Quote: Renegade Carpark @ June 26 2012, 12:18 PM BST
Nice use of the misdirected rage and profanities in your post JD2.
Soz, that was 2am end of a long tedious bar shift dealing with opinionated barflys who excel in slurred bro-science on all subjects.
I gave you shit and you were pretty cool with it which is a good attitude.
I don't love to watch McIntyre's act, but I feel uneasy passing judgement because he's a TV personality/entertainer.. it's like when Led Zeppelin fans start ripping into Justin Bieber, or me wondering why coronation street comes on 3 or 4 times a week instead of every season of Sopranos played on endless loop - it's not about, making sense, or atistic endeaver, it's TV, and broadcast guidlines, and in-house agenda, public image, 18 volumes of ofcom regulations etc etc.. If you were booking a swing band for an ruby wedding on a cruise liner you wouldn't instantly think 'Guns N'Roses!', people have their own demograph, projection or intended audience.
so that said.. it feels like taking snobbery potshots because people who like clean comedy don't rip into people who know the score, they're not making a statement of intent, they just enjoy McIntyre's worldview enough to buy his merch and pack his shows, because hes the guy off the TV and the ubiquity of the fella means it's more of a "show", a mainstream comedy event, than some spit and sawdust condemned comedy hut on a free-entry open-mic night.
Its cold to hate someone just for being nice and doing what his father before him did. I personally couldn't name a comedian except Dylan Moran the uk has ever produced that's worthy of hall of fame status, or icon all that stuff. To be honest this message board is very restrained and polite to the point in the grand scheme of internet debate it's the Michael McItyre of worldwide message boards that discuss comedy and comedians. Which is not at all bad, it just is what it is.
Insulting an artist because their hair is conditioned, is as lame and tame as any mainstream comedian observation/pun, that's why it seems an odd thing to waste words on.