Jebsly
Sunday 13th December 2009 8:22pm
Manchester
817 posts
Quote: katie coe @ December 13 2009, 2:43 PM GMT
I doubt that very much. A majority of the nation think that he is funny. And he genuinly seems like a nice man.
i think that they ARE just jelous.
It definitely isn't a majority that like him. I know just as many people who don't like him as do. Also, the people who tend to not like him are the people who actively watch comedians, whereas the people who do like him tend to get all of their comedy from 'Live at the Apollo' and panel shows.
The reason he got so popular in such a short amount of time is to do with the fact that his comedy is very simple and therefore very easy to understand and accessible. That, tied in with him appearing in all of the mainstream outlets of comedy such as Mock the Week and Live at the Apollo. I would be willing to put money on him being nowhere near as succesful if he had being working the circuit, just because the audiences are different. The Mock the Week audience want simple comedy, and that's what he does. If I paid £20 to see a bloke talk about going shopping with actions for an hour I would be pissed off.
I suppose it all goes back to the age old problem of simple and easy to understand becoming more popular than intelligent and deep every time, just because of that. People don't like to think. It takes too much effort. It's the same in music.