Quote: zooo @ May 2 2009, 12:44 AM BST
He does make a lot of people laugh!
Just not you. I don't see why that's hard for people to process.
I accepted this a long time ago about the comedians I don't find funny.
Without raking the whole "he's funny!" "No he isn't" thing (which admittedly is what I am now actually doing...), there are plenty of 'funny' people out there I find unfunny and they don't annoy me at all. I can live with it. Honestly. Usually...
I think the thing that bugs me about him is that he never really smiles. Even when asked to smile by Gormless all he could do was smirk as if actual 'smiling' is beneath him because he's a serious comedian with serious points to make. Its as if everything is beneath him in some way; that whole 'cleverer than thou' air that he has. And Genius panders to that precisely: "Lets serve up idiot members of the public with stupid ideas and you can show them just how much cleverer you are..".
For example, all he really did, in contrast to past 'Judges', was think of reasons why an idea was bad. Other Judges took the contestant's ideas and ran with them, adding or stretching them for 'comic' effect. Lee just rattled off a list of 'comic' reasons why they were shit. The swimming lane woman was able to answer all of his criticisms and he just looked deflated when he ran out of criticism and said "You've really thought about this haven't you?". Then binned it anyway.
BUT... back to the show... I thought the piano choir was interesting but they'd obviously only rehearsed the one piece of music.