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Where the jiggery is Hugh Dennis?

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policywonk · 06/04/2009 19:17

He doesn't seem to be on the Now Show any more. I miss him.

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Habbibu · 06/04/2009 19:25

Is he maybe just off filming something else? Can't imagine he's given up for good. I guess with TNS they have to put up with the odd clash as they can't record months in advance.

I liked that woman the other week, though. Name and good jokes escape me.

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Threadworm · 06/04/2009 19:27

I'm not a huge fan of his. I like the fact that he is a bishop's son, though. Not many comedians are.

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Habbibu · 06/04/2009 19:29

Is he really? They always took the piss out of Tim Westwood for being a vicar's son - and other things.

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Threadworm · 06/04/2009 19:32

I'd like to sart a thread asking (a) which stand-up comedian would you most like to resemble, and (b) which stand-up comedian are you most like?

I'd like to be a mixture of Eddie Izzard and Frankie Boyle, but I fear I'm more of a Woody Allen.

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Habbibu · 06/04/2009 19:34

In looks or comic stylings?

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Threadworm · 06/04/2009 19:37

comic stylings. I don't look like any of those -- or want to.

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Habbibu · 06/04/2009 19:38

Mmm. Maybe would like to be like Ross Noble/Noel Fielding, but am more like Dylan Moran. But not drunk.

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Threadworm · 06/04/2009 19:41

I like Dylan Moran, but can't really imagine him sober. Are you really like him? V v rude to people and hating them all?

I like Ross Noble. Nice hair, nice accent, good improvisation. Can't place N. fielding though.

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Habbibu · 06/04/2009 19:45

No, actually, but saw him once at edinburgh, and the pedantry and bewilderment struck a chord. Am more of a misanthrope in real life than here!
Mitchell and Webb also - love the Boy Literally Dying of Embarrassment, etc.

Noel Fielding - Might Boosh and genuinely surreal stand-up.

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policywonk · 06/04/2009 19:46

Really? You don't like him thready?

I like that woman they had on recently - young sounding, was talking about the Boat Race - can't remember name. Can't think straight. Haven't slept properly for a week.

I don't think I'm like any stand-ups, really. Maybe really bad ones. Can't deliver a punchline to save my life - I get all needy and pleading as I approach the end of a joke.

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policywonk · 06/04/2009 19:47

I saw Dylan Moran live, he was Not Good.

Best comedy show I've ever seen was the Doug Anthony Allstars, way back in the day. Really cried with laughter.

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Habbibu · 06/04/2009 19:50

Doug Anthony Allstars? Sounds like music hall... What was wrong with DM?

Yes, yes - boat race lady. Will try to find out.

Saw Armstrong and Miller live too - cried laughing. But I do that easily.

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Threadworm · 06/04/2009 19:53

Well, I'm not really like any stand-up in terms of being actually able to do stand-up -- but more in general attitude to life, etc.

Lol at pedantry and bewilderment. So really, Habbibu, you are David Mitchell with a wodge of added misanthropy?

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Habbibu · 06/04/2009 19:54

I wish. I can be quite acid tongued, but I never mean it, which is why I never do it on here, as you can't hear tone/see expression, and I hate emoticons.

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policywonk · 06/04/2009 20:00

What was wrong with DM - I think he was genuinely pissed and not quite able to deliver his act properly. I also don't like the misanthropy. It was like being cornered at a New Year's Eve party by a drunk single man in his forties, possibly embittered at his ex-wife.

Prefer Izzard-style benevolence and silliness.

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Habbibu · 06/04/2009 20:01

I like the idea of Eddie Izzard, but don't really enjoy his delivery. My weakness is Milton Jones - have a soft spot for shameless puns. Do you like Forty Nights in the Wildebeest?

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policywonk · 06/04/2009 20:08

Have an idea Milton Jones is on R4, but can't place him.

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Threadworm · 06/04/2009 20:16

I quite like Milton Jones. Spins bad puns into whole sketches.

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Habbibu · 06/04/2009 20:19

Wildebeest even better at that, though, threadie - huge set-ups for terrible puns.

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Threadworm · 06/04/2009 20:20

I don't think I've heard wildebeest.

There is so much good comedy on R4 (and an amount of bad comedy too).

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Habbibu · 06/04/2009 20:22

It's old-ish - you can still catch it on BBC7 from time to time. If I wasn't scared of torrents I'd download it.

Here is wiki page.

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jambutty · 06/04/2009 20:24

Also missing Hugh Dennis but as long as Marcus Brigstocke and Mitch Benn are on I can cope.
I wasn't keen on Dylan Moran either - overrated, I thought after seeing him. Same with Eddie Izzard, although I was suffering from hyperemesis when I saw him and just kept thinking "will you STOP wittering on about wearing a frock, I want to be SICK!" Milton Jones annoys me.

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bran · 06/04/2009 20:24

I would like to be Dara O'Briain or David Mitchell, intelligent, not needlessly unkind and pant-wettingly funny. Sadly I think I'm more of a Marcus Bridgestock, fairly funny but never quite reaching hilarious (although The Museum of Everything is very good) and a bit bitchy against an easy target.

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Threadworm · 06/04/2009 20:25

R7 is my aural hot water bottle most nights, so I expect I'll catch it sooner or later.

I adore Round the Horne, btw, mentioned in that Wiki)

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Habbibu · 06/04/2009 20:27

Also loved "The Consultants"

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