Comedians and comedy actors that are just not funny!

FloatingVoter · 22-12-2012 07:29PM

franktheplank wrote: »

Neil Delemare is one of the nicest guys you could meet.

Does that make him funny or not, I dunno? I think most comedians are ****e.

Personally I think there's a psychology to comedy, you've invested time or money to laugh and something, kinda like a placebo effect.

I'd say 99% of comedians are no more funny or even less funny than the funny guy in a typical group. They just got the balls or showmanship to do it. What makes some of them more popular to certain groups is more personal preference than them being funny per say.

I'd still say some of the 1% can be brilliant. Monthy Python, Spike Milligan, Billy Connolly (at their peak, brilliant) or perhaps the likes of Rich Hall, if you get him, but is that coming back to personal preference?

Agreed on that - it is a matter of taste....Connolly at his height and Milligan (lets throw in Peter Sellers) were in the realm of genius. Meeting comedians in person is never a good idea - most of them are manically depressed. Spike and Sellers would have been sectioned if they were in any other game.
Bill Hicks was just doing 1970s Billy Connolly for a US audience.
Still, can all agree the above gents do not belong in the same thread as Rosenstock, Gervais, Adam bloody Sandler ?
I still think Daniel O' Donnell is the best stand-up we ever produced.

Tchaikovsky · 22-12-2012 08:05PM

Adam Sandler is abysmal, as are most female comedians (sorry, but it is true).

FloatingVoter · 22-12-2012 08:18PM

Tchaikovsky wrote: »

Adam Sandler is abysmal, as are most female comedians (sorry, but it is true).

Can we give an exemption to Joan Rivers ?

Ando's Saggy Bottom · 22-12-2012 08:19PM

Seems to me most stand up comeduans have a shirt run where they're very funny then they lose it fast. Best thing they can do at that stage is get a TV gig like Graham Norton where they can reel off a few jokes while maintaining their popularity.

Also Bill Hicks is pretty overrated IMO. We get it weed is good now tell some jokes.

I do like that black American guy, Reginald Dwight something.

wishmaster200 · 22-12-2012 08:28PM

smash wrote: »

Jason Byrne
Ed Byrne
Russell Brand
Tommy Tiernan
Maeve Higgins
Catherine Lynch

All, not funny!

i agree throw in bredan grace and brendan o carroll as well:)

old hippy · 22-12-2012 08:34PM

Tchaikovsky wrote: »

Adam Sandler is abysmal, as are most female comedians (sorry, but it is true).

No, it's not. It's just a lazy unfounded untruth that people like to peddle about. Bette Midler, Wanda Sykes, Issy Sutie, Meera Syal, Nina Wadia, Olivia Colman, Tamsin Grieg, Alison Stedman, Victoria Wood, Michelle Gomez, Jessica Stevenson, Zawe Ashton, Bebe Neuwirth for starters...

Andrew Dice Clay. Now that's a repulsive comedian.

Tchaikovsky · 22-12-2012 08:40PM

FloatingVoter wrote: »

Can we give an exemption to Joan Rivers ?

Yes

Tchaikovsky · 22-12-2012 08:41PM

old hippy wrote: »

No, it's not. It's just a lazy unfounded untruth that people like to peddle about. Bette Midler, Wanda Sykes, Issy Sutie, Meera Syal, Nina Wadia, Olivia Colman, Tamsin Grieg, Alison Stedman, Victoria Wood, Michelle Gomez, Jessica Stevenson, Zawe Ashton, Bebe Neuwirth for starters...

Andrew Dice Clay. Now that's a repulsive comedian.

I've never heard of any of those people bar two

fryup · 22-12-2012 08:47PM

Dara O'Briain....what do the British see in him

he's about as funny as a kick in the balls

Duckworth_Luas · 22-12-2012 08:48PM

kumate_champ07 wrote: »

comedy snob?

Saying someone is a comedy snob because they don't like some of the comedians mentioned here is like saying someone is a manure snob because they don't like horse sh1t!

Rasheed · 22-12-2012 08:50PM

old hippy wrote: »

No, it's not. It's just a lazy unfounded untruth that people like to peddle about. Bette Midler, Wanda Sykes, Issy Sutie, Meera Syal, Nina Wadia, Olivia Colman, Tamsin Grieg, Alison Stedman, Victoria Wood, Michelle Gomez, Jessica Stevenson, Zawe Ashton, Bebe Neuwirth for starters...

Andrew Dice Clay. Now that's a repulsive comedian.

Zainab from Eastenders is a comedienne? Who knew!

Magill · 22-12-2012 08:56PM

Was never a huge fan of ricky gervais, but some of his sketches are brilliant.

The ones he did with stephen merchant and warwick davis were hilarious i thought !

fryup · 22-12-2012 09:02PM

^^^^^^^^^^^^^

doesn't even bring a smile to my face

weldoninhio · 22-12-2012 09:05PM

Hate that clown that dresses up as a chav, innit.

Really dislike Stephen K Amos, i think he's black :rolleyes:

Gina Yashere is about as funny as standing on an upturned plug

Mario Rosenstock is just awful.

Brian2208 · 22-12-2012 09:15PM

I'd say every comedian has been mentioned at this stage...

Magill · 22-12-2012 09:24PM

fryup wrote: »

^^^^^^^^^^^^^

doesn't even bring a smile to my face

meh. Different sense of humour etc.

Syllabus · 22-12-2012 09:25PM

ill prob upset every smelly mulchie on here but i foooooooookin hate that g0bsh1te Richie whats his face off the 1890222222 ads

petersburg2002 · 22-12-2012 09:28PM

Brendan Gleeson's ginger headed son and his excruciating 'comedy' sketches on RTE. Fcuking woefully bad.

fryup · 22-12-2012 09:30PM

that fat f4cker who is forever on never mind the buzzcocks....he's got this loud "put on" laugh Phil Jupitus i think he's called can't stand him

yuloni · 22-12-2012 09:38PM

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Shryke · 22-12-2012 09:42PM

It's already been said but Jack Whitehall has to be related to somebody. He's like every annoying young lad you meet at a house party.

krudler · 22-12-2012 09:50PM

Da Shins Kelly wrote: »

Louis CK owes an awful lot to Bill Hicks. I still think he's very good though, definitely one of the best American comedians out there right now.

like what? Hicks took what guys like Lenny Bruce and Richard Pryor were doing and took the next step, Louis's comedy isnt anything like Hicks, he makes jokes about himself and daily life not war and politics.

jaffacakesyum · 22-12-2012 09:51PM

Shryke wrote: »

It's already been said but Jack Whitehall has to be related to somebody. He's like every annoying young lad you meet at a house party.

Yeah there's a lot of comedians I don't like who have already been named on here but honestly, does ANYONE find Jack Whitehall funny? How is he on tv? He's terrible.

tan11ie · 22-12-2012 10:34PM

I can't stand Tommy Tiernan - not one bit funny, just annoying!

ben.schlomo · 22-12-2012 10:38PM

Adam Sandler, he is like a big thick adolescent.

Yamanoto · 22-12-2012 10:41PM

krudler wrote: »

like what? Hicks took what guys like Lenny Bruce and Richard Pryor were doing and took the next step, Louis's comedy isnt anything like Hicks, he makes jokes about himself and daily life not war and politics.

Louis CK also makes me laugh harder and with far greater frequency than Hicks ever could.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 22-12-2012 11:29PM

Does anybody know any good examples of comedians bombing on live television? Like where the audience boo's them etc.

Capt'n Midnight · 22-12-2012 11:30PM

e_e wrote: »

I don't know where you get the idea that he thinks he's amazing. He acknowledges in interviews that his humor isn't for everyone and he is his own niche really. I love how subtly he picks comedy apart and does his own thing with it.

He's like a bad tribute to Norman Wisdom

Allyall · 22-12-2012 11:37PM

stimpson wrote: »

4 pages in and no mention of David McSavage? Shame on you, AH.

I was brought to see him once and the only funny thing about it was the hecklers. I'm not a violent person, but every time I see him I get the urge to smash his teeth in with a hammer.

I used to hate Philip Jupitus until I saw him doing stand up in a small pub in Kilkenny many years ago. Completely different to his NMTB persona.

I searched to see if he was mentioned and you were the only mention..

I was also brought to see him once, we got one of those coaches that bring you to a small country pub, or one on the outskirts etc..

He turned up instead of some other guy, and he had a hissy fit on the crates, started shouting at people (in a local pub) to shut up. Told to people to get out, and one of them was an old woman.. Then he refused to speak, gave up refusing after a second, and continued to (unfunnily) pick out people at random and using the same "slag" (You're from the Country, you wouldn't blah blah blah..") pointed at different people for about 5 minutes, until one guy shouted something at him, and everyone applauded... He left.

Tosser.

Ava_e · 22-12-2012 11:56PM

Allyall wrote: »

I searched to see if he was mentioned and you were the only mention..

I was also brought to see him once, we got one of those coaches that bring you to a small country pub, or one on the outskirts etc..

He turned up instead of some other guy, and he had a hissy fit on the crates, started shouting at people (in a local pub) to shut up. Told to people to get out, and one of them was an old woman.. Then he refused to speak, gave up refusing after a second, and continued to (unfunnily) pick out people at random and using the same "slag" (You're from the Country, you wouldn't blah blah blah..") pointed at different people for about 5 minutes, until one guy shouted something at him, and everyone applauded... He left.

Tosser.

Yes, but he was being through to form, as anyone who encountered this guitar abusing unfunny street busker on Graton Street will tell you.

Not being sarky. Genuinely sorry you wasted a night.

Comedians and comedy actors that are just not funny!

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