Who's your favourite stand up comedian?

[Remmie]

1 hour ago, manwiththestick said:

He's my favourite, has been for years.

 

His podcast is absolute chaos.

Not a fan of comedian podcasts, they don't tend to be very funny as they aren't using their honed material. Tried Stanhope, Bill Burr and Bert Kreischer and they were all shite. 

 

Gossipmongers with Joe Wilkinson is the exception to that but even then there is a gimmick and the funniest stuff comes from the submissions. 

[Skidfingers McGonical]

1 hour ago, manwiththestick said:

He's my favourite, has been for years.

 

His podcast is absolute chaos.

It most certainly is. I have to have breaks from listening to at times.
 

His book ‘Digging Up Mother’ is one of my favourite books. 

 

 

[Skidfingers McGonical]

45 minutes ago, Remmie said:

Not a fan of comedian podcasts, they don't tend to be very funny as they aren't using their honed material. Tried Stanhope, Bill Burr and Bert Kreischer and they were all shite. 

 

Gossipmongers with Joe Wilkinson is the exception to that but even then there is a gimmick and the funniest stuff comes from the submissions. 

I don’t get the Bert Kreischer appeal as a stand up, all he has is his ‘Machine’ story. 
 

Tim Dillon’s is something I listen too every week, along with intermittent listenings of Bad Friends, This Past Weekend with Theo Von, Honeydew with Ryan Sickler (best laugh in comedy) Burr, YMH (not as much these days), Matt & Shane’s secret podcast, Stanhope, We Might Be Drunk, and Marc Maron. 

[Remmie]

25 minutes ago, Skidfingers McGonical said:

I don’t get the Bert Kreischer appeal as a stand up, all he has is his ‘Machine’ story. 

 

That may be true but what a story! 

[Pete]

Watched all of BC’s World tour of Scotland.  Brilliant stuff.  

[VladimirIlyich]

23 hours ago, Mudface said:

 

Yeah, silly voices are a no-no. One I forgot, Jimmy Carr was great when we saw him a few months back. 

I saw Jimmy Carr at the Empire about 15 years ago and he was very,very good.

[ZonkoVille77]

 

 

[stringvest]

Micky Flanagan for me.  A clever, self-aware, and hysterically funny bloke relating to life as I see it.  

[stringvest]

 

[stringvest]

For some reason I always think of Tokyo whenever I see this clip...

 

[lifetime fan]

Seems a decent sort too. 
 

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/desert-island-discs/id342735925?i=1000394995098

[Total Longo]

I've seen a few saying they think Paul Smith is decent Not for me, Clive.  That whole "audience banter" shtick is sound for about ten minutes maximum, not for your whole act.  

 

I think the last stand up i watched was Stewart Lee's Snowflake/Tornado. the whole "Reginald Farrell" bit genuinely had me crying laughing. I also watched about ten minutes of that toothy blonde lad (the one who's mates with Romesh Ranganathan... and his name escapes me) and for the same reasons as the Paul Smith dislike above, i couldn't go any further in. Woeful.   

[Bruce Spanner]

We used to be really lucky and have a comedy club up the road from us where relatively big touring comics would practice new routines.

 

It was great, we saw all the people mentioned above, and more, for a fiver.

 

Favourite recent show was Mike Birbiglia who did a residency in London, which was really gentle, considered, but hilarious.

[Bob]

I’m not sure how much he classes as a standup and he doesn’t tell jokes in the traditional sense, but I saw Mike Wozniak last year and it was probably the consistently funniest hour I can remember.

 

he told a long, untrue story with a million tangents and diversions and it was utterly brilliant.

 

similarly so was Ross Noble but in a very different way. I don’t think he finished a single sentence or thought for the entire show, and it felt like every line was spontaneously uttered, which is a hell of a skill. 

[Kevin D]

 

[Bjornebye]

On 10/02/2024 at 23:57, Pete said:

Watched all of BC’s World tour of Scotland.  Brilliant stuff.  

Brilliant isn’t it. Some of his best stand up clips are from that tour. What a man. 
 

The Australia one is equally as superb. 

[Chip Butty]

Me and her have watched Last One Laughing on Prime, and whilst it was populated with supposed ‘comedians’ without doubt , Bob Mortimer is one of the, funniest bastards, ever.
Not sure if he classes as a trying to work at their act comedian, he just is one of life’s naturally, funny bastards.

 

 

[VladimirIlyich]

Just recently watched Billy Connolly's tour of America from 2019 before the Parkinsons Disease took a hold. Quite poignant and sad to look back upon but a nice memento to have.

[Code]

Got to be Kevin Bridges for me.

 

 

[Pete]

6 hours ago, VladimirIlyich said:

Just recently watched Billy Connolly's tour of America from 2019 before the Parkinsons Disease took a hold. Quite poignant and sad to look back upon but a nice memento to have.

Is that the route 66 thing? If so that’s brilliant.   He mentions it in one of his books too. 

[Mook]

I went to a comedy club on Saturday.

 

First guy was a black bisexual from Edinburgh who spent 20 minutes going on about how hard it is being black & bisexual in Edinburgh.

 

Second bird was a Liverpudlian lesbian with mental health issues, who spent 20 minutes going on about how hard it is being a lesbian with mental health issues.

 

Third guy was a posh, English, gay teacher, who was calling blokes in the crowd 'Angel'. Camper than Christmas this cunt.

 

Fourth guy was some Weegie, a Poundland Kevin Bridges really but by the time he came on I was ready to commit genocide so he was at a loss straight away.

 

It wasn't my idea to go & my two mates were blootered and kept speaking to me while these unfunny cunts were on stage & the bouncer gave me a row twice for talking when it wasn't even me. 

 

Never again.

[Red Banjo]

Not normally a massive fan of American stand up stuff (bar Chapelle, and the very early Eddie Murphy classics) but Shane Gillis and Matt Rife are funny motherfuckers.

[cloggypop]

57 minutes ago, Mook said:

First guy was a black bisexual from Edinburgh who spent 20 minutes going on about how hard it is being black & bisexual in Edinburgh.

 

I know a  gay black adopted Glaswegian over here. Funny as fuck, hard as nails, but never felt the need to get on a stage to do it. 

[Mook]

18 minutes ago, cloggypop said:

 

I know a  gay black adopted Glaswegian over here. Funny as fuck, hard as nails, but never felt the need to get on a stage to do it. 

 

This boy was about as funny as a boot in the bollocks.

[halewood pete]

George Carlin.RIP