favourite comedians?

ikeaboy · Post by **ikeaboy** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 2:27 pm

Santy wrote:Jason Rouse
Jimmy Carr
Lee Evans
Peter Kay

favourite Jimmy Carr joke

"I was asked to judge Mr Gay UK.......

.....I said Ok he's immoral, against God and he's going to hell".

zoso · Post by **zoso** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 2:55 pm

Slim wrote:
Zoso wrote:Russell Peters
Hahaha, YES

Also, just discovered yesterday Paul Chowdhry, very deadpan british asian comic. Get to know, he's fucking hilarious. Looks a bit like Prince

haha I checked him out after you suggested, and pretty damn funny

Also word to whoever suggested dylan moran and leigh francis

pdomino · Post by **pdomino** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 3:07 pm

Diss04 wrote:
pdomino wrote:Frankie Boyle directs his assault on his home country, which I find quite amusing, very witty !

Diss04 wrote:why dont i like bill hicks as much as everyone else does?
Do you understand his humour ?
maybe thats it, from what i can tell 'his humour' is just being angry and hella polictical

Politically pissed off yes, and his hate for middle america.

corpsey · Post by **corpsey** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 4:10 pm

Bill Hicks is funny for the way he delivers his material, I think. Having said that I find his material generally funny also, but - as with any good stand-up comedian- it's the way he does it that makes it work.

This is the same with Chris Rock- take away the delivery of the jokes and the jokes aren't necessarily that great. Whereas someone like Woody Allen writes stuff that makes me laugh just reading it.

Stewart Lee, another prime example- funny, witty material but its his superbly nuanced delivery that really cracks me up.

Conversely, this is why I don't think Ricky Gervais is a very good stand up comedian and why I can't stand Jimmy Carr.

Regarding the 'why do black comedians always go on about race' thing- any stand up, unless they're playing a character/persona, is going to do material about themselves, and for most black people (I'd hesitate to say it but I think especially in America) race is a huge issue. Obviously it's also an established convention and also an easy way of getting a (black) crowd on their side. It was interesting going to see Chris Rock a few weeks ago- there were a lot of occasions on which I was wondering if I should be laughing or not, though I think he generally makes fun of racism rather than race itself.

As for why a white comedian couldn't do the same material about black people- I think you have to look at the relative positions of power that white/black people have occupied historically, and continue to occupy to this day, in western culture. It's something like the way we would accept a working class comedian ridiculing the rich but would consider a rich comedian ridiculing the working classes offensive. Probably unfair, given that humour should really be a level playing field... this is too complex, its too sunny outside haha

diss04 · Post by **diss04** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 4:14 pm

why cant you stand jimmy carr? i think his delivery is delivery is great and is quite original as these days not many mainstream comics tell actual jokes (as aposed to funny annecdotes or whatever)

fixation · Post by **fixation** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 4:16 pm

'for anyone who thinks i swear too much, fuck off you stnuc'

jimmy carr is a legend

corpsey · Post by **corpsey** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 4:18 pm

I dunno I suppose it must be down to taste but I find that delivery of his saps the humour out of anything he says.

diss04 · Post by **diss04** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 4:24 pm

Corpsey wrote:I dunno I suppose it must be down to taste but I find that delivery of his saps the humour out of anything he says.

comedy is all about opinions it seems.

why is it only me thats mentioned rich hall? he's fucking funny as fuck. word.

jah wobble · Post by **jah wobble** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 4:33 pm

steven wright!

All those who believe in psychokinesis raise my hand.

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met.

OK, so what's the speed of dark?

How do you tell when you're out of invisible ink?

If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked

something.

Support bacteria - they're the only culture some people have.

When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.

Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now.

Everyone has a photographic memory. Some just don't have film.

Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark.

Many people quit looking for work when they find a job.

I intend to live forever - so far, so good.

Join the Army, meet interesting people, kill them.

If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?

Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

When I'm not in my right mind, my left mind gets pretty crowded.

Boycott shampoo! Demand the REAL poo!

Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk?

diss04 · Post by **diss04** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 4:34 pm

jah wobble wrote:steven wright!

taking deadpan to the next level

pk- · Post by **pk-** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 5:15 pm

Diss04 wrote:
pdomino wrote:Frankie Boyle directs his assault on his home country, which I find quite amusing, very witty !

Diss04 wrote:why dont i like bill hicks as much as everyone else does?
Do you understand his humour ?
maybe thats it, from what i can tell 'his humour' is just being angry and hella polictical

A lot of his material's very good, but I find a lot of the time he's incredibly irritating and comes off like a petulant schoolkid. There's a video knocking about somewhere of him "dealing" with a heckler which is just a fucking embarrassment.

donkey · Post by **donkey** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 5:19 pm

Anyone seen any Lenny Bruce stand-up?

diss04 · Post by **diss04** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 5:20 pm

Donkey wrote:Anyone seen any Lenny Bruce stand-up?

i've seen him sit down

pdomino · Post by **pdomino** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 5:32 pm

Yeah get your points about Hicks, killed himself off in the end.

Didnt know that was his name but on first seeing that Steven Wright I was dumbstruck, the guy that talks in monotone ?
Quality.

von · Post by **von** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 5:41 pm

anyone mention katt williams ?

aint readin 7 pages on the ps3 tbvh

donkey · Post by **donkey** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 5:43 pm

Apparently Larry David once turned up for a stand up show, walked on the stage, looked around the audience, shook his head and walked straight off.

diss04 · Post by **diss04** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 5:44 pm

Von wrote:anyone mention katt williams ?

aint readin 7 pages on the ps3 tbvh

yeah a few people have.

he's fucking HILARIOUS in gta iv, tbf.

swiftguyver · Post by **swiftguyver** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 8:01 am

Donkey wrote:Apparently Larry David once turned up for a stand up show, walked on the stage, looked around the audience, shook his head and walked straight off.

haha yeah i heard that aswell...absolute legend...

dubluke · Post by **dubluke** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 8:37 am

SwiftGuyver wrote:
Donkey wrote:Apparently Larry David once turned up for a stand up show, walked on the stage, looked around the audience, shook his head and walked straight off.
haha yeah i heard that aswell...absolute legend...

if you ask me that makes him a bit of a tit

unless he was joking

drksteppa · Post by **drksteppa** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 7:54 pm

Michael Winslow FTW!

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