Quote: Tim Walker @ October 19 2010, 3:36 PM BSTEh?
Tim, step away from the keyboard...
Michael McIntyre! Page 2
Quote: john lucas 101 @ October 19 2010, 3:48 PM BSTTim, step away from the keyboard...
Sure, John, I've got far better things to do anyway. Such as writing ten minutes of stand-up material about how hilariously frustrating it is having to separate your household waste for multiple recycling bins. Or how amusingly irritating it is trying to find a suitable location for the body after committing an honour killing...
Shouldn't this be closed and lumped in with his other thread like you do with others?
Well no, because this is the only Michael McIntyre thread - apart from one about punching people in the face.
Aren't the two things synonymous?
No comment. 
But this thread will stay.
I was surprised at how readily his audience breaks into applause. They applaud any celebrity he points out amongst them. They applaud him again as he repeats the Vorderman-in-the lift anecdote (which he's already done on TV). And they applaud again when he says "I'm out" to the Dragons' Den woman. They are so well-trained, and so terribly polite.
Quote: Nogget @ October 20 2010, 11:55 AM BSTI was surprised at how readily his audience breaks into applause. They applaud any celebrity he points out amongst them. They applaud him again as he repeats the Vorderman-in-the lift anecdote (which he's already done on TV). And they applaud again when he says "I'm out" to the Dragons' Den woman. They are so well-trained, and so terribly polite.
Perhaps, you know, just perhaps these people enjoy what he does?
Quote: Tony Cowards @ October 20 2010, 12:01 PM BSTPerhaps, you know, just perhaps these people enjoy what he does?
I've no doubt they do, but they choose to applaud a lot more than they choose to cheer.
Thank god. I hate whooping.
Quote: Sophia @ October 19 2010, 2:32 PM BSTI am a huge Michael McIntyre fan! Of course the critical knives will always be out. But I don't really understand how one of TV's most talented stand-ups provokes such strong opposition. And forget about snobbery - doesn't it make a nice change to have a comedian talking about the everyday, the ordinary... the pain of traffic on a Friday, the stress of buying shoes... rather than all these highly satirical, dark and controversial political mutterings? McIntyre is a breath of fresh air to the world of comedy, no doubt about it. On your bikes, critics! Accept this man's rapid rise to fame for what it is - entirely merited.
Seems a nice enough bloke and you're right, his popularity is nearly as big as an X Factor contestant singing Whitney Houston cover versions (probably with the same audience).
I personally find his trite back-of-a fag-packet observations hardly adequate to keep an undemanding six year old amused.
I'm looking forward to McIntyre's Christmas board game in which each contestant has to think up as many tedious clichéd observations in a 15 second time frame-
Have you ever noticed comedians?- They come on telly and people just laugh at them, doesn't this make them upset?
Have you ever noticed socks never match?- I buy 20 pairs exactly the same but they are all odd after a fortnight.
Traffics lights- they always turn to red as you approach them.
Quote: Nogget @ October 20 2010, 11:55 AM BSTI was surprised at how readily his audience breaks into applause. They applaud any celebrity he points out amongst them. They applaud him again as he repeats the Vorderman-in-the lift anecdote (which he's already done on TV). And they applaud again when he says "I'm out" to the Dragons' Den woman. They are so well-trained, and so terribly polite.
Or easily pleased thick c**ts?
Or it could be the editing?
Or both?
Quote: youngian @ October 20 2010, 2:21 PM BSTSeems a nice enough bloke and you're right, his popularity is nearly as big as an X Factor contestant singing Whitney Houston cover versions (probably with the same audience).
I personally find his trite back-of-a fag-packet observations hardly adequate to keep an undemanding six year old amused.
I'm looking forward to McIntyre's Christmas board game in which each contestant has to think up as many tedious clichéd observations in a 15 second time frame-
Have you ever noticed comedians?- They come on telly and people just laugh at them, doesn't this make them upset?
Have you ever noticed socks never match?- I buy 20 pairs exactly the same but they are all odd after a fortnight.
Traffics lights- they always turn to red as you approach them.
If you think it's this easy why aren't there more comedians out there doing this and being incredibly successful?
Why can't people accept that MM is very good at what he does and LOTS of people (who may, or may not, be typical comedy fans) love him and find him very funny?
What's the problem?
No-one stood up to the National Socialists - they were adored by mainstream audiences, and look what happened...
*dances a little jig around the room, thrilled at being the first person to invoke Hitler & the Nazis*
Quote: Tim Walker @ October 20 2010, 3:42 PM BSTNo-one stood up to the National Socialists - they were adored by mainstream audiences, and look what happened...
*dances a little jig around the room, thrilled at being the first person to invoke Hitler & the Nazis*
I wonder if, like me, you resisted making the comparison up until now. Hitler was indeed adored, he was voted into power, and the audience loved him at his rallies/gigs. And he had floppy black hair.
Quote: Tony Cowards @ October 20 2010, 3:38 PM BSTWhy can't people accept that MM is very good at what he does and LOTS of people (who may, or may not, be typical comedy fans) love him and find him very funny?
What's the problem?
I have no problem accepting that people like him, but I do have a problem with some of those people saying I musn't criticise him. If I don't like him, what's the problem with me saying so? Usually, the argument is advanced that being popular=being objectively good. The Hitler example disproves this. But the odd thing is, these people really seem to resent the fact that some of us do not enjoy McIntyre. They insist that we 'must accept him', as if we are breaking with the totalitarian mentality.