Unfunny Irish comedians <<MOD note in OP>>

Dirty Dingus McGee

el diablo wrote: »

The Commitments is a classic. One of the best Irish movies ever.

The Commitments and The Snapper are 2 of the most overrated films of all time.

There's one great joke in the Commitments and apart from the songs (which the film deserves zero credit for) that's about it between the 2 of them.

ligerdub

Jerichoholic wrote: »

The Commitments was a comedy right? Saw it earlier and it was the most embarrassing thing I've seen years.

Horrendous.

It was to my mind, a decent lighthearted drama, with a high degree of quotable jokes to bring up the comedy factor, it's the least traditional comedy of the Barrytown trilogy. It's a good film, but it didn't age well, certainly not compared to the other two. The Snapper was always generally perceived as the best of the three, the Van as the worst, but if anything I think The Van has aged easily the best of the lot, and in my mind is still the funniest.

The Commitments also seemed to be a little bit pretentious to me, but it was made around the time where the recession was still quite strong, if coming to an end. People were looking for humour and a fee good story around Ireland, it served a purpose. It has Glen Hansard in it so it's not all good by any means.

Ted111

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

There's one great joke in the Commitments

Which joke is that?

Dirty Dingus McGee

Ted111 wrote: »

Which joke is that?

There's a big que outside Jimmy Rabbite's house and one gouger type gets to the top of the que and says "Band? I thought yiz were selling drugs"

Patty O Furniture

Jason Byrne can have his own thread
Des Bishop
Dermot whatsisface

el diablo

Those clowns with the Superquinn bags on their heads are without a doubt the worst excuses for comedians Ireland has ever produced.

liam7831

Patty O Furniture wrote: »

Jason Byrne can have his own thread
Des Bishop
Dermot whatsisface

Morgan ?

chicorytip

Dermot Morgan. He was a great comedic actor but not a good stand up comedian. Much of his material, particularly on Scrap Saturday, had a nastiness which was unfunny.

topmanamillion

Tiernan had his day about 10-15 years ago. I watched Stray sod the other night and its a pale comparison to his earlier stuff. He`s just burnt out and made his money at this stage. He knows well he can spend the next 20 years half arsing it doing shows in Vicar street in front of the die hards who will start laughing before he even delivers the punch line.

Stonedpilot

topmanamillion wrote: »

Tiernan had his day about 10-15 years ago. I watched Stray sod the other night and its a pale comparison to his earlier stuff. He`s just burnt out and made his money at this stage. He knows well he can spend the next 20 years half arsing it doing shows in Vicar street in front of the die hards who will start laughing before he even delivers the punch line.

Yep true that.

DEFTLEFTHAND

chicorytip wrote: »

Dermot Morgan. He was a great comedic actor but not a good stand up comedian. Much of his material, particularly on Scrap Saturday, had a nastiness which was unfunny.

He was terrible at standup, he would bomb when playing outside of here.

He'd bad delivery and convoluted jokes that went nowhere. He was booed off stage on many occasions.

But still a great comedic stage actor when he had other people writing his lines.

Ralf and Florian

Jerichoholic wrote: »

It's as good as this?

My God it's bad.

Is that a porno? Hope none in that clip gets their kit off apart from the waitress.

Stonedpilot

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

He was terrible at standup, he would bomb when playing outside of here.

He'd bad delivery and convoluted jokes that went nowhere. He was booed off stage on many occasions.

But still a great comedic stage actor when he had other people writing his lines.

Booed off stage? Really

Senna

Went to a Tommy Tiernan show a few years back, was giving him another chance after a good few years of being rubbish. He walked on the stage and announced the warm up, his cousin. People genuinely though he was jokeing, but it was no joke, and that's how the evening continued. It was a painful experience.

mattser

el diablo wrote: »

The Commitments is a classic. One of the best Irish movies ever.

A load of crap. Ireland doesn't do film or comedy. Try to copy UK and US and fail miserably every time.

CalamariFritti

Had to suffer through an hour of Brendan Grace on TV3 or so on Christmas Day, a re-run of some stand-up from 10, 15 years ago. The in-laws thought he'd be great to watch after dinner as he is 'so funny'.

In that whole hour he had 2 somewhat clever and witty lines. The rest of it was terrible. Just him telling elaborate, never ending 'stories' involving Irish 'people'. Like I tell you about me cousins best friend. he's farmer and he loves the movies...
Then he goes on for 10 minutes telling this story which goes nowhere and isn't one bit funny but allows him to make a lot of snoring and farting noises and squinty faces and use 'funny' Irish words like scuppered or flummoxed and talk like someone drunk in different 'accents'. The audience and a good few folks at home were hanging on his every word and I thought, it must be me so....

Is it me?

MRnotlob606

I think Jennifer Maguire and Bernard O Shea can jointly accept that award.

ligerdub

mattser wrote:

A load of crap. Ireland doesn't do film or comedy. Try to copy UK and US and fail miserably every time.

Comedy is **** right now. Too many mediocre acts following the same BS, let's make a joke about Donald Trump or Nigel Farage, yawn!

The UK has very few acts of true quality. The US is better but they have the same problem. Louis CK, Bill Burr, after that the list gets tough to fill.

Stonedpilot

ligerdub wrote: »

Comedy is **** right now. Too many mediocre acts following the same BS, let's make a joke about Donald Trump or Nigel Farage, yawn!

The UK has very few acts of true quality. The US is better but they have the same problem. Louis CK, Bill Burr, after that the list gets tough to fill.

Bill Burr is a great comedian Irish comedians should watch him in awe. Had pint with him after his show years ago in the sugar club. Nice lad,
Dark cynical comedy done right.
He was funny in Breaking Bad too.

BuilderPlumber

I have to say that those 2 new Christmas episodes of Mrs Brown's Boys were awful. The longest 2 half hours ever. Don't know why I even bothered watching it. The family were as well and none of us liked it!! Definitely it has totally run out of ideas and there is not one thing about recent episodes of it that are funny. This cash cow has been milked dry at this stage.

Saipanne

Rubberbandits.

They stopped being funny when they tried to become the new Bono.

el diablo

Saipanne wrote: »

Rubberbandits.

They stopped being funny when they tried to become the new Bono.

They were never actually funny though.

digzy

Tie between maeve Higgins and Bernard o Shea

RabbleRouser2k

Stonedpilot wrote: »

Bill Burr is a great comedian Irish comedians should watch him in awe. Had pint with him after his show years ago in the sugar club. Nice lad,
Dark cynical comedy done right.
He was funny in Breaking Bad too.

He's one of the few comics who will just call people out on their BS, whether it's a fellow comedian, or a 'celebrity'. (The bashing of Lady Gaga was hilarious, tbh.)
He also pointed out how a sound effect in enter the dragon is taken from Pink Panther cartoons-which is hilarious tbh.

He may tick off certain folks tho, but that's what a great comedian does, and I love it. At least he doesn't pander or insult with menace.

RabbleRouser2k

Senna wrote: »

Went to a Tommy Tiernan show a few years back, was giving him another chance after a good few years of being rubbish. He walked on the stage and announced the warm up, his cousin. People genuinely though he was jokeing, but it was no joke, and that's how the evening continued. It was a painful experience.

Oh boy-she can be funny, in Irish Pictorial Weekly she had some clever moments. And some of her stand up has been good.
But the first time I ever saw her comedy, boy howdy did she bomb. It was on TV, so many people saw it.
Awful.

Berserker

harry Bailey esq wrote: »

Al Porter.Nothing funny about him whatsoever.Cringeworthy

Was watching 'Tonight at the London Palladium' or one of the shows along those lines last week and Al was one of the acts. Started off playing the gay card and moved onto some Irish rebel song skit after that. Got a few sympathy laughs from the audience but most thought he was an idiot, I suspect. Should stick to panto.

Jennifer Maguire, Bernard O' Shea and that pair of morons from Limerick, The Rubberbandits, with their political gob****ery deserve a special mention too. Oh, add Kevin Gildea to the list; a painfully unfunny individual.

FizzleSticks

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BuilderPlumber

There are quite a few names I have never heard tell of mentioned here. Shows like Irish Pictorial Weekly are awful and seem to be the breeding ground for all these imitators of politicians types. Definitely Irish comedy at the moment is a case of quantity not quality.

timthumbni

Whenever i hear the words Irish comedy I get an unholy image of the guy ocarroll and mrs browns boys. ''Tis a sad image and not since give my head peace have I been so unimpressed....

The guy who played da in give my head peace has now a weekly so called "comedy" scripted panel show on bbc1 in with other Irish so called comedy artists. At least it saves the suicidal from getting out of their chairs...

Berserker

timthumbni wrote: »

The guy who played da in give my head peace has now a weekly so called "comedy" scripted panel show on bbc1 in with other Irish so called comedy artists. At least it saves the suicidal from getting out of their chairs...

You thinking of 'The Blame Game'? 'Give My Head Peace' was alright. Uncle Uncle Andy was a great character.