Comedians you don’t find funny…

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Mismatched Pegs said:
Pretty much all of them these days except Bob Mortimer and Greg Davies. But special mentions go to Rosie Jones and Stewart bleeping Lee. I used to think I wasn't clever enough to understand Stewart Lee's humour. Turns out he's just not funny.
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I found Lee comments about Ben Elton to be unfair and snobby. My gf votes tory and I vote Labour, so by his reckoning we should break up. It's rather pathetic.
 
Jelly Bean said:
The Rosie Jones 'R*tard' controversy.
It seems like she has pissed off a lot disability activists by using that word. Which also usually horribly is used against people with a learning disability so not her.
I've not watched her documentary so can't really comment tbf - has anyone seen it?
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Not personally, but I remember the guilty feminist podcast hosts having to put out an apology the week after she was on that due to some of the language she used. Sounds like a liability.
 
RaveChampion said:
A bleeping load. I often wonder if it's an ageing thing and you just find things less funny as you get older.

I'll say Denis Leary because he ripped off Bill Hicks' material wholesale and made a half decent career out of it. Turd.
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The only thing I would say in defence of Denis Leary is he raises a duck ton of money for firefighters in his home town (can't remember where that is). Some firefighters died in the LOD and he does masses for their families and others disabled by being in that service.
 
Norfolking Good said:
We went to see the new Jack Whitehall show and it was very meh. Some bits were funny but it wasn’t laugh till you cry levels and there were lots of dead periods.
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Likewise Peter Kay. I saw him recently and to say he has had so long away from touring and tv his new show was distinctly underwhelming. A large section was essentially him trying and failing to get the audience to sing along to old adverts which for anyone in the audience under the age of 30 (and there were lots of them) was completely wasted as they hadn’t a clue what he was on about.
 
Aww bummer I’m off to see Peter Kay next summer in the O2. I had heard it was very much his old style but updated content. Very mixed reviews too.
 
PrincessCharming said:
Comedians are generally best at the early stages of their career. There are people I’ve liked in the past that I would no longer bother going to see.

As soon as they’re doing loads of telly and getting booked into arenas, forget about it. Arenas are the worst places to see comedy. You want a smallish theatre or dingy wee comedy club for the best laughs.
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That's true. I saw Ed Byrne a couple of times in a very small comedy club in London years ago and hadn't really heard of him before and he was so funny.
Then a few years ago at a big venue and he was so dull. Lots of completely unoriginal anecdotes about being a father - 'something else they don't tell you about having kids......' followed by something completely obvious like you have less sex.
 
PrincessCharming said:
Comedians are generally best at the early stages of their career. There are people I’ve liked in the past that I would no longer bother going to see.

As soon as they’re doing loads of telly and getting booked into arenas, forget about it. Arenas are the worst places to see comedy. You want a smallish theatre or dingy wee comedy club for the best laughs.
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By the time they are doing large venue tours, especially arenas, or on TV regularly, their acts are more akin to an almost fully scripted play, they are more or less just actors speaking their lines by then. In some cases they will have a repertoire of different segments that they'll switch in and out for different nights, but it's all still well rehearsed. Mock The Week shows this very badly, so many of the questions are framed in a such a way as to simply give them an opportunity to "answer" with a parroted section of their current act at that time, if you then went to see them live or saw a DVD of their show it would so often include line for line the same thing that they "answered a question" with on Mock The Week.

Definitely, the best time to see a comedian is when they're new, and doing above the pub shows, or trying out new material ahead of their big launch in Edinburgh, when they're still ad-libbing to some degree.
 
Jelly Bean said:
The Rosie Jones 'R*tard' controversy.
It seems like she has pissed off a lot disability activists by using that word. Which also usually horribly is used against people with a learning disability so not her.
I've not watched her documentary so can't really comment tbf - has anyone seen it?
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She’s trying too hard to be funny but is making a tit of herself. I sense a mean streak within her.
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I don’t find them funny any more. I would say 15-20 years ago they were funny, but then all the Netflix deals and having to be overly PC and censored on certain things ruined a lot of them for me. No one is allowed to make a joke anymore. From snippets i’ve seen recently, it seems some of the comics have taken it upon themselves to be moralising and ranting at “bigots”. How about say some funny things. Seriously, can we have actually witty people back, like Victoria Wood, the Two Ronnies, Peter Kay in his early career?
 
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Fledgling Psycho said:
I enjoyed off the wall humour, eg Carrick, League of Gentlemen & Summer Heights High with Chris Lilley and oh yes The Fast Show. The "singing a ringing a plinking a plonking tree" that kind of thing.
Current "comedians" are a kind of smug hemmeroid (spelling?) Never watch them now.
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I love Australian comedy, have you seen We can be heroes (also by Chris lilley) and Kath and Kim
 
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