Discovered R4 Extra last weekend, loads of Hancock's Half Hour and Round The Horne of a Saturday afternoon. So good.
I'm with Sorethroat and Khornight2 on this one. Of course there's as much of an arc in taste and talent in the creation of "nonsense" as any other style. Just being witlessly "random" is not anywhere near enough to be funny. Otherwise I'd be cracking up at those adverts for random sweets shaped like random items. I'm not. No one is. It's not funny.
It's become so worn as a comedy style these days that I find it hard to believe i'll ever find it charming or funny again. When I first saw Eddie Izzard doing stand up, his apparently "random" flights of fancy and surreal lists "jam! badgers!" etc had me clutching my sides. By the time I'd seen two or three of his shows I started to notice that the same items kept appearing in the "random" lists. Really not funny any more. See also, Ross Noble.
Discovered R4 Extra last weekend, loads of Hancock's Half Hour and Round The Horne of a Saturday afternoon. So good.
I'm with Sorethroat and Khornight2 on this one. Of course there's as much of an arc in taste and talent in the creation of "nonsense" as any other style. Just being witlessly "random" is not anywhere near enough to be funny. Otherwise I'd be cracking up at those adverts for random sweets shaped like random items. I'm not. No one is. It's not funny.
It's become so worn as a comedy style these days that I find it hard to believe i'll ever find it charming or funny again. When I first saw Eddie Izzard doing stand up, his apparently "random" flights of fancy and surreal lists "jam! badgers!" etc had me clutching my sides. By the time I'd seen two or three of his shows I started to notice that the same items kept appearing in the "random" lists. Really not funny any more. See also, Ross Noble.