Instead of 'don't like'? I don't like Michael McIntyre, Robin Ince or Andy Parsons. None of them make me laugh and all of them annoy me.

If you own a flak jacket, don it....

The third thread in as many days where I can give Phil Jupitus the kicking he so richly deserves!

But hey - Jo Brand? Be careful - you're talking about the woman I love. Her line on HIGNFY this week about "opening her Mivvy" made me laugh in the street just now, on my way back from scoring a ham n' cheese croissant at the 7 Eleven. I mean - if she's this filthy on the box (FNARRRR!) imagine what she's like at home - or even better - down the pub with Victoria Coren ... (FX: HARP GLISSANDO)

so where does that leave us?

Tell me about someone you like because its impossible to convince someone that something is funny if they don't find it so.

Its a conversational cul de sac

the Word forum, I'd honestly assume this post was trolling.

It's entirely fair enough that you don't like the comics above, but to suggest that some of the most popular comedians in the country are not just not to your taste but actually objectively unfunny...

It really is you on this occasion.

genuine heartfelt comment.

If you disagree please let me know who you admire out of the bunch mentioned.

who YOU admire. Just telling you that I like any of the people you have slagged and why does nothing for either of us.

Hi, my name's James, I'm the twin you never knew you had.

All of the above make their living pretty much exclusively from comedy. And a bloody good living at that. So not just some people, but *loads* of people find them funny. Speaking personally, they've all made me laugh, some have reduced me to hysterics. Not to your taste? Fair enough. But that's as far as anyone can say about comedy, I'm afraid. A bit like music, really.

I get tense. Don't like any of that new breed at all: McIntyre, Locke, Kay, anyone called Howard. Can't stand the shouting.

I avoid all panel shows and watch few comedy series (except Everybody Loves Raymond, The Good Life and Frasier). I never go to stand-up, though I did get free tickets to see Lee Mack and he was quite funny and in the past I've enjoyed comedy clubs. I went to see Frankie Howerd once as well, just as he was reinventing himself as ironic.

I stopped enjoying comedy when Vic & Bob got away with doing bollocks which was seen as comedy genius by my peers. To me, they weren't in the least amusing.

It's odd, because I'm hilarious.

'And 'modern lot?'
Jo Brand, Bill Bailey and Vic And Bob have been performing for the best part of a quarter of a century.

at one time he had me in pain from laughing so much. Jimmy Carr's sharp, but is he funny? No, not for me. Frankie Boyle does nothing for me, I'm not even outraged. Stephen K. Amos, where's the funny?
Feck! I could rave on for pages here and I really do like a good laugh.

As has already been pointed out, humour's subjective, so this thread's mostly as pointless as advertorials. However, it's interesting to gauge the "shape" of someon's sense of humour, but in this case you've only given us half the story - we know who you don't like, those you'd single out as particularly failing to kindle your laugh-reflex, but who DO you find funny? You've let slip a couple - Lee and Boyle - but who else?

For my part, I find most of your shitlist amusing, except Vic'n'Bob and Tommy Cooper. My personal shitlist would include Russell Howard, Bernard Manning and Roy "Chubby" Brown, but that's about as helpful as saying I don't like artichokes, really.

I find fewer and fewer comedians funny, even the stuff that used to make me laugh. I loved Eddie Izzard when I was at uni, but watched one of his shows a while back and realised it left me completely cold. Likewise the Fast Show, Vic and Bob etc. I love Bill Hicks but mostly because I find him perceptive rather than funny.

I tend to laugh more at films these days - Hot Tub Time Machine being the latest.

makes me laugh a lot. And the entire audience at a show I saw recently.

Vic & Bob sometimes fall flat but have been consistently amusing me for about 20 years.

Eddie Izzard, at his peak, is ace. Proof below:

Jo Brand is funny to me. Phill Jupitus makes me laugh regularly as well.

Perhaps you don't like comedy much - these people, by and large, amuse a lot of people. I don't think you can call them unfunny, just that you don't find them funny.

Marcus Brigstocke, Russell Howard, Sarah Millican and many, many more are not funny in my little universe. While Sean Locke, Stewart Lee, Doug Stanhope, Lee Mack, David Mitchell and many many more are.

There, that was worthwhile wasn't it?

I just find 'lists of comedians I don't find funny' on message boards a bit tiresome. Someone always slags off a comedy sacred cow and says, 'there I said it'.

There I said it.

Ha ha etc

the general mood and tone of this thread I thought I'd offer this comment.

This thread is shit.

knowing what it was going to be.

Sorry.

Carry on.

Comedians I hate:

Sid Minky
Henry Stool
Tarquin Smith
Rolf Schweinsteiger
Zinedine Useless

Comedians I love:

Igor Deadman
Clytemnestra Featherbed
Lewis Lewis
Phil "Grassy" Haycock
Max the Undertaker

is very funny

Groundhog Day.

It's a film where a man has to endure the same conversations that end up going round and round in circles.

It's hilarious.

is very funny

is very funny

is very....funny

is very funny

I laugh. Or I don't laugh.

A lot of people here seem to be taking comedy very seriously. Almost personally.

It's not like it's something really important, like b-sides by the Lurkers, or the shape of Garth Crooks's head.

Can't understand why anyone would think such a glum lefty is funny. On the other hand, Michael Mcintyre is HILARIOUS! Such a good observational comic.

BYE

Now I remember what I missing since the BBC shut down the 606 message boards.

~ Man U are shit.
~ No there not. There ace. United forever.
~ Yes they are and your so gay. United puff!
~ No your gay. You support Stockport. There pants.
~ Hello I'm 23 years old Slovenian girl looking for husband. Check out my website

*blah blah blah ad nauseam*

This thread brings back so many happy memories, thanks niscum. Seriously.

There, I've mentioned him.

Shall I throw in some rogue apostrophes too?

Here they are

''''''''''

I am called Ivanka and I have long blonde hair, slim waist, long legs and the very big breasts. I have willy as well but only until next week. Please contact me if you are wanting to meet up.

why Ed Byrne chose to become a comedian.

the 15 trillion pounds from your relative Mr Nathaniel Laws will be sent to your account straight away

HJH stand for?

Also what does ATM stand for?

Stand For: TMFTL

I've got pictures of Richard Thompson without a beard.

YOU'RE ALL A BUNCH OF CUNTS. *sobs*

...if Rob Fitzpatrick has read the FAQs? Or did he get Tyler The Creator to read them to him?

having to pay to see a comedian when its takes em so long to get to my town compared to all you London types

We watched all of her first Channel 4 series, and the second series. I laughed once. Kept thinking - surely it's going to get better eventuallly. Nope. Not a bit of it.

Click on this link and nothing will happen except some bloke in Beijing will know that you've been looking at mucky films!!

You know me, I am one of your googlemail contacts I am trapped in Heathrow airport with Phil Jupitus and Ken Dodd. If you do not wire me £100 I will be forced to listen to their witticism for another 24 hours. Please wire the money to the account: youarebeing ripped off.tajikstan.com..

While we are at it, wanna buy some blue pills?

OH Btw, Stewart Lee is shite isn't he?

:D

hold up a minute..

OK..

You sure you're OK to go public with this?..

OK everyone, I think I've found someone who thinks Phil Jupitus is funny.

Can I just have your name please love so I can introduce you to everyone on the thread..

Sorry, say that again Mrs..?

How are you spelling that?..J..U..P..I..T..U..S

It has now overtaken even the last series of Doctor Who for self-regarding signifiers.

Did Stewart Lee kill Gerry Rafferty?

(TMFTL).

Gets coat.

Are you Danny Baker?

You can borrow my flak jacket if you like...
FWIW I tend to agree with Rob Brydon's take in this month's issue: X isn't for me, but good luck to him/her.

is funnier than Harry Hill.

The clique
Up arrows
Advertorials
Painted covers
Photographic covers
Articles about bands I dislike
Bentleys
Middle-class journalists
In-jokes
Acronyms
Memes
Manufactured pop
Folk turning up late for meetings
Guilty pleasures
Continuity announcers
Wayne Rooney
Saddam Hussein
Frank Spencer
And the French

Sorry, I thought you said chameleons.

and then there was some other times when he didn't. You can substitute Billy Connolly for any comedian ever and that's where I'm at.

I was walking downstairs the other day and it got me to thinking, 'What other "guilty pleasures" do The Massive secretly enjoy'?

mate

... now he's funny.

And Jeremy Hardy, a great exponent of the joys of being middle aged and miserable.

And I still miss Linda Smith on the News Quiz.

45 minutes and nothing? I'm picturing everyone limp, exhausted and possibly lighting something up.

Cup of tea?

Righto. Where's me pants? Christ, how'd they get up there...?

I feel like a Fray Bentos pie would be a good move.

... Ted Chippington.

This is how I like to think of Red Umpire. With a Surrey accent.

Unfunny Comedians

The worst one were the guys who came out of 70s talent shows like New Faces and Opportunity Knocks. These include: Michael Barrymore, Jim Davidson, Cannon and Ball, Little and Large, Duncan Norvelle, the bloke who was in Eastenders - was it Shane something?

The current crop are a load of smug, smarmy tossers: Jupitus, Carr, Russell Brand etc.

I think Gervais is a better writer than live performer. The Office was stone cold brilliant because it was subtle and understated.

Give me Paul Whitehouse, Fry and Laurie, Mel and Griff, Rowan Atkinson, the Python guys, Spike, Peter Cook, Connolly, and Tommy Cooper. Men with talent. Bill Hicks was the best US comedian in the past 30 years, Woody Allen before that.

Actually when I want a serious belly laugh, I get out my Laurel and Hardy box set and watch the one about lifting a piano up some steps.

This thread was inadvisable. Or should that be unadvisable?

Anyway, he spells his name Phill.

A hedgehog, dreaming:

Because I need a shave.

If you want to see unfunny comedians check out the Comic Strip/Blair thing that went out at the weekend.

I kept thinking they'd be a joke and then the action would move on to the next scene.

Didn't anyone have the inclination to say to Peter Richardson, 'Peter, dahhhhling, your script is shite'?!

But is anyone else a bit uncomfortable at this point? Any chance we could knock it on the head?

Experience shows it's probably wisest only to become involved obliquely.

I have never actually been to see a comedian as I don't like the idea of laughing for an extended period of time. Izzard, Jupitus both crap and unfunny.

My brother was the funniest person I knew. He only had to tell me to laugh and I'd start giggling.

that Stewart Lee is very funny

I read this far and now I feel a bit sad.

Feng yew and goodnight.

Is it all about one-upmanship?
Stirring?
Mean-spiritedness?

Either way, I'm glad it's all over now.

don't fancy yours much

there's another one.

about as funny to a british audience as bill cosby.

And whilst we're on the subject of foreign comedians, that german guy with the skewered accent who does radio 4 shows like news quiz. Completely unfunny. hearing he is on a quiz is like an early warning signal for the discerning.

Now that's the end of it.

Full stop.

Period. (snigger)

I'm watching him on telly right now.

HE'S CRAP.

Never got Dave Gorman. It began with his technique of taking some internet phenomena, like Google whacking, and working a whole show around it and continued with his 'hilarious' effort to find other people with his name. I realise this its just a framework to hang other jokes on but I didn't laugh at any of it. He was on QI last night and, again, not a titter.

Just, just Chris Addison.