I used to really like Lee Evans, especially his old stand up gigs but they've been overplayed on Comedy Central and he is a really bad actor. But he seems like a nice fella, and I enjoy his chat show appearances.
Any comedians people don't get the fuss over Page 6
Quote: Timbo @ August 20 2010, 9:38 PM BSTCharles Chaplin. (Sorry Badge
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Surely one thread was enough for the Chaplin diss-fest?
Quote: David Carmon @ August 21 2010, 1:52 AM BSTThat annoying foul Vegas, though I like him on QI which is odd.
To my mind Vegas is a nonentity drunk who happened to impress some media types when he was very drunk by being a bit drunk, and they decided he was the next Peter Cook. He wasn't.
His career baffles me totally.
Quote: Aaron @ August 20 2010, 10:09 PM BSTDon't even get me started on that Bussell chap.
I'll have you know that I've had my funniness graded by none other than Norris McWhirter and the statistical facts point to me being 99% hilarious (with a 1% margin of error).
Quote: Leevil @ August 22 2010, 10:42 PM BSTI used to really like Lee Evans, especially his old stand up gigs but they've been overplayed on Comedy Central and he is a really bad actor.
He's not so bad, just as long as he's not doing an American accent.
Quote: David Bussell @ August 23 2010, 3:06 PM BSTI'll have you know that I've had my funniness graded by none other than Norris McWhirter and the statistical facts point to me being 99% hilarious (with a 1% margin of error).
In fairness you were dressed as a comedy Jew.
Quote: Badge @ August 22 2010, 11:05 PM BSTTo my mind Vegas is a nonentity drunk who happened to impress some media types when he was very drunk by being a bit drunk, and they decided he was the next Peter Cook. He wasn't.
His career baffles me totally.
I had thought it was just me who was baffled by Vegas. For that I will accept that the statute of limitations has run out on Chaplin and refrain from further comment.
Quote: Aaron @ August 24 2010, 1:01 AM BSTI'm rather perplexed as to how his career got started, and just why he has done some of the stuff that he has, but he can be very funny at times and puts in cracking performances in Ideal and Benidorm.
To be fair he's a decent actor. It's the comedian/personality I have never understood.
Well, it's a character that porbably works best in the live arena, where he can set the character free and there is a sense of palpable danger.
Quote: Matthew Stott @ August 24 2010, 9:06 AM BSTpalpable danger.
When is your signature aftershave coming our anyway?
For those who don't find Spike Milligan funny, read all of his war memoirs, read The Looney, listen (and keep re-listening) to a dozen or more Goon shows (at age 10 on first hearing a Goon Show I thought it was just a lot of silly voices, then listened more carefully to what was being said by whom, became familiar with the characters and was addicted) - and find and listen to his Live at Cambridge University album. And get hold of the old Q series in their entirety - rather than just the few not so great bits on the BBC's "best of Spike" DVD. I find it quite bizarre that there's no thread devoted to Milligan himself. There are also no threads for Geoffrey Bayldon or Harry Thompson*, alas.
And for those who don't find Charlie Chaplin amusing, try watching A King in New York.
* not counting the H.T. Bursary applications one.
Geoffrey Bayldon is an actor, not a comediam, has done some comedy stuff over the years though
No idea why Frankie Boyle is so popular ??
His only 2 topics of discussion are cheap digs at Scotland, which lose their appeal after a while - being Scottish it's nothing new as to what we already joke about - and 'shock humour', saying something which isn't even that funny but controversial enough to get a laugh.
Frankie Boyle. I don't get it at all.
Harry Hill. He does seem like a really nice guy, but - not funny.
He was really rather special on Shooting Stars in a relatively short stint.