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What is your favourite Stand Up Comedy special of all time?

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  • #32
    1o059k7ewrqj3n
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,779 ✭✭✭1o059k7ewrqj3n


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Who do I contact about getting those six and a half minutes refunded?

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  • #33
    billyhead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,760 ✭✭✭✭billyhead


    https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://m.facebook.com/ClassicComedyUK/posts/535365556983684&ved=2ahUKEwj0zduajoruAhXzTxUIHZrhAaEQo7QBMAF6BAgAEAE&usg=AOvVaw2Mbyat_vFu1Tr2ks4iJJsj

    This is brilliant.


  • #34
    Tzardine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,883 ✭✭✭Tzardine


    billyhead wrote: »
    https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://m.facebook.com/ClassicComedyUK/posts/535365556983684&ved=2ahUKEwj0zduajoruAhXzTxUIHZrhAaEQo7QBMAF6BAgAEAE&usg=AOvVaw2Mbyat_vFu1Tr2ks4iJJsj

    This is brilliant.

    I know that I am very much in the minority, but I never took to Billy Connelly at all. Find him completely overrated.

    Although I did enjoy his travel shows on TV.


  • #35
    BazBox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 361 ✭✭BazBox


    Subjective as previous posters have said

    But any of the Ricky Gervais stand up shows for me. They were just class.


  • #36
    Stan27
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 531 ✭✭✭Stan27


    Micky flanagan. Out out tour


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  • #37
    Pintman Paddy Losty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,913 ✭✭✭Pintman Paddy Losty


    Three pages an no women mentioned :rolleyes:


    I generally watch my comedy live rather than in specials, but always liked Maeve Higgins and Deirdre O'Kane. Alison Spittle makes a show of herself is laugh out loud funny.


  • #38
    The Inbetween is mine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,705 ✭✭✭The Inbetween is mine


    Pintman Paddy Losty wrote: »
    Three pages an no women mentioned :rolleyes:


    I generally watch my comedy live rather than in specials, but always liked Maeve Higgins and Deirdre O'Kane. Alison Spittle makes a show of herself is laugh out loud funny.

    The only woman who could hold her head high amongst the very best comedians is the late Joan Rivers...
    I've seen Higgins and O'Kane live and not impressed., would change channel if Spittle was on


  • #39
    xzanti
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 10,464 Mod ✭✭✭✭xzanti


    Don't have specific shows in mind but the following would be my go-to for comedy.

    Chris Rock
    Lee Evans
    Dylan Moran
    Billy Connolly
    Eddie Murphy
    Mickey Flannagan
    Richard Pryor


  • #40
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,991 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Hannah Gadsby’s ‘Nanette’.

    Sometimes “comedy” is more than just laughter and jokes. Sometimes it should serve a higher purpose.

    “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be” - A. Dumbledore

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



  • #41
    Sam Quentin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,285 ✭✭✭Sam Quentin


    Kevin Bridges.
    Lee Evans.
    Would be very hard to beat those 2 guys 🤣🤣


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  • #42
    billyhead
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    John Bishop is good. I saw him live previously and I was in stitches.


  • #43
    kildare lad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,010 ✭✭✭kildare lad


    Sam Quentin wrote: »
    Kevin Bridges.
    Lee Evans.
    Would be very hard to beat those 2 guys 🀣🀣

    Never really got lee evans , just acts like a lunatic on speed. I like kevin bridges though


  • #44
    saintsaltynuts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,147 ✭✭✭saintsaltynuts


    Roy Chubby Brown. Saturday Night Beaver.


  • #45
    Purgative
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    kildare lad wrote: »
    Never really got lee evans , just acts like a lunatic on speed. I like kevin bridges though


    His Dad is good too IMHO




  • #46
    kildare lad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,010 ✭✭✭kildare lad


    Purgative wrote: »
    His Dad is good too IMHO



    Frankie boyle's class , seen him 10 years ago at vicar street . Although he does push the boundaries a bit far sometimes


  • #47
    ShineOn7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,550 ✭✭✭ShineOn7


    Pintman Paddy Losty wrote: »
    Three pages an no women mentioned :rolleyes:



    Probably because most of them are utter shíte

    Leave your Outrage Culture in 2020


  • #48
    Surreptitious
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    No mention of Dylan Moron. My all time favourite.


  • #49
    ShineOn7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,550 ✭✭✭ShineOn7


    Surreptitious wrote: »
    No mention of Dylan Moron. My all time favourite.

    Xzanti mentioned him

    He's class


  • #50
    Surreptitious
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,130 ✭✭✭Surreptitious


    ShineOn7 wrote: »
    Xzanti mentioned him

    He's class

    I missed that post.


  • #51
    GreeBo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,518 ✭✭✭✭GreeBo


      Eddie izzards earlier stuff like Dressed to kill is great
      Also John pinnette is good
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Sbw0lZ9LmY

      Also Dane Cook was very good before he cocked it all up


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    • #52
      Thelonious Monk
      Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,513 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


      Louis CK "Oh My God" is amazing and his knew one "Sincerely" where he confronts his #metoo thing is brilliant too. For me no one holds a candle to him when it comes to stand up.


    • #53
      sully123
      Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,143 ✭✭✭sully123


      Pintman Paddy Losty wrote: »
      Three pages an no women mentioned :rolleyes:

      Ok, how about Amy Schumer, Mostly sex stuff


    • #54
      Thelonious Monk
      Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,513 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


      GreeBo wrote: »
      Also Dane Cook was very good before he cocked it all up

      I thought he was great the first couple of times but then his shows just seemed to be the audience screaming at him the whole time and it was unwatchable


    • #55
      sully123
      Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,143 ✭✭✭sully123


      The new Trump special is good.
      No gimmicks.
      Its just him on the phone for an hour.


    • #56
      flazio
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      Peter Kay talking about weddings.
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9RRv_7qugA

      This too shall pass.



    • #57
      Ashbourne hoop
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      kildare lad wrote: »
      Frankie boyle's class , seen him 10 years ago at vicar street . Although he does push the boundaries a bit far sometimes

      Was at that gig too. Seats right up the front, which I only realised when I was shown to my seat, the wife wasn't impressed. He took the piss out of a few at the front, slowly working his way down to my side. He asks the guy beside me what he does for a living, the guy says he works in special effects. Frankie asks has he worked on anything he'd know about, guy says yeah I worked on avatar. After a few questions it becomes obvious the guy didn't work on avatar or special effects, eventually admitting he works on computer games. Again Frankie asks "anything i'd know?" . Guy says yeah I worked on Colin McCrae Rally. Frankie says " Hang on, they're still making a driving game about a guy who crashed a helicopter and killed everyone ?" . Brutal but very funny.

      He's very funny but not for the faint hearted. Told some brilliant ones about the McCann's for example.


    • #58
      colm_mcm
      Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,327 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


      Stewart Lee: If You Prefer a Milder Comedian, Please Ask for One,

      or Carpet Remnant World.


    • #59
      Zascar
      Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,615 Mod ✭✭✭✭Zascar


      My all time favourite is from Billy Connolly called Dinner at the Posh House. Really brilliant and highly recommended. Spawned so many jokes between mates

      https://vimeo.com/55026759


    • #60
      Naya Uneven Sawhorse
      Posts: 13,753 ✭✭✭✭ Naya Uneven Sawhorse


      I remember watching this with a Yank friend many moons ago. Had some pain in me face and stomach afterwards.



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    • #61
      ltd440
      Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 327 ✭✭ltd440


      https://youtu.be/XUBB1AWJOhY
      Norm Macdonald one of my favourites
      Also any of the earlier stuff by Bill burr or Jim Jeffries


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