Unfunny Irish comedians <<MOD note in OP>>

Stonedpilot · 24-11-2016 3:34pm #1

Please note that this thread is about comedians you do not find funny, any discussion of other storied regarding comedians is not allowed

What is it with people who are desperately UNFUNNY making lucrative careers in comedy in Ireland?. As far as I'm concerned the list here is endless from comedians who incessantly laugh at their own rambling barely coherent unfunny stories (Tommy Tiernan) to those that have humour for 2 year olds (Jason Byrne) to those that see themselves as edgy and sharp whilst simultaneously sucking on the teets of crap RTE shows (think anyone who's ever been on Republic of Telly) or worse the god awful Des Bishop. Incessantly speaking condescendingly about Irish people only for them to lap it up and think he's profound and funny for speaking about Ireland with contempt as if we were backwater primitive slobs.

It seems crap Irish comedians are 10 a penny now. All being 'edgy' sometimes getting up on their pedestal and preaching after being funny perhaps once (think Rubberbandits). It seems comedians are abundant but bereft of talent here. I suppose what I'm getting at is it has been so dumbed down comedy, these chancers know they don't need wit, or timing, or impeccable delivery or even to be funny. Just to get on some RTE show is good enough and then read out rubbish topical jokes they wrote several days in advance whilst simultaneously letting on it's on the spot.

Before anyone says I don't have a sense of humour I love comedy. Comedians I like well George Carlin is one of the greats, nowadays, Steve Hughes is amazing, Rich Hall is great, Greg Morton always cracks me up, Stewart Lee's dry humour is impeccably timed and Romesh Ranganathan is worth a mention.

Can I think of a single Irish comedian now who can lace their boots?. Nope, won't stop them getting a crap intelligence insulting comedy (Bridget and Eamon/Damo and Ivor etc) or guest spot on some awful panel show with scripted jokes and toilet humour.

Christ we gave the World Oscar Wilde for God's sake!.

osarusan · 24-11-2016 3:36pm

Andrew Maxwell is the unfunniest person ever.

suicide_circus · 24-11-2016 3:37pm

That young fella whose whole shtick is that he's gay and now that he's depressed. Not a single glimmer of originality.

24-11-2016 3:40pm

Tommy Tiernan used to be funny until he started trying to imitate the likes of Jimmy Carr & Frankie Boyle.

harry Bailey esq · 24-11-2016 3:41pm

suicide_circus wrote: »

That young fella whose whole shtick is that he's gay and now that he's depressed. Not a single glimmer of originality.

Al Porter.Nothing funny about him whatsoever.Cringeworthy

El Weirdo · 24-11-2016 3:56pm

Maeve Higgins.

/thread

Liam28 · 24-11-2016 3:59pm

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

nelly17 · 24-11-2016 4:00pm

The rubber bandits are funny - as are The Hardy Bucks. IMO but would tend to agree most of those you mentioned

MeatTwoVeg · 24-11-2016 4:02pm

Tommy Tiernan.
Mostly because he obviously had talent when he first came out but then decided to waste it by tailoring his act for pissed up morons, - real lowest common denominator stuff.

goose2005 · 24-11-2016 4:02pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Tommy Tiernan used to be funny until he started trying to imitate the likes of Jimmy Carr & Frankie Boyle.

Tommy Tiernan used to be funny until i hit puberty

theteal · 24-11-2016 4:02pm

Irish people have paid money to attend Pat Shortt gigs. . . .

I don't know where else to go after that

Cortina_MK_IV · 24-11-2016 4:03pm

Ehhhhhhhhhhhh... Dara Ó Briain.

Stonedpilot · 24-11-2016 4:03pm

osarusan wrote: »

Andrew Maxwell is the unfunniest person ever.

+1.

My point there, these guys get good salaries, TV shows, slots on God awful panel shows, DVD specials etc etc etc and yet have little to no comedic ability whatsoever. I mean in any other job to excel you have to at least be competent. Not so with comedians in Ireland. I sometimes get the impression that RTE and the like are TRYING to give comedians who aren't funny platforms. Christ I see a new show for Des Bishop advertised for RTE. Cue more self righteous ego masturbation on how profound his observations are pointing out how defunct Irish society is all while simultaneously trying in vain to be funny.

Ugh round and round we go, but certainly they seem to be getting worse and worse, like to the point where anything they say is not even remotely funny.

The Moldy Gowl · 24-11-2016 4:05pm

I went to the rubberbandits last month in dublin and the lad who does the impressions from police academy was meant to open for them.

Imagine my dismay when Fred cook had to open for them.
The cringe was too much. He really beats the was secondary school gas lads. Remember when so and so happened.
And the usual sthick about how original Irish mothers are.

Painful wasn't the word. The worst hour of my life.

Outlaw Pete · 24-11-2016 4:07pm

I have never laughed at anything Dara O'Briain has said. His smug (usually sarcastic) delivery, as he smacks his lips, laughs and says 'And eh..' drives me nuts.

How he so popular I'll never know.

topper75 · 24-11-2016 4:11pm

Stonedpilot wrote: »

... Steve Hughes is amazing, Rich Hall is great, Greg Morton always cracks me up, Stewart Lee's dry humour is impeccably timed and Romesh Ranganathan is worth a mention.

Steve Hughes is funny yes. But I saw one show in Galway where practically the entire second half was a sarcastic U.S/Israel/Pal rant. I was just seconds short of instructing him out loud to get back to the jokes we paid to hear.

Stewart Lee sees himself as some kind of liberal left messiah. I never laughed once at his material.

So those Rubber Bandits, bad as they are, aren't exactly the only guilty ones on that front.

Your general point is solid though. Foot in the door and who cares after that.

Red Kev · 24-11-2016 4:16pm

Most of them seem to be well in with RTE so they're on a never ending carousel of Late Late Show, Ray D'Arcy, RTE Radio 1, 2 FM etc etc etc etc. You need a good manager who has his own parking spot in Montrose, then you can be as crap as you want; the taxpayer will give you a few bob every couple of months and promote the bejayzus out of whatever you're doing.

Having a presenter who's a good buddy helps; Joe Duffy and his mates in the Funny Friday schtick is a perfectly good example. Utter drivel and pure nepotism funded by the taxpayer with the threat of a prison sentence hanging over you if you don't comply.

Stonedpilot · 24-11-2016 4:18pm

El Weirdo wrote: »

Maeve Higgins.

/thread

+1.

Seen a show of hers at a upstairs comedy night in Dublin where she and Eleanor Tiernan just spewed crap unfunny bile against men. The misandry continued when no one laughed and both died on their arses, then Maeve tried to tell people like a teacher speaking to a young child to sit down 'SIT! SIT DOWN! SIT DOWN! whom stood up either to challenge her and or walk out. Desperate desperate stuff altogether.

gramar · 24-11-2016 4:19pm

Dara O'Briain and Karl Spain. Two heavyweights but not comic heavyweights.

clintondaly · 24-11-2016 4:24pm

Porter,Rosenstock and Callan, I'd rather listen to a screeching cat

It must be at least a week since one of them was wheeled out to fill some RTE air time.

uch · 24-11-2016 4:26pm

All them

LithiumKid1976 · 24-11-2016 4:30pm

i personally cannot stand

PJ gallagher,
Jason Byrne
karl Spain

terrible in my opinion, but then again all comedy is subjective, so to each their own

PoorAuldDivil · 24-11-2016 4:31pm

I find Tommy Tiernan to be very funny in conversation, his radio/television interviews tend to be quite entertaining. Not the best at stand-up however.

murpho999 · 24-11-2016 4:57pm

This thread is just going to lead to every known Irish comedian and how unfunny they are despite having successful careers as comedians.

Why can't people accept that different people have different tastes?

Badly Drunk Boy · 24-11-2016 4:59pm

Stonedpilot wrote: »

Before anyone says I don't have a sense of humour I love comedy. Comedians I like well George Carlin is one of the greats, nowadays, Steve Hughes is amazing, Rich Hall is great, Greg Morton always cracks me up, Stewart Lee's dry humour is impeccably timed and Romesh Ranganathan is worth a mention.

I'm not mad about Irish comedians but your list there isn't very impressive. But people have different tastes. I like Romesh, but mainly for his anger at mundane things. Rich Hall is okay but his accent really gets to me.

Aisling Bea isn't too bad. For a girl. Who's Irish. In small doses, she's grand.

As PoorAuldDivil said, Tommy Tiernan and a few others are better in conversation/interviews than as stand-ups.

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000 · 24-11-2016 5:04pm

Tommy teirnan has to be the worst offender here...simply because of how much hes loved compared to how desperately unfunny he actually is.

buck65 · 24-11-2016 5:06pm

I saw a guy called Michael Mee once in Cork, he was very funny, he was asking the crowd questions I said something accidentally funny we clicked and I became the accidental heckler, he actually thanked me afterwards.

I was half cut and have tried desperately to get to being funny again but I either drink too much and talk ****e or not enough and am my usual surly reclusive self.

MeatTwoVeg · 24-11-2016 5:07pm

murpho999 wrote:

Why can't people accept that different people have different tastes?

Because I find the very concept distasteful.

Mr. CooL ICE · 24-11-2016 5:08pm

Bernard O'Shea. First time I saw him, he was MCing for rag week in college and emptied the place. His bits on Republic of Telly were by far the worst part of that program. How he is still relevant is beyond me.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 24-11-2016 5:22pm

Nicolas Cage wrote: »

Bernard O'Shea. First time I saw him, he was MCing for rag week in college and emptied the place. His bits on Republic of Telly were by far the worst part of that program. How he is still relevant is beyond me.

He's on radio I suppose. It's a good platform to promote a comedy career.

Look what it did for the likes of Rosenstock.

pragmatic1 · 24-11-2016 5:25pm

Apart from Andrew Maxwell, Dave McSavage, Dylan Moran, and at a stretch David O'Doherty, all of them.

Actually remember seeing an Ed Byrne special that was ****in hilarious years ago. Also to be fair Jason Byrne can also be funny as ****.

DJIMI TRARORE · 24-11-2016 5:28pm

30 posts in and not a mention of deirdre o kane,i"ve had funnier hangovers. SHE IS BRUTAL

uch · 24-11-2016 5:28pm

Must be opposite day

SEPT 23 1989 · 24-11-2016 5:30pm

Neil Delamere

skipper_G · 24-11-2016 5:31pm

osarusan wrote: »

Andrew Maxwell is the unfunniest person ever.

This one time I met Andrew Maxwell in the street and randomly hugged him.
To this day I don't know why I did that.

Stonedpilot · 24-11-2016 5:32pm

DJIMI TRARORE wrote: »

30 posts in and not a mention of deirdre o kane,i"ve had funnier hangovers. SHE IS BRUTAL

Yes she is. Well no one has mentioned other awful comedians either though, Neil Delamare (oops think he was just mentioned!) for example.

Think any comedian pushed by RTE is generally god awful!. Seen a girl on Brendan O Connor show other night Alison Spittle, desperately unfunny and ignorant to the World.

It's such a shame comedy has to be to be the lowest common denominator dumbed down dross ever. Worst is when it is masked as 'edgy/cool/sharp or cynical'. Thinking of you Republic of Telly again!

Dyr · 24-11-2016 5:33pm

LithiumKid1976 wrote: »

i personally cannot stand

PJ gallagher,
Jason Byrne
karl Spain

terrible in my opinion, but then again all comedy is subjective, so to each their own

Holy ****, took this long to mention jason byrne

And yer man Jimeoin

fryup · 24-11-2016 6:40pm

Dara O'Briain .....can't see what the brits see in him, they can have him

Andrew Maxwell.... he should retire now..before he embarrasses himself further

Brendan Grace .....well past his sell by date

Brendan O'Carrroll (as Mrs Brown) otherwise he can be funny

Rubberbandits...wtf?? ...plastic bags over they're heads and speak with knacker Limerick accents, its wearing thin fast lads

mosstin · 24-11-2016 6:46pm

That PJ Gallagher has only been mentioned once is remarkable.

mikeym · 24-11-2016 6:49pm

Some of these comedians are well past it.

Barry Badrinath · 24-11-2016 7:05pm

That Dermot Whelan guy from the radio.

D1ckhead

mfceiling · 24-11-2016 7:15pm

Stonedpilot wrote: »

Romesh Ranganathan is worth a mention.

No he isn't.

Dylan Moran is seriously funny. Kudos also to David O'Doherty.

gossamer · 24-11-2016 7:16pm

Ed Byrne. Painfully unfunny. I haven't seen the lad in years but all I remember is his lank, greasy hair and the yellowed brown teeth, sounding like a young lad whose voice had just broken. Surgically attached to the smug article that is Dara O'Briain of course. I haven't a notion how he sold one ticket to his gigs.

Cienciano · 24-11-2016 7:20pm

Someone just list every irish comedian, because a group of people will dislike every single one of them.

DJIMI TRARORE · 24-11-2016 7:27pm

Cienciano wrote: »

Someone just list every irish comedian, because a group of people will dislike every single one of them.

Steady on, we all love Syl Fox

said no-one ever:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

selwyn froggitt · 24-11-2016 7:32pm

All of them tosspots on 'Funny Friday'

MadDog76 · 24-11-2016 7:37pm

I love Tommy Tiernan, Des Bishop, Sean Hughes, Dylan Moran and Dara O'Briain.

The rest are sh*t (in my opinon!) but Jason Byrne, Brendan O'Carroll, Brendan Grace and Andrew Maxwell are particularly bad.

Dick phelan · 24-11-2016 7:37pm

Comedy perhaps the most divisive genre of all, few people have mentioned Dara O'Brian, personally find him very funny it's a mystery to me how the likes of Andrew Maxwell, Jason Byrne, PJ Gallagher and Neil Delamare have careers as comedians but i guess they appeal to some people. I'v never found low brow comedy funny, the jokes are often way too obvious and poorly delivered. I also don't like comedians who focus on one aspect, Al Porter for example seems unable to make a joke that isn't about him being gay or from a working class area branch out a bit with your jokes.

Kadser · 24-11-2016 8:10pm

The only thing wore than an Irish comedian is an Irish female comedian.

Mental Mickey · 24-11-2016 8:13pm

Tommy Tiernan

padd b1975 · 24-11-2016 8:15pm

suicide_circus wrote: »

That young fella whose whole shtick is that he's gay and now that he's depressed. Not a single glimmer of originality.

So Porter has jumped on the depression gravy train.....

The megabucks will be rolling in now!!

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