Unfunny comedians

[TheTecknician]

We've covered lousy actors and questionable singers. A further spin-off: who really isn't that funny, past or present? I offer:

Hale and Pace
Freddie Starr
Lenny Henry

Mean-spirited, I know.

On the plus side, I did like Jimmy Tarbuck. I'm probably being unfashionable but his delivery as a stand-up was perfect, even if some of the jokes wouldn't go down well today.

Nish Kumar - just painful
Holly Walsh - didn't even realise she was supposed to be a comedian
Russel Brand - he was funny back in the day, but long before the rape revelations, I thought he had lost his touch. I don't think he knew how to age out of the young bohemian lothario identity.
Joel Dommett - I want to like him (and do as a presenter) but he can be so awkward.

I saw him earlier this year and thought he was great!

I've always found Ricky Gervais too bitter. I don't enjoy him.

Not Ashling Bea or Michael McIntyre

But I love (and like) Billy Connolly

And nobody's mentioned him yet but Tommy Tiernan is very funny. Maybe he and his humour don't travel well.

I never found Jack Dee funny.

But comedy is a bit like a hairstyle, not everyone has the same taste.

I've seen Michael Mcintyre live and would do so again. I found him funny.

Can't stand Jimmy Carr and his wanky laugh.

Someone should have done a spreadsheet early doors ...

Also Rosie Jones.

I know I aren't supposed to say this but I find it difficult to understand her at times. I don't know if it's my ADHD as I'm trying to concentrate on what's she saying but my brain finds it hard to filter it. I don't have a hearing problem but I do have a problem with my brain filtering what I am hearing. Almost like when I'm in a room and someone is trying to tell me something and I can't hear them and it's too noisy and hurts my brain trying to concentrate.

I don't wish to be hurtful. I find it really good she has an equal opportunity to do the job she loves.

Haven't read the whole thread but hopefully we've agreed that Bob Mortimer is the funniest person currently alive?

Jim Davidson and similar make my skin crawl.

Joe Wilkinson is supremely unfunny

This year saw Peter Kay and he wasn't very good. But then saw Jimmy Carr and he was very good and going to see him again next year

Yes he is hilarious! And his life stories on Would I lie to you are jaw dropping!

Aw, l know that laugh, sounds like a donkey.
His humour, he just tries too hard to shock.He wants to see people laugh, when they know they really shouldn’t.

Ohhh, who was that grumpy, long-haired American guy who was on Cats Does Countdown a few times? He was one of the most humour-free individuals ever to grace the small screen.

Russel Brand
Peter Kay - due to his disappointing and boring tour this year

David Walliams
Matt Lucas
Ricky Gervais
Brendan O'Carroll
Jim Davison
Jimmy Carr
Rosie Jones
Alasdair Beckett-King
Tommy cooper
Victor Borge
Morecambe and Wise

Rosie Jones for sure.
Rob Beckett ( he’s not so bad off the cuff but saw his recent stand up on TV and didn’t laugh once).
Lou Sanders.
Joe Wilkinson
Jimmy Carr.

I think there will be an investigation about Russell Kane in the future. (Apologies to him if he just seems incredibly creepy and is in fact perfectly normal).

Agree with quite a few already posted, though I personally love James Acaster, Russell Howard, Sarah Millican and Josh Widdecombe. Haven’t seen them mentioned yet, but adding Paul Smith and Matt Rife to the ‘hate’ list - both awful!!!
Also dislike Jason Manford - he seems like a nice chap but his material is full of copied jokes from other places…

Poor old Rosie Jones is getting a pasting but I agree she’s about as funny as piles.

I loved Kerry Godliman in Derek and Afterlife as an actress and fully expected to like her the first time I saw her as a stand up, and was genuinely dismayed to discover I found her intensely dislikeable and very unfunny.

Eddie Izzard has never been funny. Nor has Russell Howard.

Ricky Gervais is a genius writer and actor but I don’t like him as a stand up.

I do like Sara Pascoe (and her book) but somehow she enunciates every syllable of every word but also sounds like a 5 year old and it distracts me too much.

She's another one who I didn't realise was supposed to be a comedian.

Have you never watched him on WILTY? He’s so quick witted, has us laughing constantly.

Irritating more like!

I've skimmed, and I think nobody has mentioned the worst of all.
Kathy Lette. She lives in England but was born in Australia and wrote a really good book ( with a friend) called Puberty Blues. It was great.That was the end of it.
She still does some standup shows but mostly writes atrocious books that are supposed to be funny. Basically she puts a pun ( mostly sexual ) in about every third sentence. They are truly horrificly bad. She can't mention anything round without referring to balls, sausages, vessels. You get it. It's just so damn tedious.

Oh and I used to like Adam Hills when he hosted a show her in Aus called Spicks and Specks but I've see him on Last Leg and he seems a bit of a wanker now.
Ross Noble never seems to leave our shores - can you please take him and his awful hair back. Ta