Unfunny Irish comedians <<MOD note in OP>>

Dannyriver

Jerichoholic wrote: »

All political comedy is ****ing boring, it's also cheap and lazy. Mitchell's been doing it for too long.

He's a great actor though and Peep Show is an all time great.

Lenny Bruce, Bill Hicks, George Carlin, Stewart Lee, Dylan Moran?

Jerichoholic

Stewart Lee political? Since when?

Political comedy is HAHA DONALD TRUMP IS AN EEJIT HAA HA.

It's terrible. It's boring. Unfortunately that's all there is lately.

The Bollocks

Alison Spittle- what an unfunny bollocks,

Dannyriver

Jerichoholic wrote: »

Stewart Lee political? Since when?

Political comedy is HAHA DONALD TRUMP IS AN EEJIT HAA HA.

It's terrible. It's boring. Unfortunately that's all there is lately.

Enjoy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek9_GQa1lgc

DEFTLEFTHAND

Jerichoholic wrote: »

Stewart Lee political? Since when?

Political comedy is HAHA DONALD TRUMP IS AN EEJIT HAA HA.

It's terrible. It's boring. Unfortunately that's all there is lately.

Norm MacDonald addressed this recently.
Real smart comic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdW0NZl0Ozg

Jerichoholic

Dannyriver wrote: »

Enjoy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek9_GQa1lgc

I like Stewart Lee, I just don't see him as political at all. He has far more memorable routines that aren't like that one to me.

Dannyriver

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Norm MacDonald addressed this recently.
Real smart comic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdW0NZl0Ozg

**** me but he s boring and difficult to stick with but I agree with him re the late night shows in particular Seth Meyers awful repetitive Trump bashing bull****

Dannyriver

Jerichoholic wrote: »

I like Stewart Lee, I just don't see him as political at all. He has far more memorable routines that aren't like that one to me.

He s always been political in one way or another

Jerichoholic

Dannyriver wrote: »

He s always been political in one way or another

Nothing like a Rory Bremner or a David Mitchell though. It's a small enough part of his act so he gets a pass.

Joe_ Public

Is there another David Mitchell I'm not aware of? Apart from his Observer weekly column, I cant think of any other forum in which he engages with politics in any significant way. Even in that column, I doubt the subject of Trump crops up all that often, maybe once every couple of months or so. There's the odd political rant on WILTY, but they are by nature linked to the context of that show. It strikes me as some kind of bizarro world in which David Mitchell can be described as a political performer, but Stewart Lee not.

Dannyriver

Joe_ Public wrote: »

Is there another David Mitchell I'm not aware of? Apart from his Observer weekly column, I cant think of any other forum in which he engages with politics in any significant way. Even in that column, I doubt the subject of Trump crops up all that often, maybe once every couple of months or so. There's the odd political rant on WILTY, but they are by nature linked to the context of that show. It strikes me as some kind of bizarro world in which David Mitchell can be described as a political performer, but Stewart Lee not.

Stewart lee not being political left me gob smacked too

Jerichoholic

David Mitchell literally did nothing else but politics on that Channel 4 11 o'clock live. If that's baffling I don't know what to tell you.

Stewart Lee touches on it sure, but he's not a political comedian. He's not seen that way. He just isn't.

Joe_ Public

Jerichoholic wrote: »

David Mitchell literally did nothing else but politics on that Channel 4 11 o'clock live. If that's baffling I don't know what to tell you.

Stewart Lee touches on it sure, but he's not a political comedian. He's not seen that way. He just isn't.

Well to be fair 10 O'Clock Live was conceived as a political show so David Mitchell was hardly going to appear on it and talk about cricket all the time, was he? Is Jimmy Carr a political comedian because he featured in that show too? Only lasted a couple of seasons iirc anyway, hardly career defining stuff you'd say.

I like both Stewart Lee and David Mitchell, however they are defined.

fryup

the purple tin wrote: »

Because there's such a big irish community in Oz throwing their money around a lot of well known irish bands and comedians that struggle over here can do really well for themselves over there.

Even if their really not that good.

but it wasn't just ex-pat paddys....regular aussie's loved him for some reason

Testament1

fryup wrote: »

but it wasn't just ex-pat paddys....regular aussie's loved him for some reason

Mrs Browns Boys is also very popular there. They're not a people known for their good taste

The Crowman

Dave Callan is another Australian based Irish standup who's bafflingly popular down there.

RabbleRouser2k

Joe_ Public wrote: »

As he is in Would I Lie To You? though it is starting to sag a little bit after so many series, as any format would to be fair. Why he has been dragged into this particular thread, I really haven't the faintest idea.

Also Mitchell and Webb-don't forget that. It was brilliant.

ButtersSuki wrote: »

Well, the Sindo and the Indo are at it too, and trying to make their focking Mom a celeb too. I’ve heard them referred to as “the Irish Kardashians”.

Jeeezus...what??? That makes about as much sense as the time Amanda Brunker called Vivienne Connolly 'Ireland's answer to Cameron Diaz'...

I sat there like ' how are they compatible? That's like comparing a Galaxy bar to boiled cabbage'. Connolly hadn't even attempted to 'act' at the time.

RabbleRouser2k

Sal Butamol wrote: »

Carrie Crowley lol

What's this about Brian Ormond?

As for Claire Byrne, isn't her talent in riding her way to the top?

Yeah-remember Carrie Crowley? It all seemed to go wrong for her after she hosted Eurovision.

Brian Ormond was responsible for some 'get rich quick' scheme that he duped a number of people into-at 40 grand a person. At the time, he was working with The Lotto, and hosting some show that only aired on youtube (the new Lotto owners had no idea about the Irish audience) and thus should have kept his profile low. The Viper was sent to collect for some of the folks Ormond had duped, and it made the front pages of the news papers.Ouch. Career was over in a flash.

As for Claire Byrne-yep. I noticed she was curiously absent from the 'Autumn schedule' reveal. Even Anne Cassin, host of Nationwide, was included in the schedule reveal. I think someone, hopefully, is seeing sense-she's a disaster.

Dannyriver wrote: »

**** me but he s boring and difficult to stick with but I agree with him re the late night shows in particular Seth Meyers awful repetitive Trump bashing bull****

And many of them are losing viewers and sponsors. Such as Samantha Bee, and she can't afford to lose sponsors, she's barely got any.
Comedy central hosts are a mixed bag-you have the reprehensible Bee, the similarly reprehensible Jim Jeffries, and the rest are just 'meh'.
I think folks long for the days of John Stewart.

fryup

Testament1 wrote: »

Mrs Browns Boys is also very popular there. They're not a people known for their good taste

thats true, they gave the world Paul Hogan

RabbleRouser2k

fryup wrote: »

thats true, they gave the world Paul Hogan

And Yahoo Serious.

fryup

and the unfunny chap with the false leg, who's name escapes me right now

Ipso

RabbleRouser2k wrote: »

And Yahoo Serious.

And Kevin Bloody Wilson.

warsaw2018

209 votes lol

tigerboon

I remember seeing Deirdre Kane supporting Ross Noble, of all people, in a pub off Dame St years ago. French kiss at a family reunion

RabbleRouser2k

fryup wrote: »

and the unfunny chap with the false leg, who's name escapes me right now

Adam Hill? He's pretty darn decent as a comedian. Has a bit about gay priests that's hilarious.

I see in the news Michelle Wolf's show got aborted-which is ironic, because she did a 'celebration of abortion' routine on her show, and now her own show has ended after less than 12 weeks.
I wonder if we're gonna see a crack down on comics doing boring political comedy? Like, it's two years of the same dumb material about a president they don't like.

The Crowman

fryup wrote: »

many moons ago i was in Australia, and Jimeoin was huge there at the time

i was baffled by it all, found him about as funny as waking up in a operating theatre during a vasectomy

I remember he was on the very first episode of the Panel where he came across like he was hungover, not funny just surly and narky.

RabbleRouser2k

The Crowman wrote: »

I remember he was on the very first episode of the Panel where he came across like he was hungover, not funny just surly and narky.

He's miles better than the others mentioned.

ohnonotgmail

fryup wrote: »

thats true, they gave the world Paul Hogan

The Paul Hogan tv show was hilarious when i was a kid.

steves2

Rory's stories is just awful, really bottom of the barrel stuff. Tommy Tiernan went off a bit the last few years but he shouldn't be mentioned in the same breath as the likes of Jason Byrne, he was never funny at all. To be honest can't think of any Irish comedians I'd pay to see now but Bill Burr had an Irish comic supporting him when he was here and he was pretty good, can't remember the name.

warsaw2018

Feel sorry for Alison now
Is she the Charlie Chaplin of our time