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[Nefarious C]

Who's your favourite comedian(s)?

Good live performances, reccomendations?

Anyone get on yer tits?


I'd have to say, right now I'm well into Frankie Boyles stuff. He got ripped into my mate at the music hall last year, was pretty hilarious.

But to stick on a Mock the Week theme, I really do fucking hate Russel Howards comedy. Lots of my mates love him, but I have not once found any of his "Ill juxtapose a random noun with a random verb to make an entirely unsuitable adjective" comedy appealing whatsoever.

Case in hand- I screamed like a badger with its nuts caught in a bicycle.



Paramount 2's late night comedy is pretty good sometimes as well.

[Lucky Rathen]

Russell Howard pisses me off as well. My favourites are Jack Dee and Lucy Porter. Lucy Porter is funny as fuck. Some quotes:

"If we can all learn one thing from Mother Theresa it's that you have to moisturise. I mean she was wonderful but she did have skin like a scrotum."

"They always parody films to get titles for porn movies, I thought it would be nice to do some British telly programs as well, like Thongs Of Praise, Ready Steady Cock, or Bargain Cunt."

"I'm a single woman in my 30s so most of my friends are gay men and cats. It seems they are both are attracted by the stench of gin and regret."

"I think it must be really hard to meet someone if you've got a pronounced sexual fetish. I mean dating is hard enough anyway isn't it, without having the added thing of going out on a first date and sitting there going "Yeah the steaks lovely, the wine's great, now will you shit in a bag and hit me round the face with it?" "

"Hen nights are so predictable aren't they. You watch them and they go 'happy, happy, happy, happy - crying on the stairs'. On every hen night by the end there's just one girl weeping in a pair of bunny ears, smelling faintly jizzum. It is normally me, to be fair."

"Bless, little boy in the front, you're not going to shout "get your tits out" in a million years are you? You're a lovely little middle class thing, you'd pop a little please on the end cos you're nice. Bless him, he's looking at me like he wants me to make him my bitch. He's too young for me anyway, I mean I'm 31 and I look at him and I don't know whether I want to fuck him or feed him. I want to rip his clothes off, but only to wash them and iron them, then I'm quite happy."

"I heard Geri Halliwell got a job as a judge on Popstars. That's a bit rich, isn't it. Geri Halliwell telling you you can't sing, that's like MIchael Jackson telling you you're a bit odd."

"Playing poker online is like being mugged without the company. "

"I like a drink myself. I like nothing more than those days when you wake up and you're sweating pure beer, and then tramps come up and start licking you. I actually really like that cos they've got little rough tongues like cats."

"I've spent so much money trying quit smoking, with patches, gum, hypnosis, acupuncture, that I'm beginning to wonder if it might be more cost effective to just keep carry on smoking, and with the money I save buy a small Mexican child so I have a heart and lungs ready to go when the time comes."

"My flat got burgled recently. When the police came round they said "You know Miss Porter, the one thing that annoys us about a crime like this is that some local crack dealer is going to benefit from the proceeds". I didn't think that wasn't very comforting, plus, how did they know how i was going to spend my insurance money?"

[Lucky Rathen]

I'm actually really impressed by Russell Brand as well, he comes across as a bit of a twat on TV but his stand up stuff is hilarious.

[Dayeth]

My new favourite is Stewart Lee.

YouTube - Stewart Lee - Joe Pasquale joke

Brilliant.

[MikeyEB]

Rich Hall in his Otis Lee Crenshaw guise is very funny. I got a DVD of one of his shows a few years back and it's brilliant.
I also enjoy older Eddie Izzard stuff , it's starting to seem a bit forced these days though. Oh and another vote for Stewart Lee, that man is a genius.

[Nefarious C]

Originally Posted by Lucky Rathen

Lucy Porter is funny as fuck.

She is.

And I've always found her oddly attractive, in a cutesy kind of way.

Also, WE ARE SCIENTISTS.

Not strictly comedians, but their sense of humour is miles better than their music, and I don't mind their music one bit.

I'd check their website. Some of the blogs and parts of the advice page have actually reduced me to tears of laughter.

[Jan]

Stewart Lee is pretty amazing.

[Ross.]

Originally Posted by Nefarious C

Also, WE ARE SCIENTISTS.

Agreed- two very witty guys. The website is great.

Maybe it's because I'm not an ageing housewife with a penchant for shit entertainment, but I don't like Alan Carr. Saying that I haven't seen any stand-up from him- I can only presume it's the comedy equivalent to receiving a 90 minute toothy blowjob.

i seem to be the only person in britain who thinks frankie boyle is fucking rubbish.

[Teabags]

Mitch Hedberg. and Doug Stanhope. And Dylan Moran. they're my fav current ones.

others I like are Billy Conelly, Robin Williams, Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Bill Bailey etc etc.

Mitch is prob my all time fav though. RIP.