Irish Comedians: Your Best and worst

sky88 · 17-08-2009 11:56PM

best - dara o brien andrew maxwell

worst - Katherine Lynch Tommy tiernan

scrappycoco · 18-08-2009 03:59AM

Best: Dara O'Briain (laughed till i couldn't breathe), Neil Delamere, Des Bishop

Worst: Katherine Lynch

Priapus · 18-08-2009 08:37PM

Worst: Tommy Tiernan. He's absolutley terrible

Best: Jason Byrne is very good. Dylan Moran also in an enigmatic type of way

dr shami · 19-08-2009 10:30AM

i met him once he came to my country,
he is quite old

dr shami · 19-08-2009 10:31AM

Conan o brian

smilerf · 19-08-2009 01:56PM

Priapus wrote: »

Worst: Tommy Tiernan. He's absolutley terrible

Best: Jason Byrne is very good. Dylan Moran also in an enigmatic type of way

agree totally with this. personally i'd rather watch paint dry than tommy tiernan

smilerf · 19-08-2009 02:00PM

carl spain is also really bad!!!

sisco · 21-08-2009 02:12PM

Best: Dara O Brien,Kathriene Lynch,Graham Norton
Worst: Hector,Tommy Tiernan,Ed Byrne,Jason Byrne,Des Bishop,Pj Gallagher

hannoncom · 25-08-2009 03:27PM

Best - Tommy Tiernan, Dara O'Briain, Dylan Moran, Ardal O'Hanlon

Worst - Dave McSavage, Tommy Nicholson, Jason Byrne.

The_Kew_Tour · 26-08-2009 08:59PM

Best: Dara o Brien

Worst Tommy Tieran and Katherine Lynch

Think Des Bishop is quite good too must say and Karl Spain was not great

WesternNight · 26-08-2009 09:03PM

Just one thing...it's Dara Ó Briain...

/leaves

sammyb · 31-08-2009 02:05AM

Neil delamare, des bishop, Pj Gallagher and Tommy Tiernan are funny. Though feel Tommy Tiernan's material of late has been poor.

Oh yeah forgot about Dara O'Brien. He is funny live.. Have seen David Doherty live. He was ok - average.

southeastlady · 04-09-2009 08:24PM

Has anyone been to Brendan Grace this summer? Was always a fan but saw him a couple of weeks ago and was most disappointed. Couldn't hear well because the speaker nearest to us wasn't working. My husband mentioned it to the sound guy (not Brendan's usual guy...) and got zip for his trouble. He seemed to prefer to be texting or something on his phone. Opening act was good, but again her vocal was buried in sloppy sound. For that money you expect professionals!!!

blondebabe · 04-09-2009 08:56PM

Hey, we agree with you about Brendan. Bunch of us girls went to see him recently and while he was funny, we all thought there was something not right with the sound. He seems to have changed sound companies 'cause his old sound guy was brill (and a hunk :cool:), but this guy seemed he wanted to be somewhere else....and he should have been, too! We still think Brendan is one of the best out there, because none of us are impressed with anyone who needs to swear to try to get a laugh. Hopefully he'll rethink whatever he's changed.

9wetfckx43j5rg · 04-09-2009 09:15PM

Best: Dara O Briain, Ed Byrne, Jason Byrne, Neil Delemere, Andrew Maxwell

Worst: Katerine Lynch

RABTMOUSE · 27-11-2009 07:47PM

I think Andrew Maxwells DVD in belfast was hilarious! I hated his first DVD though. However- anytime I've seen him perform live I've usually cried with laughter:D

mayoireland · 27-11-2009 08:00PM

BEST dara o brien,andrew maxwell,neil delamara. WORST katherine lynch,tommy tiernan,des bishop

fryup · 27-11-2009 08:09PM

anyone who says andrew maxwell needs their heads examined, he's about as funny as catching VD

as for dara o'brian...the brits can have him

magma69 · 27-11-2009 08:23PM

Awesome: Dara O Briain, Dylan Moran, David O'Doherty
Tolerable: Colin Murphy, Neil Delamere, Andrew Maxwell, Ed Byrne, Tommy Tiernan (early stuff only)
Rubbish: Katerine Lynch, Brendan O Carroll, Pat Short, Brendan Grace, Des Bishop, David McSavage, Jason Byrne, PJ Gallagher, Maeve Higgins and so on....

Ireland is pretty crap when it comes to comedy. Especially compared to the stand up comics and comedy shows made in the U.K. RTE has to take some of the blame too. Imagine RTE putting out a show like Brasseye? Not in a million years!!

enzo7 · 27-11-2009 08:28PM

andrew maxwell is a legend def the best ive seen live, went to see neil delamare last wk seen him a few times b4 and thought he was just ok, he was on fire totally changed my opinion on him will def see him again.

cant stand tommy tiernan his painfull!! an ex draged me to see him b4 he was horrendous!! i tink we broke up coz of him:D

chocgirl · 27-11-2009 10:04PM

Best: Des Bishop
Worst: Tommy Tiernan

jonas7 · 28-11-2009 10:16PM

Best:Jason Byrne(despite the awful Byrne Ultimatum tv show)
Worst:Andrew Maxwell

Handlebar · 29-11-2009 08:20AM

Salome wrote: »

Worst:

Brendan O'Carroll - one trick pony who was funny once - years ago. Has milked a good idea to death. Stop it now. Please.

David McSavage - is nuts. And not in a good way.

Best:

Dara O'Brioin - just magnificent.

Yeah gotta love Dara O'Brain also love Des Bishop altho most seem a bit sick of him here

j1974 · 02-12-2009 03:24PM

barbaraw19 wrote: »

Best
Dylan Moran, Dara O'Brian,Jarlaith Regan, David O'Doherty, Maeve Higgins, Jimmy Carr ( Limerick born so he's are!!)

Worst
Des Bishop ( You seriously needs some new material ) That heating emersion joke is getting old!Ed Byrne, Andrew Maxwell, Tommy Tiernan, Joe Rooney
Brendan Grace, Dave McSavage

Yours thoughts pls!!!

yeah definately agree, Jason byrne is crap, cannot understand how he get any gigs. I agree with all your top choices of crap ones except ed byrne, he's quite funny if you see him live. des bishop is crap, andrew maxwell on UK tv a few weeks ago!! terrible and you could hear a pin drop after some of his gags. there's a reason Mcsavage hasn't made it yet, lets hope it stays that way. Joe rooney, very repetitive, saw him years ago an he is still crackng the same david bowie song jokes!!

jarleth reagan is terrible actually!!! he's a bad snob with terrible material. If you watched his program made during the scottish comedy festival, you'll see how bad he is at impromptu comedy. dylan moran is superb, gifted if you ask me. I think the whole of the panel should be scrapped!!! theyre crap and why do they have extremely unfunny girls on the panel, like mareid farrell (spelled wrong). Now they have that david mcwilliams as the host??? are you for real??? he must think the public have realy warmed to him. OK david you said what needed to be said, we get it, but stick to economics, you've no sense of timing and an even worse sense of humour and rapport!!!

he's so far up his own anus that he'll be putting his name up for the late late next. I suppose it couldnt be any worse that pat kenny realy!!

Rant over :mad:

Priapus · 02-12-2009 03:51PM

j1974 wrote: »

I think the whole of the panel should be scrapped!!! theyre crap and why do they have extremely unfunny girls on the panel, like mareid farrell (spelled wrong).

Agree. And as for the Republic of Telly with the stupid canned laughter...it's an embarrassment

Elmer Blooker · 03-12-2009 08:15PM

Best: John Delaney, Kevin McAleer, Dave Allen RIP,

Worst: Tommy (who will I offend to get publicity?) Tiernan
Dylan ( I'm pissed, look at my hand shaking) Moran
John Delaney

Stovepipe · 06-12-2009 12:17AM

Hi all,
I used to go, religiously, to the International Bar, when a lot of these guys were starting out,round about 1992 / 1993, specifically Dylan Moran,Ardal O'Hanlon, Eddie Bannon (whom I like) and a few others (the fellas off Apres Match).Dylan Moran hasn't changed his style, jokes and routine since then.He still wears all-black, his delivery is simply a rant and his accent is Meath 4 (D4 delivered thru clenched teeth with a culchie lilt). What he delivered in Black Books is identical to what he delivered in the International, so long ago. I saw him in Edinburgh in 1999 and , essentially, he was the same as in 1992.Never again.

Dara O'Briain....very sharp, very clever and the next Terry Wogan(that's bigger than Jesus in the UK).
Jason Byrne......Nah.Doesn't do it for me.Some one posted that he was like a student comedian and that's bang on.
Tommy Tiernan.......very clever individual and mostly, very good.probably the best of observational comedy.Should be kept seperated from Hector to retain comedy purity.Hector should be immediately shot, with a ball of his own ****e or marooned on Rockall as a service to humanity.
Des Bishop.......very good but now a bit laboured.By all accounts, a decent human being outside the comedy circuit.

the crew on the panel? Dunno.Maxwell has his moments of brilliance but Murphy and Delamere, well, I won't be buying there DVDs for Christmas.

regards
Stovepipe

stainluss · 06-12-2009 12:23AM

Best:
Dara O'Brian
Tommy Tiernan (back in the days of 'Loose' - Legend:D)
Dylan Moran

Worst:
Brendan Grace
Daniel O'Donnel (theres no way hes for real:p)

Dinky2191 · 05-01-2010 12:12PM

Best:
Dara O Brian
PJ Gallagher
Dylan Moran
Colin Murphy
Neil Delamere
Jimmy Carr
Graham Norton - (He does count because he was a comedian first.)
Jason Byrne
Brendan Grace(You can't beat the golden oldies)
Dave McSavage(He is brilliant in the Savage Eye)
David O'Doherty

On The Fence:
Andrew Maxwell

Worst:
Katherine Lynch(Can't stand her)
Tommy Tiernan
Hector O........O........O.......oh whatever... you know who
Patrick Kielty
Des Bishop
Maeve Higgins
-The fella that does Mrs. Brown, it's the same thing over and over again, it's just pure annoying now.

That is just my opinion. Everyone is different and i for one love anything funny. The people i put on worst list have yet to make me laugh so for that reason they are there. The On The Fence bit is where the comedians i'm not sure about go and Andrew Maxwell has earned his spot. Hope i don't make any of you's angry with my choices.:D:D:D:D:D:cool:

Konata · 09-01-2010 05:03PM

Priapus wrote: »

Agree. And as for the Republic of Telly with the stupid canned laughter...it's an embarrassment

That show makes me cringe.

Dylan Moran and David O'Dotherty are fabulous, although Dylan can be slightly repetitive but still a massive fan.

Loved Tommy Tiernan in the past but he has gradually got more and more irritating over the years, can't stand him now.

Not too keen on Maeve Higgins or that Hector fella either.

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