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Are there too many stand up comics?

darkdubh

Anyone feel that we are oversaturated with people who have decided to make a career out of comedy? With social media theres been an explosion in people doing comedy skits, the overwhelming majority of whom are not even mildly amusing. Some of these people are ending up on TV panel discussion shows et al. Many of them are people who are probably gas craic down the pub with their friends/workmates but just don't cut it as someone I'd feel like paying money to go see.

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kunst nugget

seachto7 wrote: »

What does this even mean?

It means Tommy is squareville, pops! He ain't hip to the game and he don't do the big tickle no more.

seachto7

Glenster wrote: »

Tommy Tiernan is so old fashioned now as to be embarrassing.

He's one step away from being George Hook.

What does this even mean?

Glenster

biko wrote: »

[Insert thing here] is one of the most diverse things there is.
[BLANK] for you might not be [Blank] for me.

There is room for everyone

The reasonable post that sucks the fun out of every thread ever.

I was just about to rant about Tommy Tiernan again, and now I cant.....

biko

Humour is one of the most diverse things there is.
Funny for you might not be funny for me.

There is room for everyone

Glenster

PARlance wrote: »

I think Tommy Tiernan was excellent for a long time and can still have his moments.

Tommy Tiernan is so old fashioned now as to be embarrassing.

He's one step away from being George Hook.

darkdubh

Parchment wrote: »

I agree - i thought Andrew Maxwell was funny on the Panel.

I thought he was funny enough on The Panel but he blew it, in Ireland at least with that short lived RTE show that he got. It really felt like he was trying way too hard to be edgy and relevant. He had this bloody annoying woman playing the ukulele on every week, I thought at first she was a one off then the following week she was back again. And this really cringy weekly bit with breakdancers juxtaposed over footage of him telling jokes. It felt like something you'd see on Scratch Saturday circa 1989.

Dr Crayfish

King George VI wrote: »

Is that the lad from Tallaght who acts like an oul wan? Jesus, Leukemia is funnier than he is.

Homophobe!!

Birneybau

It's funny, some people declaim themselves 'a comedian' but if I was as shi!t at my job as the vast majority of them are, well, I'd be ashamed.

Most of them just get by with a forceful personality, because, Jason Byrne/Deirdre O' Kane et al, you are as funny as drought.

King George VI

Imallrightjack wrote: »

Al porter. He needs a huge dose of morphine.

Is that the lad from Tallaght who acts like an oul wan? Jesus, Leukemia is funnier than he is.

Parchment

PARlance wrote: »

Completely agree re those two.

I think Tommy Tiernan was excellent for a long time and can still have his moments.

McSavage has come up with little pieces of gold here and there.

I'll whisper this one... I thought Maxwell was quite funny at the start.

I agree - i thought Andrew Maxwell was funny on the Panel.

PARlance

Parchment wrote: »

Dara O'Briain while he seems like a nice guy is not funny.

Dylan Moran is brilliant - a comic genius. The rest of the Irish crowd are dire.

Completely agree re those two.

I think Tommy Tiernan was excellent for a long time and can still have his moments.

McSavage has come up with little pieces of gold here and there.

I'll whisper this one... I thought Maxwell was quite funny at the start.

Imallrightjack

Al porter. He needs a huge dose of morphine.

Parchment

Noveight wrote: »

Ed Byrne is a dose.

He also seems like a nice guy but he REALLY is not funny. He reminds me of some awkward cousin you have who tries to impress everyone with "jokes" at family events. Like his mom says "ssssshhh everyone Ed wants to tell his joke".

Noveight

Ed Byrne is a dose.

Ralf and Florian

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

I enjoy Farmer michael on youtube, anyone like or dislike him? most seem to dislike.

He just rips off that barman character from The Savage Eye from the little I've seen of him.

hungry hypno toad

darkdubh wrote: »

Yeah thats him. Couldn't think of his name.

A complete gob****e.

Ash.J.Williams

I enjoy Farmer michael on youtube, anyone like or dislike him? most seem to dislike.

kunst nugget

King George VI wrote: »

Ahh now, he's no Louis CK. He's fantastic but most comedians in the UK and US are funnier in my opinion. Suppose it's down to personal preference.

I don't know, there is an awful lot of scutter out there in terms of US comedians - Netflix has exposed me to an awful lot of rubbish comedians. For every Louis CK or Bill Burr or Anthony Jeselnik, there's thousands and thousands of deeply unfunny US comedians out there. There's a shít-ton of desperately bad UK comedians out there as well.

Parchment

Dara O'Briain while he seems like a nice guy is not funny.

Dylan Moran is brilliant - a comic genius. The rest of the Irish crowd are dire.

TheDavester

darkdubh wrote: »

"Internet sensations" like Cian Twomey muddy the water too though thankfully he doesn't seem to have made the leap from social media into tv & radio just yet. Doesn't bode well for the next generation of comedy when the likes of him and Dapper Laughs can build up a huge audience of easily amused millenials who'll laugh at anything.

Thank god he's either gone quiet or has blocking him on Facebook finally worked..an absolute douchebag

Al Porter should be another one to be culled...the carry on/Alan Carr style humour is dire

darkdubh

"Internet sensations" like Cian Twomey muddy the water too though thankfully he doesn't seem to have made the leap from social media into tv & radio just yet. Doesn't bode well for the next generation of comedy when the likes of him and Dapper Laughs can build up a huge audience of easily amused millenials who'll laugh at anything.

Ficheall

King George VI wrote: »

most comedians in the UK and US are funnier in my opinion

Ahh now, yourself. There must be millions of the ****ers.

King George VI

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Dara is far ahead of most US and Brit comedians.

Ahh now, he's no Louis CK. He's fantastic but most comedians in the UK and US are funnier in my opinion. Suppose it's down to personal preference.

The_Valeyard

King George VI wrote: »

The only funny Irish comedian in stand-up is Dara ? Briain, and even then he's miles behind the Americans and most British comedians. Actually now that I've thought about it Dylan Moran is hilarious too, but the rest are just pure scutter.

The Panel was awful, Irish radio comedy is terrible nowadays and the upandcoming comedians (Fred Cooke mainly) are absolutely atrocious.

Dara is far ahead of most US and Brit comedians.

King George VI

The only funny Irish comedian in stand-up is Dara O'Briain, and even then he's miles behind the Americans and most British comedians. Actually now that I've thought about it Dylan Moran is hilarious too, but the rest are just pure scutter.

The Panel was awful, Irish radio comedy is terrible nowadays and the upandcoming comedians (Fred Cooke mainly) are absolutely atrocious.

Glenster

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

he also managed to get a "song" release for the euros ....can't believe how atrocious it was

I'm so happy I missed that.

Ash.J.Williams

Glenster wrote: »

"Do you remember chipsticks?"

-Dermot Whelan's entire act.

he also managed to get a "song" release for the euros ....can't believe how atrocious it was

irishgeo

There is too many comedians on the radio.

Birneybau

Yes, time for a cull

Glenster

darkdubh wrote: »

Dermot Whelan? All I know him from is when he used to appear on The Panel on RTE, thought he was as funny as bowel cancer. Refuse to watch anything with him since.

"Do you remember chipsticks?"

-Dermot Whelan's entire act.