This is on Paramount Comedy Fridays at 10pm. Has anyone seen it.
Its American but I think they are bringing it to Britain soon.
Its like X factor for stand up comedians. There was a few funny peeps, some dire. They dont like swearing which is fair enough.
So is this a good idea, bad idea?
meh. I don't like talent shows. I did a good little routine down pub today though and got the barmaids number just imagine how many more numbers I could get if I'm funny on Tele...mwhahahaha
Yes Gavin, you could be a comic whore. I think based on that alone you should enter the British one.
Incidently do you think that wll work both ways?
It's actually probably a good thing that this sort of foramt is moving away from teh whining crap bags who do 'Idol' and that shit to a more focussed area.
God knows they have some mediocre acts on there.
Jimmy Carr did one on his DVD. You're lucky Gavin my routines never work on women. The only number I get is for social services 
I don't think I would go on something like that because I think they're after observational comics which I don't like doing. But then again most comedians get to earn a living by using competitions as a springboard so maybe I would providning it was post watershed or my act would be one long bleep.
Jimmy Carr comes out with some relatively obvious gags though.
He annoys me a lot. There's something about the man...his material, I think.
His material is mostly stolen and only an arrogant idiot would bang on about his past career of selling oil. Oil causes most of the problems in the world. Have you noticed that he raises his voice at the end of his jokes so the audience know when to laugh and he sticks his head out untill they do. If noone laughed I wonder if he'd be frozen in that position for half an hour, that would be funny.
If he stuck his head out when I was around it's be in a basket before the audience got the message.
He annoys me because of what you have just said. It's nothing clever to steal material - even subconsiously. Everyone, I don't care who is it, everyone has stolen material at some point.
But re-work it or use it in your style. Don't just make a comedy hummous and then launch it in a catapult.
Its true about stealing it is unavoidable because subconsciously you can't help it. The evil comics are those that realise they've done it and carry on. There are some people who are trying to confront joke stealers
https://www.comedy.co.uk/news/news.php?story=000199
but once they get rich and famous the guy who has had his stuff nicked starts to look bitter and a self publicist if he takes action against them.
Guys, who was the thief who stole most of Bil Hicks material. Was it a Dennis someone.
Dennis 'I can't act and steal off Bill Hicks especailly material relating to smoking because i'm trying to be edgy' Leary. Whats bad is that given irish emmigrants a bad name. Whos ever heard of an Irish guy stealing stuff... well er... Danny Boy, the copper pipes the copper pipes are calling...
Thats him the thieving bastard. How does he get away with it?
Also was he about when Bill Hicks was?
Yeah they use to be friends before he stole Bill's material. He got famous after Bill Hicks died, I think he did alot of stuff on MTV in America basically impersonating Bill's act. Stuff like 'I smoke and I don't care.' It just shows the difference between a legend and a sell out, Bill would never do an MTV show.
Very true AJP.
I love wearing my Bill Hicks t.shirt. I get stopped in the street. Its amazing how many people have never heard of him aswell though. The cool ones have. I was in a sport shop with my husband and the guy behind the counter said "I love him too". I thought he was on about my husband. There was almost a fisty cup.
I watched it and thought it was rubbish, I can't believe I lasted about 15 minutes through it.
I thought it was going to be British.