Ed Byrne pot calling kettle black

Dues Bellator

i recently read an article were Ed Byrne was slagging off Keith Chegwin for stealing jokes, i mean wtf , ive seen Ed on Mock The Week ,spewing out one liners that have been stolen from Jimmy Carr etc , what an unfunny headline seeking little prck. were as keith chegwin has his problems ,Ed byrne has problems as in he,s a comedian who,s not funny.

zoobizoo

almanu wrote: »

i recently read an article were Ed Byrne was slagging off Keith Chegwin for stealing jokes, i mean wtf , ive seen Ed on Mock The Week ,spewing out one liners that have been stolen from Jimmy Carr etc , what an unfunny headline seeking little prck. were as keith chegwin has his problems ,Ed byrne has problems as in he,s a comedian who,s not funny.

Have you ever seen him live?

daithimac

why does everyone throw this one liner out when ever anyone calls BS on Ed Byrne being funny.

Most people will have seen him live at some point and still don't think he is funny. actually it was only till I saw neil Delamare live that i realised how unfunny he was

zoobizoo

daithimac wrote: »

why does everyone throw this one liner out when ever anyone calls BS on Ed Byrne being funny.

Most people will have seen him live at some point and still don't think he is funny. actually it was only till I saw neil Delamare live that i realised how unfunny he was

Ed rarely gigs over here so I doubt that many people have seen him at all.

The reason why that line is used is because it's easy to dismiss an act you may have caught on a panel show as being unfunny - there's a reason why they've been chosen to go on said panel shows.

I never thought he was funny til I saw him live and that's the only way one can judge a live comedy act.

johnciall

+1 wasn't a an till i saw him in the olympia a few years back, he had me laughing so hard i was crying

laugh

I watched a live show of his on sky and it was shite.

diamondp

lies

Exclamation Marc

Was going to start a new thread but figured I'd just tack it on here...

Ed Byrne has now resigned from Twitter over the whole Chegwin thing....

Ed Byrne has quit Twitter after Keith Chegwin accused him of putting his family ‘through hell’.

The pair have exchanged words on the microblogging site after Cheggers stole the gags of countless comedians and published them under his own feed, without credit.

Byrne was one of those comics to take issue with the former Swap Shop sidekick, prompting something of a cyber-feud. And now Byrne has had enough of the accusations being against him, so has

The row flared up when comic Simon Evans pointed out the wholesale theft, sending an open Twitter message saying: ‘Cheggers old chap, I know you’re doing this with the best of intentions but these jokes are by professional comedians and it’s simply not on to use them in this way.’

Chegwin then blocked Evans, claimed all the jokes were written by long-dead comedians – even though plenty were clearly not – and branded all modern comedians as dull and humourless.

Byne supported his circuit colleague with the tweet: ‘I’m surprised by Keith Chegwin’s reaction to Simon Evans tweet about nicking jokes.’

Cheggers hit back with: ‘These comedians, most of them doesn’t even write good stuff, they just refresh the memory. Ed Byrne, honestly’ – to which Byrne replied: ‘Most of them doesn’t even write good stuff? That’s the command of the English language that’s kept you off our screens for so long.’

Although Byrne apologised – and Cheggers professed himself to be a ‘big fan’ of the Irish comic – fans from both sides took up the fight, and allegedly hassled both celebrities online.

Chegwin complained about ‘cyber bullies’ on Twitter, and named Byrne and Evans as well as Russell Kane and David Baddiel, who made reference to Chegwin’s alcoholism in one post, for which he later apologised.

Byrne said yesterday: ‘I think the interesting thing to note about this is how reluctant Keith is to give any credit to comedians who write the jokes he tweets, but how willing he is to tweet the names of comedians who complain about him.’

In November, Cheggers suddenly stopped tweeting, claiming he had received death threats; while the following month Byrne tweeted that he had received some abuse from ‘one of Chegwin’s dullards’, prompting Chegiwn to accuse Byrne of ‘having a go at me yet again. Leave me alone Ed.’

Byrne deleted the offending tweet and told Cheggers he had no wish to reopen hostilities and was ‘sorry to see people were giving him ****’.

However, last week Chegwin resumed posting other people’s jokes on Twitter, and in one post claimed: ‘Ed Byrne has put me and my family through hell by telling lies about me in the press and on radio.”

The Irish comic cited that tweet as he resigned from the website yesterday.

He said: ‘I’ve had to put up with allegations that I’ve driven him from Twitter by getting people to threaten his life. And as if that wasn’t enough, last Tuesday comes the tweet [above]. Obviously, as soon as it was posted I was met with a torrent of **** from, to be fair to them, misguided people calling me every name under the sun.

‘Maybe you disagree with the very notion that a person can own a joke. Fine. We don’t agree. But to call me a bully for voicing my opinion? That seems unduly harsh. To call me a nasty piece of work for publicly discussing the issue? Seems unfair. To hold me responsible for death threats? Utterly laughable.

‘And for someone to say that I put him and his family through hell by telling lies about him? That is, at best, a gross exaggeration designed to engender sympathy, and at worst, a deliberate and calculated distortion of the facts designed to incite people to send me abuse on the Internet.

‘Let’s give Cheggers the benefit of the doubt and say it’s the former, because if it’s the latter, well, that would be the very definition of cyberbullying, wouldn’t it?

‘So that’s where we are now, and that’s the reason I’ve decided maybe Twitter isn’t for me. It’s not that I feel I’m being driven from Twitter by Keith Chegwin’s fans. It’s just that if weighing into a Twitter debate means I’m still getting grief about it nine months later, I just don’t think I can be arsed with it.

‘And if saying what I said really can put a man and his family through hell, that’s simply too much power for somebody like me to wield. So, for now, at least, I think I’ll give Twitter a rest.'

‘PS This blog is not to be seen as a call to arms. I don’t want anyone hurling abuse at Chegwin as a result of anything I’ve said here.’

Read more: http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2011/02/22/12808/ed_byrne_quits_twitter#ixzz1FH0IrI7D

I don't think Ed Byrne is that bad a comedian at all by the by, I think he's very good live. I tend to ignore how good/bad someone comes off on panel shows because they're heavily edited and scripted and you generally can't relate someone's panel 'persona' to their stand up comedy skills.

the flananator

Anyone know anything about Byrne's early life? His Wiki doesn't reveal much.

Dues Bellator

the flananator wrote: »

Anyone know anything about Byrne's early life? His Wiki doesn't reveal much.

huh??

the flananator

almanu wrote: »

huh??

Just curious about the guy! I heard he worked in advertising for a while before he got into stand-up.

Dues Bellator

the flananator wrote: »

Just curious about the guy! I heard he worked in advertising for a while before he got into stand-up.

i do know he likes rambling on his own in the Scottish highlands , does that mountain peek walking thing