Comediens we loath and love, starting with Ricky Gervais

[RosieH]

Eddie Izzard is very delicious. And funny. He's not going over the cliff on my freewheelin bus of death.

[giggirl]

No way. We are in lust with Eddie.

[El Pibe]

I loved Phoenix Nights, but I have to agree I just don't get his stand up.

[Otta]

I'm an Izzard fan, bit I stick by my earlier comment that he peaked years ago

PGC I don't get Harry Hill either, have never found him funny. Although he seems a nice bloke.

I don't watch many panel shows, but I do watch 8 out of 10 because Sean Lock and Jon Richardson always seem to give me a couple of good laughs.

[computedshorty]

Jo Brand our local Er comedian stated by being very crude i dont know how she is now I never look.

At her first gig she faced "an audience from hell" and, waiting to perform last, drank seven pints of lager. She thus faced her first live audience with a bursting bladder. As she ascended the stage, a male heckler started shouting, "Fuck off, you fat cow" and kept up the abuse until her performance finished. There was no applause.

[red devil]

Gotta love Bill Bailey...

 

[giggirl]

There's no way a Kraftwerk gig is that animated. That's Kraftwerk speeded up that is.

[maxxi]

Bob's right it is subjective - so will hopefully cause huge rows

Bill Bailey - smile rather than guffaw...

Micky Flanagan - one-very-old-and-tired-trick-pony - not funny , come on , what IS all that bollocks about being cockney?!? Get over it and tell a fucking joke.

Sean Lock, Lee mack, Richard Ayoade tee-hee

Noel 'Mighty Boosh' Fielding - it's over mate.

[giggirl]

I fell asleep on my boyfriend's shoulder at a Noel Fielding gig once. We were sitting in the middle at the front. I woke up with a start and he was staring right at me. He didn't look happy. Too bad. I'd had a long flight and he wasn't funny.

Never seen Micky Flanagan in anything or heard him tell a joke so can't comment. Said hello to him once in the Great Exhibition because his face looked familiar so I thought I must know him and it would be rude not to. He was confused but nice.

[Mick Mac]

I think Micky Flanagan is really good.

As regards all time greats, it is Richard Prior maybe. Some early Eddie Murphy eg Raw was brilliant for me.

[northlondoner]

Yes Richard Pryor is a towering giant. Chris Rock can be great. Louis CK is brilliant.

As pointed out elsewhere : Miranda Hart seriously unfunny. Same with Harry Hill.

[Jeremy]

Mick Mac Wrote:

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> Some early Eddie Murphy eg Raw was brilliant for me.

I dunno... laugh-out-load moments in Delirious and Raw, but a lot of outrageously homophobic stuff that makes Jim Davidson look PC.

[*Bob*]

Yeah - Eddie's side-splitting routines about faggots with AIDS on their lips have really aged well.

[charliecharlie]

UP JO Brand is good, and it looks like the delightful clever and super funny Eddie Izzard is coming out tops on the thread... good rase ED

and Otta, how did you get you vid of Lenny H into you thread, I though Admin had blocked images (and vids) in the thread... if we can share funny vid clips then we are on another planet of delight... will try adding one now (at home ill so got plenty of time on my hands!!!)

[charliecharlie]

[charliecharlie]

and love this sketch

[Mick Mac]

*Bob* Wrote:

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> Yeah - Eddie's side-splitting routines about

> faggots with AIDS on their lips have really aged

> well.

I'd forgotten about that Bob - I'm sure you didn't laugh.

[*Bob*]

I didn't catch it 'at the time' Mick so couldn't honestly say what I would have thought of it. I would have been 14 or 15. I do remember someone coming into school quoting Andrew Dice Clay material and I definitely remember thinking 'that guy sounds like a horrible cnut' so it's possible I might not have laughed at Eddie.

Around 14 or 15, I think I was feeding on repeats and audio cassettes of NTNOCN. Most of that material still works today.

Eddie, on the other hand, was embarrassingly out of date within the space of a few years. He's tried to distance himself from it ever since - should it hamper his career providing cuddly comedy voiceovers for family films.

[Otta]

charliecharlie Wrote:

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> UP JO Brand is good, and it looks like the

> delightful clever and super funny Eddie Izzard is

> coming out tops on the thread... good rase ED

>

> and Otta, how did you get you vid of Lenny H into

> you thread, I though Admin had blocked images (and

> vids) in the thread... if we can share funny vid

> clips then we are on another planet of delight...

> will try adding one now (at home ill so got plenty

> of time on my hands!!!)

>

>

On youtube under the video there will be a "share" button. Click that and a few options come up. One is "embed". Click that and it gives you some code to paste straight in to your post on here. That will put the video in your post rather than just a link.

[Mick Mac]

*Bob* Wrote:

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> Eddie, on the other hand, was embarrassingly out

> of date within the space of a few years. He's

> tried to distance himself from it ever since -

> should it hamper his career providing cuddly

> comedy voiceovers for family films.

The bit I had in my mind was a sketch where his aunt fired her shoe at him as a child from some distance with great accuracy. I had forgotten the aids bit, but I'm sure its all horribly dated if you were to watch it now, but there is not doubt he was hot at the time.

...Think I watched it in the very late 80s.

[Jeremy]

Yeah, a lot of it is absolutely brilliant, no doubt.

Delirious is more offensive.... Raw not quite so bad, as I remember. But still a few really uncomfortable moments.

[DaveR]

My utterly random list of comedians who are generally shit on TV but surprisingly funny doing live stand up:

Harry Hill

Mark Lamarr

Lee Evans

Bob Monkhouse

Frank Skinner

[Loz]

Not funny:

Gervais - brilliant writer, but a truly awful stand-up.

Stewart Lee - less funny than a dose of the trots

Miranda Hart - ugh.

Micky Flanagan's "'Ouse/Ass" routine did make me cry with laughter, but I've seen little else funny from him.

[*Bob*]

Loz Wrote:

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> Stewart Lee - less funny than a dose of the trots

>"'Ouse/Ass" ... did make me cry with laughter

That's the great thing about comedy, isn't it? There's a level for everybody.

[Coman]

A silly four minute compliation of Harold Lloyd. Watch out for the dance about two and half minutes in.