Saw him in Plymouth around 4 years ago, absolutely hilarious. If you are a Brexiteer I could understand you not liking him.
Just find him smug and predictable - I'm not a Brexiteer.
I saw him at the Roundhouse recently. Absolutely superb, but then as this thread shows, comedy is massively subjective.
I find him as bland as Michael McIntyre- he does know his audience.
Extraordinary comparison. Nish delivered an absolute zinger about every 7 seconds. Michael Macintyre will get three minutes out of repeating the same word.
Saw him in Plymouth around 4 years ago, absolutely hilarious. If you are a Brexiteer I could understand you not liking him.
Just find him smug and predictable - I'm not a Brexiteer.
I saw him at the Roundhouse recently. Absolutely superb, but then as this thread shows, comedy is massively subjective.
I find him as bland as Michael McIntyre- he does know his audience.
Extraordinary comparison. Nish delivered an absolute zinger about every 7 seconds. Michael Macintyre will get three minutes out of repeating the same word.
Saw him in Plymouth around 4 years ago, absolutely hilarious. If you are a Brexiteer I could understand you not liking him.
This is something that has long been with comedy. If you find/found Ben Elton funny you must be a hardline Liberal Labour voter or if you like someone like Geoff Norcott nowadays you must be a brexit voting gammon. Bollocks to that, if something is funny, its funny be that something pointed at me or at someone else. I was at one of Geoff Norcotts shows last week and a percentage of the audience were only there to cheer at something they agreed with as opposed to laugh at a side splittingly funny megamix of impressions he did before the interval. Same with the last Frankie Boyle show and Katherine Ryan show I went to.
Its really dull and predictable when comedians just bash the conservatives as half the time they aren't necessarily saying anything funny but its popular with their crowd, that disappoints me but does make me wonder where they will get their material/cheap cheers from the crowd from when Labour are in power
IMHO, a lot of the problem involved in identifying comedians that are deemed funny by most is the issue of longevity (particularly when we become more aware of the person behind the act), there are many comedians who are very funny for a very short time, but then drift away into anonymity.
Then they run out of things to say with which the audience can relate, which is clearly an issue for observational comedians. It's the equivalent of the difficult second album. In some ways, it's easier for older style gag comedians.
Comic actors, provided they have the right writers working for them, can be much more successful.
That said, were kinder to comedians when they're dead...
...and, for some (not looking at anyone Woody Allen), their reputation would clearly be greater if they had.
But, even before they died, I would have said Berry Cryer and Marty Feldman were hilarious (but they were just as funny in their writing as in their comedy acting/stage personas).
Saw him in Plymouth around 4 years ago, absolutely hilarious. If you are a Brexiteer I could understand you not liking him.
Just find him smug and predictable - I'm not a Brexiteer.
I saw him at the Roundhouse recently. Absolutely superb, but then as this thread shows, comedy is massively subjective.
I find him as bland as Michael McIntyre- he does know his audience.
Extraordinary comparison. Nish delivered an absolute zinger about every 7 seconds. Michael Macintyre will get three minutes out of repeating the same word.
If you think a “zinger” means saying something very loud, then I can understand why you would like Nish. If you enjoy comedians who are actually funny I could see why you wouldn’t.
Whilst I think Mrs Brown's boys has run its course Brendan O'carroll is a very funny man
Miranda Hart chucks red meat out to a mass audience, which is a shame as I saw her do stand up, and I could be wrong with my dates but about 20 years ago and she was hilarious.
Then there are comedians who absolutely kill it, everytime I've seen them live but are completely overlooked by TV David Johns is my immediate example, barring a brilliant turn in I, Daniel Blake I can't recall seeing him on screen
Saw Dan Renton Skinner/aka Angelos Epithemiou last month at the Tramshed = silly, wonderful, side splitting Comedian, brilliant. If Carlsberg made comedians ......................
Hannah Gadsby. No-one else comes close to being as unfunny. Thank fuck she doesn't get any coverage over here.
Apparently there's more than one of her:-
"Hannah Gadsby is an Australian comedian, writer, and actor. They began their career in Australia after winning the national final of the Raw Comedy competition for new comedians in 2006".
Hannah Gadsby. No-one else comes close to being as unfunny. Thank fuck she doesn't get any coverage over here.
Apparently there's more than one of her:-
"Hannah Gadsby is an Australian comedian, writer, and actor. They began their career in Australia after winning the national final of the Raw Comedy competition for new comedians in 2006".
My apologies. I will cancel myself immediately as is the law.
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I'll put forward Miranda and the bloke that does Mrs Brown's boys. Surely no one would admit to finding them funny?
he/she is rubbish
i think they are brilliant
no they are not
yes they are
Now Bernard Manning, he was funny
No he wasn’t, he was racist
No he wan’t
what about Jim Davison
brilliant
racist
one of our own
Apart from when he was a Bournemouth fan
This thread proves comedy is subjective
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…and start again
But if you think a comedian isn't funny, you're right.
(It was Jimmy Carr who said that. He isn't).
Its really dull and predictable when comedians just bash the conservatives as half the time they aren't necessarily saying anything funny but its popular with their crowd, that disappoints me but does make me wonder where they will get their material/cheap cheers from the crowd from when Labour are in power
Then they run out of things to say with which the audience can relate, which is clearly an issue for observational comedians. It's the equivalent of the difficult second album. In some ways, it's easier for older style gag comedians.
Comic actors, provided they have the right writers working for them, can be much more successful.
That said, were kinder to comedians when they're dead...
...and, for some (not looking at anyone Woody Allen), their reputation would clearly be greater if they had.
But, even before they died, I would have said Berry Cryer and Marty Feldman were hilarious (but they were just as funny in their writing as in their comedy acting/stage personas).
Miranda Hart chucks red meat out to a mass audience, which is a shame as I saw her do stand up, and I could be wrong with my dates but about 20 years ago and she was hilarious.
Then there are comedians who absolutely kill it, everytime I've seen them live but are completely overlooked by TV David Johns is my immediate example, barring a brilliant turn in I, Daniel Blake I can't recall seeing him on screen
Hannah Gadsby. No-one else comes close to being as unfunny. Thank fuck she doesn't get any coverage over here.
"Hannah Gadsby is an Australian comedian, writer, and actor. They began their career in Australia after winning the national final of the Raw Comedy competition for new comedians in 2006".