Andy Parsons isn't funny.
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Agreed, Andy Parsons just relies on saying stuff slowly so you think its going to be funny. It rarely is.
Franky Boyle...well, yeh, he's good but being so close to the edge does get tiring after a while. I was watching tv once and he was on followed by Jimmy Carr. Had to turn off after a while as was just sick of hearing their sick gags. The shock factor, as someone already said, only lasts so long. After a while its just too much. I'll add that I'm someone who can more than handle offensive gags but after a while it starts to get to you. I prefer him on MTW responding to stories but even then its just the very harshest of responses. Not very funny after a while. You need something good natured in there.
I paid £17 to go see Rich Hall in Edinburgh the other week. He was ok but to be honest I felt a bit cheated. No full on belly laughs and he couldn't really get anywhere with ad lib opportunities from audience participation. He floundered a bit to be honest. His persona and delivery are a big part of his appeal but his material isn't amazing.
To be honest I think if you watch comedians enough you'll eventually realise they rehash their material again and again. On MTW they try and shoehorn sections of their stand up act into the show and on other panel shows like Would I Lie To You the same thing happens. Its just that some comedians have less material than others. Russell Howard is wheeling his limited material out all over the shop on tv so I'd never bother watching him live.
I've been watching Bill Hicks clips on Youtube recently. Very funny but when you click on the interviews you'll see him use the same gags in his answers.
Bit of a shame really, you kind of want comedians to be able to be funny all the time but truth is a lot of them just rely on their core material too much so you see through them after a while.0 -
Well, comedians go stale don't they? Pretty much all of the good ones start doing impressions of themselves without the quality as their careers drag on.
Andy Parsons just seems to arrived on the scene pre-staled to me - just doesn't seem to have an ounce of good material, pretty much all of my friends can make me laugh more than him.
Think some comedians, like Jack Dee for example, have managed to keep going pretty strongly, but here's a good example again of one that hasn't, Eddie Izzard, used to be really good, later stuff was just 'same old' and a bit rubbish.
Just to really naff some oldies off Billy Connolly isn't funny, he starts laughing at his own stories half way through, that doesnt make them funny. In his day he was probably funny, but if you're not under 15 or over 50 or stuck in the 1980s then its obvious that he's high up on the shitometer.
(By the way, I love stand up, i'd rather watch comedy than anything else!)0 -
The problem with comedy is the subjectiveness of it all...there's no way we'll ever agree..except about Andy Parsons I suppose.
Eddie Izzard doesn't have to say anything to make me laugh these days - and almost everything he does say is extremely funny - at times, even when he's being serious.
I haven't noticed that he's any less funny now than when I first saw him in 1993.0 -
Porgy wrote:The problem with comedy is the subjectiveness of it all...there's no way we'll ever agree..except about Andy Parsons I suppose.
I think we need a poll!
Until I saw this thread I thought it was just me. What really gets me on MTW is the titters of anticipation before AP speaks. The audience appear to be on a totally different wavelength...
He's not funny!!!
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And when they do that "things people would never say" round he always tries to make it look like he was going to get on the mike but was too slow but then when there is a gap stays put!
I find that the worse a comedian is, the stupider they try to look
bald + ginger beard = not funny!
Oh! and that funny eyes & teeth guys loves his Healies jokes!!0 -
josborn wrote:And when they do that "things people would never say" round he always tries to make it look like he was going to get on the mike but was too slow but then when there is a gap stays put!
You do realise that what we see is very much edited. More likely he does jump up to the mike when he looks like he wants to but they edit it out because it's not funny.0 -
Porgy wrote:josborn wrote:You do realise that what we see is very much edited. More likely he does jump up to the mike when he looks like he wants to but they edit it out because it's not funny.
Hang on, if they edited out all the bits where he wasn't funny he wouldn't be in the programme at all, so that can't be the reason.0 -
Hey, here's another high blood pressure not funny thing....
Has anyone seen the '3Three Sponsors Original Comedy' advert break insertions on Channel4 and E4 with that big haired 'comedian' saying a joke each time.
They're not in the slightest bit funny so whats the point in them??? Some bluddy advertising agency has probably convinced 3Three to do it and got a writer and so on to write it and some sh1t actor to do it and completely failed to make it funny. What complete rubbish.
...some sh1t obvious, unfunny joke followed by "3Three sponsors ORIGINAL comedy". FFS.
Don't someone tell me that's a real comedian please.0 -
They're worse than not funny - they're positively annoying. Especially since they only made about three of them so you keep hearing the same ones over and over!!!! :twisted:
Now I wanna kill Andy Parsons!!!0
