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Comedians who aren't Irish but are still unfunny

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  • #152
    FromADistance
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    Jimmy Carr.


  • #153
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,854 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    John ( professional scouser ) Bishop ?

    horribly unfunny idiot

    That’s the guy who purposefully exaggerates his accent to hammer home the point that he is a “scouser”.

    Terribly unfunny


  • #154
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,854 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    Archeron wrote: »
    Romesh Ranganathan

    About as funny as a sh*tstain on a pillowcase.

    He’s more of a “personality” than a comedian

    Presumably the bbc give him lots of work for diversity reasons etc.

    Certainly not for his comedy talent


  • #155
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 1,344 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    smilerf wrote: »
    I don't get the big deal about Mickey Flanagan or John the fella from Liverpool


    That guy from Liverpool with the big teeth????
    Nope ......I never " got" hum


  • #156
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 1,344 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    FromADistance wrote: »
    Jimmy Carr.



    Can't agree with that one.......he does a good stand up routine, a " no holds barred" kinda show


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  • #157
    hawley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,272 ✭✭✭hawley


    Tom O'Connor: has been repeating the same jokes and schtick for years


  • #158
    Larbre34
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,370 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    That whole cohort of Tom Allen, Romesh types who do the circuit of panel games are all as funny as an infant in a meat grinder.


  • #159
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,854 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    hawley wrote: »
    Tom O'Connor: has been repeating the same jokes and schtick for years

    Is he still on the go?

    He’s the epitome of the middle class “golf club funny man”


  • #160
    Strumms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,823 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    Jeez, that’s I name I haven’t heard in years.

    Still doing the same act. 81 and looking every day of it. He was never funny, just a capable enough presenter who could amuse auld wans.


  • #161
    micar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,903 ✭✭✭micar


    FromADistance wrote: »
    Jimmy Carr.
    Deleted User wrote: »
    Can't agree with that one.......he does a good stand up routine, a " no holds barred" kinda show

    Both his parents are Irish.....does that exclude him from the listing.


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  • #162
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,026 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Strumms wrote: »
    Jeez, that’s I name I haven’t heard in years.

    Still doing the same act. 81 and looking every day of it. He was never funny, just a capable enough presenter who could amuse auld wans.

    And he did it all without being, overtly, racist and not “interfering” with kids. No mean feat in those days.

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



  • #163
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,181 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    hawley wrote: »
    Tom O'Connor: has been repeating the same jokes and schtick for years

    Stewart Lee has a good routine about Tom O’Connor:)


    It’s about his mother telling him it’s great he’s making a go at the comedy but he’s no Tom o Connor , now there’s a comedian :)


  • #164
    Lesalare
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 342 ✭✭Lesalare


    Ash.J.Williams wrote: »
    Stewart Lee has a good routine about Tom O’Connor:)


    It’s about his mother telling him it’s great he’s making a go at the comedy but he’s no Tom o Connor , now there’s a comedian :)

    He does a great one about Michael McIntyre too :)


  • #165
    Larbre34
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    Lesalare wrote: »
    He does a great one about Michael McIntyre too :)

    I've not seen the bit, but I already know he's right.


  • #166
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,181 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    Lesalare wrote: »
    He does a great one about Michael McIntyre too :)

    And joe pasquale of course :)


  • #167
    micar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,903 ✭✭✭micar


    Leigh Francis in the form of his alter-ego, Keith Lemon.

    Just don't get Keith Lemon .....especially the speech impediment bit.....speaks like his tongue is a little too big for his mouth

    ...and the fu(king laugh


  • #168
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,181 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    micar wrote: »
    Leigh Francis in the form of his alter-ego, Keith Lemon.

    Just don't get Keith Lemon .....especially the speech impediment bit.....speaks like his tongue is a little too big for his mouth

    He literally cried his arse off over the black face on bo selecta whilst he should have just ignored


  • #169
    Lesalare
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 342 ✭✭Lesalare


    Ash.J.Williams wrote: »
    And joe pasquale of course :)

    Haha yeah I'm looking at it again :D


  • #170
    Edgware
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,874 ✭✭✭Edgware


    Strumms wrote: »
    Jeez, that’s I name I haven’t heard in years.

    Still doing the same act. 81 and looking every day of it. He was never funny, just a capable enough presenter who could amuse auld wans.

    He was funny for his time but comedy has gone harder now, Jimmy Carr, Frankie Boyle etc. The Blackpool pier mother in law jokes, Paddy, Paki, poofter etc are history. I remember Jim "Bullseye" Bowen telling the joke about bus fares in Birmingham being increased by three ruppees.


  • #171
    Larbre34
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    I cannot believe Tom O'Connor is still alive. My auld fella had a soft spot for him cos he knew him a bit from his Merseyside club days, but he was always shyte. Only 81 too, I thought he'd be about 95.


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  • #172
    Purgative
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    Larbre34 wrote: »
    I've not seen the bit, but I already know he's right.





    I love the one he did on James Corden too





  • #173
    smilerf
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    Tim Vine
    Painfully unfunny


  • #174
    ShagNastii
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    I remember somebody saying the election of Trump was great news for crap comedians and bad news for good ones. They weren’t wrong.

    Nish Kumar has dined out on this something horrid.


  • #175
    smilerf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,597 ✭✭✭smilerf


    Tim Vine
    Painfully unfunny


  • #176
    FarmerBrowne
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    Miranda Hart, feel like punching the TV whenever I see her on.


  • #177
    [Deleted User]
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    Greg Davies..... had a good role in the 'inbeweeners' but brutal since that..... does a thing called ' taskmaster' .... its brutal


  • #178
    Lesalare
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 342 ✭✭Lesalare


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Greg Davies..... had a good role in the 'inbeweeners' but brutal since that..... does a thing called ' taskmaster' .... its brutal

    I'd have to disagree. I am a fan of very dark, dry humour but I actually quite liked some of Taskmaster. Not it all but some skits did genuinely make me laugh out loud. I only found out about in in past 2 weeks and watched probably the best of it. It did become very repetitive and banal after a while though. I do find him somewhat painful on it. It's gone on 9 series too long.


  • #179
    fryup
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    Greg Davies..... had a good role in the 'inbeweeners' but brutal since that..... does a thing called ' taskmaster' .... its brutal

    don't like him either due to his size he comes across as a thundering bully, probably is

    remember him on some panel show once and he had one of the Jedward twins on the verge of tears...and him an ex-teacher


  • #180
    Hangdogroad
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    That beardy fella who looks like one of the Isis Beatles, always on Frankie Boyle panel show.


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  • #181
    sheesh
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Greg Davies..... had a good role in the 'inbeweeners' but brutal since that..... does a thing called ' taskmaster' .... its brutal

    Love taskmaster


  • #182
    Pussyhands
    Registered Users Posts: 8,239 ✭✭✭Pussyhands


    I find the vast majority of comedians unfunny.

    Watching 8 out of 10 cats does countdown is painful sometimes.


  • #183
    Pussyhands
    Registered Users Posts: 8,239 ✭✭✭Pussyhands


    Gwynplaine wrote: »
    Sarah Millican.

    Posts you can hear..


  • #184
    KaneToad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,429 ✭✭✭KaneToad


    My list of non-funny, non- Irish, comedians:

    Nish Kumar
    Romesh Ranganathan
    Josh Widdecome
    Johnny Vegas
    Sarah Millican
    Hugh Dennis
    Paul Merton
    Ross Noble
    Greg Davies
    Rob Beckett
    Michael McIntyre
    Miranda Hart
    Dawn French
    Jennifer Saunders
    Paul Chowdrey
    Joe Lycett
    Alan Carr
    Nick Helm
    Tim Key
    ...
    ...

    Probably more fun to list the ones I do find funny:
    Gary Delaney
    David Mitchell
    Sara Pascoe
    Lee Mack (although I don't like his sitcom)
    Steve Coogan
    Rose Matafeo
    Sean Lock
    Jon Richardson (only his sitcom though - which, now that I think about it was written by his wife..so...)
    Lucy Beaumont
    Rob Delaney


  • #185
    Insidethetent
    Registered Users Posts: 50 ✭✭Insidethetent


    James. ****ing. Corden. #nuffsaid


  • #186
    EmmetSpiceland
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    Insidethetent wrote: »
    James. ****ing. Corden. #nuffsaid

    Is he a comedian?

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



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  • #187
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,181 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    KaneToad wrote: »
    My list of non-funny, non- Irish, comedians:

    Nish Kumar
    Romesh Ranganathan
    Josh Widdecome
    Johnny Vegas
    Sarah Millican
    Hugh Dennis
    Paul Merton
    Ross Noble
    Greg Davies
    Rob Beckett
    Michael McIntyre
    Miranda Hart
    Dawn French
    Jennifer Saunders
    Paul Chowdrey
    Joe Lycett
    Alan Carr
    Nick Helm
    Tim Key
    ...
    ...

    Probably more fun to list the ones I do find funny:
    Gary Delaney
    David Mitchell
    Sara Pascoe
    Lee Mack (although I don't like his sitcom)
    Steve Coogan
    Rose Matafeo
    Sean Lock
    Jon Richardson (only his sitcom though - which, now that I think about it was written by his wife..so...)
    Lucy Beaumont
    Rob Delaney

    Tim key is awesome as alan partridges side kick Simon


  • #188
    KungPao
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    KaneToad wrote: »
    My list of non-funny, non- Irish, comedians:
    Hugh Dennis
    His Jimmy Savile impressions were gold on Mock the Week. Don't think he does them any more though...

    I seem to remember Punt and Dennis being funny. But I was a young lad then, so may not be reliable.


  • #189
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,181 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    KungPao wrote: »
    His Jimmy Savile impressions were gold on Mock the Week. Don't think he does them any more though...

    I seem to remember Punt and Dennis being funny. But I was a young lad then, so may not be reliable.

    Mary whitehouse experience:)


  • #190
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,336 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    Ash.J.Williams wrote: »
    Mary whitehouse experience:)

    Along with David Baddiel and Rob Newman. History Today was especially brilliant. That's you, that is. :D


  • #191
    Ash.J.Williams
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    Zaph wrote: »
    Along with David Baddiel and Rob Newman. History Today was especially brilliant. That's you, that is. :D

    Dennis’s dad character “what’s that ? It’s got a good beat “


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  • #192
    retalivity
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    Larbre34 wrote: »
    I cannot believe Tom O'Connor is still alive. My auld fella had a soft spot for him cos he knew him a bit from his Merseyside club days, but he was always shyte. Only 81 too, I thought he'd be about 95.

    I remember crosswits from the early 90s, loved that show, and (to 10 year old me) he was an old man then!


  • #193
    Sir Oxman
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Greg Davies..... had a good role in the 'inbeweeners' but brutal since that..... does a thing called ' taskmaster' .... its brutal
    Man Down is a pretty funny show.


  • #194
    blackvalley
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    KaneToad wrote: »
    My list of non-funny, non- Irish, comedians:

    Nish Kumar
    Romesh Ranganathan
    Josh Widdecome
    Johnny Vegas
    Sarah Millican
    Hugh Dennis
    Paul Merton
    Ross Noble
    Greg Davies
    Rob Beckett
    Michael McIntyre
    Miranda Hart
    Dawn French
    Jennifer Saunders
    Paul Chowdrey
    Joe Lycett
    Alan Carr
    Nick Helm
    Tim Key
    ...
    ...

    Probably more fun to list the ones I do find funny:
    Gary Delaney
    David Mitchell
    Sara Pascoe
    Lee Mack (although I don't like his sitcom)
    Steve Coogan
    Rose Matafeo
    Sean Lock
    Jon Richardson (only his sitcom though - which, now that I think about it was written by his wife..so...)
    Lucy Beaumont
    Rob Delaney

    Great post and you had the conviction to name those you don’t like and more importantly those you like.
    It’s very easy to be “ cool “ and just jump into the echo chamber of hating lots of the obvious candidates but takes a bit of courage to say who you like.
    Perhaps there’s room for a new thread under the banner of
    “ I dislike xxxxxx but I like xxxxxx”


  • #195
    shtpEdthePlum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 556 ✭✭✭shtpEdthePlum


    Is the title of this thread implying that all Irish comedians are unfunny?

    On the topic of unfunny comedians, any of the fat English ones with shaved heads send me into convulsions just to look at, but i don't know their names because i never get past the first glimpse of their face.

    If the remote's not to hand i will stick my fingers in my ears and look away while finding it so that i never ever hear them. God i hate them so much, whoever they are.


  • #196
    donegal_man
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    I find James Acaster's habit of giving a knowing look to the camera every time he delivers a line deeply irritating.


  • #197
    Hangdogroad
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    Rufus Hound. Claimed that the Manchester bombing was a false flag and no he wasnt joking.


  • #198
    Dick phelan
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    Comedian's who have a far too limited set of jokes. Sarah Milican, every joke is about being fat or divorced. Also I find a lot of comedian's of different ethnic groups seem to only focus on that in their material, ditto a lot of gay comedian's do the same. Of course some jokes about those topics are good but a really good comedian needs to have a wide range of material.


  • #199
    BettyS
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    What has happened to Frankie Boyle recently? He used to have these wonderfully funny quips on this Twitter. Now, he has gone incommunicado. The last that I heard of him was when he was berating several of his comedian colleagues


  • #200
    [Deleted User]
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    Dick phelan wrote: »
    Comedian's who have a far too limited set of jokes. Sarah Milican, every joke is about being fat or divorced. Also I find a lot of comedian's of different ethnic groups seem to only focus on that in their material, ditto a lot of gay comedian's do the same. Of course some jokes about those topics are good but a really good comedian needs to have a wide range of material.


    100% agree......very limited / targeted range with some comedians....you know from the off where they'll be going. One of the chasers from tv, Paul sinnaman, does stand up & hes got talent, he IS a funny guy but the " asian / Gay/ coming out to family" seems to be his only material


  • #201
    Larbre34
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    Not having French and Saunders.

    Been watching bits of their old shows on Gold or whatever channel, some of the sketches are very clever. The spoof of The Exorcist was hilarious.


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