Who in modern British stand-up is worth watching?

Who is actually funny?

Definitely not Jack Whitehall, James Acaster or Joe Lycett; three soy-boy mediocrities who, back in the nineties, would get a couple of appearances on Friday Night comedy with Tommy Tiernan and disappear.

Is Ricky Gervais’ stand-up funny? I watched Apocalypse and found it a bit obvious. ‘Must bait the wokoids’, this will generate headlines’.

I’ve seen Stewart Lee live (once may years ago) and although it’s combative and right -on, it’s at least his own style.

The trouble is he’s spawned a legion of fanboys who want to be the next Stewart Lee and they’re not smart enough to pull it off. It’s that or comedy-by-box-ticking. Female and black comedians who get gigs on panel shows and have a sycophantic audience of liberal students clapping like seals. They can’t form a career doing comedy nights at clubs because the general public would heckle them and make them cry.
(see Kumar, Nish)

Most of the newer comedians on Netflix are just trading on their innate sexual or racial characteristics. It’s boring, so boring that Amy Schumer’s entire repertoire has been satirised by the meme of her uttering ‘my vagina’, then receiving adulation from grey-faced NPCs;

‘Comedy Unleashed’ is a reaction to woke but I haven’t found many of the acts very funny, as they try too hard to be anti-PC. they aren’t like Bernard Manning or Mike Reid who just wrote and performed the material they wanted to, regardless of how PC it is. It’s a deliberate attempt to be controversial and edgy. They gave their audiences – largely working class – the respect that paying punters deserve.
Comedians are usually quite dismissive when an audience reacts with an ‘ooohh’ at a mildly controversial idea that the comedian then has to explain to them.

The only stand-up act i’ve found funny in the past ten years is Mickey Flanagan. His material and delivery are quite unique in this day and age. Never tries to be a shock jock and frequently mocks the pretentions of the liberal middle-class, the very people who make up the bulk of comedians on the BBC and Channel 4 for the past twenty years. He seems to have gone quiet recently which is a shame. He and Sean Lock were the only worthwhile comedians on TV for large stretches of the 2010s.

The rest are posh women, including the men.

unherd

Nominated by Cuntamus Prime.

Is he as dumb as he looks??

This article cracked me up, a Court Judge in Michigan , USA, land of the brave and home of the seriously stupid, looks on in utter disbelief as a Mr. Corey Harrison joins the court via remote hearing whilst driving on a suspended license. The miscreant Harrisons own counsel , who looks like she wants to laugh out loud, then has the front to ask the judge for an adjournment for a month. The judge looks like he wants to laugh out loud….. before telling Einstein Harrison to turn himself in by 6.00 p.m. No bail, just jail. This is no doubt one of the funniest 2 or 3 minutes of video that I’ve seen in ages. Thanks judge for making me smile

bbcnews

Nominated by Paul.

Well worth a watch the link C.A.

‘Suntan kid’ (Also now known as the drip. C.A.) is a clutching at straws , hypocritical double dealing u turning clueless, cant even think of an umbrella in a deluge let alone run a country cunt of the highest order.

A few weeks back and , if I remember correctly, a high ranking army geezer suggested it would be a good idea for the said army geezers army to conscript new soldiers, cue the Suntan kid , I’m definitely sure. I read his response to the conscription remarks as no way Jose, not on my shift , no conscription happening here. A few weeks later and big nose has called a general election, all of a sudden national service is on the cards. I fucking hate politics and politicians, they always rely on Joe Publics incredibly fuckin short memories to get away with half the stunts they pull. Don’t forget Covid lockdowns for the masses (and not the chosen few) amongst other things like completely shattered promises on immigration and ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION. Fuck you Sunak , fuck you too Starmer, where is an Enoch Powell when you need one

Guardian

Nominated by Paul.

This stale shitheal lives with his wife and 11 children in a flat in East London. Mr Safi’s wife is about to drop baby No 12. He complains Newham council can’t help him with a “better” home, as he only has one shithouse and one shower (which I doubt is overused).

May I suggest the little asshole undergoes a vasectomy – we could start a Go Fund Me page for him?

express

Nominated by W. C. Boggs.

Yes – it’s HIM again. Fancy nancy would-be “Labour” politician, comedian and now “serious actor Laddie”, Eddie “Whoops-duckie” Izzard. Obviously realising that even Dame Kweer wouldn’t touch him with a barge pole (the only time the old fool has shown a bit of savvy), the old pantomime dame has taken to the theatre again, in an effort to be legitimate. Sadly for him, even the critics have not been taken in:

This MAN, who likes to don plastic breasts, bright lippy and Tena-Ladies and frequent women’s public lavatories, is really a raddled washed up old has-been, who just enjoys making a cunt of himself. There must be a nice padded cell waiting for him, after daring to make a circus out of William Shakespeare. No doubt Channel 4 or the BBC will bust a gut to get HIS performance on videotape to reserve for posterity. As the Bard so truly pointed out “The evil that men do live after them” (as Blair proved). He also said (in Othello) “put out the light, then – put out the light”. Time the spotlight was taken off this narcissistic old poofter.

standard

Nominated by W. C. Boggs.