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Unfunny Irish comedians <<MOD note in OP>>

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    #2372
    AndyBoBandy
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 15,040 Mod ✭✭✭✭AndyBoBandy


    Snails pace wrote: »
    RTE are scraping the absolute arsé of the barrel with her. She was never funny not even slightly. Her programme on RTE 2 went down like a lead balloon, was it called nowhere fast ?

    And they repeated it a few weeks back, and will be sure to repeat it again, and again, and again.......

    Then they stuck her on that ‘celebrity’ holiday type show... and was about as funny as prostate cancer on it.

    Some people are naturally funny, but with some, you can clearly see its put on, like they’re trying too hard to be the funny/goofy character. The giveaway is when they’re always the 1st to laugh at their own ‘jokes’


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    #2373
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,285 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    AndyBoBandy wrote: »
    And they repeated it a few weeks back, and will be sure to repeat it again, and again, and again.......

    Then they stuck her on that ‘celebrity’ holiday type show... and was about as funny as prostate cancer on it.

    Some people are naturally funny, but with some, you can clearly see its put on, like they’re trying too hard to be the funny/goofy character. The giveaway is when they’re always the 1st to laugh at their own ‘jokes’

    I'd say they're trying to make their money back from it-Bachelor's Walk will be repeated too. RTE will be killing two birds with one stone-repeats and Nostalgia. (RTE loves their nostalgia).

    As for Spittle. she's got mental health problems (which she's spoken of, had a breakdown in the past) and sometimes, with mental illness, you get a dark and cynical outlook on life. Which is depressing as hell, but often a goldmine for comedy. (Not saying mental illness is a gift, just noting the comedy's a by-product). Plenty of comedians have suffered mental illness.
    The difference is, they use their comedy as Catharsis... and in many respects, are more open.

    For me, Spittle is like someone who escaped from a mental institution. Possibly because they needed the room.



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    #2374
    Woke Hogan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,630 ✭✭✭Woke Hogan


    RabbleRouser2k wrote: »
    I'd say they're trying to make their money back from it-Bachelor's Walk will be repeated too. RTE will be killing two birds with one stone-repeats and Nostalgia. (RTE loves their nostalgia).

    As for Spittle. she's got mental health problems (which she's spoken of, had a breakdown in the past) and sometimes, with mental illness, you get a dark and cynical outlook on life. Which is depressing as hell, but often a goldmine for comedy. (Not saying mental illness is a gift, just noting the comedy's a by-product). Plenty of comedians have suffered mental illness.
    The difference is, they use their comedy as Catharsis... and in many respects, are more open.

    For me, Spittle is like someone who escaped from a mental institution. Possibly because they needed the room.


    She escaped from a mental hospital because they needed the room? So they let her out? But she still escaped? What are you talking about?


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    #2375
    AndyBoBandy
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    Woke Hogan wrote: »
    She escaped from a mental hospital because they needed the room? So they let her out? But she still escaped? What are you talking about?

    They let her out, but she tells everyone she escaped because ‘it’s mad craic all together’


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    #2376
    Woke Hogan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,630 ✭✭✭Woke Hogan


    AndyBoBandy wrote: »
    They let her out, but she tells everyone she escaped because ‘it’s mad craic all together’

    Is that something she’s said? You don’t have to answer, I know it isn’t.

    The biggest failed comedians around are the funnymen in here who try to blast the people they don’t like with some lame one-liner and then immediately fall at the first hurdle.

    I maintain that the majority of the misogynistic critics in here are people who are deluded enough to think they’re actually funny themselves (they’re not, nobody is funny on this website), but lack the bottle to give making comedy a go themselves.

    “Alison Spittle is like someone who escaped a mental hospital after they let her out ha ha ha.” Hey you know what? YOU should be a comedian, not Alison Spittle. :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: Get ****ing real.


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    #2377
    Die Hard 2019
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    Woke Hogan wrote: »
    Is that something she’s said? You don’t have to answer, I know it isn’t.

    The biggest failed comedians around are the funnymen in here who try to blast the people they don’t like with some lame one-liner and then immediately fall at the first hurdle.

    I maintain that the majority of the misogynistic critics in here are people who are deluded enough to think they’re actually funny themselves (they’re not, nobody is funny on this website), but lack the bottle to give making comedy a go themselves.

    “Alison Spittle is like someone who escaped a mental hospital after they let her out ha ha ha.” Hey you know what? YOU should be a comedian, not Alison Spittle. :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: Get ****ing real.

    Just no


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    #2378
    Blaze420
    Closed Accounts Posts: 904 ✭✭✭Blaze420


    Woke Hogan wrote: »
    Is that something she’s said? You don’t have to answer, I know it isn’t.

    The biggest failed comedians around are the funnymen in here who try to blast the people they don’t like with some lame one-liner and then immediately fall at the first hurdle.

    I maintain that the majority of the misogynistic critics in here are people who are deluded enough to think they’re actually funny themselves (they’re not, nobody is funny on this website), but lack the bottle to give making comedy a go themselves.

    “Alison Spittle is like someone who escaped a mental hospital after they let her out ha ha ha.” Hey you know what? YOU should be a comedian, not Alison Spittle. :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: Get ****ing real.

    Do you want a tissue to dry your eyes you complete ****ing fanny??


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    #2379
    AndyBoBandy
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 15,040 Mod ✭✭✭✭AndyBoBandy


    I don’t speak for anyone here but myself, and I am certainly not a comedian, however if one claims to be a comedian, and is funded by the tax payer, then they are fair game for criticism. It’s my opinion (and clearly the majority opinion of the voters in this threads poll) that Spittle is not funny. Pointing this out doesn’t make me a failed comedian, or misogynistic (I also find Jason Byrne to be painfully unfunny so does this make me misandrist?). That fact that Spittle is female has little relevance to the topic on hand, yet you seem to bring this up against anyone who criticises her, “ you slate her so you must hate women” - would you ever cop onto yourself.


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    #2380
    Woke Hogan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,630 ✭✭✭Woke Hogan


    Blaze420 wrote: »
    Do you want a tissue to dry your eyes you complete ****ing fanny??

    The only wet fanny around here is your auld one’s.


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    #2381
    DrSerious3
    Registered Users Posts: 130 ✭✭DrSerious3


    Woke Hogan wrote: »
    The only wet fanny around here is your auld one’s.

    Is that comment any funnier then the ones you were deriding here earlier? Alison Spittle wouldn't even use it in a gig.


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    #2382
    Blaze420
    Closed Accounts Posts: 904 ✭✭✭Blaze420


    Woke Hogan wrote: »
    The only wet fanny around here is your auld one’s.

    Good one Alison lolonot


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    #2383
    Woke Hogan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,630 ✭✭✭Woke Hogan


    AndyBoBandy wrote: »
    I don’t speak for anyone here but myself, and I am certainly not a comedian, however if one claims to be a comedian, and is funded by the tax payer, then they are fair game for criticism. It’s my opinion (and clearly the majority opinion of the voters in this threads poll) that Spittle is not funny. Pointing this out doesn’t make me a failed comedian, or misogynistic (I also find Jason Byrne to be painfully unfunny so does this make me misandrist?). That face that Spittle is female has little relevance to the topic on hand, yet you seem to bring this up against anyone who criticises her, “ you slate her so you must hate women” - would you ever cop onto yourself.

    “Funded by the tax payer,” is such a pathetic excuse for hurling abuse at her, saying she’s a mentaller for example. She’s not writing herself massive cheques anyway, the “taxpayer” needs to be angry at whoever commissioned her programme.

    Alison Spittle is just an artist trying to ply her trade, she’s not diddling the accounts in a children’s hospital.


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    #2384
    Woke Hogan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,630 ✭✭✭Woke Hogan


    DrSerious3 wrote: »
    Is that comment any funnier then the ones you were deriding here earlier? Alison Spittle wouldn't even use it in a gig.

    I’m not trying to be funny. I say that with utter seriousness.


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    #2385
    [Deleted User]
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    Woke Hogan wrote: »
    “Funded by the tax payer,” is such a pathetic excuse for hurling abuse at her, saying she’s a mentaller for example. She’s not writing herself massive cheques anyway, the “taxpayer” needs to be angry at whoever commissioned her programme.

    Alison Spittle is just an artist trying to ply her trade, she’s not diddling the accounts in a children’s hospital.

    She is an entertainer. Her entire career is standing in front of people and attempting to entertain them. Hey success depends on making people laugh. It's entirely reasonable to criticize under the circumstances


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    #2386
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,285 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    Woke Hogan wrote: »
    “Funded by the tax payer,” is such a pathetic excuse for hurling abuse at her, saying she’s a mentaller for example. She’s not writing herself massive cheques anyway, the “taxpayer” needs to be angry at whoever commissioned her programme.

    Alison Spittle is just an artist trying to ply her trade, she’s not diddling the accounts in a children’s hospital.

    She's said it herself-about having mental illness.

    Nobody's saying it about her, she said it herself.

    https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/alison-spittle-i-just-tried-stand-up-like-you-would-try-abseiling-1.2592097


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    #2387
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users Posts: 71,799 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    Woke Hogan wrote: »
    Is that something she’s said? You don’t have to answer, I know it isn’t.

    The biggest failed comedians around are the funnymen in here who try to blast the people they don’t like with some lame one-liner and then immediately fall at the first hurdle.

    I maintain that the majority of the misogynistic critics in here are people who are deluded enough to think they’re actually funny themselves (they’re not, nobody is funny on this website), but lack the bottle to give making comedy a go themselves.

    “Alison Spittle is like someone who escaped a mental hospital after they let her out ha ha ha.” Hey you know what? YOU should be a comedian, not Alison Spittle. :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: Get ****ing real.
    Woke Hogan wrote: »
    The only wet fanny around here is your auld one’s.


    Yep, bang on there Woke.


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    #2388
    KiKi III
    Registered Users Posts: 2,653 ✭✭✭KiKi III


    Alison Spittle isn’t my taste in humour, in the same way I don’t understand why anyone likes Mrs Brown’s Boys. But both are popular. As they say, humour is subjective.

    Whether people will admit it here or not, she’d get a lot less abuse if she was size 8.


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    #2389
    cal naughton
    Registered Users Posts: 379 ✭✭cal naughton


    KiKi III wrote: »
    Alison Spittle isn’t my taste in humour, in the same way I don’t understand why anyone likes Mrs Brown’s Boys. But both are popular. As they say, humour is subjective.

    Whether people will admit it here or not, she’d get a lot less abuse if she was size 8.

    You are the first person bring her weight into it!


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    #2390
    ohnonotgmail
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    cal naughton wrote: »
    You are the first person bring her weight into it!

    they're not. this thread has been going for a long time.


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    #2391
    EmmetSpiceland
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    KiKi III wrote: »
    Whether people will admit it here or not, she’d get a lot less abuse if she was size 8.

    Or if she were a man.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



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    #2392
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    EmmetSpiceland wrote: »
    Or if she were a man.

    Or an incel stoner.


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    #2393
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,285 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    Name any Irish male comedian who's been using the Covid-19 to raise their profile like Spittle has.

    Or any Irish male comedian (of the last ten years) who's been given as much high profile chances as Spittle.

    (I'm talking Republic of Telly, A comedy show pilot on the RTE player, multiple appearances on chat shows and other TV shows, her own scripted TV show, as well as appearances on a holiday show-all of which were paid for by the license fee).

    I'd have included Jason Byrne, but he's outside the last ten years.


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    #2394
    KiKi III
    Registered Users Posts: 2,653 ✭✭✭KiKi III


    RabbleRouser2k wrote: »
    Name any Irish male comedian who's been using the Covid-19 to raise their profile like Spittle has.
    .

    Des Bishop.


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    #2395
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,285 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    KiKi III wrote: »
    Des Bishop.

    Bishop was born in London, grew up in New York. He didn't come to Ireland until he was a teen.


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    #2396
    KiKi III
    Registered Users Posts: 2,653 ✭✭✭KiKi III


    RabbleRouser2k wrote: »
    Bishop was born in London, grew up in New York. He didn't come to Ireland until he was a teen.

    He’s irish american but anyway, besides him there are loads. I used to do stand up as a hobby so I follow a lot of comedians and almost all of them have lost almost all their income as they can’t gig - so they’re trying to use the time to boost their online profiles.

    I don’t see anything wrong with it tbh, we need the entertainment and they want to entertain.


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    #2397
    Better Than Christ
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,135 ✭✭✭Better Than Christ


    Woke Hogan wrote: »
    The only wet fanny around here is your auld one’s.

    Are you threatening to rape his auld one?


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    #2398
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,285 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    KiKi III wrote: »
    He’s irish american but anyway, besides him there are loads. I used to do stand up as a hobby so I follow a lot of comedians and almost all of them have lost almost all their income as they can’t gig - so they’re trying to use the time to boost their online profiles.

    I don’t see anything wrong with it tbh, we need the entertainment and they want to entertain.

    'Wanting to entertain' versus being entertaining are too separate things.

    Plus do you honestly think they're getting their profile out there for free? Far from it.


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    #2399
    KiKi III
    Registered Users Posts: 2,653 ✭✭✭KiKi III


    RabbleRouser2k wrote: »
    'Wanting to entertain' versus being entertaining are too separate things.

    Plus do you honestly think they're getting their profile out there for free? Far from it.

    You’re not obliged to follow any of them online? If you don’t find them entertaining, unfollow?

    And yes, the vast majority of them get no money out of their social media.

    Joanne McNally gets a paid partnership every now and then and she’s about the only one. Some of them who have bigger podcasts might make a small amount for ads on that.

    Overall, most put it out there for free.

    And as I said, without being able to gig they have all lost most of their income so maybe give them a break?


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    #2400
    retalivity
    Registered Users Posts: 14,069 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    Woke Hogan wrote: »
    Alison Spittle is just an artist

    Gold, off to the funniest comedians thread with you woke!


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    #2401
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,285 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    KiKi III wrote: »
    You’re not obliged to follow any of them online? If you don’t find them entertaining, unfollow?

    And yes, the vast majority of them get no money out of their social media.

    Joanne McNally gets a paid partnership every now and then and she’s about the only one. Some of them who have bigger podcasts might make a small amount for ads on that.

    Overall, most put it out there for free.

    And as I said, without being able to gig they have all lost most of their income so maybe give them a break?

    I'm not following ANY of them online-they're on the RTE website. That's what I mentioned. I go to RTE's site to check on news, and get stuck with Spittle (or other's) faces on the flipping site. And it's been every few days with Spittle.

    I wasn't discussing Social Media-I was discussing the RTE site, paid for out of the license fee.

    As for their not being able to gig-that's unfortunate. But many people are unable to go to work, or even carry out work. They're still getting the constant 'pay your license fee' messages from RTE-a portion of which is going to these people.

    Joanne McAnally and Des Bishop got free holidays for High Road/Low Road. Spittle got one for some show from a year or so ago.
    All on the RTE dime.


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