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Unfunny Irish comedians <<MOD note in OP>>

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    #332
    Hande hoche!
    Registered Users Posts: 7,453 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


    Des Bishop. Was hoping the Chinese would hold onto him.


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    #333
    discodiva92
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 353 ✭✭discodiva92


    Jon Kenny didnt do Stan
    A musician from Limerick did


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    #334
    Stonedpilot
    Registered Users Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Stonedpilot


    Kevin McGahern anyone?.


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    #335
    BuilderPlumber
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    Chain Smoker wrote: »
    D'Unbelievables done regional comedy for an Ireland that doesn't really exist so much anymore, it's fairly understandable that it hasn't aged too well.

    I always thought the two of them were great performers with a very strong dynamic who unfortunately were more than aware that they could coast on **** all and, due to the very Ireland centric nature of it all, stood to gain little from trying harder.

    I would have to say I like D'Unbelievables and Pat Shortt. It is funny and reminds one of people one knows. Their portrayals of culchies, pub experts and GAA men are spot on. Their DVDs are good as was Pat Shortt's Killinaskully and their appearances in Father Ted. All this was way way better than Mrs Brown and the like.


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    #336
    Carson10
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    Oliver Callan - brutal

    Des Bishop - Time to go back to America and look after his mother (as per tv ad)

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    IRISH COMEDIANS PLEASE STOP WITH IRISH MAMMY JOKES AND 'LEFT THE IMMERSION ON JOKES

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    #337
    fryup
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    Carson10 wrote: »
    Des Bishop - Time to go back to America and look after his mother (as per tv ad)

    basically he's got one gag....a yank living in Ireland who observes irish eccentricity's and pokes fun at them, and thats about it

    kinda funny at the start now its getting boring


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    #338
    discodiva92
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 353 ✭✭discodiva92


    I dont get Aishling Bea at all.only thing ive seem her on is 8 out of 10 cats


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    #339
    razorblunt
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    fryup wrote: »
    basically he's got one gag....a yank living in Ireland who observes irish eccentricity's and pokes fun at them, and thats about it

    kinda funny at the start now its getting boring

    Goes back to NY and drops the accent back to a New Yoiikker.


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    #340
    MadDog76
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    Two points about Des Bishop .......... first off, he's not Irish ....... he's Irish-American ........ and secondly, he's f*cking hilarious!!!


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    #341
    Jerichoholic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,585 ✭✭✭Jerichoholic


    MadDog76 wrote: »
    Two points about Des Bishop .......... first off, he's not Irish ....... he's Irish-American ........ and secondly, he's f*cking hilarious!!!

    Went to see him once, left at the interval because he made zero jokes, just terrible "banter" with the giggling girls in the front row.

    He is garbage.


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    #342
    MEGA BRO WOLF 5000
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    I can condense Des Bishops act into one paragraph.

    Oh my God lads , the immersion . I ca n't stop ****ing laughing . Whenever I think of someone forgetting about the immersion I laugh so hard that my spine slides out of my arse and runs out the door . It 's so ****ing funny , it 's just the funniest , most Irish ****ing thing in the whole wide world . Everyone should laugh their heads off at the immersion , the immersion is the epitome of being Irish . ****ing hell , I am dying of laughter thinking about that immersion lads . IT 'S ****ING HILARIOUS ****ING COMEDY GOLD , THE OSCAR FOR BEST ****ING COMEDY GOES TO THE IMMERSION , HAS ANYONE FORGET TO TURN IMMERSON OOF ? I FORGET AND IT 'S ****NIGN HILARIOUSOUS I CA N'T EVEN TYPE I AM LAUGH ! G SO HARD AT THE IMMERSION TOP COMEDY GOLD IRISH SO IRISH YOU KNOW YOU 'RE IRISH WHEN YOU FORGET ABOUT THE IMMERSION IREWINQSADKLMMMMMMMMMMZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.......


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    #343
    fritzelly
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    The Healy-Raes are the best comedians Ireland has - laugh every time they're on TV

    But totally agree with the OP, especially Tiernan - money for old rope


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    #344
    h7nlrp2v0g5u48
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    Des Bishop having his own show again. For fu**k sake you have RTE going to cut back on making childrens programmes and then they go and pay this clown to talk crap.:mad:


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    #345
    selassie
    Registered Users Posts: 201 ✭✭selassie


    Al Porter on Michael McIntyre's show just there, killed his 5 minutes. Probably my favourite up and coming Irish comedian actually has punch lines and can put together a decent short set.


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    #346
    zeroliner
    Registered Users Posts: 90 ✭✭zeroliner


    David McSavage. I'm not just mentioning him because I don't find him funny. I find him kinda scary. I encounter him on a regular basis. He's not funny. He's kind of intimidating.


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    #347
    Skommando
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    Hugh Mungus wrote: »
    I can condense Des Bishops act into one paragraph.

    Oh my God lads , the immersion . I ca n't stop ****ing laughing . Whenever I think of someone forgetting about the immersion I laugh so hard that my spine slides out of my arse and runs out the door . It 's so ****ing funny , it 's just the funniest , most Irish ****ing thing in the whole wide world . Everyone should laugh their heads off at the immersion , the immersion is the epitome of being Irish . ****ing hell , I am dying of laughter thinking about that immersion lads . IT 'S ****ING HILARIOUS ****ING COMEDY GOLD , THE OSCAR FOR BEST ****ING COMEDY GOES TO THE IMMERSION , HAS ANYONE FORGET TO TURN IMMERSON OOF ? I FORGET AND IT 'S ****NIGN HILARIOUSOUS I CA N'T EVEN TYPE I AM LAUGH ! G SO HARD AT THE IMMERSION TOP COMEDY GOLD IRISH SO IRISH YOU KNOW YOU 'RE IRISH WHEN YOU FORGET ABOUT THE IMMERSION IREWINQSADKLMMMMMMMMMMZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.......

    I wouldn't give up the day job just yet if I were you . . .


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    #348
    SHOVELLER
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    D'unbelievables. Name is apt

    Tommy Tiernan.

    Can somebody explain how they are funny?

    Not even funny accidentally.


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    #349
    rmchmufc
    Registered Users Posts: 170 ✭✭rmchmufc


    I see Andrew Maxwell has gotten a few mentions already in this thread and rightly so because he is absolutely dreadful.


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    #350
    Grayson
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    zeroliner wrote: »
    David McSavage. I'm not just mentioning him because I don't find him funny. I find him kinda scary. I encounter him on a regular basis. He's not funny. He's kind of intimidating.

    I saw him perform at a comedy club and he was just like that. Really creepy to the women present too. It was just such a weird vibe.


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    #351
    el diablo
    Registered Users Posts: 5,745 ✭✭✭el diablo


    Skommando wrote: »
    I wouldn't give up the day job just yet if I were you . . .

    Well the "immersion" joke is probably one of the finest pieces of comedy of the last twenty years.

    Here it is in all its glory. :rolleyes:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sexFLlAefw

    We're all in this psy-op together.🤨



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    #352
    Jimmy Garlic
    Registered Users Posts: 4,349 ✭✭✭Jimmy Garlic


    Grayson wrote: »
    I saw him perform at a comedy club and he was just like that. Really creepy to the women present too. It was just such a weird vibe.

    You should have stayed in your safe space Grayson.


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    #353
    Suckit
    Registered Users Posts: 11,215 ✭✭✭✭Suckit


    Grayson wrote: »
    zeroliner wrote: »
    David McSavage.  I'm not just mentioning him because I don't find him funny.  I find him kinda scary.  I encounter him on a regular basis.  He's not funny.  He's kind of intimidating.

    I saw him perform at a comedy club and he was just like that. Really creepy to the women present too. It was just such a weird vibe.
    He was very annoyed when Tubridy got the LLS (he was an audience warmer upper), and stormed home like a kid who lost 3-and-in with their own ball. 
    He kicked up such a storm that all of his political connections made sure he got his own tv show.
    BTW, He is creepy and scary in real life, not just in his 'act'. 
    He is not a nice person on any scale.


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    #354
    ButtersSuki
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    I haven't read the full thread (just page 1 and this page) so apologies if someone has mentioned this already, but I can guarantee you if you ever listen to a Funny Friday on Liveline on RTÉ radio 1 you will think the people slated as being unfunny on this thread are the second coming of Bill Hicks.


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    #355
    Jimmy Garlic
    Registered Users Posts: 4,349 ✭✭✭Jimmy Garlic


    Suckit wrote: »
    BTW, He is creepy and scary in real life, not just in his 'act'.
    He is not a nice person on any scale.

    Just out of curiosity, what is it that you find so creepy about him?


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    #356
    Suckit
    Registered Users Posts: 11,215 ✭✭✭✭Suckit


    Jimmy Garlic wrote: »
    Suckit wrote: »
    BTW, He is creepy and scary in real life, not just in his 'act'.  
    He is not a nice person on any scale.

    Just out of curiosity, what is it that you find so creepy about him?
    Maybe that he calls himself Jimmy and eats Garlic.. ;)
    Specifically, - creepy - He is creepy. He has an odd mannerism about himself and he does not have an awful lot of respect for people that he deems (for reasons only known to himself) lesser than him. Put that with the females and very much the males, that he meets in a less than pleasant situation. He is a f**k**g creep.
    He is also worse than that but you asked specifically about why i think a creep. I will not answer any more about him, but i will say go visit places that he is known.
    Back On Topic he is not funny. At all.


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    #357
    el diablo
    Registered Users Posts: 5,745 ✭✭✭el diablo


    Suckit wrote: »
    Maybe that he calls himself Jimmy and eats Garlic.. ;)
    Specifically, - creepy - He is creepy. He has an odd mannerism about himself and he does not have an awful lot of respect for people that he deems (for reasons only known to himself) lesser than him. Put that with the females and very much the males, that he meets in a less than pleasant situation. He is a f**k**g creep.
    He is also worse than that but you asked specifically about why i think a creep. I will not answer any more about him, but i will say go visit places that he is known.
    Back On Topic he is not funny. At all.

    The Savage Eye was bleedin' deadly though.

    We're all in this psy-op together.🤨



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    #358
    JupiterKid
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    Des Bishop is smug and super preachy and dresses it up as comedy. He's a neurotic Yank masquerading as a Plastic Paddy.

    Ed Byrne is just poor. Actually, really poor.

    Deidre O'Kane is cringeworthy in seeming to try really hard at getting a laugh and falling flat on her face.

    Katherine Lynch was a bit funny when she started her show but it's just got incredibly lame and repetitive now.

    Bridget and Eamonn are mildly funny now and then and they get the 80s down to a tee but they're a bit too 2010s looking at the 80s from today's perspective.

    Pat Shortt is just diabolical. Killinascully was a televisual abortion that made the Healy Rae clan look like global urban sophisticates.


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    #359
    Jimmy Garlic
    Registered Users Posts: 4,349 ✭✭✭Jimmy Garlic


    JupiterKid wrote: »
    Des Bishop is smug and super preachy and dresses it up as comedy. He's a neurotic Yank masquerading as a Plastic Paddy.

    He was 16 when he moved over here.. I think he completely milks the yank thing for all its worth. He has been living here most of his life.. Super preachy alright, and that's not funny.


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    #360
    yorlum11
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    Liam28 wrote:
    Al Porter anyone? Best I can say about him is that he is not as bad as Oliver Callan. And the original and worst unfunny comedian, Brendan O'Carroll. Say 'feck' enough times and some people will laugh. Still he has made his fortune in the UK. Agree about Tommy Tiernan and Des Bishop who have not been funny in 10 years. And Jason Byrne never was and never will be funny. There are some good Irish comedians. Dara OBriain is funny and witty. Mario Rosenstock is talented and funny some of the time. Eh, I'm sure there are more. Here's a classic sketch from the late, great Dave Allen.


    Dave Allen. Best Irish comedian of all time. IMHO.


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    #361
    ligerdub
    Registered Users Posts: 2,584 ✭✭✭ligerdub


    Suckit wrote:
    He was very annoyed when Tubridy got the LLS (he was an audience warmer upper), and stormed home like a kid who lost 3-and-in with their own ball. He kicked up such a storm that all of his political connections made sure he got his own tv show. BTW, He is creepy and scary in real life, not just in his 'act'. He is not a nice person on any scale.


    Are they related to some degree? Cousins or something.

    To be fair if that's true he was right, a terrible decision.


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