To think that the peoples favorite comic is a money grasping git?

[ripsishere]

Peter Kay that is. Someone bought us his DVD for Christmas. The tour that doesn't tour tour.
IMO, it should be the actual show, not his jaunt around the country. Possibly it's his management company, but I am doubtful. I've spoken to three people who know him IRL.
He is renowned for being short in the arm, long in the pocket.
AIBU to think that something advertised as his stage show, should show that?

Never heard of him.

PK was on the Jonathan Ross show a while ago iirc, I thought he was pissed he was acting so strangely. Agree he has definitely lost his funniness.
Jonny Vegas is apparently a very sweet bloke in real life, I know a couple of people who have met him. He was reading the bedtime story on Nick Jr last week, it was just a little bit cute to listen to him!

My cousin used to live next door to Johnny Vegas. You couldn't have asked for a better NDN.

...the peoples favorite comic...

How on earth do you arrive at that conclusion?

Peter Kay?

Talentless, unfunny nonentity.

Phoenix Nights is very funny it was written along with Dave Spikey and that other guy Neil something too

His first stand up shows were funny I love the dunking biscuits :) but the last show was really boring same thing and I have found him charmless and often rude when he is being interviewed

The first series of Phoenix Nights and 'That Peter Kay Thing' were both brilliant. There was a real warmth to the characters and a depth to it. even unsympathetic character like Potter you were capable of empathising with. I've watched them recently and they hold up well.

Since then it has been the law of diminishing returns. Makes me think that Dave Spikey and Neil Fitzmauruce who co-wrote Phoenix Nights had a bigger hand in it than I'd originally thought. Ma x and Paddy was too broad for me and the X factor parody thing I thought was really shite and uninspired.

I dunno if you are a comedian whose routine is based on observing the minutae of working class life, when you are a multimillionaire living in a mansion in Cheshire (or wherever) cut off from the life you used as the basis of your early material then you'll struggle.

Such is the fate of the successful observational comedian. It should be called the 'McIntyre Paradox'

I always lovedPeter Kay's humour but that 'Geraldine' character he kept churning out recently was excruciatinglyawful.

On another note, we went to see Ricky Gervais's latest (?) live show a few years ago, Science. Was dire, unfunny, even more self indulgent than expected and about 50 mins long! For £50 a ticket! When a the lights came up we thought it was the interval, everyone in the audience was fuming! I'm told by the time the DVD came out it was virtually a different show and he had added in some more amusing bits, (not that I bothered watching it), but if he was 'trying' out crap material for our show he should have charged less per ticket surely! Bloody rip off

Someone had me as their secret Santa this year and chose this dvd for me. It's still in the celophane. It was on tv just before Xmas. I watched about 5 minutes before switching off.
I used to laugh at his observational comedy style. Now its just the same jokes. Surprised to hear he's a bit of an arsehole though.

I don't think Peter Kay drinks does he?

It was a shame Vegas split from his wife.

I agree re Riky Gervais but, having said that, he drinks in my friends coffee shop and is supposed to be very nice and chatty.

i think i might have a violent streak. there are some people i want to hit, very hard. they haven't done me any harm at all, they just look like they deserve it. fiona bruce is one. peter kay is another. i can't comment on his comedy, i've never seen or heard any. just seeing his face is enough to bring out the worst in me.