Peter Kay show made me a little sad.

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We went to see the wonderful Peter Kay last night. I have always loved his humour and yes it was very very funny in places.
However, I felt there was a real undertone of sadness in him. He lost his obviously beloved Nanna ans dedicates a part of the show to her. I felt after that the mood didn’t really lift. I know he had family in the audience. He also looked teary in various places.
I wanted to give him a hug. Maybe he was feeling emotional after being reunited with family. Has anyone else seen him recently?

Like all of us he is also aging . Many of the older comedians have lost their edge or their angle is no longer funny . Peter Kay was a Northern comedian and his brilliance was in talking about being brought up in 70s/80s Britain. Bill Bailey seems to have also lost his edge as his musical interpretations and intellectual but bizarre discourse has been the basis of his act . But to stay relevant they have to change . Show business is fickle be it music or acting . It is a tough business to keep on long term .

We saw the show when it first started the tour. I enjoyed much of it and felt his tribute to his nanna was just fine.
I did also feel that he felt ‘fragile’. Not the robust and endlessly smiling man we’d become used to.
Aside from losing his grandmother it definitely looked like he has been very unwell. When all the shows were cancelled it was clear that something very serious happened.
Hopefully he is on the mend and is in fact enjoying himself.

There’s been a bit of a trend for making stand-up out of sad or difficult stuff. First Dara O’Briain did half of his show about contacting his birth family, then Ed Byrne did a show about the death of his brother. I actually like both of them, and had seen them before, but I didn’t think either of them worked, and Ed Byrne’s show was really sad.

Well if you’re going to be a recluse then the material for new comedy sketches and jokes just isn’t going to be there.

I’m saying the above is particularly relevant to PK as he was notorious on the comedy circuit for nicking jokes, anecdotes and gags from others. I guess he hasn’t given himself much opportunity to do that over the last few years.

He was on Radio 2 breakfast this morning and it was so predictably unfunny.
He is just not relevant anymore

I think all comedians get past it at some point dont they?

Is there an injunction in the UK? We can use Google translate if you can post the Swedish links

That’s a bit intrusive.

We saw him a few years ago (should have been years earlier but he cancelled). We weren’t looking forward to it as felt the moment had passed. DH and I both didn’t think it was funny, seemed forced almost painful to watch but maybe we had just lost the excitement.

His appeal has always been largely in his energy, love of life, and familiarity (like one of the family). We've all been buoyed up and encouraged by that. I'm really sorry (for him) if he's lost some of that spark, but life can be cruel. So let's get behind him and show him some love.

I read one newspaper report recently (not sure how reliable or which, but a tabloid), where he had apparently made a comment, something like "Let's face it, this is the last time I will be doing this" (article made it out to be the current tour of the stand-up shows).
Although it sounded off the cuff for him, the reporter had chosen to pounce on it and spotlight it as significant. Not sure if blown out of proportion.

Love him so much. Followed him for yrs. But was so shocked to see him on this morning my heart will break if hes dying x

Well he's still selling shows well into next year so he's unlikely to be at death's door.

I thought the reason why he suddenly cancelled his tour a few years ago was due to an ill child, not him being ill. He said in an interview he did some time afterwards that he was raising money for a hospice for children with a certain illness 'due to personal experience' so I took that to mean that he had a child with the illness that the place specialised in.

Have you seen him now? Was he OK?

I saw him last night in Nottingham (should have been 5th October, but was postponed due to his having a kidney stone) and it was a fantastic night. Very, very funny. There was a short bit about his Nana, just a few photos and tape recordings but it was funny rather than maudlin. He's still got it! If you're going to see him, don't get up to leave after his encore, as he does two encores.

We went to see him several months ago and I was SO disappointed in the show. I just couldn’t really raise a laugh and the ending felt just bizarre and too try-hard.

Poor chap. He really seems out of sorts.

Never found the man in any way funny
Same old observational comedy routines I have heard a million times

It’s like anything, novelty at first but it gets boring. I remember 20 odd years ago first seeing him on TV after my sister kept going on about him and he was LOL funny and I found him hilarious, but 20 years on, it doenst have the same impact. He was quite novel back then but novelty can only last for a time. It’s the accent that made him more funny, if wouldn’t have the same comedy affect of it was someone with my accent for example.

I never found any of the other stuff he was involved in funny either, whether it be Phoenix nights or that Amerillo song. I know it was for charity but talk about over kill. I remember seeing him on a talk show years ago, think it was Jonathan Ross and he was wandering about and climbing over the set and it went on and on and just overkill and OTT and not funny at all.

I went to see him in Brum last Friday. Having read reviews and comments, I was expecting to be disappointed. If you wanted new material, you would be. But for me it was one nostalgic trip down memory lane. Very funny and no dead eyes! A great night out. Maybe it worked better for those of us who aren't particularly fans of his. Just took me right back to an era when he was more popular and I could relate to it. I'd kind of taken little notice of him in the intervening years, went off him even. And a young audience wouldn't have had a clue. Definitely for children of the 70s and 80s.

We saw him at the 02, September 24 and I didn’t recognise him when he first came on stage. I did think he looked ill, but he was still very funny and nostalgic. We both really enjoyed the show.

Saw him near to the start of this mammoth tour, some bits were very funny, some not so much, it did feel as if his nans death had a very significant effect on him, he probably does have contractual obligations to fill, but,maybe he needs to stop now and take some more time out. Quit while he’s still ahead

I know this is an old thread but I was at the show last night and bloody loved it. The first half was a bit slow but the second half, especially the encores, was outstanding. Just a genuinely lovely man.

And the nan slide slow was touching and hilarious.

A trip down memory lane, I thought. A bit of nostalgia for simpler times. Made us oldies laugh anyway. And I had found him a bit old hat in the intervening years but it wasn't pretending to be new and cutting edge this time. Made us happy.