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.

Carr and Frankie Boyle are just two deeply unpleasant sociopaths who got lucky, imo.

I saw Rosie Jones at Latitude a few years back before she was famous I think or at least I had not heard of her. I thought she was funny then. I now switch of the tv if she is on. I just think if you have seen her once, you have seen her act. I also feel that part of her act is a disabled person saying something sexually rude.

Jimmy Carr - and anyone who thinks getting a laugh out of child abuse is fine. He’s just creepy and kidding nobody with his new fake hair.

8/10 cats was on tv last night and I just didn’t find it funny at all.

Oh yes, Reeves and Mortimer. So puerile. Also Jimmy Carr but I suppose he goes without saying. ( He can be funny, but I just can't bear him.). I usually like Alan Carr but watched five minutes of him with Amanda Holden introducing Saturday Night at the London Palladium and it was excruciating. Lead balloons. Presumably it was the pressure, royalty being there etc.
I and several others walked out of a Chubby Brown set about 35 years ago. I was working at the venue and got free tickets or I wouldn't have gone. Offensive and not funny.

I think when the Young Ones era arrived and David Baddiel etc, people like Bob Monkhouse and Ken Dodd were considered old school and naff. But then they both had a revival. That was the period I saw Ken Dodd live. Bob Monkhouse is very funny and great timing.

Eddie Izzard
Michael McIntyre
Tom Allen

Pleased to see so much love for Sean Lock. He also first cast the acting genius that is Benedict Wong in 15 Storeys High. It's quite bleak but 20 years later I still find myself laughing at the memory of the gags.

I saw Jimmy Carr before he was famous in a pub in Tufnell park 25ish years ago. He was absolutely brilliant. Yes, you can hate his material and not find him funny on a personal level but he is a great writer and performer technically.

I also don't find Reeves & Mortimer or Vic Reeves in the slightest bit funny. Bob Mortimer on WILTY though is hilarious and I like him as a person.

Tom Allen. I've had more fun from a virus.

I have never seen the appeal of Reeves and Mortimer. Reeves is a good straight actor, I'll grant you, but he does nothing for me as a comic.

I have never seen the appeal of Ricky Gervaise either.

I'm guessing I'm not a big stand up fan as my list is huge. I much prefer things like taskmaster where the natural funniness shines through.

Jessica Knappet / who knew she was so hilarious.

But back to the OP

Tom what's it from the apprentice. Not funny

Sara millican. Just mean, not funny.

Rosie Jones. No idea why she gets airtime

I don't like Jimmy Carr's stand-up - it's incredibly crude and graphic. However I went to see cats do countdown being recorded, and he was very funny between takes, just joking about with the audience. He and the warm-up guy made a very good double act, and he was extremely quick witted with come-backs.

strange how much hate Rosie is getting

Why is it “hate” to say you don’t find someone funny? Like Nish Kumar, she is nowhere near as funny as she likes to think she is.

Mind you, I find her obnoxious anyway after she said she had an “angry cry” after seeing that some feminists had lunch together. She can fuck off with that sort of virtue signalling nonsense.

Not wishing to derail the thread, but totally agree, she's no ally of women. There was a case a little while ago about a non-binary man who was queuing to enter a night club. He decided to queue in the women's line to prove a point - which would have forced the female security guard to search a male body. Obviously being non binary it would have been equally valid to queue in the men's line....but he chose not to. The nightclub told him he needed to queue in the men's line. Cue absolute histronics and a public wailing online about being invalidated etc. Rosie Jones was very vocal in her support of this individual - because fuck the woman who would have been forced to search a male body. According to Rosie Jones, all sympathy with the non binary male who wanted to force a woman to search his male body.

And that's without even getting into the fact that she upset a large section of the disabled community by her use of the word "retard" to get publicity for her documentary. Three people in the documentary asked to be removed when they found out what the title was. And the reason for the title was so that RJ could make the point that she's not intellectually disabled, and therefore not worthy of that slur - meaning that intellectually disabled individuals are. It was a horribly ableist piece that really upset a lot of disabled people.

For full disclosure, my mum has cerebral palsy and the DC's dad has cerebral palsy so it's very personal for me.

So absolutely, imo she's not a great person as well as being unfunny.

As I said, I don't want to derail the thread but someone asked earlier why I said I thought she was a bit of an arsehole, and this is why. I wouldn't watch her even if she was funny.

I think you’re the first person ever to find Romesh funny

Fully agree.
I cringed watching them, because literally nothing they said or did made me smile.

The “lovely human” who said what he said about Ken Bigley you mean?

I happen to like Michael McIntyre so no we can't all agree. I dislike all comedians who use the c*nt word it is a really ugly swearword and derogatory about the female anatomy.

Frankie Boyle is so unfunny

Nish Kumar as well. He seems to think he is so funny but just dire

Jimmy Carr
Russell Brand
Sarah Pascoe
Kathryn Ryan
Romesh Ranganathan
Rosie Jones
Lenny Henry
Dawn French

Billy Connolly has only ever made me laugh once in all the years he's been around!

I have to disagree with the people who said Sarah Millican, I've seen her twice live now and she was very funny and very entertaining!
But it would be odd if we all liked the same things!

Thank you @SecretSoul. What an absolute peach she is.

Went to see Jimmy Carr on Wednesday night for my son’s 18th. Previously thought he was ok, but I honestly found the whole night really disturbing.

His audience was very male and laddish. His set was very misogynistic - more than half of his set was jokes about domestic violence, date rape, and paedophilia. He was pandering to the Andrew Tate fans and it was just awful. What a sell out and so disappointing as he should know better and I don’t even think he believes that stuff. Ugh.

He does two 90 min shows in one night to really rake in the cash so we had plenty of time to eyeball his audience as we had to queue while the previous audience filed out.

Rosie Jones, Kenny Henry, Milton Jones, and Miranda Hart. She seems lovely in interviews but I just don't find her funny at all. Thinking about it a lot of comedians who are currently popular are not very funny. The late Dave Allen & Kenny Everett were seriously funny (likewise Billy Connolly).

Lou Sanders. She’s either talking non—stop about her genitals and/or sex life, or overdoing the “I’m mad and quirky, I am!” act. Both on AND off-stage.

I like her as a person but not funny

Ricky Gervais
Harry Hill - saw him live and he put me right off
Rosie Jones, her material is pretty funny but too shouty

Milton Jones was phenomenal live at the Fringe, 1.5 hours of relentless one liners, some of which I can still reel off years later!

It does feel a bit samey with TV comedians, as in the same ones on all the time, maybe just me?