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Comedians you have just never found funny?

333 replies

raythechay · 05/10/2023 23:24

Lee Evans

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Lengokengo · 06/10/2023 05:51

Lee Evans: once saw him live and he was terrible. My humourless flat mate that I went with found him hilarious! Don’t find Billy Connolly (for last 30 years) funny. Also Katherine Ryan and Gina Yashere.

Have seen Sarah Millican and Dara O Briain live also and v v funny.

On a side note, the 3 guys in the three bean salad podcast are really funny and that’s the most I laugh all week.

Meadowfly · 06/10/2023 06:10

Same as many others - these i find actively unbearable:
Rosie Jones - just crude and laughs at her own ‘jokes’
frankie boyle - vile
billy conolly - gives me the heebie jeebies
now Eddie Izard - repulsive

smilesup · 06/10/2023 06:18

SabrinaThwaite · 06/10/2023 00:35

Keith Lemon
Peter Kay
Frankie Boyle
Rosie Jones
Joe Wilkinson
Robin Ince
Stewart Lee (actually I should put him first)

Michael Mcintyre, Nish Kumar and Caroline Quentin are all in the “fucking annoying” category.

I used to not get Stewart Lee at all and then saw him live at a comedy night and he was properly funny. A great delivery and cleverly woven story with some proper belly laugh bits. I was very surprised.

ToussaintTheChef · 06/10/2023 06:18

Eddie izzard
lee evans
Peter Kay

I can’t stand stupid humour. Jim carrey’s movies are god awful to me for that reason. I love people like Jack Dee, Lee hurst and Michael McIntyre.

Bbq1 · 06/10/2023 06:24

Cannot STAND Alan Carr.

determinedtomakethiswork · 06/10/2023 06:26

mjf981 · 06/10/2023 05:01

James Acaster - terrible
Jonathon Ross - also terrible

Have you heard the off menu podcast where James is with Ed Gamble? I really like that podcast.

Hihey · 06/10/2023 06:33

I can't think of any female stand up comics that I find funny, unfortunately. There are sitcoms written by women that I find funny though. I agree with a lot of the ones mentioned here too.

MaitreKarlsson · 06/10/2023 06:36

Agree with a lot of previous posters. I immediately thought of Phil Wang though - he's always getting on gameshows and podcasts and I can't figure out how. I've never even raised a chuckle. How does he keep getting all the work?

Sara Pascoe I really like, but Sewing Bee is not her finest hour. I think she's doing it for the £ (fair enough)

JustYouAndMeNow · 06/10/2023 06:42

Boujibroke · 06/10/2023 01:08

95% of the ones mentioned above.

I will add Robin Williams when he was alive. Never found him funny and don't understand how he was rated as an actor.

He was also hated by many other comedians because he was well known was stealing jokes.
Frankie Boyle, it's the first series of Taskmaster I haven't watched and I'm not going to. He makes my skin crawl.
Milton Jones, seems like a nice bloke but I don't find him funny or "surreal"
Rosie Jones, she's always hitting people and I always think she's been on the nose candy. Plus she's not funny.
James Acaster, big favourite with incels, he gives me the creeps I can't even watch him but also I've never found him funny.

MNetcurtains · 06/10/2023 06:44

Shappi Khorsandi

Yirk · 06/10/2023 06:44

Used to be a massive Eddie Izzard fan, but can't stand the man now.
David Walliams
Jonathan Ross.
Frankie Boyle.
Miranda

Naimee87 · 06/10/2023 06:44

Katherine Ryan… cannot stand her at all. PPs have nailed the reasons

MyCircumference · 06/10/2023 06:46

sarah millican
jimmy carr
frankie boyle

CoreopsisEverywhere · 06/10/2023 06:48

Peter Kay
Alan Carr
Lee Evans
Stewart Lee
Rosie Jones
Shappi Korsandi

MyCircumference · 06/10/2023 06:49

went off billy Connolly when he started swearing so much

Mothership4two · 06/10/2023 06:49

Paul Sinha
Liza Tarbuck
Munya Chawawa
Kiell Smith-Bynoe
Lucy Beaumont

All have been on Taskmaster

SeanMean · 06/10/2023 06:50

Rosie Jones

JaneKatSuttonGoals · 06/10/2023 07:05

00100001 · 05/10/2023 23:57

Rosie Jones. Don't give a shit of its not PC...she's not funny

This a million % - someone looked at me like I'd drowned a puppy when I bemoaned not watching last leg one Friday coz she was due to be on.
Fair play to her for achieving what she has against the odds but I can't watch her

JaneKatSuttonGoals · 06/10/2023 07:08

Oh and Alan Carr, Al Murray & Gina Yoshare (sp?l

Lemon1111 · 06/10/2023 07:15

Keith lemon
David Walliams
French.. Saunders is ok

Trixiefirecracker · 06/10/2023 07:28

I can’t believe people would say French and Saunders! Alan Carr is awful. As is Michael McIntyre.

RaeHitsEbSire · 06/10/2023 07:29

Morcambe and Wise

Flakjacketon · 06/10/2023 07:31

PicturesOfDogs · 06/10/2023 00:15

Russell Howard.
So annoying

Agree

HelpMeGetThrough · 06/10/2023 07:31

Alan Carr, dick head.

Saw John Bishop live and was very underwhelmed, he wasn't that funny. All he talked about was how he couldn't believe his success. I sat there thinking the same thing.

HandShoe · 06/10/2023 07:37

Rosie Jones
David Walliams
Keith Lemon

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