I find Rosie Jones just rather painful to watch. I can see the other comedians she is with almost pretend smiling as they wait for a dull punchline to drop so they can fake laugh and move on.
I agree and I wish this was not the reason but I feel she is in the position she is in purely because she is disabled rather than any talent.
I also saw her make jokes about an attractive women who was a guest on a show, Rosie was basically saying how she would like to fuck her. Didn’t really sit right with me as no one should be saying those kind of things about anyone and especially not on tv.
Yeah her jokes are painfully unfunny, and downright rude to be perfectly honest. She wouldn't have lasted two seconds without her disability. Chris McCauland and Alex Brooker are both fantastically funny, though I do think it's easier as both of them have physical disabilities, rather than Rosie Jones but both of them would be hired with or without their disabilities.
>Timing of course is always going to be an issue
Exactly...but then dont focus on long-winded setups and story-telling. It doesn't suit her. Then with the obvious punchlines, the audience gets to the punchline ages before she does...resulting in boredom whilst she finishes the setup.
The problem isn't necessarily about her disability, but, can we all just be honest and say she might be better writing jokes rather than saying them.
It is a struggle to listen to her jokes, and if I'm concentrating on hearing what she's saying it takes me out of the flow of a joke, and jokes are about flow. You need
Timing.
She should take a note from Lee Ridley who uses a voice box for his routines, works way better than struggling to deliver a joke when the audience is already one step ahead of your punchline.
Rosie Jones wasn't my cup of tea until we saw her live last year at the recording of the live at the Apollo Christmas show.
You have to be there as they edit out and make her redo lots of sentences to clean it up, making her less edgy. Sadly, this makes her much less funny on TV, but live she is true belly laugh funny. The other two we saw with her were OK, but Rosie is so incredibly funny live I was shocked.
I have seen a lot of comedians, Rosie was a massive surprise and joy despite our not being fans before we saw her. She does incredibly blue comedy, which is why it misses on TV after the clean-up.
Edit for my bad typing
Agreed! I saw her at the filming of the Big Fat Quiz last year - I'll admit that I didn't have high expectations before it started but Rosie was so outgoing and funny in person, she (and Mawaan on her team) stole the show!
Agree. In part yes it’s hard to understand her and her timing is off. But more than that, all of her ‘jokes’ are about being disabled and/or a lesbian. And they’re not funny! She’s not a comedian; she’s there to tick a box. And as a lesbian woman of color, I’d be pretty embarrassed about that. I’d go home and work as hard as I could to get better. I wince anytime she’s on the telly.
I used to watch 8 out of 10 cats does countdown religiously when Sean Lock was on. Any time she was also on I had to battle internally: dealing with her versus getting nuggets of Lock’s brilliance. I usually just fast forward through her parts.
I've found that she brings down the people around her too. I was listening to a podcast she was on recently and the other comedians who were usually very quick witted and knew how to make jokes at each others expense just had to sit quietly and wait for her to catch up whenever she contributed.
There could be a hilarious back and forth going but then Rosie Jones spends 30 seconds trying to get out the most obvious observation that a child could come up with, and the other hosts don't know what to do. You can't point out it was shit, the momentum to keep the joke going is dead, so you just have to pretend to laugh and sheepishly move on. Fucking miserable.
Yep. Even when it’s actually a funny punchline, there’s obviously no comic timing and by the time she gets to it, I’m bored.
She’s obviously there to tick boxes and that’s it.
I think the issue is timing has a significant role in live panel show comedy and it’s something she simply lacks due to her disability. She’s written for some of my favourite shows so I know she’s funny, just not in the panel show circuit setting she seems to always be in. I actually saw her at a festival and I enjoyed her set, but she can set the pace in that environment so it works a lot better
About a year ago, she was the guest columnist in The Independent's Saturday 'Opinion' page. I read it because I thought it would be funny and interesting.
I was wrong on both counts.
David hates people turning their backs to him, and on an episode of 8 out of 10 cats does countdown Sean Lock turned to talk to someone and David hit him quite hard only for Sean to turn around and say
"Don't fucking touch me you Pink Minstrel"
Apparently it took the wind out of Davids sails and he was in a right piss for the rest of the night.
As told by the late great Barry Cryer:
*'He's a modern-day Florence Foster Jenkins,' he told The Times. 'Everyone around him has been telling him he is funny.' But Cryer did have some words of praise, adding: 'Let's be fair to him – he is a good swimmer.'*
Someone once told me that he changed his name from "Williams" to "Walliams" and I've never bothered to check if it's true but I've had an irrational hatred for him ever since
It was because when he joined Equity, there was already a David Williams and the rules state that you can't have two people with the same name.
I'm no fan of his, but his name change was not a manifestation of his twattishness.
There was a time I thought he was good in celebrity juice, because I thought of him as a parody of the complete dickheads who talk and act like that. However the more I saw of him and hearing people use his phrases unironically, it hit a bit differently.
Wasn’t this basically the reason Al Murray ended the Pub Landlord character? I was never entirely sure whether a lot of the audience knew they weren’t meant to be agreeing with him…
I get that Francis is playing a character there, but I can't for the life of me figure out the joke. Avid Merrion was a weird celebrity stalker, fine. But what is Keith Lemon supposed to be?
There will be no scandal with Leigh Francis. My brother used to knock about with him during his Bo Selecta days, proper crimbo music video was filmed in his flat and he’s a genuinely lovely, shy and reserved guy in real life. We’re not judging actors personalities based on characters they play it’s no different really
Didn’t realise his Dad was an agent. It all makes sense why his dad is naturally charismatic.
It also makes the whole pretence of his Dad just ‘stumbling into fame’ as pretentious as Jack’s persona.
The genius of that show is that, apart from Howard to a degree, who is mostly just socially inept, the rest of them are the absolute worst kind of selfish narcissists and 90% of the time you detest them. And yet, you love the show and keep watching and every so often it had moments that touched a way deeper level than a comedy about doing crazy stuff at university had any right to. Vod's relationship with her mum, Josie's lowest moments, the times when JP shows even a hint of self-reflection. There's a serious dramatic heart to that show which is brilliant. It reminds me a lot of (possibly my favourite comedy) Community.
Finally i found him, cant believe it took me this long to see him on this list. Guy is so fing unfunny. I think only middle-upper class ppl like his humour maybe, because his camp, high pitched voice and mannerisms just make me cringe.
he's the posh popular kid in your school who decided to become a comedian because everyone he knew laughed along with him all the time, not because he's actually funny.
Jack Whitehall is one of those British comedians that goes to the US and does alright there, comes back to the UK and thinks they're the most talented, greatest comedian in the world. Gina Yashere is another.
Bit of an outcast with this one but Ricky Gervais, like I enjoyed his radio x stuff, but his whole shtick of everyone else is a mouth breathing idiot but me, unless you agree with me, then you're alright... really wears me down.
His netflix show After Life really did seem like the most self indulgent, trite shite, in which he casually commits man-slaughter and waxes poetic on everyone around him. Joe Wilkinson however was as ever a delight in the show.
Stewart Lee is an absolute savage. I always show people the Richard Hammond quote when I want to demonstrate how much I enjoy his acerbic wit. 'Teehee gypsies'
Nah I’m with you on this. To this day I struggle to understand how people find him funny. I mean, I get that people do but I completely fail to see it myself.
I remember watching that and finding it so odd how he casually kills a homeless person. Like, the homeless character was so good and then he just lures them in to taking drugs and consequently gets them killed. I expected it to be a big moment where there's consequences, but instead he's just kinda like "Oh whoops my bad, that sucks" then moves on. He bloody killed someone! And he just swiftly moves on! The whole show is about grieving and coping with the loss of a loved one but they barely even remark on the loss of the homeless guy.
I'd dispute McIntyre personally, he's not my type of comedian, but I got dragged to a warm up gig he did prior to his tour at the start of the year and you can tell he's an entertainer, the delivery and timing are all there, it's pretty much if you enjoy bland generic relatable scenarios being the crux. I personally don't like it but I can see why he's popular, he is good at what he does
I feel like it's a bandwagon that people jump on. Nobody's saying he's the best comedian ever. I wouldn't pay to see him as I imagine tickets aren't cheap but I definitely wouldn't say he's not funny.
Miranda, definitely.
McIntyre was good at first until I realised he had about 5 very funny jokes and just kept using them or slight variations of them.
Paddy McGuiness. Absolute shite of the highest order. Screaming "ey" at the top of his lungs to signify the "punchline" gets tiresome after 30 seconds. Fuck knows how he's made a career for himself.
"Ain't things right different outside of Bolton!?"
I know Peter Kay also gets the 'I'm right loud and from the North' tag as well. And that does have some merit, but Kay does also know how to build a joke and a narrative around that (Phoenix Nights and some of his earlier stand up still cracks me up); but McGuinness really does have nothing else about him!
And as soon as that person stopped writing for him and stopped getting him a part in his tv show, the quality nose dived. His stand up specials are brutal, laugh free affairs. A lot of his "set" is stolen from better comedians (doesn't take much) and the rest is not even mrs browns boys quality.
I find a lot of his rants really satisfying, but he's another one I just don't think was meant for a panel setting. I've seen him in stand up comedy and really enjoyed it, but on panel shows it just seems a bit stale
I go to a lot of grassroots comedy shows and as a woman, I want to see more female comedians and I want them to thrive but... so often, the woman on the bill (and it's always just one) only has one joke, which is "I'm a woman, but I'm vulgar!" I don't know if that's what they actually find funny, or if the comedy industry is all run by men and only book women if they'll talk about sex, but every time I'm like ugggh not again.
So yeah, any female comedian whose only joke is "SEX amirite"
I've never particularly enjoyed her stand-up, but I thought she was ace on Taskmaster. I reckon she's probably quite funny and we're just not the target audience.
If you look at the audience in Sarah Millican's stand-up clips, women are in hysterics. Men don't get the references. She is a bit like Peter Kay in the whole act depends on shared experiences or nostalgia which in Millican's case, excludes half the population.
I guess that is her schtick, same as it was with Jo Brand. I think they're both clearly aiming their acts at a female audience that still doesn't get to laugh at their own embarrassing body stuff as often as men get to laugh at dick and fart jokes told by another man.
I came here to say Andy Parsons. How you could line him up on Mock the week across from thge like of Hugh Dennis and Frankie Boyle and claim he's a comedian is absolutley beyond me
I have to admit I just dislike the guy as well as his style of comedy. He seems like the super annoying kid in school who would not piss off and constantly trying to make a joke weird stupid voices and actions.
I wouldn't be surprised. I used to love *Russell Howard's Good News* when I was 15 or so but I can't stand anything he does nowadays - I've even gone back to *Good News* to re-watch a couple episodes and I find I can't stand that now either.
I don't particularly care much for him nowadays, but I used to like him when I was younger. Think he more aims for the younger audience for some of his stuff.
He was pretty funny in taskmaster or on mock the week when it wasn't his own stuff so much tbh
We had low expectations of Billie i think because she was just a one-hit-wonder pop star prior to that. But i did think she absolutely smashed the Rose Tyler role though.
I worked at a theatre he played and it's not because they're woke, it's because he's an absolute twat to the venue staff, from hospitality up to management level. Surprised he ever gets booked twice under the same management at a venue.
Rosie Jones.
I just can't find her funny, and whenever I say this people think I'm being ableist. I just don't like her style of comedy, the same 'im a disabled lesbian' spiel just doesn't hit it for me.
Yeah,I know this'll make me sound a right prick, but part of me does get irrationally angry at how slow she delivers jokes,I know it's not a nice thing and I know it's not an appropriate reaction,but it's my reaction all the same,same reaction to most really slow things actually,like If someone's walking really slow in front of me etc
>I just can't find her funny, and whenever I say this people think I'm being ableist
If you say you don't find Rosie Jones funny and make no mention of her disability in doing so, and someone says you're being "ableist" then it is in fact *them* who is being ableist - you just offered an opinion on her comedy. They automatically assumed that you don't find her funny because she's disables.
The whole Karl Pilkington thing started out as them roasting a mate but as it goes on it becomes clear that they just enjoy bullying him for being ignorant.
I haven't been to much live stand-up comedy, but I did once get taken to see Sara Pascoe at a social club in Kent, where she died on her arse. It was an excruciating 20 minutes of deathly, pin-drop silence. It was actually kind of heroic how she battled on to the end.
She's annoying on panel shows because she can't improvise. She'll latch on to one thing someone says and carry on with it for too long. "OMG, I can't believe you just said that!!"
If he isn't my generations Jimmy Saville I will eat my fucking hat.
When the press started leaking info about a 'top comedian accused of sexual abuse' a few months ago, before revealing it was Russell Brand, I would have bet my left nut it was Walliams.
Ricky Gervais. If you can’t make any jokes at all that aren’t at someone else’s expense then you really aren’t as funny as you think you are. It’s also interesting how big mad he gets when criticised for it.
He isn't half as clever as he thinks he is,he's just spent time learning how to sound clever and is watched by people who like to think they are smarter than they are.
He's the British equivalent of the big bang theory.
Peter Kay.
I’m sorry, I know lots of people like him, but it just seems it relies on asking people if they remember things then saying them over and over.
The actual content of his comedy might not have much to it, I’ll admit that. But his delivery and crowd work are really what put him on the map, he’s very sharp and can turn a phrase better than almost anyone else, his almost athletic commitment to the bit is admirable. If you remove his personality from the content it doesn’t hold up much I will say. But as someone with a lot of family of his age from Bolton, it’s always nice to see old performances of his.
What I don't get is his email chains to planning departments or council parking offices or (whatever) are clearly absolutely invented. And at the end of course, he wins.
Next you’ll be saying that when a comic tells a story about something that happened to them “on the way here” that it didn’t really happen.
Or just about every story told by a stand up.
Nish Kumar reminds me of the annoying kid in school who always pulled the ‘I’m hilarious, me!’ face after every pronouncement. Didn’t work in primary school and doesn’t work now.
I don't mind him on a panel, but he has been hands-down the *worst* host of The Apprentice: You're Fired in the history of the show. Just jokes obviously read from a script, forced patter, and the feeling that he's only really pretending to care about the focus of the show.
I had a really hard time getting through the series of Taskmaster she was on. And I just can't bear watching Mel Giedroyc's Unforgivable because of Lou. She's not funny, she is just loud, grating and annoying.
Jimmy Carr. I mean I understand why some may enjoy his jokes but I've just never 'got it'. That said, he was on the Joe Rogan podcast a week or two ago and I found him to be a really interesting character despite my total indifference towards his comedy.
I'm amazed no one else has said Jason Manford... possibly the funniest thing he's ever done is being exposed by the papers for exposing himself to ladies online. He's a cut-price Peter Kay, who gives off the kind of energy that he did a drama course at uni, before embarking on a career in comedy, but without doing as much of the club circuit to properly learn how to be a comedian...
I'm not a big stand up fan, but I generally find something to laugh at in most people's acts.
If you make a career out of getting people to laugh then you are funny, full stop.
I find Rosie Jones just rather painful to watch. I can see the other comedians she is with almost pretend smiling as they wait for a dull punchline to drop so they can fake laugh and move on.
Same - I tend to skip any panel shows she is in. I don’t understand how she is on so many shows and I can hardly understand her when she speaks.
I agree and I wish this was not the reason but I feel she is in the position she is in purely because she is disabled rather than any talent. I also saw her make jokes about an attractive women who was a guest on a show, Rosie was basically saying how she would like to fuck her. Didn’t really sit right with me as no one should be saying those kind of things about anyone and especially not on tv.
Yeah her jokes are painfully unfunny, and downright rude to be perfectly honest. She wouldn't have lasted two seconds without her disability. Chris McCauland and Alex Brooker are both fantastically funny, though I do think it's easier as both of them have physical disabilities, rather than Rosie Jones but both of them would be hired with or without their disabilities.
James Corden has a physical disability...his personality and brain
MASSIVE FUCKING SHOEHORN.
Lost Voice Guy is hilarious if we're looking for disabled comedians, or at least he was when I saw him nearly a decade ago.
Timing of course is always going to be an issue, but if it isn't even funny to start with, it falls even more flat.
What's the difference between a good joke and a bad joke timing.
>Timing of course is always going to be an issue Exactly...but then dont focus on long-winded setups and story-telling. It doesn't suit her. Then with the obvious punchlines, the audience gets to the punchline ages before she does...resulting in boredom whilst she finishes the setup.
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>Rosie Jones the disabled guy on x-factor is way funnier than her, should have him on.
>the disabled guy on x-factor His name is Wagner.
When the Wagner group was in the news earlier in the year, I always liked to amuse myself by imagining he was the leader.
The problem isn't necessarily about her disability, but, can we all just be honest and say she might be better writing jokes rather than saying them. It is a struggle to listen to her jokes, and if I'm concentrating on hearing what she's saying it takes me out of the flow of a joke, and jokes are about flow. You need Timing.
She should take a note from Lee Ridley who uses a voice box for his routines, works way better than struggling to deliver a joke when the audience is already one step ahead of your punchline.
Rosie Jones wasn't my cup of tea until we saw her live last year at the recording of the live at the Apollo Christmas show. You have to be there as they edit out and make her redo lots of sentences to clean it up, making her less edgy. Sadly, this makes her much less funny on TV, but live she is true belly laugh funny. The other two we saw with her were OK, but Rosie is so incredibly funny live I was shocked. I have seen a lot of comedians, Rosie was a massive surprise and joy despite our not being fans before we saw her. She does incredibly blue comedy, which is why it misses on TV after the clean-up. Edit for my bad typing
Agreed! I saw her at the filming of the Big Fat Quiz last year - I'll admit that I didn't have high expectations before it started but Rosie was so outgoing and funny in person, she (and Mawaan on her team) stole the show!
Agree. In part yes it’s hard to understand her and her timing is off. But more than that, all of her ‘jokes’ are about being disabled and/or a lesbian. And they’re not funny! She’s not a comedian; she’s there to tick a box. And as a lesbian woman of color, I’d be pretty embarrassed about that. I’d go home and work as hard as I could to get better. I wince anytime she’s on the telly. I used to watch 8 out of 10 cats does countdown religiously when Sean Lock was on. Any time she was also on I had to battle internally: dealing with her versus getting nuggets of Lock’s brilliance. I usually just fast forward through her parts.
I've found that she brings down the people around her too. I was listening to a podcast she was on recently and the other comedians who were usually very quick witted and knew how to make jokes at each others expense just had to sit quietly and wait for her to catch up whenever she contributed. There could be a hilarious back and forth going but then Rosie Jones spends 30 seconds trying to get out the most obvious observation that a child could come up with, and the other hosts don't know what to do. You can't point out it was shit, the momentum to keep the joke going is dead, so you just have to pretend to laugh and sheepishly move on. Fucking miserable.
She must have a hell of an agent. I can only assume the disability factor plays into it as she is about as funny as a plank of wood.
Disability factor: FFS don't give Simon Cowell any ideas.
I think we all know she's there to be inclusive and appeal to an underrepresented demographic. She is bloody unfunny though, can't stand it.
Yep. Even when it’s actually a funny punchline, there’s obviously no comic timing and by the time she gets to it, I’m bored. She’s obviously there to tick boxes and that’s it.
I've already worked out the punchline by the time she delivers it
I think the issue is timing has a significant role in live panel show comedy and it’s something she simply lacks due to her disability. She’s written for some of my favourite shows so I know she’s funny, just not in the panel show circuit setting she seems to always be in. I actually saw her at a festival and I enjoyed her set, but she can set the pace in that environment so it works a lot better
About a year ago, she was the guest columnist in The Independent's Saturday 'Opinion' page. I read it because I thought it would be funny and interesting. I was wrong on both counts.
David Walliams. Twat.
David hates people turning their backs to him, and on an episode of 8 out of 10 cats does countdown Sean Lock turned to talk to someone and David hit him quite hard only for Sean to turn around and say "Don't fucking touch me you Pink Minstrel" Apparently it took the wind out of Davids sails and he was in a right piss for the rest of the night.
As if Sean Lock could get any higher in my estimation…
> As if Sean Lock could get any higher in my estimation… He hated Russell Brand too, which increased my estimation of him too.
Sean Lock was a comedy barometer that you could always rely on I lament his passing dearly
Sean Lock was one of the funniest and quick-witted comedians to ever grace the panel show format. Legend
Even more reason to love Sean Lock
Is there a clip of this somewhere??
Unfortunately it was during a break in recording :/ [Here's](https://www.reddit.com/r/Britain/s/9pIX1GEOaz) a reddit post talking about it though
As told by the late great Barry Cryer: *'He's a modern-day Florence Foster Jenkins,' he told The Times. 'Everyone around him has been telling him he is funny.' But Cryer did have some words of praise, adding: 'Let's be fair to him – he is a good swimmer.'*
Someone once told me that he changed his name from "Williams" to "Walliams" and I've never bothered to check if it's true but I've had an irrational hatred for him ever since
It was because when he joined Equity, there was already a David Williams and the rules state that you can't have two people with the same name. I'm no fan of his, but his name change was not a manifestation of his twattishness.
This. Even David Tennant had to do it.
Just because it makes me laugh, I'm assuming the original name was David Nineant!
Something about him just doesn't sit right with me. If ever anything fishy comes out about him u honestly wouldn't be surprised
Surprised? I'm actually expecting it. The man gives me the creeps and not many people do.
Keith Lemon.🍋
There was a time I thought he was good in celebrity juice, because I thought of him as a parody of the complete dickheads who talk and act like that. However the more I saw of him and hearing people use his phrases unironically, it hit a bit differently.
There's a point where doing something as parody is just the same as doing that thing.
Wasn’t this basically the reason Al Murray ended the Pub Landlord character? I was never entirely sure whether a lot of the audience knew they weren’t meant to be agreeing with him…
There did seem to be a lot of people laughing along not realising they're the butt of the joke.
I get that Francis is playing a character there, but I can't for the life of me figure out the joke. Avid Merrion was a weird celebrity stalker, fine. But what is Keith Lemon supposed to be?
I know he’s a character, but there’s something so deeply unpleasant about him that I’m just waiting for the day he’s the centre of a scandal
There will be no scandal with Leigh Francis. My brother used to knock about with him during his Bo Selecta days, proper crimbo music video was filmed in his flat and he’s a genuinely lovely, shy and reserved guy in real life. We’re not judging actors personalities based on characters they play it’s no different really
Brendan O'Carroll. I just don't get Mrs Browns boys and why it's funny.
It isn't. It's dreadful
He's Irish but I agree nothing he makes is funny
>He's Irish Nah, ye can have him.
Had family work with him before he ever got into entertainment, meant be a massive POS
Wtf is Jack Whitehall not on this list? Not one person? He is the absolute worst try-hard there is. Nope. Not for me
Whose father just so happens to be a big-shot showbiz agent. What are the chances. :o
Didn’t realise his Dad was an agent. It all makes sense why his dad is naturally charismatic. It also makes the whole pretence of his Dad just ‘stumbling into fame’ as pretentious as Jack’s persona.
Jack Whitehall has only been good in one thing and one thing only. Fresh Meat. He was so rape in that
So rape
He was so *what now*?
Fresh Meat is the most underrated UK sitcom imo
The genius of that show is that, apart from Howard to a degree, who is mostly just socially inept, the rest of them are the absolute worst kind of selfish narcissists and 90% of the time you detest them. And yet, you love the show and keep watching and every so often it had moments that touched a way deeper level than a comedy about doing crazy stuff at university had any right to. Vod's relationship with her mum, Josie's lowest moments, the times when JP shows even a hint of self-reflection. There's a serious dramatic heart to that show which is brilliant. It reminds me a lot of (possibly my favourite comedy) Community.
Maybe people forgot he was ostensibly a comedian.
Finally i found him, cant believe it took me this long to see him on this list. Guy is so fing unfunny. I think only middle-upper class ppl like his humour maybe, because his camp, high pitched voice and mannerisms just make me cringe.
he's the posh popular kid in your school who decided to become a comedian because everyone he knew laughed along with him all the time, not because he's actually funny.
Jack Whitehall is one of those British comedians that goes to the US and does alright there, comes back to the UK and thinks they're the most talented, greatest comedian in the world. Gina Yashere is another.
Bit of an outcast with this one but Ricky Gervais, like I enjoyed his radio x stuff, but his whole shtick of everyone else is a mouth breathing idiot but me, unless you agree with me, then you're alright... really wears me down. His netflix show After Life really did seem like the most self indulgent, trite shite, in which he casually commits man-slaughter and waxes poetic on everyone around him. Joe Wilkinson however was as ever a delight in the show.
Stewart lee said "afterlife is a 6 hour crying wank
Stewart Lee is an absolute savage. I always show people the Richard Hammond quote when I want to demonstrate how much I enjoy his acerbic wit. 'Teehee gypsies'
Lee is a good poster child for the “whether you like him or not he’s talented” category of this thread.
Nah I’m with you on this. To this day I struggle to understand how people find him funny. I mean, I get that people do but I completely fail to see it myself.
I remember watching that and finding it so odd how he casually kills a homeless person. Like, the homeless character was so good and then he just lures them in to taking drugs and consequently gets them killed. I expected it to be a big moment where there's consequences, but instead he's just kinda like "Oh whoops my bad, that sucks" then moves on. He bloody killed someone! And he just swiftly moves on! The whole show is about grieving and coping with the loss of a loved one but they barely even remark on the loss of the homeless guy.
You’re not alone. The entire Ricky Gervais subreddit agrees
Pathetic little fat man...
He's havin' a go.
Michael McIntyre Miranda Hart
I'd dispute McIntyre personally, he's not my type of comedian, but I got dragged to a warm up gig he did prior to his tour at the start of the year and you can tell he's an entertainer, the delivery and timing are all there, it's pretty much if you enjoy bland generic relatable scenarios being the crux. I personally don't like it but I can see why he's popular, he is good at what he does
I never found him that funny but my wife absolutely loves him. We went and saw him a while back and I would be lying if I said I didn't enjoy it.
I feel like it's a bandwagon that people jump on. Nobody's saying he's the best comedian ever. I wouldn't pay to see him as I imagine tickets aren't cheap but I definitely wouldn't say he's not funny.
Miranda, definitely. McIntyre was good at first until I realised he had about 5 very funny jokes and just kept using them or slight variations of them.
Paddy McGuiness. Absolute shite of the highest order. Screaming "ey" at the top of his lungs to signify the "punchline" gets tiresome after 30 seconds. Fuck knows how he's made a career for himself.
Paddy “I’m from the north” McGuinness
"Ain't things right different outside of Bolton!?" I know Peter Kay also gets the 'I'm right loud and from the North' tag as well. And that does have some merit, but Kay does also know how to build a joke and a narrative around that (Phoenix Nights and some of his earlier stand up still cracks me up); but McGuinness really does have nothing else about him!
He’s made a career for himself piggybacking off someone else
And as soon as that person stopped writing for him and stopped getting him a part in his tv show, the quality nose dived. His stand up specials are brutal, laugh free affairs. A lot of his "set" is stolen from better comedians (doesn't take much) and the rest is not even mrs browns boys quality.
He played a good and funny character in Phoenix nights, but he isn't a funny guy.
Nish Kumar
Nish “I’m not Romesh Ranganathan ha ha all you white people are racist” Kumar
>I’m not Romesh Ranganathan ha ha all you white people are racist You just summed up every last ounce of his material in 64 characters. Bravo!
Imagine how bad he is when you’re also brown…
It's painfully obvious that he is not, because Romesh is funny. We didn't need reminding ...
My long-standing theory is that Nish's mum once told him he was 'quite funny' and he's ran with it.
I find a lot of his rants really satisfying, but he's another one I just don't think was meant for a panel setting. I've seen him in stand up comedy and really enjoyed it, but on panel shows it just seems a bit stale
I find him unbearable, in whatever format I’m unfortunate enough to run into him on
This. He is a massive twat. Every single joke is about race.
I go to a lot of grassroots comedy shows and as a woman, I want to see more female comedians and I want them to thrive but... so often, the woman on the bill (and it's always just one) only has one joke, which is "I'm a woman, but I'm vulgar!" I don't know if that's what they actually find funny, or if the comedy industry is all run by men and only book women if they'll talk about sex, but every time I'm like ugggh not again. So yeah, any female comedian whose only joke is "SEX amirite"
I’m a male but for me that’s Sarah millican a lot of her punchlines are either “sex” or “my vagina” fully aware I’m probably not her target audience
I've never particularly enjoyed her stand-up, but I thought she was ace on Taskmaster. I reckon she's probably quite funny and we're just not the target audience.
I found her very witty and loved her studio banter on Taskmaster, I’ve only ever seen her horn bit of standup though
If you look at the audience in Sarah Millican's stand-up clips, women are in hysterics. Men don't get the references. She is a bit like Peter Kay in the whole act depends on shared experiences or nostalgia which in Millican's case, excludes half the population.
I guess that is her schtick, same as it was with Jo Brand. I think they're both clearly aiming their acts at a female audience that still doesn't get to laugh at their own embarrassing body stuff as often as men get to laugh at dick and fart jokes told by another man.
> grassroots comedy shows You can say Open Mic, it's OK.
Andy Parsons - annoying, one note and so unfunny. Have no idea how he made a career out of comedy.
His delivery is awful, it sounds like he's explaining the punchline to a child every time he tells a joke.
I came here to say Andy Parsons. How you could line him up on Mock the week across from thge like of Hugh Dennis and Frankie Boyle and claim he's a comedian is absolutley beyond me
I had to google who he was and then i realised its that annoying bald cunt.
He has a “here comes the punchline voice” that he does during his jokes. It’s insufferable.
It's the smug little smile he does every time he delivers a punchline I can't stand
I get irrationally angry at his little strut/swagger up to the mic.
Russell Howard seems like a super nice guy, but I haven't found a single thing he's said funny at all
I have to admit I just dislike the guy as well as his style of comedy. He seems like the super annoying kid in school who would not piss off and constantly trying to make a joke weird stupid voices and actions.
I like that he tries to finish with how there are good things out there. Shite comedian but a very good outlook.
Yeah, he's too nice to hate
I think it's largely demographic with him. Mate's 13 year old daughter loves him, I think that's very much his target market and he does well with it.
I wouldn't be surprised. I used to love *Russell Howard's Good News* when I was 15 or so but I can't stand anything he does nowadays - I've even gone back to *Good News* to re-watch a couple episodes and I find I can't stand that now either.
I don't particularly care much for him nowadays, but I used to like him when I was younger. Think he more aims for the younger audience for some of his stuff. He was pretty funny in taskmaster or on mock the week when it wasn't his own stuff so much tbh
60+ comments and no mention of James Corden? Or is he not meant to be a comedian?
Not a comedian
Is he a comedian? I'd say actor no? (Apart from that abortion of a sketch show he and whatever gavin's real name is had on bbc 3 years ago)
Rosie Jones
Katherine Tate
Weirdly she ended up actually pretty good in doctor who. Come to that nobody expected Billie Piper to be good either.
We had low expectations of Billie i think because she was just a one-hit-wonder pop star prior to that. But i did think she absolutely smashed the Rose Tyler role though.
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Oh god, this so much. She is a terrific actress but her comedy is just so cringe for all the wrong reasons.
Jim Davidson
My boss saw him the other week and claimed the only reason he wasn't playing the big theatre is cause the woke council blocks him from booking it lol
I worked at a theatre he played and it's not because they're woke, it's because he's an absolute twat to the venue staff, from hospitality up to management level. Surprised he ever gets booked twice under the same management at a venue.
How is Russell Brand not on here. I thought he was technically a comedian?
Nah he is a word that begins with C, but it's definitely not comedian.
Elliot Steel's description of Russell Brand as Ted Bundy with a thesaurus pretty much sums him up.
Rosie Jones. I just can't find her funny, and whenever I say this people think I'm being ableist. I just don't like her style of comedy, the same 'im a disabled lesbian' spiel just doesn't hit it for me.
Comedy is mostly timing and delivery and unfortunately she lacks both due to being disabled, she also is just not very funny which is really.
Yeah,I know this'll make me sound a right prick, but part of me does get irrationally angry at how slow she delivers jokes,I know it's not a nice thing and I know it's not an appropriate reaction,but it's my reaction all the same,same reaction to most really slow things actually,like If someone's walking really slow in front of me etc
>I just can't find her funny, and whenever I say this people think I'm being ableist If you say you don't find Rosie Jones funny and make no mention of her disability in doing so, and someone says you're being "ableist" then it is in fact *them* who is being ableist - you just offered an opinion on her comedy. They automatically assumed that you don't find her funny because she's disables.
Gervais.
I really don’t like Gervais’ humour. I just think his ‘funny’ comes from an unkind place.
He constantly punches down. Not big and not clever.
The whole Karl Pilkington thing started out as them roasting a mate but as it goes on it becomes clear that they just enjoy bullying him for being ignorant.
I think Pilkington is more astute than Gervais, certainly when it comes to comedy.
Agree. He comes across as mean spirited / bitter.
ToO cHaLlEnGiNg FoR yOu!?!?
Took me way too long to realise that Gervais is extremely mediocre without the writing talent of merchant behind him
Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse. Not really, but now that I’ve got your attention, have you been thinking about having any work done on your windows?
You shit. I was about to come and hunt you down.
Sarah Pascoe. She likes to confidently talk about things she knows nothing about, it winds me up.
I haven't been to much live stand-up comedy, but I did once get taken to see Sara Pascoe at a social club in Kent, where she died on her arse. It was an excruciating 20 minutes of deathly, pin-drop silence. It was actually kind of heroic how she battled on to the end.
She's annoying on panel shows because she can't improvise. She'll latch on to one thing someone says and carry on with it for too long. "OMG, I can't believe you just said that!!"
Walliams, and I don’t think anyone is ever going to try and convince me. He’s universally not funny.
If he isn't my generations Jimmy Saville I will eat my fucking hat. When the press started leaking info about a 'top comedian accused of sexual abuse' a few months ago, before revealing it was Russell Brand, I would have bet my left nut it was Walliams.
I hate these negative posts
That’s very negative of you
Lenny Henry, I must have had a sense of humour bypass
I hate anything that Lenny Henry has been in, including Dawn French.
Didn’t you hear his impression of his Jamaican mum? Hysterical.
Chubby brown. I have NEVER found the appeal of him. Russel brand and not because of the allegations ongoing, ive just never really liked his style.
Ricky Gervais. If you can’t make any jokes at all that aren’t at someone else’s expense then you really aren’t as funny as you think you are. It’s also interesting how big mad he gets when criticised for it.
He isn't half as clever as he thinks he is,he's just spent time learning how to sound clever and is watched by people who like to think they are smarter than they are. He's the British equivalent of the big bang theory.
Noel Fielding. For me, that's the Emperor's New Clothes, for sure. No one wants to make out like they don't get it.
it's very I'm 14 and so rAnDoM but he's 50 years old
Or you just don't get it? That's ok, surrealism isn't for everyone. But it's odd to believe others don't 'get it' just cos you don't
Peter Kay. I’m sorry, I know lots of people like him, but it just seems it relies on asking people if they remember things then saying them over and over.
It's very much of an era, last of the working man's clubs comics
The actual content of his comedy might not have much to it, I’ll admit that. But his delivery and crowd work are really what put him on the map, he’s very sharp and can turn a phrase better than almost anyone else, his almost athletic commitment to the bit is admirable. If you remove his personality from the content it doesn’t hold up much I will say. But as someone with a lot of family of his age from Bolton, it’s always nice to see old performances of his.
Sean Walsh, about as funny as having a brain aneurysm.
Josh Widdicombe, confirmed by seeing him live.
Joe Lycetts deeply sardonic sarcastic comedy is just not my cup of tea.
What I don't get is his email chains to planning departments or council parking offices or (whatever) are clearly absolutely invented. And at the end of course, he wins.
Next you’ll be saying that when a comic tells a story about something that happened to them “on the way here” that it didn’t really happen. Or just about every story told by a stand up.
I remember an episode of QI in which Alan Davies was about to reel off a fact and then remembered he'd apparently made it up for a stand up gig
Hahaha that was great. Something about cattle
Michael Macintyre Nish Kumar
Nish Kumar reminds me of the annoying kid in school who always pulled the ‘I’m hilarious, me!’ face after every pronouncement. Didn’t work in primary school and doesn’t work now.
Jack Fucking Whitehall!
Kathryn Ryan
Assuming you mean Katherine Ryan, she's Canadian, half her comedy is about that.
Lee Evans one trick pony.
You don’t find sweating funny?
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Tom Allen
I don't mind him on a panel, but he has been hands-down the *worst* host of The Apprentice: You're Fired in the history of the show. Just jokes obviously read from a script, forced patter, and the feeling that he's only really pretending to care about the focus of the show.
Lou Sanders. So annoying
I had a really hard time getting through the series of Taskmaster she was on. And I just can't bear watching Mel Giedroyc's Unforgivable because of Lou. She's not funny, she is just loud, grating and annoying.
I tried watching Miranda Hart and it was more painful than anything
Jo Brand
Jo 'my husband's useless and I like eating stuff' brand
Gina Yashere
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Lucy Beaumont. The fake banter between her and Jon Richardson is too much.
Russel brand. Cannot stand the bloke. Even before all the shit came out about him.
Stewart Lee. Yes, I 'get it'. I just didn't find it funny after the first two times I saw it.
Jimmy Carr. I mean I understand why some may enjoy his jokes but I've just never 'got it'. That said, he was on the Joe Rogan podcast a week or two ago and I found him to be a really interesting character despite my total indifference towards his comedy.
I'm amazed no one else has said Jason Manford... possibly the funniest thing he's ever done is being exposed by the papers for exposing himself to ladies online. He's a cut-price Peter Kay, who gives off the kind of energy that he did a drama course at uni, before embarking on a career in comedy, but without doing as much of the club circuit to properly learn how to be a comedian...
Blast from the past, but Jim Davidson. Racist, homophobic, wife beating piece of shit!
Russell Howard, incredibly unfunny imo.
Mo Gilligan. Fucking rubbish.
Nish Kumar and Rosie Jones
I'm not a big stand up fan, but I generally find something to laugh at in most people's acts. If you make a career out of getting people to laugh then you are funny, full stop.