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Post by rayth on Mar 22, 2011 11:12:15 GMT 10
With Comedy Festivals popping up all over the place, thought we'd see who we rate and who we hate?
Who do you like?
Any you don't find funny?
Seems to be a difficult thing for females to break into. Any chicks you think go well?
Who have you seen live, good/average/crap?
From the ones who have done tv shows and/or movies (Eddie Murphy, Jim Carrey, Mick Molloy, Jimoein to name a few), how have they fared? Did they remain funny to you?
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Post by RECKY on Mar 22, 2011 11:52:39 GMT 10
Who do you like? - GEORGE CARLIN, BILLY CONNOLLY, DENNIS LEARY, JEFF FOXWORTHY, CARL BARRON, ADAM HILLS, AHN DO, ROBIN WILLIAMS, DES BISHOP, KEVIN BLOODY WILSON, RODNEY RUDE
Any you don't find funny? - ARJ BARKER, LENNY HENRY, ROSS NOBLE, WILL ANDERSON, JOSH FKN THOMAS
Seems to be a difficult thing for females to break into. Any chicks you think go well? - KITTY FLANAGAN, CORINNE GRANT, FIONA O'LOUGHLIN and CAL WILSON (o.k technically she's a K1W1)
Who have you seen live, good/average/crap? - BILLY CONNOLLY (bonz), ROBIN WILLIAMS
(overpowering), AHN DO( piss funny), ADAM HILLS (the grouse), KBW( funny as) RODNEY RUDE ( didnt change his act for years, but not bad)
From the ones who have done tv shows and/or movies (Eddie Murphy, Jim Carrey, Mick Molloy, Jimoein to name a few), how have they fared? Did they remain funny to you?
MURPHY onstage and in movies - remained funny, JIMOEIN - funnier on stage, ADAM HILLS - stayed funny on both, GEORGE CARLIN - funnier live, his movie work was minimal at best, THE BIG YIN ( Connolly) well his world tours docos are pretty damn good, his movies are sorta hit or miss for mine, DENNIS LEARY - his Rescue Me series was great, totally different to his mad ranting irish new york standup
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Post by MrX on Mar 22, 2011 16:58:20 GMT 10
Who do you like? Robin Williams - my all time favourite funny guy. Richard Pryor Andrew Dice Clay Rodney Dangerfield Billy Connolly (swears to much IMO, it's put on) Steve Martin (ripper back in the day) Alexi Sayle Sam Kinison Rodney Rude Any you don't find funny? Ben Stiller  Seems to be a difficult thing for females to break into. Any chicks you think go well? Bette Midler – I could listen to her all day Judith Lucy – crazy Catho chick Who have you seen live, good/average/crap? Adam Hills (in Spicks & Spectacular) pretty good fun clean humour Alexi Sayle – damn funny & sooo wrong (fuck, shit, piss, wank etc.) Rodney Rude – he was getting on a bit when I saw him, but the crowd was really feral & into it. Awesome. |
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Post by Stevil420 on Mar 22, 2011 18:41:03 GMT 10
Who do you like?
Richard Pryor
Carl Barron
Katt Williams
Russel Peters
Eddie Murphy
Sam Simmons
Kevin Hart
Jimoein
Elliot Goblet
Any you don't find funny? - I can't watch comedians with instruments, music segments bore the shit out of me!
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Post by mr kek on Mar 22, 2011 21:07:43 GMT 10
Who do you like? Richard Pryor This man is the king. If you have yet to watch any of his early shows (70's), do yourself a favour and go seek them out. You can clearly see how he was Eddie Murphy's inspiration. |
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Post by HBM on Mar 22, 2011 23:47:11 GMT 10
This man is the king. If you have yet to watch any of his early shows (70's), do yourself a favour and go seek them out. You can clearly see how he was Eddie Murphy's inspiration. Pryor paved the way for a lot of comedians. Material used now is spawned from his work. |
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Post by mr kek on Mar 23, 2011 4:12:27 GMT 10
My favs would be; Russell Peters Robin Williams Chris Rock Martin Lawrence Eddie Murphy (the early years. Not a fan of this kids stuff at all) and the King Richard Pryor. Carl Baron isn't bad either. There's others, but I just finished up work so I'm buggered and can't think of any more of the top of my head. Shit I don't find funny, is that Naked Gun style crap, Jackass, and Benny Hill style comedy. Not a big fan of British comedy in general. This man is the king. If you have yet to watch any of his early shows (70's), do yourself a favour and go seek them out. You can clearly see how he was Eddie Murphy's inspiration. Pryor paved the way for a lot of comedians. Material used now is spawned from his work. Indeed he did, and he was funnier then them all IMO. |
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Post by MrX on Mar 23, 2011 14:33:12 GMT 10
Pardon?
There is more to Brit comedy than Benny Hill & Are You Being Served.
Try out
Fawlty Towers
Black Adder
Porridge
Extras - Ricky Gervais
The Office - Ricky Gervais
Peep Show
I'm not generally a fan os US TV comedy:
Family Guy - never seen
The Office
Two & A Half Men - never seen
Richhard Pryor was legend, indeed.
I'm going back & adding a few to my list.
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Post by dragon on Mar 25, 2011 12:08:45 GMT 10
Who do you like? Saw Arj Barker live once, he was f'n great. I'm crap with names, but the little lesbian Canadian chick who shows up on Good News Week whenever she's out here is very funny. Most others who pop up there, like Kitty Flanagan/Colin Lane/Frank Woodley/Akmal...all get a good laugh out of me.
Any you don't find funny? Carl Barron sucks all kinds of arse, probably the worst comedian I've ever heard. Josh Thomas irritates the hell out of me too.
Seems to be a difficult thing for females to break into. Any chicks you think go well? The ones mentioned above. Julia Morris has ben quite a success at it, but she's not a fave of mine.
Who have you seen live, good/average/crap? Arj Barker was great.
From the ones who have done tv shows and/or movies (Eddie Murphy, Jim Carrey, Mick Molloy, Jimoein to name a few), how have they fared? Did they remain funny to you? Bit over Mick Molloy's efforts, but I still love the guy.
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