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31 Jul 14
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Jerry Sadowitz -
It's like watching Michael McIntyre and thinking, 'Did we really make no progress since Tom O'Connor?"
It's like watching Michael McIntyre and thinking, 'Did we really make no progress since Tom O'Connor?"
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Stewart Lee -
When the audience fail to respond to me reading out a letter from an angry pirate, I say to them, in desperation: ‘You have my sympathy, you know? It’s 2010. It’s a weird time for stand-up. ’Cause you, you sit at home, don’t you, all of you, watching Michael McIntyre on the television, spoon-feeding you his warm diarrhoea. I’m not going to be doing that. I haven’t noticed anything about your lives. They’re not of interest to me. This is a letter from a pirate. It’s not about going to the shops or anything.’ |
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Virginia Blackburn -
My cat could do better stand-up than McIntyre if she so chose; preening, whistling, gurning and adopting silly accents does not a great comedian make. As for that hyperactive prancing around the stage, is that to hide the total absence of jokes? |
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He's brilliant at his best.
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He does a funny, sometimes extremely funny routine. He doesn't tell jokes. He's an observationist-comedian, and a very good one.
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kenny mann -
"He's brilliant at his best." |
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well, quite.
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Michael McIntyre -
“fat Chinese man” |
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kenny mann • July 31, 2014 3:14 PM BST
He's brilliant at his best. Then wouldnt it be nice if he revealed it once in a performance. The most irritating unfunny guy on the circuit, how he gets TV air time beggars belief |
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Ron Atkinson:
I don't criticise referees and I'm not going to make an exception for that pratt. I think that fits my thoughts on this fellow precisely William |
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"Where did he ****g come from anyway?
Until relatively recently, we'd barely heard of him, now there's no escaping him. Stand Up this, Live From that, Royal Variety the other, Britain Lacks Talent etc! He's like comedy cancer. He's been hand-picked to protect our delicate sensibilities from anything controversial or funny. I heard him being introduced on something the other week and being described as "a comedy genius", I almost spontaneously combusted. All he does is bark rubbish while skipping about. Croaky pig-eyed ****!" |
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(Regarding Psi of Gangnam Style fame)
"If I want to watch a fat, Asian man, skipping about the stage acting like a sp@stic I'll buy a ticket to a Michael McIntyre concert" |
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I'd rather watch an episode of The Waltons whilst being flogged with the birch than watch McIntyre.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzQVqTSt--0
Michael Mcintyre with Emile Heskey and taking the piss out of Ian Holloway. Comedy genius. |
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What's wrong with the fkin Waltons?
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Actually Michael McIntyre was an important part of the boom in live comedy, getting a new audience out to the clubs and theatres, so Sadowitz and Lee have probably made a few quid off him.
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I'd rather browse through and comment on yet another Betfair Chit Chat forum thread slagging off Michael Mcintyre than watch a video of the popular comedian Michael Mcintyre, who sells out large venues and gets his own shows on the telly... unlike me, Jerry Sadowitz and Stewart Lee.
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Jerry Sadowitz had a great tv show. Jerry Sadowitz versus the people it was called. He was good but too ott for the tv companies.
MMcI not that that good but seems to tick all the boxes for the tv producers. |
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Ramruma 31 Jul 14 20:10
Actually Michael McIntyre was an important part of the boom in live comedy, getting a new audience out to the clubs and theatres, so Sadowitz and Lee have probably made a few quid off him. there is no facking way sadowitz made a penny out of him. those who don't know what they're getting are in a minority at his gigs and he rarely fills them. christ, michael mcintyre's audience probably find jimmy carr a bit too near the knuckle sometimes. As for Mcintyre, he is absolute sh1t; that link you posted merely confirms that kenny mann. You can like him if you want to, but it instantly disqualifies any opinion you might hold regarding the quality of any stand up comedy. |
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This is funny, Dean Martin`s roast of Jack Benny
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEHbriHORsM |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-Qc0iZQQoU never knew that |
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Looks like Michael isn't even the funniest man when he goes for a pint with his old man
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Looks like Michael isn't even the funniest man when he goes for a pint with his old man
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Given the choice of watching Michael McIntyre or those ****s who populate TV shows loke Mock the Week (the great Dara O'Brien excepted), I'd rather read a book.
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"He's all right but his sh!t stinks"!
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McIntyre is very funny. FACT Check his audience. All sensible looking mature decent people. Can't all be wrong.
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stewart is a pretentious tw@t.
last time i looked, being a comedian was about being funny not being a bellend. on occasion i find stewart lee mildly amusing. on occasion i find michael mcintyre slightly more mildly amusing. stewart lee doesnt like the fact that he's not as funny as he thinks he should be in his own head. |
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To use one of Bernard Mannings old quips 'hes as funny as a burning orphanage'
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I read one of Stewart Lee's books and he was talking about himself and similar comedians to himself and their audiences. He was talking about him and Daniel Kitson distilling their followings down, and having only people they would like, as their audience members.
It got me wondering how much of a comedian anyone could claim to be, if all you can do is play to people who essentially you would be mates with. At that stage are you just doing what we all generally do, making our mates laugh? It doesn't seem much of a challenge to a comedian to target their performances at people who think exactly as they do or who they would approve of. I think in some ways a Stewart Lee, Daniel Kitson or whoever is just as lazy as the many acts they criticise, just lazy in a different way. There's enough room for all of them though, so does any of the scorn matter. |
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MM is a family oriented comic, that's simply why he sells bucketloads, good present for Xmas's, Birthday's etc, and not because he's the the cream of the crop but at the same time they wouldn't sell if he wasn't good, it's just that his routines have limitations so he can only be funny in so many ways without offending, and the X-rated comics with boundaries and restrictions are more cult comics rather than big sellers, as the their audience have marginal mainstream coverage, whichever comic you prefer is like art, music and women, it's all subjective, the only comedian I truly would say is dire is Russell Howard, that is surely universal
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Fantastic! Another successful, wealthy, famous person to despise! Plus ca change.
Comedians seem to be an especially common target on here, not quite sure why. Perhaps we find it easier to laugh feeely in our impressionable younger years and that no modern comedian can ever reproduce that sensation in the more mature viewer. Similar to how our music tastes are embedded in a particular phase of our lives. |
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i think him and his like are sh1te,but they tours are sell outs and people throw money at them,
one of lifes mysteries! |
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Forget Russell Brand or Graham Norton - the UK's favourite funnyman right now is Michael McIntyre.
His DVD Live And Laughing is the fastest-selling comedy debut of all time, and his autumn UK tour has already sold 300,000 tickets. What McIntyre, 33, does is by no means rocket science. He hasn't reinvented comedy - he's simply tapped into the universal. 'I'm paid to point out the funny things in life that other people are too busy to notice,' he says. 'I don't really do jokes, I just talk about things I find funny.' And that's the key. Traffic jams, crowded trains, relationships and shopping - all are regular topics for the former public schoolboy. And, crucially, he rarely, if ever, puts people down. His already classic 'man drawer' routine is great. He describes having a drawer at home full of useless and not-quite-useless items such as old batteries, ancient instruction manuals and obsolete foreign currency, all things men tend to hoard. McIntyre then waxes lyrical about the day he receives a mysterious phone call from a spymaster who requires him to pay an old man in drachmas and have the instructions to an old toaster handy. It's a simple but brilliant routine. But not quite everyone loves him. Some critics have branded him safe, or dismiss him for being posh rather than edgy. They're missing the point. Given the infantile nature of what has been passed off as cutting-edge comedy of late, doesn't McIntyre's simple focus on making people laugh make him the real pioneer of modern comedy? The British public certainly seem to think so. |
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If you don't like his patter, don't watch his shows. Simples. Personally I don't particularly find his act that funny but seems harmless enough and meets a niche in the market. Sounds like he done good looking at above figs.
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