Sort of comedians that don’t crack you up

I love Michael Redmond. I did his Sunday Service a few times. Lovely bloke he is.

I don't know anything about him. But nice to know he's.... Nice

Mrs browns boys has been mentioned but seems to be popular with people.

the most I’ve ever laughed

Not a comedian per se, but this made me remember The Book of Mormon.

Walked out of the theatre with a sore face.

seems to be popular with people.

Something I've never been able to understand. But the EastEnders is popular and that's endless dross.

Same as any soap opera?

1. Lee Evans now retired, thank fuck.
   
2. Joe Pasquale.
   
3. Nina Conti and whatever piece of rag and latex she is fisting.
   
4. Alexei Yuri Gagarin Sieges Stalingrad Glorious Five-Year Plan Sputnik Tractor Moscow Dynamo Back-Four Sayle, who was barely tolerable in the early 80s
   
5. John Bishop
   
6. Ross Noble
   
7. Alan Davies
   
8. Kevin Bridges, except for the "Fuck you Toblerone" on 8 out of ten cats does countdown
   
9. Jason Manford
   
10. Michael McIntyre
    These are as they sprung to mind, I could do more.
    

So 20 odd years back I found myself on the Joe Rogan forum. I had no idea who he was, but there were heated debates and some funny posters (Bill Burr was one and Doug Stanhope another of note), so I frequented the message boards and abused the pro-Iraq war stance nearly all of them took.

Generally it was full of utter fuckin edgelords and absolute whoppers. And so of course I ended up meeting a load of them in London for a forum meet. The idea was that they were going to see a show by this “comedian” Joe Rogan. I was there for the pub garden drinks.

So I arrived at a pub in Camden on a BH weekend where I was basically talked at by about 30 British and American wannabe stand ups. All of them talking as if they were onstage and nothing could make these unfunny bastards stop.

This coloured my opinion of comedians until by accident I saw a utterly puerile live set by Rob Delaney (he’s adorable) and I realised they weren’t all like these dickheads

Lol, I used to be on his forum back in the day, place was chaos with enough interesting stuff sprinkled in to keep me going back, was a sad day when I tried to log in and he'd nuked it without warning. I landed up there from UFC and had no idea he was a comedian as well, imagine my disappointment when I watched one of his specials, just terrible.

Rogan cut it loose when he got the Fear Factor gig. Reputational Kryptonite

Funny because years before I was on Old Man Murray when Chet had to cut it loose because STEAM became a thing and the investors wouldn’t have been impressed

What’s the world famous career move for velocio?

Joe Rogan was a comedian?!? Wtf! That's mental.

Suddenly it all makes a lot more sense.

Joe Rogan was a comedian

That's debatable

Al Murray
That big Greg guy

Actually any British comedian who got a tv show.

They’re all shite.

What about Stephen Mangan and Tamsin Greig?

Sorry maybe I misspoke.

They are all shit.

Rogan and his acolytes approached comedy in the same way you would approach lifting weights, train hard all the time as if that would suddenly make you funny.

Do 50 “hey waddabout airplane food” jokes followed by supersets of “white people be like/black people be like”
Then round it off with 20 “I’m gonna get cancelled for this”

They are all shit.

Could we add sean lock to the exclusion(s)?

I was sure universally we know this and didn’t need saying but yes.

The fact you said they're all shit twice suggested otherwise, but cool 👍

Sean transcended the category

They've all done good and bad stuff and had good and bad gigs, and if you watch or listen to enough of it then they recycle gags across stand up, TV and podcasts. I like most of them but they've all got potential for both ends of the spectrum. I'm 5 minutes into some BBC telly shite full of decent (or not according to here) comedians and it's absolute shite. Johnny Vegas does good telly and stand up but shit acting apart from Ideal.

Al Murray

I won't have it. He's smarter than most

Nahh

What about Stephen Mangan and Tamsin Greig?

(Excellent) comic actors, not comedians. But if we’re talking Tamsin, we can add Dylan Moran to the good list.