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Worst current comedians.

  • 31-07-2020 1:23pm
    #1
    Matmania
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 77 ✭✭Matmania


    I know everyone has different tastes so i get that but just looking for who they think is the least funny comedian operating today. Also who gets the silver and who would get the bronze. Not looking for reasons just names. I will start.

    Gold: Russell Howard
    Silver: Jason Byrne
    Bronze: Des Bishop

    At the end hopefully be a consensus and we can award the medals.


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  • #2
    Rodney Bathgate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,445 ✭✭✭Rodney Bathgate


    What do people think of Maeve Higgins?


  • #3
    MrMusician18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,585 ✭✭✭MrMusician18


    Matmania wrote: »
    I know everyone has different tastes so i get that but just looking for who they think is the least funny comedian operating today. Also who gets the silver and who would get the bronze. Not looking for reasons just names. I will start.

    Gold: Russell Howard
    Silver: Jason Byrne
    Bronze: Des Bishop

    At the end hopefully be a consensus and we can award the medals.
    There's not many still active at the moment tbf.


  • #4
    nj27
    Registered Users Posts: 467 ✭✭nj27


    Hannah Gadsby


  • #5
    gmisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,302 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    Rodney Bathgate wrote: »
    What do people think of Maeve Higgins?
    She is grand to me....not a good comedian more like some girl telling you a vaguely funny story that goes on too long..but harmless.

    Gold Jason Byrne
    Silver Jason Byrne
    Bronze Jason Byrne


  • #6
    Poor_old_gill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,895 ✭✭✭Poor_old_gill


    Jason Byrne is fairly poor - i've always found Ed Byrne & Michael McIntyre to be awful too.

    Maeve Higgins isnt really a comedian - she just says every day things in a overly played up Cork accent, there's no actual comedy to it.
    Similar to that Giz a laugh one who just does the same but with a Dublin accent


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  • #7
    Seamai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,250 ✭✭✭Seamai


    nj27 wrote: »
    Hannah Gadsby

    Hate her with a vengeance, my Ozzie cousin keeps banging on about her. Not remotely funny.


  • #8
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Current Affairs/IMHO sez a black muslim woman I expect!


  • #9
    crossman47
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,531 ✭✭✭crossman47


    Alison Spittle - no contest


  • #10
    Bullocks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,890 ✭✭✭Bullocks


    crossman47 wrote: »
    Alison Spittle - no contest

    No one comes close to being as bad as Spittle


  • #11
    RWCNT
    Registered Users Posts: 1,430 ✭✭✭RWCNT


    He's more of a podcaster pretending to be a comedian, but Brendan Schaub is the most dreadful attempt at comedy I've ever seen.


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  • #12
    Salmon Leap
    Registered Users Posts: 552 ✭✭✭Salmon Leap


    Michael McIntyre and Des Bishop for sure


  • #13
    keano_afc
    Registered Users Posts: 8,711 ✭✭✭keano_afc


    Alison Spittle
    Aisling Bea
    Jason Byrne


  • #14
    Rodney Bathgate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,445 ✭✭✭Rodney Bathgate


    crossman47 wrote: »
    Alison Spittle - no contest

    Damn, that was the lady I meant to ask about. Not Maeve Higgins.


  • #15
    Guffy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,177 ✭✭✭Guffy


    Gold. Jimmy Carr, used to like him but find him crude now tbh.

    Silver: tommy tiernan, just seems to have lost it too.

    Bronze: pat short, stale as feck.


  • #16
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,159 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    the greatest comedian (irish or otherwise) of all time is grainne mcquire.

    Literally everyone else is the worst.


  • #17
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,016 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Andrew Lawrence.

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



  • #18
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    I don’t know if he counts as a comedian, but Blindboy is a painfully unfunny individual


  • #19
    Faith+1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,674 ✭✭✭Faith+1


    Amy Schumer......shudder.


  • #20
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,016 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    I don’t know if he counts as a comedian, but Blindboy is a painfully unfunny individual

    More of an “artiste” than a comedian now, J.

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



  • #21
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    EmmetSpiceland wrote: »
    More of an “artiste” than a comedian now, J.
    oh he's an atriste alright


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  • #22
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,159 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    I don’t know if he counts as a comedian, but Blindboy is a painfully unfunny individual

    podcaster


  • #23
    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,692 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    Not sure if still active but Andrew Maxwell is truly hopeless.


  • #24
    Madeoface
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 428 ✭✭Madeoface


    Ed Byrne

    One of the worst in history - makes Jimmy Cricket funny.


  • #25
    Dingaan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 384 ✭✭Dingaan


    Matmania wrote: »
    I know everyone has different tastes so i get that but just looking for who they think is the least funny comedian operating today. Also who gets the silver and who would get the bronze. Not looking for reasons just names. I will start.

    Gold: Russell Howard
    Silver: Jason Byrne
    Bronze: Des Bishop

    At the end hopefully be a consensus and we can award the medals.

    I went to see Russell Howard last year in Dublin. The tickets were a gift. I never heard of him before going.

    It was dreadful! He spent the whole show poking fun at the conservative party and conservative people in general. Does everything have to be heavily politicized these days? The crowd lapped it up all the same.
    I was expecting more creative humour than just cheap jokes.


  • #26
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 56,617 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Gold: Jason Byrne
    Dead heat for gold, Tommy Tiernan
    Silver is that utter unfunny scouse knob, John Bishop.
    Bronze: Jack Whitehall


  • #27
    Eric Cartman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,280 ✭✭✭✭Eric Cartman


    Deirdre O Kane is probably the only female ‘comedian’ to get as much as a ‘ha’ out of me.

    Alison Spittle and that overweight dyed red hair woman who goes on mock the week a lot are both absolutely bottom of the barrel though.


  • #28
    Poor_old_gill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,895 ✭✭✭Poor_old_gill


    Eric Cartman wrote: »
    Deirdre O Kane is probably the only female ‘comedian’ to get as much as a ‘ha’ out of me.

    Alison Spittle and that overweight dyed red hair woman who goes on mock the week a lot are both absolutely bottom of the barrel though.

    I prefer Deirdre O Kane as an actor in comedy shows as opposed to when she does stand up comedy or comic presenting


  • #29
    Ludikrus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 476 ✭✭Ludikrus


    Al Murray

    Russell Howard


  • #30
    kildare lad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,010 ✭✭✭kildare lad


    Dingaan wrote: »
    I went to see Russell Howard last year in Dublin. The tickets were a gift. I never heard of him before going.

    It was dreadful! He spent the whole show poking fun at the conservative party and conservative people in general. Does everything have to be heavily politicized these days? The crowd lapped it up all the same.
    I was expecting more creative humour than just cheap jokes.

    I used to watch Mock the Week year ago when Frankie Boyle was on . Russell Howard was the worst person on the show , he'd do weird impressions and tell jokes that'd make no sense, I can't believe hes still making a career out of comedy. Obviously some people find him funny but I can't see why


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  • #31
    ClydeTallyBump
    Registered Users Posts: 258 ✭✭ClydeTallyBump


    That awful Jon on the Jimmy Carr Countdown show.

    I don't know his full name. He also ruined a charity Bake Off episode on me too.


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