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The worst "funnyman" ever ?
The worst "funnyman" ever ?
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Mike and Bernie Winters, the only comedy double act with two straightmen!
Agree about Tommy Cooper. Watched some reruns of his old shows and the sketches were buttock-clenchingly awful. |
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Victoria Wood about as funny as paper cuts
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Ed Balls.
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Any one of two or both Morecambe/Wise.
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Even if you don't think Morecambe and Wise were as good as most people think they were it is hard to suggest they weren't head and shoulders above other double acts around their time. Mike and Bernie ( abysmal ),Little and Large ( disappeared without trace ) Cannon and Ball ( WERE they supposed to be funny ? )
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Nobody mentioned Dickie Henderson,(all round entertainer apparently), never got that at all, and Kenny Lynch, would never get near the telly these days imo.
Can't see how anyone can knock Victoria Wood though, some of her routines are so funny i haven't "got them" for ages!  Mind you as with most funnymen/ women it all depends who the writer is. |
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There has not been a good funnyman since Chubby Brown, if your having a bad day, get him on youtube , Class,
Bob monkhouse was as funny as as a visit to the dentist. |
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no odds .............micheal mccintyre ........id bet 1.01 I could sit through him for 2 hours and not smile
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cannon and ball
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Nobody mentioned Dickie Henderson because we had all managed to forget him until you mentioned him
 I only remember Kenny Lynch as a one-hit wonder ( Up On The Roof ). |
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Monkhouse was a brilliant presenter of game shows rather than a comic. He was originally a member of a double act with a guy called Denis Goodwin,who went to Hollywood and committed suicide I think.
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that scouse **** who keeps saying "only joking" utter sh1te.
Lenny henry, abysmal cannon & ball, unfunny & should be expecting a knock from the boys working on operation yewtree. |
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rhod gilbert;welsh bloke shouting alot but not funny.painful listening
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Kenny Lynch was a white mans black comedian, i saw him at Barbarellas in Brum in the early 70s not funny at all, a real uncle tom figure imo.
Watched a programme about Bob Monkhouse a few weeks ago, didn't really like his slimey delivery style but wrote all his own material and kept tons and tons of old archive material and tremendously hard working fella, a comedians comedian, and his last stand up before he died was in front of an audience of comedians. Chubby Browns material is really dreadful disgusting stuff imo. |
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I remember watching Morecambe & Wise as a kid and often wondered what was supposed to be funny about them.
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is James Cordon a comedian or just a fat ponce?
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Dave allen was class in his time . When you could actually joke about things . To many subjects out of bounds these days . Is there any commedian that stands up and actually cracks normal jokes .
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Dave Allen was the best stand-up ( or in his case sit-down ) comic from the British Isles I have seen on TV.
I thought Ben Elton was good in the 80s tbh but he has now sullied his own memory. Stand-up is now more difficult because original material is almost impossible. You can only really do it on very topical stuff so you have to be " political ". |
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I'm sure that the BBC's favourite comedians R. Blackwood and S. K. Amos would be disappointed not to have got a mention to date.
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Jack Douglas.
One trick [ unfunny ] pony. |
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iv,e had funnier toothache,s than paul merton, dave allen was my hero in the 70,s
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non of the new wave so called funnymen could hold a candle to proper funnymen of the past
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"They've solved the mystery of the Mary Celeste - Hale and Pace were the cabaret"
I quote the great Bernard Manning |
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Miranda Hart is pretty dismal
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some contemporary ones:
glenn wool sarah millican josie long (it's very easy to make me laugh with political material but she is just rubbish) james corden america's funnyman (google it) is a legend though. |
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yeah, you can stick hart on my list too. basically if the beeb give a woman a show these days it's atrocious. i'm sure it doesn't have to be that way.
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NORMAN VAUGHAN stole a living dodgy
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some surprising choices here, for me it's pretty clear that Lenny Henry is the clear winner. If you look at his material there's nothing there that hasn't got something to do with being black, it's the same joke re-hashed over and over again. Lenny, you're black, get over it!
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Jim Davidson,
and women comedians. |
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Lenny Henry was a victim of political correctness. The same "rule" (or change in the zeitgeist) that meant Jim Davidson could no longer do Chalky, meant Lenny could no longer do his White impressions (David Bellamy) or, really, the more stereotyped Black ones.
It is not even now that his humour depends on being Black. It is more specific than that, from what I have seen. His base audience seems to be men who grew up with Jamaican mothers in the Midlands: not a large group. Physical comedians are not my thing (or many others', judging by the earlier comments) -- Norman Wisdom, Phil Evans, Miranda Hart. If you do like that sort of thing, Rik and Ade did it best: see Bottom. |
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Michael McIntyre
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Good to see McIntrye get a few votes as well as my own.
The winner of course should really be that geordie woman Sarah Millican but I don't count her as a comedian unlike the BBC executives that gave her a series. |
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I always thought Jerry Lewis was overrated.
Good singer and pianist but not funny surely. |
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Go into any of the working class boozers in Glasgow/Liverpool/Londons east end and you will find proper comedians,no script as you don,t need one it,s all out there.
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by that reckoning going to the job centre ought to be a riot
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Go into any of the working class boozers in Glasgow/Liverpool/Londons east end and you will find proper comedians,no script as you don,t need one it,s all out there.
true shame about the aging alky nutters sitting in the next booth who think you're laughing at them |
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Is this a without Billy Connolly market imo
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Can't believe Andy Parsons hasn't been mentioned.
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Somebody mentioned it all depends who the writer is ..............
That imbecile , Whitehouse , does the writing . NOT FUNNY AT ALL . |
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Russell Howard another unfunny man imo
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