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Unfunny 'comedy'

silvertop said:
No that is odd.

Monty Python I also find odd but, then again, if you watch the TV show it is very hit and miss.
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I can except some not finding python funny because some of it was a bit rubbish, but some of it was brilliant and I still find it funny today
 
BromleyMonkey said:
I can except some not finding python funny because some of it was a bit rubbish, but some of it was brilliant and I still find it funny today
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They're a bit like a band whose hits are great but whose b sides and album tracks are forgettable at best.
Their films have aged better than a lot of the programmes and are still funny to me.
 
Teddy Eagle said:
They're a bit like a band whose hits are great but whose b sides and album tracks are forgettable at best.
Their films have aged better than a lot of the programmes and are still funny to me.
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I make you right teddy, those classic sketches will remain classics for ever I think, but some of it was definitely forgettable
 
Willo said:
I recall Bernard Manning performing in 'Crystals' back in the day. On the bill with him that evening was 'Bob 'The Cat' Bevan.
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I went to see ‘Saint and Greavsie’ in crystals back in the 80’s when their tv show of the same name was in its prime and they were hilarious
 
Can Katherine Ryan be described as comedy at all? More like a nagging missus who hates you - which isn't particularly funny except in Fawlty Towers.
And somebody said Rosie Jones. The thread should end there really. People just uncomfortable - including loads of really woke people.
For a laugh, watch Rosie Jones with your missus and laugh at all the jokes. Watch the reaction, then accuse them of bias. Great laugh.
 
PalazioVecchio said:
Eddie Izzard. Occasionally very funny. But seems to regularly miss the target. I once attended his concert and fell asleep.
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I saw him before he was etc. when acting as MC in a club in Soho (Raging Bull?). He took my booking over the phone, recommended I buy my beers from the off license around the corner and, I suspect, cleaned the lavs and swept the floors after the show.

Still the funniest comedian I have seen live on that performance and was 100% better than all the "proper" acts he introduced.
 
ASCPFC said:
Can Katherine Ryan be described as comedy at all? More like a nagging missus who hates you - which isn't particularly funny except in Fawlty Towers.
And somebody said Rosie Jones. The thread should end there really. People just uncomfortable - including loads of really woke people.
For a laugh, watch Rosie Jones with your missus and laugh at all the jokes. Watch the reaction, then accuse them of bias. Great laugh.
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I saw her on Apollo and I found her sketch about her former boyfriend complimenting her anus to be very funny.

On the basis of that, and full of hope, I watched a whole performance on Netflix... and it was dismal.
 
I tend to dislike a lot of American comedies, even friends. Why do the yanks seem to think every line has to be funny?? It becomes unrealistic. The best comedies are characters and situations we can all relate too.
I sat through a lot of modern family which was okay, but it’s relentless efforts to make everything that came out of their mouths funny just got on my nerves in the end. You end up thinking no-one in real life is like this, it becomes painful to watch, especially as there was about 10 series of it, I think I gave up at about five

In general, I’d say the Aussies do humour which is much more like our sense of humour and much more relatable
 
martin2412 said:
Monty Python - wtf was all that about.

And while we're at it Fawlty Towers was dogsheet as well.

Common denominator - John Cleese
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You are joking right?
 
Teddy Eagle said:
They're a bit like a band whose hits are great but whose b sides and album tracks are forgettable at best.
Their films have aged better than a lot of the programmes and are still funny to me.
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There's a lot of not so funny Python, but the good stuff is golden.

 
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