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Points: 32995 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 09 2010 at 07:47
Originally posted by Trouserpress Trouserpress wrote:

Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Tim Vine


Hell yeah! How could I forget him?



Itr's easy to forget ...theres a Geordie one and I can't remember his name.
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He isn't a real stand-up comedian in the sense that he does stand-up, but David Mitchell usually puts a smile on my face with his clever humour and ranting.




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David Mitchell is one of my all time favourites.
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Rhod Gilbert Thumbs Up:
 
 
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Lots of good comedians mentioned here, but I'd add Jeremy Hardy to the list of comic national treasures - he's a brilliant stand up and also the best thing on The News Quiz - for some reason he's never really come across that well on TV though.
 
 
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Its Ross Noble I've been trying to think of.

Forgot Dylan Moran too.


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hope this little gag will "stand up"...Wink
 
 
A man applied for a fermentation operator post at a famous  firm based in Devon.   A Polish man applied for the same job and since both had similar qualifications, they were both asked to take a test by the Manager and were left to do the test together. 

When the results were in, both men had scored 19 out of 20.
 
The manager went to the the first applicant and said, "Thank you for coming to the interview, but we’ve decided to give the Pole the job." 
 
"...and why would you do that - we both got 19 questions correct ?... we are in  England and me being English, surely I should get the job." 

 
Manager, "We have made our decision not on the correct answers, but on the question you got wrong."
  
"And just how would one incorrect answer be better than another?" 

Manager, "Simple. On question number 7 the Pole wrote down, 'I don’t know.'
You put down,
‘Neither do I’.“
 
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I still love classic Woody Allen.
 
"I'd like to finish my act tonight with a positive story.... but I don't have any..... So here's two negative ones."
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I never saw the obsession with Bill Hicks.

I liked him, loved him actually, but I rarely saw him as funny. At least not in his routine.
I guess he was an entertaining public speaker to me LOL

Oh, and sadly (like Tool) there are a wave of fan boys that worship him, to be "edgy" and all.


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Sean Lock
 
If you are American and easily offended don't watch! Wink
 
LOL


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Originally posted by moreitsythanyou moreitsythanyou wrote:

For the past few months I've been listening to a lot of Maria Bamford. This is one of her best bits.




You know, this is going to sound sexist, but it's just how it is. I rarely find women funny. This is no exception. 

But my dislike of comedians isn't limited to just women. Bob Saget is also quite the hack, in my opinion.


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Originally posted by akamaisondufromage akamaisondufromage wrote:

 
Sean Lock
 
If you are American and easily offended don't watch! Wink
 
LOL

You should change it from 'and' to 'or'. I'm American, and found that to be hilarious. LOL
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Two of my favorites:
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Points: 6797 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 11 2010 at 15:41
Originally posted by JLocke JLocke wrote:

Originally posted by akamaisondufromage akamaisondufromage wrote:

 
Sean Lock
 
If you are American and easily offended don't watch! Wink
 
LOL

You should change it from 'and' to 'or'. I'm American, and found that to be hilarious. LOL
 
OK. 
 
If you are American or easily offended don't watch!Wink 
 
Better?
 
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I've been working my way through the clips here (last one I saw was Vine, will try to get to the newer ones later) and I'm pretty disappointed. Hicks is easily the best so far (though he's not so much funny as he is awesome) and the Flag Hippo thing was amusing, though concluded poorly but the others... Lee's "not someone who works as a c**t" finish was hysterical but the wait wasn't really worth it, very slow and sedate. The chiselling thing is quite bold and Kaufmanesque but it's more funny in concept than practice. But I also liked "I remember you used to be able to put your whole family in the mincer and now they've banned Christmas!"
 
But yeah, the moon on a stick fell flat to me, Shappi was just poor generally and Maria's persona would be amusing as a character in a sketch but is insufferable in isolation.
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Points: 3281 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 11 2010 at 16:43
Andy Kaufman:
"On some occasions, audiences would show up to one of Kaufman's stage performances expecting to see him perform as his character Latka from the TV show Taxi where he had first become famous, and heckling him with demands when he did not. Kaufman would punish these audiences with the announcement that he was going to read The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald to them. The audience would laugh at this, not realizing that he was serious, and Kaufman would proceed to read the book to them, continuing despite audience members' departure. At a certain point, he would ask the audience if they wanted him to keep reading, or play a record. When the audience chose to hear the record, the record he cued up was a recording of him continuing to read The Great Gatsby from where he had left off."
 
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Mild very British (With one exception) humour.
 
 
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Points: 1588 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 11 2010 at 16:50
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Points: 3281 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 11 2010 at 17:16
Just watched Dave Mitchell and Rhod Gilbert, they were both good. Rhod's material isn't that great but he delivers it well, obviously a Connolly disciple. Mitchell reminds me of a less well-mannered Stephen Fry.
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And that's Sean Lock done- bit plain but the "samba button" line was quite funny.
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