Which comedian do you hate the most?
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Topic: Which comedian do you hate the most?
Posted By: JJLehto
Subject: Which comedian do you hate the most?
Date Posted: October 17 2009 at 10:02
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VERY difficult choice between Silverman and Mencia......but the phony Mexican gets my vote |
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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: October 17 2009 at 10:12
| I once saw 20 minutes of Mencia, half of it was somewhat funny the rest was political ramblings. Don't know the others. |
Posted By: mrcozdude
Date Posted: October 17 2009 at 10:41
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Dane I couldn't vote Sarah because sometimes she looks hot.
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Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: October 17 2009 at 10:54
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I don't know any of these
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Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: October 17 2009 at 11:44
This.
I guess it's cos they're not very good?
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BaldJean wrote:Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: October 17 2009 at 11:51
Consider yourself lucky. I voted Larry the Cable Guy, he can annoy me in less than a nanosecond. Edit: The rest of them take about 3 nanoseconds to annoy me. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Salty_Jon" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Tarquin Underspoon
Date Posted: October 17 2009 at 11:58
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I voted Dane Cook not only because he annoys me a great deal, but also because his fans annoy me to no end. The obnoxious fanbase was the deciding factor over Mencia. I have laughed at something Mencia said once upon a time, but Dane Cook has never, ever elicited so much as a chuckle from me. ------------- "WAAAAAAOOOOOUGH! WAAAAAAAUUUUGGHHHH!! WAAAAAOOOO!!!" -The Great Gig in the Sky |
Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: October 17 2009 at 12:02
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Dane Cook really pisses me off sometimes.
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Posted By: rpe9p
Date Posted: October 17 2009 at 12:43
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Before even clicking on the thread I thought dane cook, but then I saw Lisa Lampanelli. She is the only comedian that is so horribly bad that I cant even enjoy laughing at how bad she is. All of her jokes are just about her sucking dick (literally) and how black guys have bigger dicks. Her only jokes that arent about sex are just really offensive racist jokes. |
Posted By: TheCaptain
Date Posted: October 17 2009 at 12:55
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Larry The Cable Guy for me. Sarah Silverman is easily the least worst out of the choices but the others gave Larry a run for his money. The deciding factor for my vote was that people actually like his stuff, can relate to it, and remind me that rednecks exist.
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Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: October 17 2009 at 12:59
Unfortunately, I'm related to people who like his comedy...they always talk about how funny he is, then I mention Steven Wright or someone like that and they have no clue who he is. If I try to play some of his stuff for them, it's even worse...they think I'm a bit loony.  ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Salty_Jon" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: The Pessimist
Date Posted: October 17 2009 at 15:30
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Sarah Silverman because she's just NOT F*CKING FUNNY!
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Posted By: mrcozdude
Date Posted: October 17 2009 at 16:00
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Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: October 17 2009 at 16:05
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I don't know any of these either. My favourite comedian is no longer active (he is in his 80s). It is the German Vico von Bülöw, better known under his nom de plume Loriot. He (and his congenial partner, the late Evelyn Hamann), are widely considered to have been the peak of German comedy. There are so many great and unforgettable sketches of them; my personal favourite is the noodle sketch. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foyFTZwCx10&hl=de - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foyFTZwCx10&hl=de Even if you don't understand German at all it is funny, but it is much more so when you understand it. There are sentences like "Why don't you say something? If you don't like my nose, say so, but just say something", spoken at the moment when the noodle is on his nose. His sketches are usually about people trying to keep their dignity while getting into totally undignified situations, thus failing miserably. -------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: October 17 2009 at 16:39
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I was only able to pick up fragments of what they were saying (I'm in my first semester of German, planning to take more as long as I'm in college), but the sketch was funny nonetheless.
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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: October 17 2009 at 16:56
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Dane Cook. He's an idiot who just barks and insults and says f**k and looks like he's on amphetamines mixed with cocaine. But he doesn't say ONE SINGLE REAL FUNNY THING ------------- 
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Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: October 17 2009 at 20:45
I agree, but there is just something that annoys me even more about Dane Cook, maybe it's because I have met people that actually think he's funny. And no that wasn't a bad joke. |
Posted By: WalterDigsTunes
Date Posted: October 17 2009 at 21:08
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TRACY MORGAN. How I loathe him. At least Cook yells things and you can laugh AT him. Tracy Morgan sounds like a recording of an inarticulate doofus that's constantly going from 33 /13 to 45 rpm. |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: October 17 2009 at 21:19
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Don't know any of these Americans, saw one minute of the Sarah Silverman Program once before remembering that my tv remote gives me the ability to change channels with the merest twitch of my finger - could say whether she was funny or not, I didn't hang around long enough to find out.
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Posted By: Henry Plainview
Date Posted: October 17 2009 at 22:14
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Dane Cook had one funny bit about breaking into a random house with a friend.
Larry the Cable Guy is an insult to the American south. So I have to go with him. ------------- if you own a sodastream i hate you |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: October 17 2009 at 22:40
| Mencia is a bit more annoying than Silverman..the one I really didn't like was Sam Kinison |
Posted By: rpe9p
Date Posted: October 17 2009 at 23:27
Oh thats definitely the most annoying thing about him, he has tons of fans and he hasnt said a funny thing in years. My friend played one of his stand-ups from a long time ago before he was famous and it actually wasnt too bad, but nothing he does anymore is funny at all and he is really popular for it |
Posted By: manofmystery
Date Posted: October 18 2009 at 00:06
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dane cook?!
DANE COOK?!
DANE COOK?!
I'll punch every Dane Cook in the face!
^ get it, cause thats what he does
I don't mind Sarah Silverman though, but that's mostly because I'd like to do unspeakable things to her -------------  Time always wins. |
Posted By: paganinio
Date Posted: October 20 2009 at 03:26
| Chris Rock. |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: October 20 2009 at 03:38
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I don't hate any of them, but I don't really care for Dane Cook. (Why would anyone hate Sarah Silverman? She's awesome.) |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: October 20 2009 at 09:52
As much comedy as I watch I was surprised that two on that list don't ring a bell. I kind of like all of those that I am familiar with though. What's kind of funny is that I always thought Sarah was kind of cute until I heard herself point out that she has a horsey face.  I'm going to have to go with Andy Kaufman, RIP, but I always found him to be more annoying than funny. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: The Pessimist
Date Posted: October 20 2009 at 11:55
I don't hate anyone. But I strongly dislike Sarah Silverman in comedy. However, she is definitely a looker... ------------- "Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value." Arnold Schoenberg |
Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: October 22 2009 at 17:15
| A flip of the coin between Dane Cook and Larry the Cable Guy. I hope that neither one makes any more movies. |
Posted By: clarke2001
Date Posted: October 22 2009 at 17:54
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Voted for "other" because I don't know any from the poll. I never liked Michael Richards (Seinfeld's Cosmo Cramer). But the person who's an epic failure in the world of entertaining is Arsenio Hall. ------------- |
Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: October 22 2009 at 18:14
I liked Arsenio's character in Harlem Nights. |
Posted By: moreitsythanyou
Date Posted: October 22 2009 at 20:21
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The Sarah Silverman show is funny on occasion and Lisa Lampanelli is not as atrocious as the others. Still, 3 way tie. They're all too awful. -------------  <font color=white>butts, lol[/COLOR] |
Posted By: mohaveman
Date Posted: October 26 2009 at 15:52
| Other....Carrottop. Ugh |
Posted By: Green Shield Stamp
Date Posted: October 27 2009 at 14:22
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Being a British contributor, I don't really know any of the comedians in the poll. It would be easy for me to pick some awful British comedians (Jim Davidson probably being the most teeth-itchingly awful).
However, I saw a programme on Channel 4 (UK TV Channel), and they were presenting a list of notable comedians - quite a few were American. They showed a few clips of someone called The Diceman. I thought I had seem some bad comedians but this guy plummed the depths, with terribly unfunny material. His whole act was to present banal, unoriginal anecdotes as aggressively as possible, using as many obscenities as possible. What surprised me was that there was a live audience of thousands (it looked more like a U2 gig rather than a comedy show).
He was so bad (and so was his audience) that he thought the height of wit was to re-tell children's nursery rhymes with alternative obscene words.
The Diceman is surely the worst comedian in the whole world. ------------- Haiku Writing a poem With seventeen syllables Is very diffic.... |
Posted By: manofmystery
Date Posted: October 27 2009 at 16:06
So, England just made it to 1990? ------------- Time always wins. |
Posted By: Green Shield Stamp
Date Posted: October 29 2009 at 13:33
Yes I've just managed to have one of the television sets fitted - the aerial plays havoc with my thatched roof.
The show I was speaking of was one of those retrospective things that TV seems to enjoy doing so much. Mind you, I didn't realise the clips were from so long ago.
Has the Diceman fallen from grace in the States? Some comedians (despite being awful) go on for ever in England. Jim Davidson has been doing his stand up act since the mid 1970s, and the material is pretty much unaltered. ------------- Haiku Writing a poem With seventeen syllables Is very diffic.... |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: October 29 2009 at 13:36
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Other. Russell Brand. He should not be allowed to enter the United States ever again. |
Posted By: Stooge
Date Posted: October 29 2009 at 15:12
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Larry The Cable Guy. Just a really annoying character. I'd have more respect for the guy if he occasionally did appearances out of character (as Dan Whitney), but Larry is all he has. I remember seeing some footage of Dan doing standup, same bad cliche jokes without the accent. Living in Canada, there are several Canadian comedians that rub me the wrong way. I don't really hate anyone of them in particular, but many of them should expand their repertoire by talking about something other than stereotypical Canadian living. |
Posted By: Rivertree
Date Posted: October 29 2009 at 15:21
 I know none of them - is that funny or am I humourless?------------- https://awesomeprog.com/users/Rivertree" rel="nofollow">  |
Posted By: Xanthous
Date Posted: November 02 2009 at 17:12
| Larry the Cable guy. I can't stand the Southern accent. If you count Southern as a race than I am an incredibly racist person. |
Posted By: TRIFIVE5000
Date Posted: November 02 2009 at 17:38
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LOLOL i hate Dane Cook!!!
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Posted By: Greg W
Date Posted: November 02 2009 at 18:25
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Well I don't hate any of them. Mencia is the most full of sh*t one, but can be funny at times, Cook can be very unfunny for long periods of time, but suddenly hit you with a zinger. Lampanelli is embarrassingly vulgar, but still has her moments, and Silverman's style is very similiar to Lampanelli, but in a much prettier package. Even Larry the Cable Guy makes me laugh although he is easily the most annoying. They're all mediocre but not horrible Now, I would go with Kathy Griffin as someone who epitomizes annoying, unclever, and unfunny. Easily the most annoying personality I have ever had the displeasure of watching. I also admit that I am referring to her most recent stuff. Maybe her earlier material is better.
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Posted By: Moatilliatta
Date Posted: November 03 2009 at 00:34
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Dane Cook is easily the best on that list. I can't believe anybody finds Carlos Mencia, Lisa Lampanelli or Larry the Cable Guy better than him. He's not the best, but he is definitely better than the rest of the comedians on the list. Not sure who to vote for. ------------- www.last.fm/user/ThisCenotaph  
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Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: November 03 2009 at 00:53
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Posted By: JLocke
Date Posted: November 03 2009 at 01:41
Andy Kaufman wasn't a comedian. He was a ironic humorist. And a genius.  I don't really understand all of the Dane Cook hate 'round these parts. Perhaps I just have a really horrible sense of humor, or I'm the appropriate age group his style attracts, but I can relate to a lot of what he talks about in his stand-up, and genuinely find myself laughing aloud to his more robust stuff. Then again, I like Family Guy, so what i find funny isn't really in line with most other 'intelligent' people. What do I know? |
Posted By: JLocke
Date Posted: November 03 2009 at 01:46
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Larry the Cable Guy has at times made me ashamed to be an American. Just to know that I breathe the same air as that idiot knocks my sense of self-worth down a few pegs. So he's probably my vote. Silverman is really cute, and has made me laugh at times. I haven't really seen enough of her to know, but many people seem to dislike her. Not familiar at all with the rest. By the way, it was said earlier that all Dane Cook does is say 'f**k' a lot, and he assumes that makes him funny. I don't think that's true, HOWEVER I know of a guy whose stand-up is exactly that. His name is Bob Saget. Stay away from his comedy at all costs, if you ask me. He would probably fit in my personal 'other' category on that poll. |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: November 03 2009 at 06:02
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They all suck but I detest Lampanelli and insult comics in general. -------------  |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: November 03 2009 at 07:04
OK maybe he did occasionally elicit a giggle from me, but he was still annoying and I'm guessing he wouldn't have a problem with me saying so. In a previous post, someone slammed Sam Kinneson Now Sam actually cracked me up. Didn't he die of spontaneous explosion or something?  ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: November 03 2009 at 09:29
Neither do I, I must (happily?) say. ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: November 03 2009 at 10:49
You're right with Saget. At least he's not so loud. But Cook? Talk loud, say f**k, talk louder, say f**k, talk louder about sex and sh*t (literally), say f**k, yell, f**k, scream, f**k, f**k.... that's all he does.
Maybe people just love a guy that has no problems being a jerk in public. They love the show-off. The "I do what I want" attitude. I prefer comedians that may seem insecure or quieter but that make actual jokes. -------------
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Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: November 03 2009 at 11:52
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Silverman has this one lead-off line that stuck with me. First thing out of her mouth, delivered with complete deadpan stare....
"I want to get an abortion.......but my boyfriend and I are having trouble conceiving."
Funny? Offensive? both?
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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: November 03 2009 at 11:54
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Slightly funny. Don't see anything offensive. -------------
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Posted By: JLocke
Date Posted: November 03 2009 at 12:10
See, again. I don't really see that. Dane (as has been pointed out earlier by Greg W) can be incredibly unfunny for long periods of time, but then out of nowhere he'll say something that has be in stitches many minutes straight. His comedy DOES have a lot of profanity, but that isn't all he does. He actually does tell jokes. Now whether or not everyone finds his type of humor truly funny is a different story, but to claim that he doesn't even tell real jokes is a bit off the mark, in my opinion, I'm not trying to sound like a fanboy, or anything, but I'm just trying to put in perspective something that many people largely assume about Cook without actually watching him long enough to see what else he can do. I have a weird taste in stand-up anyway, though. For instance, my favorite stand-up comic was a guy named Richard Jeni. Many, many people have never heard of him, so maybe that's a clue to how obscure my taste can get at times. I think Dane is good for what he does; but what he does is college humor, for the most part. Not everybody is going to understand it. I still think it's a matter of personal taste, and not as simple as lack of talent. I believe Cook does have talent, but he aims it at a very specific audience. Bob Saget, on the other hand, has absolutely no talent, regardless of who is watching. But even that's just opinion. |
Posted By: manofmystery
Date Posted: November 03 2009 at 13:01
Let me add Robin Williams to this list, terribly unfunny both as a stand up and an actor, who uses the F word every other word in his act while bouncing around like a madman and doing incredibly poor impressions. ------------- Time always wins. |
Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: November 03 2009 at 13:15
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Mencia I just find flat out annoying. Silverman is not funny in the least, but of course ZOMG SHES SO HOT! Seriously, thats the first thing everyone says when I tell them she f*cking sucks "yeah she deff does BUT...." It's really pretty sad. |