Worst Comedians

[Orang Utan]

as in most of his gags/material are nicked off other comedians. some who are famous comedians with their own TV shows so i'd dread to think how much he steals from other less known stand-ups etc.

Aren't you talking about Peter Kay?
Brand doesn't do the kind of material that is nickable - he just riffs grandiloquently on all sorts of things. His last show had a lot of him reading tabloid articles and joking about them.

 

[Cid]

No, he was born Royston Vasey, not in Royston Vasey

Ah... right, that makes considerably more sense.

I think Chico may be being deliberately 'edgy'.

 

[Orang Utan]

Mock the Week seems to act like some sort of filter for trapping rubbish comedians.

Too right - I've watched whole episodes of that and not laughed once

 

[Cid]

Harry Hill and Frankie Boyle are funny!

Alan Carr isn't, he's gay apparently.

Russel Brand is a pseudo-dandy, illitewate twat.

And why no Jo Brand? She's a woman who likes cakes remember.

As i said I somewhat regret Frankie Boyle's inclusion... Harry Hill, however, has no redeeming features (or at least not for the last 10 years) and should be put out of his misery.

 

[Orang Utan]

You've said this before and it's nonsense. I've seen Cyderdelic live and it's a totally different idea. Enfield and Shuttleworth? Perhaps some of the archaic language, but otherwise no comparison whatsoever

I'd like him to be more specific, otherwise it's a groundless allegation

 

[DotCommunist]

I like harry. Brand annoys me though. too intense

 

[El Jefe]

I'd like him to be more specific, otherwise it's a groundless allegation

And he's made it a lot.

Think is, chico seems to know him and claim a lot of his backstory - The MTV / Osama story etc - is bollocks. That may be the case, I don't know, but to claim he's derivative is just untenable. I'm very familiar with the work of all the people he mentions and see no possible comparison with Brand

 

[Orang Utan]

You just have to YouTube his chatshow appearances to see he is a natural comedian.

 

[Annierak]

Few more for the list.......


David Baddiel
Richard Herring
Rhona Cameron
Johnny Vegas

 

[El Jefe]

You just have to YouTube his chatshow appearances to see he is a natural comedian.

Yeh, last time I saw Shuttleworth I don't remember him doing an organ-based skit about stealing porn from an all-night garage

 

[El Jefe]

Richard Herring

when he can be bothered, he's really funny.

 

[killer b]

off that list, parsons. mock the week would only be occasionally bearable without him... with him, we rarely get past the opening credits.

 

[chico enrico]

You've said this before and it's nonsense. I've seen Cyderdelic live and it's a totally different idea. Enfield and Shuttleworth? Perhaps some of the archaic language, but otherwise no comparison whatsoever

he ripped off two of cyderdelic's 'catchphrase' as his own when he did that very shortlived TV show on Friday nights. can't even remember what they wee as they weren't particularly funny. But I noticed them, as did one of Cyderdelic's producers who now works at the beeb. Don't really see how much more of a plagarism you can get than that, unless he was to launch into the 'parrot sketch'?

brand just isn't a funny person. he's someone who took lessons in being a comedian while he was at MTV FFS!

good humour is spontaneous, ironic, parodic, identifying the absurd and surreal in everyday life, familiarity and achetype.

coogan, enfield, paul whitehouse, vic reeves, bob mortimer, john shuttleworth, even peter kay (to name but a few) are capable of this. brand is not.

 

[seeformiles]

Few more for the list.......


David Baddiel
Richard Herring
Rhona Cameron
Johnny Vegas

Forgot about Rhona Cameron - she doesn't seem to realise that being gay is no substitute for genuine wit.

 

[Annierak]

when he can be bothered, he's really funny.

I never found him funny . My mate went to see him a few months ago and was telling me about it. He was that bad that people were actually walking out of the venue before the end

 

[El Jefe]

so you'vre got an example of two catchphrases he ripped off ages ago? where do the others you claim he ripped off come into it?
And everything you've listed as good humour I've seenn Brand do

(@ chico)

 

[Annierak]

Forgot about Rhona Cameron - she doesn't seem to realise that being gay is no substitute for genuine wit.

True. She's never been funny. Embarrassing to watch

 

[Orang Utan]

good humour is spontaneous, ironic, parodic, identifying the absurd and surreal in everyday life, familiarity and achetype.

You've just described his style!

 

[killer b]

chico seems to know him

him and every other celebrity ever. he's well connected.

 

[Orang Utan]

so you'vre got an example of two catchphrases he ripped off ages ago? where do the others you claim he ripped off come into it?
And everything you've listed as good humour I've seenn Brand do

(@ chico)

I've checked out some of his MTV stuff and it's rarely that amazing (probably cos he was blasted on smack and booze at the time), but he's matured into a great comic.

 

[Griff]

Anyone else see that Russell Brand Yank road-trip last night?

 

[chico enrico]

him and every other celebrity ever. he's well connected.

having worked for a certain camden based television production company for six years it would have been more remarkable not to have encountered many of these boring and self-obsessed dolts.

i'm sure you've come across lots of mediocre DJs, killa.

 

[Red Horse]

"corpulent panty-sniffing funny-man" Bill Bailey.

Eh? I think Bill Bailey's well funny.
I would love to puch McIntyre in his big hammy toff face though. He looks like a a fat Nicky Campbell, not a stand-up comedian.
Ross Noble is also well fucking irritating, he rambles on like some unfunny bloke who thinks he's clever enough to do improv then realises he isnt and starts bricking himself and just keeps talking shit

 

[El Jefe]

Ross Noble is also well fucking irritating, he rambles on like some unfuuny bloke who thinks he's clever enough to do improv then realises he isnt and starts bricking himself and just keeps talking shit

<applauds.>

Having a fast free associating brain is fair enough, but if you're going to tout yourself as a comedian it has to go somewhere. Noble doesn't

 

[killer b]

i've only seen noble the once, but would agree he was pretty shit... it was at a student comedy club and he just did a lame-o pot noodle/skunk/beer set, like most of the other less inspired comics did...

 

[goldenecitrone]

The Mighty Boosh. Fucking dire.

 

[killer b]

i'm sure you've come across lots of mediocre DJs, killa.

i once met blu peter. that's about it...

 

[El Jefe]

i once met blu peter. that's about it...

And me

 

[killer b]

actually, he wasn't a bad dj...

 

[kabbes]

It's interesting, the anger someone can inspire because they happen not to make another person laugh.

At the end of the day, ALL of these guys must make a lot of people laugh in order to have had the success that they have had. The one qualification for being a comedian is that you manage to make a group of people laugh, and they have managed this feat.

Insisting that every comedian on the circuit is funny to YOU is solipsism in the extreme. So you don't find someone funny, that somebody else does? Aw, diddums. How WILL you manage to continue?