Unfunniest lead characters in a sitcom

smilerf

Following on from the funniest characters who are the Unfunniest?
For me it's Raymond from Everybody loves
Unfunny whiney git

Diemos

It's all perspective isn't it? I could never stand Phoebe in Friends. I'm sure some people liked the character though.

Olishi4

Mr Bean

Harry Palmr

Mrs O'Brien obviously!

HandsomeDan

Phobe
Jerry Seinfeld. Wierd as the show was full of hilarious character.

CarrickMcJoe

Mrs Agnes Brown..... Enough said..

brevity

The cast of The Big Bang

HandsomeDan

CarrickMcJoe wrote: »

Mrs Agnes Brown..... Enough said..

Xmas special there was pretty funny. You may not find it funny but you can't say it's not funny. If that were the case it wouldn't have the following ot has.

DJIMI TRARORE

Will the whole cast of "give my head some peace ", please stand up.

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

Phoebe from friends.

Always liked the show but she was DESPERATELY unfunny.

tastyt

Anybody in " how I met your mother "

saintsaltynuts

The whole six twats in Friends.What ****e.

Olishi4

Will and Grace

J. Marston

brevity wrote: »

The cast of The Big Bang

Especially the Bazinga creature.

Owryan

Chelsea Peretti in Brooklyn 99

tastyt

Fr jack

bajer101

smilerf wrote: »

Following on from the funniest characters who are the Unfunniest?
For me it's Raymond from Everybody loves
Unfunny whiney git

Everybody Loves Raymond was absolute quality. Ray Ramono created and wrote a lot of it. His character's whininess was intrinsic to the whole dynamic between all the characters.

Dirty Dingus McGee

HandsomeDan wrote: »

Phobe
Jerry Seinfeld. Wierd as the show was full of hilarious character.

His role was just to react and comment on the madness aroundhim.

He's not a good actor at all and this was a particularly noticeable in the early seasons so getting him to do much more than what he did wouldn't have worked.

Streppy

Rodney - Only Fools and Horses

Monica - Friends

Mental Mickey

Streppy wrote: »

Rodney - Only Fools and Horses

Monica - Friends

Rodney unfunny?? Lol - you gotta be joking? He was brilliant

Cortina_MK_IV

Mental Mickey wrote: »

Rodney unfunny?? Lol - you gotta be joking? He was brilliant

Hard to find an unfunny character in OFAH. Some deserved more than one episode like the singer in "It's Only Rock and Roll."

brianregan09

Ted in How I met your mother such an annoying and whingey git

One_Of_Shanks

Phoebe from Friends. Awful, just awful.
Rachel from the same show. Anyone as nastily materialistic as her is way beyond being amusing.
The Grandad in Mrs Brown. The gags around him are all a bit weird and borderline creepy.
Not sure if it counts as a sit-com but Lisa from The Simpsons.

Oh and this one will no doubt be unpopular but Jack from Father Ted.

laylag

Stacy in Gavin and Stacy! Awful pain in the face she is!

CarrickMcJoe

HandsomeDan wrote: »

Xmas special there was pretty funny. You may not find it funny but you can't say it's not funny. If that were the case it wouldn't have the following ot has.

Hand on heart, I have never even smiled at it, so for me it's not funny.

walshb

CarrickMcJoe wrote: »

Mrs Agnes Brown..... Enough said..

Probably the least funniest thing in the history of the world...

walshb

saintsaltynuts wrote: »

The whole six twats in Friends.What ****e.

Chandler was one of the best comedic characters ever...at least up until he got with Monica..

walshb

Streppy wrote: »

Rodney - Only Fools and Horses

Monica - Friends

I always found OFAH to be as dull as dishwater.

walshb

Bill Huxtable!

Penn

Joey from Friends.

First few seasons he was okay. After that, he became so f*cking stupid to the point of actual mental retardation.

walshb

Penn wrote: »

Joey from Friends.

First few seasons he was okay. After that, he became so f*cking stupid to the point of actual mental retardation.

He had this cult following. He was rarely funny due to him being way OTT stupid...

Ross and Chandler were without doubt the two naturally funny characters.

Harry Angstrom

walshb wrote: »

Bill Huxtable!

Cliff?

Duggie2012

bajer101 wrote: »

Everybody Loves Raymond was absolute quality. Ray Ramono created and wrote a lot of it. His character's whininess was intrinsic to the whole dynamic between all the characters.

Exactly. Ray ramano was hilarious in that show. I think he was one of the highest paid tv actors in and around that era. That show won countless awards. Anyone who says ray ramano is not funny dosent appreciate comedy IMO.

Duggie2012

brevity wrote: »

The cast of The Big Bang

This. What a load of sh1te. Whats the appeal of that show.

PirateShampoo

Kevin James

King of Queens.

How this guy keeps getting cast in films is beyond me, when Adam Sandler takes a dump I'm pretty sure Kevin James goes for a swim.

Duggie2012

PirateShampoo wrote: »

Kevin James

King of Queens.

Aaah lads. Whatever about his films he was awesome in king of queens. End of.

razorblunt

Mental Mickey wrote: »

Rodney unfunny?? Lol - you gotta be joking? He was brilliant

He probably meant Dave.

CarrickMcJoe

DJIMI TRARORE wrote: »

Will the whole cast of "give my head some peace ", please stand up.

Just watched it earlier and unlike Mrs Brown, the jokes were up to date and funny.

Noveight

+1 for the cast of the Big Bang. Could never understand the appeal. When the OH said she liked it I had to have a moment to myself to reflect on my decisions... :P

Mental Mickey

Cortina_MK_IV wrote: »

Hard to find an unfunny character in OFAH. Some deserved more than one episode like the singer in "It's Only Rock and Roll."

Mental Mickey(where I got my username from).

Mental Mickey

walshb wrote: »

I always found OFAH to be as dull as dishwater.

Really? Oh well.........

walshb

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

Cliff?

Well spotted. What an unfunny twat that man was...

Nekarsulm

Going back in time a bit, but Upwardly Mobile had to be the most un-funny thing ever produced. The entire cast were woeful, every "joke" laboured to the point where you could see it coming a mile off.

Olishi4

The two main characters from that late nineties sitcom, Gimme, Gimme, Gimme. Not funny, just annoying.

pawrick

Kevin James for me too, anything he's in is rubbish.

ERG89

I have only watched the first season so far but Mr. Peanutbutter from Bojack Horseman does my head in.

PeterTheNinth

brevity wrote: »

The cast of The Big Bang

^ I cannot describe how much I hate this unfunny crap.

Other special mentions for Jerry Seinfeld, Ray Romano, who I never found funny. And Charlie Sheen and the other lad in Two And A Half Men.. .

FunLover18

walshb wrote: »

He had this cult following. He was rarely funny due to him being way OTT stupid...

Ross and Chandler were without doubt the two naturally funny characters.

The Joey-Chandler relationship was the heart of that show for the first 4 seasons. When they separated them and put Chandler with Monica (a strong contender in this thread) the show fell apart.

Ross was not naturally funny, whiney little git who had a mental breakdown and complete personality change as a result of his tumultuous love life and managed to get himself into the most contrived situations. The Gellers are horrible, horrible, unfunny people.

Don't know if it counts as a sitcom but I hate every single character in Entourage. Fukcing d*ckheads, the lot of them.

walshb

PeterTheNinth wrote: »

^ I cannot describe how much I hate this unfunny crap.

Other special mentions for Jerry Seinfeld, Ray Romano, who I never found funny. And Charlie Sheen and the other lad in Two And A Half Men.. .

The Big Bang is pure and utter puke....

As for Two and a Half men....For a while I thought I was the only person to think this programme sh1t....Glad I am not alone. Utterly horrendous.

Duggie2012

walshb wrote: »

The Big Bang is pure and utter puke....

As for Two and a Half men....For a while I thought I was the only person to think this programme sh1t....Glad I am not alone. Utterly horrendous.

It was good up till sheen left. Anything after that was manure. Should have finished that show when he went.

Taxburden carrier

Damo and Ivor .
Two unfunny muppets for the price of one.
Then again, being RTE they were probably both being paid !