The progressive degeneration of Irish Comedy

zonEEE · 13-11-2009 04:28PM

Hopefully Hardy Bucks hits the TV soon. One of the best Irish shows in a long time

prinz · 13-11-2009 04:39PM

WindSock wrote: »

They fortunatley have their own unique brands. We can't do their comedy very well. At least let us try and do our own.

Our own unique brand has always been wit and satire, right back to Johnathan Swift or Oscar Wilde. Unfortunatley any comedian/Irish comedy show these days has given up the challenge of actually showcasing something funny, for the usual repeated playground type jokes (scat, sex, bad language etc) / picking on some group or other for a cheap laugh / double entendres that frequently are so stupid they are actually single entendres...

Dylan Moran stands out above the rest. Just.

Denerick · 13-11-2009 05:03PM

prinz wrote: »

Our own unique brand has always been wit and satire, right back to Johnathan Swift or Oscar Wilde. Unfortunatley any comedian/Irish comedy show these days has given up the challenge of actually showcasing something funny, for the usual repeated playground type jokes (scat, sex, bad language etc) / picking on some group or other for a cheap laugh / double entendres that frequently are so stupid they are actually single entendres...

Dylan Moran stands out above the rest. Just.

Jonathon Swift was well known for making fart jokes. He even wrote a couple of poems about it!

prinz · 13-11-2009 05:18PM

Meant to add, there's more wit on boards.ie than there is anywhere else at the moment if you ask me. Some of the one-liners..classic.

Rented Mule · 13-11-2009 06:01PM

homerjay2005 wrote: »

errm, cant stand him, dont find him one bit funny. everything he does ,is scripted and he as a week to prepare it. the panel is a sham of a program!

Dara is one of the best improv comics that I have ever seen.

Can't speak for the television program, but as far as standups go, he's one of the best I've seen.

whatdoicare · 13-11-2009 06:36PM

Frankie Boyle, David Mitchell, Harry Enfield, Chris Morris, John Cleese, Stephen Fry

I have to be in a particular mood to find any of these guys funny tbh.....sometimes, I really find Harry Enfield and John Cleese extremely annoying (I really hate Faulty Towers)!
Billy Connelly is the king of comedy but that's just my opinion....I quite like Des Bishop too (does he count as Irish? or American?) fair play to him for making the Irish language interesting to the youngsters.

johnathan woss · 13-11-2009 08:23PM

Denerick wrote: »

Its well known that the best Irish comics tend to get shipped off to England (Although only O'Brian springs to mind) but what the hell has happened over the last couple of years? Only in Ireland could the likes of Jason Byrne, Neil Delamere and Andrew Maxwell* get on TV.

Their sense of humour can be summed up thus:

1) Throw some muck on a wall.
2) Watch if it sticks.
3) If some dud finds it funny, then elaborate.
4) The elaboration isn't grounded in wit, or articulate and biting satire, but in sheer irrelevancy (Usually lauded as 'randomness' by their fellow practitioners.)
5) Wait for laughter from panel.
6) Repeat ad infinitum.

Frankie Boyle, David Mitchell, Harry Enfield, Chris Morris, John Cleese, Stephen Fry... Intelligent, biting, controversial men with a clear and multi faceted wit.** And all impeccably British.

Is Jason Byrne's loud shouting and Tommy Tiernan's idiotic controversialism the best this island can come up with?

*Emphasis intentional.
**Could name plenty more, and of course you could list a similar cast of not so funny people. But the point is clear I think.

Not disagreeing with your point but you should have emphasised Neil Delamere.

How this man makes a living as a comedian is beyond comprehension.

johnathan woss · 13-11-2009 08:25PM

whatdoicare wrote: »

I have to be in a particular mood to find any of these guys funny tbh.....sometimes, I really find Harry Enfield and John Cleese extremely annoying (I really hate Faulty Towers)!
Billy Connelly is the king of comedy but that's just my opinion....I quite like Des Bishop too (does he count as Irish? or American?) fair play to him for making the Irish language interesting to the youngsters.

Ok so you like billy connelly and des bishop but you hate Fawlty Towers.

Unbelievable. I guess you're the reason why people like delamere can make a living from comedy in this country.

phasers · 13-11-2009 08:32PM

whatdoicare wrote: »

I have to be in a particular mood to find any of these guys funny tbh

You need to be in 'a particular mood' to like Chris Morris' stuff?

You're weird

asdasd · 14-11-2009 03:54AM

The only reason people think Dara O'Briain is funny is that he is fat, bald and has an English accent.

English accent. Dara O'Birian has an English accent!

HAHHAHAAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

jesus ****in wept. un-believable..

yeah, he's like the feckin avengers. Mother of God. Ireland is rearing the success fearing dullards ever more.

Seriously this thread is about this:

1) Sad plonker who lives in Ireland ( and will never live anywhere else). Sad plonker doesn't like Irish success stories gets into a parochial wankfest about successful irish comics
2) see 1)

Look, sad plonkers, irish people are probably more succesful as comics than ever before.

Get over your sad little its-far-from-that-you-were-raised claptrap you sad little useless feckers.

asdasd · 14-11-2009 03:57AM

Or alternatively get up on stage

Wow, so we have what, three good comedians? (And Linehan is a writer first and foremost) Hardly shows me up now does it. All you have to do is have a look at mainstream Irish comedy and its enough to make you sick.

Get up on stage and post yourself online. Or shut it. Troll.

Denerick · 14-11-2009 04:04AM

asdasd wrote: »

Or alternatively get up on stage

Get up on stage and post yourself online. Or shut it. Troll.

:rolleyes:

asdasd · 14-11-2009 04:07AM

Come on Deerick. Tell us a joke. Word on the street is that you are a sad little provinical talentless f*ck.

Prove the street wrong.

remember timing is everything.

Denerick · 14-11-2009 04:09AM

asdasd wrote: »

Come on Deerick. Tell us a joke. Word on the street is that you are a sad little provinical talentless f*ck.

Prove the street wrong.

remember timing is everything.

Thanks for making sure that a mod will come along and lock this. I ain't rising to the bait though. Maybe you should take it easier on the booze in future though...

Are you Andrew Maxwell or something BTW?

asdasd · 14-11-2009 04:15AM

Deneerick,. Talentless loser..

And yes, Iam drunk. Tomorrow I will be sober. Tomorrow you will still be a talentless f*ck.

As it happens I know at least one of the people - in a professional capicity ( not that I am a comic, but the guy in question was lovely). And I have no idea who Andrea Maxwell is. As I live in England.

Nevethelss the sad little Irish man on his computer whining about Irish success stories - in particular O"Brian or Linehan( both gentlemen) - is mere small minded provincial begrudgery. Of the lowest order.

As for the Ah rules on not attacking the poster - that kind of nonsense should go out the window when the post is an attack on someone else.

Anyway.

OP

Joke.

Timing is everything.

4zn76tysfajdxp · 14-11-2009 04:21AM

asdasd banned.

Sharpshooter · 14-11-2009 04:34AM

As it was me who locked the thread, Just to clarify things.

asdasd wrote: »

English accent. Dara O'Birian has an English accent!

HAHHAHAAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

jesus ****in wept. un-believable..

yeah, he's like the feckin avengers. Mother of God. Ireland is rearing the success fearing dullards ever more.

Seriously this thread is about this:

1) Sad plonker who lives in Ireland ( and will never live anywhere else). Sad plonker doesn't like Irish success stories gets into a parochial wankfest about successful irish comics
2) see 1)

Look, sad plonkers, irish people are probably more succesful as comics than ever before.

Get over your sad little its-far-from-that-you-were-raised claptrap you sad little useless feckers.

asdasd wrote: »

Or alternatively get up on stage

Get up on stage and post yourself online. Or shut it. Troll.

asdasd wrote: »

Come on Deerick. Tell us a joke. Word on the street is that you are a sad little provinical talentless f*ck.

Prove the street wrong.

remember timing is everything.

asdasd wrote: »

Deneerick,. Talentless loser..

And yes, Iam drunk. Tomorrow I will be sober. Tomorrow you will still be a talentless f*ck.

As it happens I know at least one of the people - in a professional capicity ( not that I am a comic, but the guy in question was lovely). And I have no idea who Andrea Maxwell is. As I live in England.

Nevethelss the sad little Irish man on his computer whining about Irish success stories - in particular O"Brian or Linehan( both gentlemen) - is mere small minded provincial begrudgery. Of the lowest order.

As for the Ah rules on not attacking the poster - that kind of nonsense should go out the window when the post is an attack on someone else.

Anyway.

OP

Joke.

Timing is everything.

Bad timing there.

The progressive degeneration of Irish Comedy

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