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The comedy genius.

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    #62
    kowloon
    Registered Users Posts: 13,281 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    Quantum Erasure wrote: »
    is it possible to separate the artist from the art?

    Comedians, in particular, seem to be troubled people.


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    #63
    85603
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    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    Anthony Cumia is amazing, has such great chemistry with Jim Norton. How he never winded up in standup is crazy.

    thankfully. he'd be dead by now. someone would have killed him.


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    #64
    SEPT 23 1989
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    Retro. wrote: »
    He was good

    Could someone put up his Rolf Harris video



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    #65
    Better Than Christ
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    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    Bernard Manning

    Won't get many thanks for that

    It's an Irish discussion forum in 2020, not a northern English pub in 1976, so nope. Besides, even without all the crap racist and xenophobic jokes about 'Pakis' and 'Paddys', a gag-merchant like Manning can hardly be considered a comedy genius.


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    #66
    SEPT 23 1989
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    Better Than Christ wrote: »
    It's an Irish discussion forum in 2020, not a northern English pub in 1976, so nope. Besides, even without all the crap racist and xenophobic jokes about 'Pakis' and 'Paddys', a gag-merchant like Manning can hardly be considered a comedy genius.

    Great comedian impeccable timing

    He put on a great act

    I'm Irish by the way and I know what year it is


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    #67
    Arghus
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    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    Great comedian impeccable timing

    He put on a great act

    I'm Irish by the way and I know what year it is

    You know what year it is alright, but you we also know what year you wish it still was!


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    #68
    Woke Hogan
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    All Bernard Manning did was tell hoary old gags. Hardly a comedy genius.


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    #69
    Better Than Christ
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    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    Great comedian impeccable timing

    He put on a great act

    I'm Irish by the way and I know what year it is

    He gave his audience (thick racists) what they wanted, but that oft-repeated myth about his timing and delivery is bollocks. Even overlooking the low quality of his jokes (which, to be fair to him, were mostly stolen from other racist comedians), his delivery was dire - monotone and charmless.


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    #70
    Thelonious Monk
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    Veep was excellent. I love Louie CK. His new standup where he addresses his #metoo stuff from a couple of years ago is brilliant.


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    #71
    Mad_maxx
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    One eyed Jack wrote: »
    You do unintentional comedy well at least.

    " unintentional " ?

    :rolleyes:


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    #72
    FVP3
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    Better Than Christ wrote: »
    He seems very unpopular among the kind of people who think the term 'as funny as cancer' is the height of hilarity.

    Or course I didn't suggest the phrase was funny, I am saying that Lee is unfunny. In fact he is deliberately unfunny. That is his appeal actually.

    Comedy is a bit "low brow" for his audience so they prefer an improving lecture. He has the florid face and mannerisms of a 19th Century British methodist.


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    #73
    Better Than Christ
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    FVP3 wrote: »
    Or course I didn't suggest the phrase was funny, I am saying that Lee is unfunny. In fact he is deliberately unfunny. That is his appeal actually.

    Comedy is a bit "low brow" for his audience so they prefer an improving lecture. He has the florid face and mannerisms of a 19th Century British methodist.

    I'll tell you what - come back and tell me he's 'unfunny' when you've watched this in its entirety:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFaeqLDbSMI


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    #74
    Quantum Erasure
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    went searching for a thread like this, and this is the most recent I've found...

    TBH I'd be as much of a fan of Jimmy Carr as I am of Michael McIntyre or Peter Kay... have a laugh when i see them, but not exactly what I'm after

    I remember especially liking this bit from Rhod Gilbert though, but it wasn't till I watched it again until I remembered why I liked it so much..

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OISGykO6Z7U




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    #75
    Trekker09
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    I Know it's old, but Peter Sellers in 'The Party' still gets me every time.

    Ricky Gervais for me is a genius, though I didn't get him for years.

    Craig Cash and Caroline Aherne were, in my view, groundbreaking. The Royle Family is up there with the funniest TV shows ever.



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    #76
    zv2
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    Withnail and I (film).

    “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” — Voltaire



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    #77
    Ash.J.Williams
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058080543/the-comedy-genius

    he is a genius



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    #78
    Ash.J.Williams
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/113532250#Comment_113532250

    they are all genius



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    #79
    Ash.J.Williams
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/113531834#Comment_113531834

    absolute genius , in fact such a genius we haven't even figured out entirely how much of a genius yet, even his illness and death was genius.

    Underrated genius moment was the roast of Bob Saget RIP! he refused to roast in the usual overdone manner and litteraly used jokes from a 1950's joke book ...all night!



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    #80
    Ash.J.Williams
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/113531301#Comment_113531301

    he's not an anti semite



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    #81
    Ash.J.Williams
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    Monty Python

    Billy Connolly

    Richard Prior

    Stewart Lee

    Norm McDonald

    Theo Von - wild card entry-

    Steven wright

    Bill Burr

    Bert Kriesner

    George Carlin

    Chapelle

    South Park

    Chris Morris

    Charlie Brooker



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    #82
    Ash.J.Williams
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/113532250#Comment_113532250

    that brass eye sketch was definitely our lads Graham Linehan and Arthur Mathews



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    #83
    Ash.J.Williams
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/113532292#Comment_113532292

    sara silverman was one of his original audiences and she said it was the norm and didn't bother her, but said it became a problem when he did it to the next generation of comics who were rightly horrified!



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    #84
    YellowFeather
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/113531071#Comment_113531071
    3D507496-2B6B-4A22-BE5C-81CE8F9BA7D0.jpeg

    How did this post get minus 1 thanks??



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    #85
    Ash.J.Williams
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    Before Ricky at the golden globes we had norm at the Espies!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9EsIFBs26o




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    #86
    Ash.J.Williams
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    :)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMx1TAaZhwY




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    #87
    Hangdogroad
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    The League Of Gentlemen team.



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    #88
    Everlong1
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    If it's Netflix box sets you're looking for, Ricky Gervais's Extras is brilliant. Full of great cameos from actors and musicians taking the pi*s out of themselves. There's a fantastic episode where Gervais gets into a celeb nightclub and ends up cosying up to David Bowie, who then turns around and totally humiliates him in front of everyone in the club.

    Love Larry David's Curb Your Enthusiasm series also, though not on Irish netflix - Sky box sets has it.

    Dylan Moran is the business as far as Irish comedians go.



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    #89
    whomitconcerns
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    No he didn't. He did masturbare in front of some ladies, who he asked permission of .... If that means anything at all.... in the pre show room of an event. Definitely a stupid and deviant thing to do. But no kids involved



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    #90
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/113538044#Comment_113538044

    Watching him was like reading a boring joke book.

    Tommy Cooper, in the other hand...

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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    #91
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118605697#Comment_118605697

    It's actually possibly to get a negative thanks count...?

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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