To really not understand why people find Michael Mcintyre funny?

[Allora]

I love watching most stand up, but God that man makes my teeth chang. I can't even watch him for more than a minute. He just laughs the whole time and walks around a lot.

Am I missing something?

Where are the laughs? At the end?

I mean...sell out tours???

Que?

Oh and completely agree about Jimmy Carr. I know it's all irony, but I just don't find paedophilia funny. [as if it needed saying] Went to see him once and half the set was paedophilia jokes. When he's not talking about that and rape and having sex with your mother, he's good, but it's his schtick now.

I know someone who knows him (best mates from school) and says he is incredibly bright and thoughtful and a really decent bloke.

I think I'd like MM if he didn't do that frantic head-bobbing, fringe bouncing thing. I enjoy his actual material but can't get past the fringe, even with my eyes closed I can see it. It makes me quite murderous.

I like MM and find him strangely sexy.
Jimmy Carr's face scares me.

I really like MM and most of the comedians mentioned on here.

Does anyone like Tommy Tiernan? My DP and DS saw him at the Teenage Cancer Trust comedy show recently at the Albert Hall (a lot of the current comedians were appearing on the bill; Kevin Bridges, Rhod Gilbert, Jimmy Carr, etc) but DP and DS said Tommy Tiernan was the funniest and apparently Noel Fielding was not very good (but he's a very good actor, in fairness).

I think Lee Mack is my current favourite of the big names'

I was watching Lee Evans on TV the other night and he bored me so I went to bed!

Armstrong and Miller programme didn't even get a smile out of me!
I don't mind MMcI in small doses.

Have you seen how much weight he has lost recently. He looks really different.

Rhod Gilbert and Rob Brydon are funny but Rob Bryden is in serious danger o f being over exposed atm. He sems to be on eveything except the cartoon network!

Who is that Liverpudlian one that's on a lot of things at the moment? I can't bear him. He mangles every word that comes out of his mouth.

John Bishop? Yes I agree - he sounds drunk almost. And he he seems to be on everything at the moment.

I love MM, has me in stitches every time!

I love that he is just funny - not rude, not 'edgy', doesn't swear like a trouper and make racist/sexist and other vile comments.

Jimmy Carr is awful, Lee Evans is awful, Ricki Gervais shouldn't even be classed as a comedian he is so bloody awful.

I can't stand most stand ups(infact i think all are crap)...don't find them funny at all.

Love Michael tho think he is hilarious!!

I like him. I find his mannerisms really funny and I like observational humour.

YANBU

He isn't funny. Neither myself or DP get his appeal and we both enjoy most other 'mainstream' stand ups.

His voice is irritating, his face is irritating and his jokes aren't funny.

Funny = Lee Mack, Rob Brydon, David Mitchell, Rhod Gilbert (sp?), that young Glaswegian lad - Kevin is it?, Russell Brand, Miranda Hart, Alan Carr, Sean Lock, Ross Noble and others. Also like Jason Manford although not sure why he's doing the One Show.

I'm undecided about Jimmy Carr - as someone else said, sometimes his jokes go too far. I too switched off half way through one of his shows.

YANBU Not funny at all.

Agree with Norbert. MM's material is funny. the tap clip is funny. but his ott voice, prancing around, itsd just too ott for me, makes it painful to watch.

Undecided. I can see why he would be irritating but like a previous poster said, it's nice that he can be funny without swears/rape gags. Don't get me wrong, I can (and will) laugh at a rape gag IF it is funny/well-thought out. Some peoplemight argue that no rape gag is well-thought out but I'm a firm believer that comedy should be able to poke fun at any subject, it just needs to be well delivered etc.

pissedrightoff I am sure that the Stewart Lee sick thing was on This Morning with Richard not Judy. Could never work out how they got away with airing that at 11am on a sunday

"He is a bit funny sometimes, but not funny enough to be as famous or as popular as he is, and not funny enough to make up for being so annoying"

But that's exactly why he's so popular. It's exactly the same as movies or music, the most famous or popular people in those mediums are not going to be the best they are going to be the broadest and least offensive. Which is exactly why he is on tv more than most. He does jokes about testing the wine and his edgiest joke is how he looks "a bit chinese" when he laughs.
I think he's fine. Bland and inoffensive with a few decent laughs but certainly not smashing down any walls or boundaries.

I like the fact that I can watch Victoria Wood or Micheal Mackintyre whilst the children are roaming around, and they won't hear anything that would embarrass me if they were to repeat it.

I love Dara 0' Briain, Adam Hills and Craig Campbell.
Cant bloody stand Lee Evans, Jimmy Carr or Sean Lock, undecided on MM though.

Oh but Sean Lock is ace! One of his one-liners is one of my favourite quotes of all time;

"Did you know that sharks will only attack you when you're wet?"

Sean Lock was responsible for the best sitcom that no one remembers. I saw Stewart Lee dropping his son off at nursery this morning. The second sentence isn't relevant I'm just name dropping.

"I like the fact that I can watch Victoria Wood or Micheal Mackintyre whilst the children are roaming around, and they won't hear anything that would embarrass me if they were to repeat it."

Bingo.
Plus comedy is so subjective, it's beyond me how anyone could even crack a smile during a Lee Evans show.
Despite liking him during interviews I don't think I've ever seen anything as poor as Omid Djaali (sp) doing stand-up.
How Ed Byrne ever got onto Irish tv is a mystery to me only to be further baffled that he has won the Edinburgh award and is viewed as a succesful Irish export.
Gina Yashere seems to have made a tv career out of simply shouting and being Nigerian and referencing that and nothing else every single panel show she is on.
Shappi Khorsandi is Iranian and a woman don't you know, which seems to be a valid joke to repeat for an entire show and have people laugh at.

Swearing IS big and clever btw.

And Lucy Porter has made a career out of... can't think what actually...

What was the Sean Lock sit com?

She does cute and slighty ditsy which I'd imagine appeals to tv bosses looking to put an inoffensive female comic on a panel show and also won't make male comics feel threatened.