Most overrated comedians ever

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  • inmytree
    inmytree Posts: 4,741
    Rygar wrote:
    The one from newsradio?
    griffin?

    yup, that's it...

    Kathy Griffin...

    ugh...
  • Rygar
    Rygar Posts: 8,711
    inmytree wrote:
    yup, that's it...

    Kathy Griffin...

    ugh...
    couldn't remember her first name
  • mookie9999
    mookie9999 Posts: 4,677
    inmytree wrote:
    that annoying red-headed lady...

    I dislike her so much, I must have blocked out her name...

    any help....?

    Carrot Top?
    "The leads are weak!"

    "The leads are weak? Fuckin' leads are weak? You're Weak! I've Been in this business 15 years"

    "What's your name?"

    "FUCK YOU! THAT"S MY NAME!"
  • inmytree
    inmytree Posts: 4,741
    mookie9999 wrote:
    Carrot Top?

    ha ha....

    him too...!!
  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    He served as a weapon of state during the seventies, making "thick paddy" jokes when the British were at the height of their carnage in Northern Ireland. He had his uses, for a time. The horror of Manning is that for a long time, his was the dominant (if not the admitted, official establishment) view. That's what's so particularly nasty and unpalatable about his legacy. Those people who say "He was a man of his time" should reflect on how dreadful those times were, and apologise not on his behalf, but for ever thinking like him.
    I agree. I absolutely despise people who say stuff like "Bernard was sticking up for the poor working class white man. Everything is so politically correct and the country is going to the dogs now". A situation like Ron Atkinson ruining his TV career for calling Marcel Desailly a "nigger", whether he is racist or not, is a small price to pay to achieve a society in which black people don't have to go about accepting the fact that people call them that anymore.

    I don't think I ever heard a funny joke pass Manning's fat, jabba the hut lips.
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  • sennin
    sennin Posts: 2,146
    BostonLou
  • facepollution
    facepollution Posts: 6,834
    sgossard3 wrote:
    gotta throw my cousin (and a long time PJ fan) out there as one of my favorites :D

    check him out... he just got started doing it very recently:
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=ncRppzGezXw

    That was brilliant! Very funny guy. Having been to a couple of weddings recently, I gotta say he was bang on the money!
  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    sennin wrote:
    BostonLou
    Good one!!!!
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  • Kilgore_Trout
    Kilgore_Trout Posts: 7,334
    facepollution wrote:
    That was brilliant! Very funny guy. Having been to a couple of weddings recently, I gotta say he was bang on the money!
    thanks for the support! ill let him know you think so! :D

    hes got alot of good material since then too so i think he'll do just fine at his new "job"
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  • harmless_little_f***
    harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    Mitchell And Fucking Webb.
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  • Rhinocerous Surprise
    Rhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    harmless_little_f*** wrote:
    Mitchell And Fucking Webb.

    They confuse me up good.:confused: Peep Show was pure genius, but I'm not sure how much of it was them, and how much of it was the writers. After the Magicians, and the Mitchell And Web Sketch Show or whatever, I was ready to write them off... but then I saw David Mitchell doing the rounds on the BBC panel shows, and he had me in stitches. So, yeah, probably over-rated, but David Mitchell is funny.:)
    Smokey Robinson constantly looks like he's trying to act natural after being accused of farting.
  • harmless_little_f***
    harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    Rhinocerous Surprise wrote:
    They confuse me up good.:confused: Peep Show was pure genius, but I'm not sure how much of it was them, and how much of it was the writers. After the Magicians, and the Mitchell And Web Sketch Show or whatever, I was ready to write them off... but then I saw David Mitchell doing the rounds on the BBC panel shows, and he had me in stitches. So, yeah, probably over-rated, but David Mitchell is funny.:)

    They are good personalities, and good actors, but they can't write for shit.

    Peep Show wasn't written by them, and yes, it's genius. Mitchell and Webb Look IS, and I would cut down nearly all of their sketches by about 3 or 4 minutes.
    'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'

    - the great Sir Leo Harrison
  • Rhinocerous Surprise
    Rhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    harmless_little_f*** wrote:
    They are good personalities, and good actors, but they can't write for shit.

    Peep Show wasn't written by them, and yes, it's genius. Mitchell and Webb Look IS, and I would cut down nearly all of their sketches by about 3 or 4 minutes.

    I think that's the problem - they can be off-the-cuff funny, but it doesn't translate well into screenwriting. But at least we agree that Peep Show is genius.:D
    Smokey Robinson constantly looks like he's trying to act natural after being accused of farting.
  • KosmicJelli
    KosmicJelli Posts: 1,855
    Carrot Top and/or Emo Phillips
  • Ledbetterman10
    Ledbetterman10 Posts: 16,994
    Phantom Pain wrote:
    Jerry Seinfeld

    I liked the show some what but don't like his stand-up

    I saw him live in 2006 and he was hilarious.
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  • Abookamongstthemany
    Abookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    You disgust me richard :)

    Bill was actually a massively underrated comedian. People seem to only really know his later stuff when he was vaguely well-known, when he was more concerned with spoken-word tours about politics and social satire (which I also love. I think he did it with passion and a vision, not because he was sanctimonious). His earlier stuff shows a brilliant sense of comic timing and very well written material. Saying he was too opinionated is ridiculous, you sound like a Dane Cook fan: "I don't wanna have to like, think when I watch comedy". Of course he had a mullet, he was a texan in the 80s.

    Bill had a unique passion that was often unpleasant, sometimes infuriating, sometimes made him sound like a preachy, sad, twisted man, which he was. He was also possessed. Every time I listen to Rant in E Minor I feel like he was the only person in comedy who saw it's potential to try and make people laugh and disagree with him at the same time.

    but anyway, here is some of his FUNNY stuff. The ending is strangely poetic and disgusting at the same time too :)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C99eZY4V5w8&feature=related

    I think the most underrated comedian is Stewart Lee, a man I will be seeing on the 28th :)
    This clip is still funny having seen it about 50 times. His style is very slow, he builds a joke over about 10 minutes so you need to pay attention but he is so funny.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5yWjr1Rkzk

    I agree. Bill Hicks was amazing. No one has even come close to replacing him.

    I'm going to have to go with Dane Cook...too stupid, Dennis Leary....to anal and Dennis Miller....to dry and full of it.
    If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

    Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
    -Oscar Wilde
  • Abookamongstthemany
    Abookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    Bill Hicks was to "thinking comedy" what Ani diFranco is to modern poetry.


    Agreed here....both top notch brilliance!
    If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

    Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
    -Oscar Wilde
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Abookamongstthemany wrote:
    Agreed here....both top notch brilliance!


    Now that's funny! :D
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Ugh, I just thought of twin evils. French and Saunders.
  • failedpersephone
    failedpersephone Posts: 3,424
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    Ugh, I just thought of twin evils. French and Saunders.
    I liked them!

    they were funny to me... :o
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