Comedians you don’t find funny…

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AbnormalFrog

Richard Herring gets my hackles right up. He makes me deeply deeply uncomfortable in a way I cannot properly put into words.
 
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Jelly Bean

AbnormalFrog said:
Richard Herring gets my hackles right up. He makes me deeply deeply uncomfortable in a way I cannot properly put into words.
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I agree. There is something about him isn't there? But not sure what. A very barely repressed wrongness. But tbh I get the same from Stuart Lee. An undefinable nastiness.
 
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Jusa

London Hughes - I detest her with an absolute passion!
 
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Jusa

House of Tea said:
Pointless? Full of herself ain’t she?
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Yes and yes! God, she loves herself. I'm surprised she didn't tell the story about Stevie Wonder groping her tits at her birthday party, she loves telling that one
 
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MrsSlocombe

I went through a stage of liking Jimmy Carr (I'm embarrassed to admit this now lol) - I didn't enjoy his latest Netflix special at all. I don't mind crude being funny at times, but he seems to think that all crude is funny just because he says it.
 
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Cinnabun

Jelly Bean said:
I agree. There is something about him isn't there? But not sure what. A very barely repressed wrongness. But tbh I get the same from Stuart Lee. An undefinable nastiness.
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I cannot abide Stuart Lee.

I used to really like Lee Mack in WILTY, I found him very quick witted. But the whole show doesn't seem as funny as it was. It needs to be retired for a while, I think.
 
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MeghanSnarkle

This thread reminded me of a horrible experience we had seeing a live stand up show many years ago called On the band wagon.

It featured four then relatively unknown cast members of Channel 4's Phoenix nights and honestly the worst of the lot was Paddy McGuiness he was so unfunny but completely full of himself to be fair they were all a rude strangely cold bunch, afterwards there was the chance to get autographs and honestly you couldn't get near McGuiness he was absolutely surrounded by women of all ages boobs hanging out, fawning over him I won't say to much more because I guess the noughties were a different time and he was a single man but lets say it all felt VERY seedy at the time.
 
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Jusa

Chloe Petts, she's on HIGNFY tonight, which is why I've been reminded of her. I saw her when she was the support act for Ed Gamble, and she was painfully unfunny!
 
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Moley1

Agree with the earlier poster about Jimmy Carr. Apart from his affected seal laugh, just uses deeply unpleasant material to get attention.
 
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lamaitresse

Rosie glow said:
Romesh Ranganathan
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My partner calls him 'rubbish Ranganathan'.

He's everywhere, too. He's really living the 'make hay whilst the sun shines' saying. His mum is actually wittier (I think the same about 'pencil dick' Jack Whitehall and his dad).

I suppose that attracts the kneejerk 'you're an R-word' response, which is so lame. Artists are supposed to be memorable, quotable, sing their songs, repeat their sketches, their jokes, wax lyrical about a painting, a sculpture - whatever. Romesh is just a big blank for me.

Rosie Jones too but it's not ableism, she just isn't well-suited to the fast-paced, timing-critical quick-fire world of panel shows, particularly. Even when the punchline hits it's not worth waiting for. She would be better in her original career path which was script-writing (as far as I'm aware), or even acting where edits can be made. I still applaud her for doing what she does and saying fuck 'em.

Maybe Rosie's appeal to producers is the oh-so-shocking 'Ohmigod a disabled person can't say that' or 'can't talk about being a lesbian' / 'she has a sex life!!!!111!!!' (?) which is reductive and sets her cause (if she has one) back, not forward. Maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree with that theory.

How do comedians get booked nowadays? I suppose Avalon is a behemoth nowadays and probably has a Mafia-like grip on the comedy world and the programmes commissioned and it's all a big cynical churn 'em out, make our money industry.

You'd think these programme makers would watch gigs, hold auditions, book comedians for their charisma and personality, not - I suspect - to make some sort of point or fulfill a quota? Is that what's happening? This doesn't apply to all comedians but the particularly piss-poor ones (which is subjective, of course).
 
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BubbleDuck

I like stand up Romesh and Rosie, but aren’t a massive fan of tv Romesh and Rosie. Rosie in particular only seems to have the 1 set she always does on tv, and sometimes hams up the slow speaking in the whole triple threat /northern bit .

This looks like it could be quite good , so long as they don’t just focus on the established names

ITVX to live stream Edinburgh Fringe shows - British Comedy Guide

ITVX Presents: Edinburgh Fringe Live will involve four hour-long comedy showcase shows being streamed live from the Edinburgh Festival.
www.comedy.co.uk
 
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lamaitresse

It's amazing how Edinburgh Festival has changed over the years. It's less open to everyone and anyone and becoming more of a platform for privileged (or at least, well-off) performers.

It's just sheer greed: locals overcharging for accomodation (renting out their flats). Getting a spot costs a small fortune - many would-be performers complain about how much it puts them in debt, simply to try and get noticed. Shouldn't ECC have some sort of grant system for the most promising newcomers?

Had a quick Google and suggesting crowdfunding or social media appeals isn't really the way to go, is it. How to get Funding for Edinburgh Fringe | Spotlight

Even well-established comedians complain about the eye-wateringly huge rent charges, even for a few days or weeks during the Festival. (Edinburgh Council should be capping accomodation charges and fining those who take the piss).

Edit: There is this, too: Keep it Fringe fund 2024 now open for applications | Edinburgh Festival Fringe (edfringe.com) The fund will award grants of up to £2,500 to 180 artists bringing work to Fringe 2024. ...even so, I bet that money gets gobbled up quickly.
 
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