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Comedy what is and isn't funny

Tashyboy said:
Read a thing a few months ago re Mrs Browns boys. Apparently the Irish are embarrassed by it ? But me i thought it was original and funny but is now getting tired. The film
Was purgatory.
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The film was absolute :poop: but there are some absolutely hilarious episodes and the funniest ever was 2 nights in the front of the Hammersmith Odeon watching them do it live. Absolute comic genius.
 
Tashyboy said:
I remember posting last year about the funniest joke at the Edinburgh festival. I thought it was rubbish. This years winner is. “ i randomly shout cauliflower and broccoli, i think i have florets”. I thought that was equally as rammel. However a woman from
A Tyrets geoup has demanded an apology for taking the mick out of people With tyrets.
I watched A league of there own last week for the first time. That Ramesh wasisname was on. He said things like “ your only doing that coz I look like a terrorist” etc. And folk found it funny. Now i am of the ilk that if one can say it others can. But it seems You cant. Last years Britains got talent was won by the worst imaginable comedian who laughed at himself, but if anyone else did it. Lordy Lordy. Whats happening to britains famous sense of humour do we have to adapt or what.
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Hammersmith Odeon again, Billy Connolly's High Horse Tour, the first I believe since his diagnosis. The Big Yin walks out to a huge round of applause "Ach, sexually travel, you're only doing it out of sympathy". Twenty minutes in; "Right I know you've all been looking so let's get it out the way, spot the symptom time" and he proceeded to lay into Parkinson's for about 10 minutes. Best way to deal with it in my opinion, and he got much nearer to the knuckle than the lame Tourette's pun joke.

Total overreaction by the Tourette's people.
 
Blue in Munich said:
Hammersmith Odeon again, Billy Connolly's High Horse Tour, the first I believe since his diagnosis. The Big Yin walks out to a huge round of applause "Ach, sexually travel, you're only doing it out of sympathy". Twenty minutes in; "Right I know you've all been looking so let's get it out the way, spot the symptom time" and he proceeded to lay into Parkinson's for about 10 minutes. Best way to deal with it in my opinion, and he got much nearer to the knuckle than the lame Tourette's pun joke.

Total overreaction by the Tourette's people.
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But he's never been one to shy away from any subject and finds a way to make it funny as its always wrapped up as a prolonged story. Dave Allen was the same and by the time the punchline was delivered the audience were already taken along for the ride.

As for Mrs Brown's, found it crap from series one and nothing I've seen since has made me change my mind. I really don't see what so many see so funny
 
whilst the Florets/Tourettes gag read on it's own isn't all that, if you imagine it in a quick fire live routine with a buoyant crowd and delivered correctly by the comedian with just the right pause before punchline, it could really work. It's how you tell em after all!

Of the standups many people hate Frankie Boyle and Jimmy Carr but I love their stuff - edgy/crass/rude/very bad taste etc is fine by me.

Liked this football one doing the rounds on twitter after Pepe's nutmeg on Mee - "They need to rename Nicolas Pépé ‘Valerie’ for the way he made a fool out of Mee"
 
Comedians I like or have liked: Paul Chowdhry, Stewart Lee, Ross Noble, Eddie Izzard, Tim Vine, Louis CK, Bill Hicks. Plenty more I can't recall. The one I absolutely hate who some people seem to like is Shappi Khorsandi. So unfunny it actually makes me angry.

As for TV shows, one of the worst comedies I ever saw was Citizen Khan, yet it was on primetime BBC. Just awful, no humour whatsoever. Years before that was My Family, same deal - the character of Nick was the only saving grace, then he left the show and took with him all of the humour it had. Yet it carried on for another 5 series or something!

I don't mind Big Bang Theory, I find that quite funny in places and an easy watch.

On the original point, the 'best joke' from Edinburgh is always a snappy one-liner with a bit of a pun, without fail. I quite like jokes like that (hence Tim Vine in my list of favourite stand-ups), but sometimes the best comedians don't really tell jokes, they'll just go on meandering rants (like Stewart Lee), so you could hardly quote any of it as a 'best joke'.
 
Orikoru said:
Comedians I like or have liked: Paul Chowdhry, Stewart Lee, Ross Noble, Eddie Izzard, Tim Vine, Louis CK, Bill Hicks. Plenty more I can't recall. The one I absolutely hate who some people seem to like is Shappi Khorsandi. So unfunny it actually makes me angry.
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Paul Chowdhry is fantastic. Saw him live last year in Manchester and he was bloody brilliant, never laughed that hard all the way through a gig, he was so good.
 
Kerry Godliman

Possibly THE ONLY funny comedian left. God she made me laugh soooo much.

ALL the rest are garbage. And the ones that have wasted my time at the "comedy club" in Manchester can get back to the tills in Tesco's.
 
My fave Tv comedy would be

Spaced
IT crowd
Father Ted
Toast
The mighty Boosh

find comp unfunny

Miranda Hart and anything with her in
Victoria wood
Mrs Browns boys
 
Dan2501 said:
Paul Chowdhry is fantastic. Saw him live last year in Manchester and he was bloody brilliant, never laughed that hard all the way through a gig, he was so good.
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He's brilliant, he's also brought up not far from me, so I saw him in a really small gig at Ruislip Golf Club several years ago. :LOL: He sums up the notion of anyone being fair game for pee-taking really, he take shots at his own race, other Asians, and white/black people in equal measure. And DO NOT sit in the front row at one of his shows, haha. At that Ruislip show we arrived quite late and only the front row was available (people knew)... long story short, he called my wife a slag. :ROFLMAO:
 
patricks148 said:
My fave Tv comedy would be

Spaced
IT crowd
Father Ted
Toast
The mighty Boosh

find comp unfunny

Miranda Hart and anything with her in
Victoria wood
Mrs Browns boys
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What a fantastic collection of comedies! Bravo. And yes, Miranda Hart needs to be locked in a cave somewhere.
 
Absolutely love Ross Noble. Easily the best standup I've seen live. Half his show was clearly his "material" and was very funny. The other half was a total stream of consciousness from the room and the audience and weird stuff that could only have happened that night. Brilliant stuff.

I hated Mrs Browns Boys the first time I saw it. Then I watched a repeat while more than a bit tipsy, and I got it. Now I can even watch it when I'm sober! Getting a bit bored of it now tho.

Dara O'Briain used to be a favourite (still is I suppose) but was a bit miffed when he told off the audience for not clapping enough when he expected us to. He was getting big laughs but not enough applause and didn't appreciate it.
 
Can’t stand Ricky Gervais or Michael McIntyre - I’d rather nail my balls to a desk than watch either of them
 
Dan2501 said:
Millions watch Big Bang Theory as well, and that's utter trite. Only have to watch it without the laughter track to realise how miserable a programme it is. It's personal opinion at the end of the day though, that is the beauty of comedy, not everything is for everyone.
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Sheldon IS my older brother!! So I can certainly relate to the characters. Though watching it for the first time in a while a couple of weeks ago, I was a bit unimpressed for some reason.
 
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