very under rated. Probably one of the best of the Irish comedians around anyway. Pedantic and Whimsical is a great DVD.

    That says something for the quality of irish comedians around.


  • #75
    ShagNastii
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭ShagNastii


    Ed Byrne isn't as utterly horrendous as some people here are making out. He suffers because he has a "weedy student smart-arse" head.

    It's on par with women doing standup. They're instantly on a loser solely because a lot of the audience don't want to laugh. Sort of a get back in your box syndrome.


  • #76
    chopper6
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,214 ✭✭✭chopper6


    ShagNastii wrote: »
    Ed Byrne isn't as utterly horrendous as some people here are making out. He suffers because he has a "weedy student smart-arse" head.

    It's on par with women doing standup. They're instantly on a loser solely because a lot of the audience don't want to laugh. Sort of a get back in your box syndrome.

    Humour is a subjective thing...i certainly wouldn't have a problem with a comedian because she happens to be a woman or look like a student or whatever...i do have a problem with somebody very obviously unfunny masquerading as a comedian.


  • #77
    MRnotlob606
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,642 ✭✭✭MRnotlob606


    mock week isnt the same since frankie boyle left


  • #78
    chopper6
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,214 ✭✭✭chopper6


    MRnotlob606 wrote: »
    mock week isnt the same since frankie boyle left


    Now there's a comic genius.


  • #79
    Courtesy Flush
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,859 ✭✭✭Courtesy Flush


    folan wrote: »
    i like Ed Byrne.

    awful comedian


  • #80
    funt cucker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 352 ✭✭funt cucker


    Courtesy Flush wrote: »
    awful comedian

    Agreed, It's mostly just sarcasm, scuttery drivel. I have never laughed at his "comedy". Him and that other Tommy Tiernan fella, just rubbish.


  • #81
    chopper6
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,214 ✭✭✭chopper6


    funt cucker wrote: »
    Agreed, It's mostly just sarcasm, scuttery drivel. I have never laughed at his "comedy". Him and that other Tommy Tiernan fella, just rubbish.

    Tommy Tiernan seems reduced to shouting and roaring whilst wearing a filthy hat and a dirty beard.


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  • #82
    funt cucker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 352 ✭✭funt cucker


    chopper6 wrote: »
    Tommy Tiernan seems reduced to shouting and roaring whilst wearing a filthy hat and a dirty beard.

    The crazy thing is, he sells out stadiums in the US, not theatres, feckin' stadiums! ?!


  • #83
    chopper6
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,214 ✭✭✭chopper6


    funt cucker wrote: »
    The crazy thing is, he sells out stadiums in the US, not theatres, feckin' stadiums! ?!

    I will never understand the appeal of that clown.

    Apart from everything else he uses the stalwart of creasing up in the middle of telling a joke...it looks bad enough when suppsed amatuers do it but he's an established "name".

    An absolute fool.


  • #84
    ViveLaVie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 984 ✭✭✭ViveLaVie


    chopper6 wrote: »
    Thats just it...everybody knows somebody like him and i know twenty people who are funnier than him but if you're not moving in the right circles in rte etc you'll get nowhere.

    Look at that complete are des Bishop....his shtick is to insult various subsets of irish people in an approximation of thier regional accents..he's a mean-spirited ,spoilt american with a superiority complex yet poor thick paddy irshman laps it up.

    If he went to Harlam and started doing impressions of Black americans he's be shot dead in ten minutes.

    Des Bishop is hilarious. I usually find it's the narrow minded perception of him as a 'foreigner' that clouds people's views of his stand-up.


  • #85
    RikkFlair
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    MRnotlob606 wrote: »
    mock week isnt the same since frankie boyle left

    The "Controversy" section of his wikepdia page takes quite some time to read :D


  • #86
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    chopper6 wrote: »
    Now there's a comic genius.

    Not a fan of Ed Byrne or Tiernan by any stretch. Boyle, there was a time when I thought he was ok, but after the remarks about Katie Prices kid, I just thought, ah, that's a step to far.


  • #87
    trickymicky
    Registered Users Posts: 88 ✭✭trickymicky


    ShagNastii wrote: »
    Ed Byrne isn't as utterly horrendous as some people here are making out. He suffers because he has a "weedy student smart-arse" head.

    It's on par with women doing standup. They're instantly on a loser solely because a lot of the audience don't want to laugh. Sort of a get back in your box syndrome.


    He suffers because he is not funny simples.


  • #88
    MRnotlob606
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,642 ✭✭✭MRnotlob606


    des bishop has been telling the same **** the past ten years,


  • #89
    Paulie Gualtieri
    Closed Accounts Posts: 420 ✭✭Paulie Gualtieri


    I like Ed Byrne too , yes he's not always funny , but when he's on form he's as good as most out there , why as Irish people are we the first to put down our own ?

    on another point met his father a few years ago , got chatting to him in the wesht of Ireland , and he's an absolute gent. a proper Dub!

    and no I'm not ed byrnes mother :)


  • #90
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    Paulie Gualtieri wrote: »
    I like Ed Byrne too , yes he's not always funny , but when he's on form he's as good as most out there , why as Irish people are we the first to put down our own ?

    on another point met his father a few years ago , got chatting to him in the wesht of Ireland , and he's an absolute gent. a proper Dub!

    and no I'm not ed byrnes mother :)

    Cant agree, never thought he was funny. Just out of interest, whats a "proper Dub" ?


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  • #91
    beakerjoe
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    eisenberg1 wrote: »
    Cant agree, never thought he was funny. Just out of interest, whats a "proper Dub" ?


    He probably means Old Mr Brennan


  • #92
    Paulie Gualtieri
    Closed Accounts Posts: 420 ✭✭Paulie Gualtieri


    eisenberg1 wrote: »
    Cant agree, never thought he was funny. Just out of interest, whats a "proper Dub" ?

    knew I'd get that one :) , well he was a straight shooter told if like it was and there was a Ronnie Drew air about him .


  • #93
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    ViveLaVie wrote: »
    Des Bishop is hilarious. I usually find it's the narrow minded perception of him as a 'foreigner' that clouds people's views of his stand-up.

    Or it could be the fact that he is just not funny. How many times can you bang on about the fuuckin immersion. I don't think it has anything to do with the fact that he is not Irish born.


  • #94
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    eisenberg1 wrote: »
    Cant agree, never thought he was funny. Just out of interest, whats a "proper Dub" ?
    If your parents and grandparents were all born in Dublin


  • #95
    MRnotlob606
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,642 ✭✭✭MRnotlob606


    Dylan moran , bill hicks , eddie izzard louis ck and frankie boyle are my favourite comedians . haven't much time for these channel 4 comedians or these comedy quiz show types.


  • #96
    gormdubhgorm
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    It's Ironic that Ed Byrne's "Ironic Alainis Morrisette Joke" is his only mildly decent joke ever.

    Guff about stuff, and stuff about guff.



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  • #97
    Rothko
    Registered Users Posts: 12,908 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    gormdubhgorm wrote: »
    It's Ironic that Ed Byrne's "Ironic Alainis Morrisette Joke" is his only mildly decent joke ever.

    That's not ironic.


  • #98
    FullblownRose
    Registered Users Posts: 1,501 ✭✭✭FullblownRose


    I like ed byrne too. he hs one of those faces that looks like hes thinking genuinely bonkes, hilarious thoughts. Also thought he was good in RAT. when i looked hi up on youtube he had v little material uploaded.


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