The New Boy At School

Formal introduction before posting:

A hopeful screenwriter/filmaker, trying out at comedy as of late to give the heavier subject matters a rest, would like to try stand up in the near future but probably won't as I always felt stand ups are born and not made and the raft is overloaded as it is.

I wish more British comedy had the sheer inspiration that the better US shows seem to have, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Family Guy/Simpsons/South Park, although Armando Iannucci's work is sheer brilliance, as is Peep Show and was parts of Monkey Dust, and Ideal is funny too, there was also a show called Broken News that I thought was too funny but got pulled.

I like Dylan Moran, Ricky Gervais (yup) and loved Mark Lamarr (is he even a comedian? Unintentionally, maybe?), Bill Bailey, Kevin Bridges, Chris Addison (in doses), Chris Morris and Stewart Lee, and despite early judgement I grew to like Russell Brand, and of course Eddie Izzard.

I felt Frankie Boyle had great potential and wit in his own Alexei Sayle-wannabe way but wasted it when going the route of just another machine pumping out 1-liners, any comedian who stands on a stage and says 'this isn't my opinion, these are just jokes' fails in my eyes, much more intrested in someone's opinion than their ability to nutshell punchlines.

Anyhow, I dislike Russell Howard, Ross Noble Peter Kay, Paul Merton I don't quite get the accolades this man gets, Jack Whitehall, Jimmy Carr, Rhod Gilbert, Tim Minchin, Harry Hill drifts in and out, Al Murray I can take or leave, I find Stephen K.Amos deeply unfunny, Andy Parsons is a curiosity to me and I want to like Sarah Millican because women I know seem to hold her up as some posterchild for the female comedy movement, but there's no edge there and any laughs are pity laughs.

McIntyre, Mack, Evans, Bishop and Manford leave me on the fence.

And I ABHOR David Walliams and James Corden!

I'll take my seat in class now

Welcome to the BCG.

Quote: Jack Daniels @ June 10 2011, 2:30 PM BST

'this isn't my opinion, these are just jokes' fails in my eyes, much more intrested in someone's opinion than their ability to nutshell punchlines.

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Nice one!

And welcome!

Quote: Jack Daniels @ June 10 2011, 2:30 PM BST

any comedian who stands on a stage and says 'this isn't my opinion, these are just jokes' fails in my eyes, much more intrested in someone's opinion than their ability to nutshell punchlines.

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But Ricky Gervais does exactly that.

Thanks for the welcomes Aaron and SootyJ,

In regards to Gervais, I think it's a case of 'A lot of truth is said in jest' but with Boyle, I don't know, when he first appeared I thought we had a true beacon of comedy, the man was on fire, but I hoped with his tour and subsequent creative freedoms he would go on to develop his style and incorporate a narrative and his true opinions into his vitriol - which when done well is my fave style of comedy - but the fact he continues to just scribble sickipedia.com style material leaves me a bit cold and him a bit unrealised.

If given the chance I would like to ask him: What do YOU think of the world, what do YOU think of the elections, what do YOU think of raising a family, what do YOU think of the class system, immigration, gagging orders, political correctness, weak prison sentenceing, the dumbing down of media creativity, our failing institutions, the domination of the world wide web, phone-tapping the royal family, the fall (and replacement) of communism, the installation of democracies in oil-rich lands, the fact Rupert Murdoch hand-selected our ministers, the Americanisation of the UK and on and on...

These are the things I want to hear Boyle riff on - Not "Doesn't Susan Boyle look a man, ho ho"

But yeah, Gervais tries distancing himself from his more racier material to keep the golden globes and bafta comittees sweet but I think with Gervais there's some genuinely human observations - The Office NAILED the petty pompous pedancy of 9-5 life and commented strongly on the psychology of the frustrated desires to be famous, funny, liked, respected and adored and ---Christmas special--- to be loved and "got"

ps- hopefully my avatar should in frame soon

I think Gervais does a mixture of jokes he doesn't mean, and jokes he really does.

But then I suppose most comics do.

Some firm views there on who you like and don't like, you'll find all sorts of tastes here though, for starters I really like Andy Parsons, Paul Merton and Alan Carr!...oh...Hi and welcome

Hi Shandonbelle x fogot about Alan Carr, got my sister his DVD one Christmas, funny when he talks about his dad's attitude towards him.

It's the weekend, what you doing at school!?

Think you'll fit right in here with your dislike of Jack Whitehall Good to see someone else not finding Andy Parsons funny. Guy's about as funny as hitting your funny bone

Hello Jack
Welcome to the BCG

Cheers Goose n' Steve,

I once read somewhere that Parsons wrote for Spitting Image so that should give him pedigree but, on Mock The Week and Britain's Got Idiots, I didn't care for him much. Seems to take the setup/punchline style of writing a little too literally to the point you can see exactly how his thought proocess work. That said, he's richer than me.

As for Jack Whitehall: *spits on the floor*

Hello you.

Hello there.

Hello. Welcome. Put that fag out!