Quote: Seefacts @ April 5 2008, 9:45 PM BSTRussell Howard.
"Imagine if Saddam Hussein was in the Big Brother house?" Yes, it'd be shit, he couldn't speak the language and he'd be arrested. That kind of shit line might have made air-headed bimbos, and suede jacket wearing morons laugh in your student union bar, Russell, but you need to be a bit more imaginative that that in the comedy world.
Would this be a bad time to confess that I wear a suede jacket? 
I like that line, some times a really obvious gag can work. Careful you don't end up writing for just your fellow jaded comedy intelligentsia.
Yep I'd agree with that list. Except George Bush, he is just funny, comedy writers will miss that big bungling Oaf when Obama is in charge.
I think jokes about Polish people could be added too.
Mmmmm monkies... http://www.theonion.com/content/node/30420
Self referential humour about comedy writing
Noncoms (chick flicks where your supposed to nod and go that's so right, or cry, but never ever laugh)
Over clever word gags
Golf
Dennis Norden on IWBAON
waste land, matches, petrol, car tyres, chavs, dark smoke
Quote: Seefacts @ April 5 2008, 6:47 PM BSTJokes about the following:
Monkeys
Yeah fair list, except Monkeys.
I gotta appeal to your comic nature and request that Monkey Alan, who's referred to in The Office, be allowed. I'd have liked to see Monkey Alan as for me he's right up there with 'er in doors, Mrs Captain Mainwaring and Mina from Still Game.
Quote: Seefacts @ April 5 2008, 6:47 PM BSTJokes about the following:
Monkeys
George Bush
Tony Blair
Jeffrey Archer's books
Turkey Twizzlers
Pete Doherty
Amy Winehouse
Chavs
Jade Goody
Heather MillsAny others?
Hear, hear.
Though I did write a monkey skit...
Quote: Nick Rivers @ April 5 2008, 6:55 PM BSTINT.ROOM.DAY
Cheese
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Bit to long, needs to be tighter, love the punchline though 
In the right hands, any topic can be funny. True, some topics are done to death, but I think a skilled comic mind can spin gold out of anything.
Quote: chipolata @ April 7 2008, 12:28 PM BSTIn the right hands, any topic can be funny. True, some topics are done to death, but I think a skilled comic mind can spin gold out of anything.
True, but stuff like this is never funny:
George Bush is STOOPID LOL
Victoria Beckham is HORRIBLE + ATTENTION SEEKER!!!!11111
LOL @ MONKEYS!
Cliched bilge written by hacks.
Quote: Seefacts @ April 7 2008, 12:49 PM BSTTrue, but stuff like this is never funny:
George Bush is STOOPID LOL
Victoria Beckham is HORRIBLE + ATTENTION SEEKER!!!!11111
LOL @ MONKEYS!Cliched bilge written by hacks.
I kind of agree with you, but you still hear comedians doing this type of stuff and, bizarrely, getting laughs from audiences. And tune into one of those list shows at the end of the year (2008's Worst People, etc) and you'll get rent-a-gag comedians doing that sort of stuff to camera and BBC3 broadcasting it.
I agree with that entire list, well almost, monkeys is quite a weird one because many different forms of joke could contain a monkey. But the rest are obvious played out stereotypes, like Bush, Winehouse, Doherty, so yeah they are never funny.
Monkeys are funny, especially as they have small willys
Same could be said of Bush.
I watched a monkey make a pot noodle the other week. It's testicles were bigger than it's head, that was very, very funny.
