Vexed
11:42 Tue Dec 5
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Paul Foot is a genius. I just don't know why he's not more famous.
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ATBOG
11:33 Tue Dec 5
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Agree with Bournemouth. Mike Gunn is a seriously funny fuicker.
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White Pony
11:23 Tue Dec 5
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I would agree with Harry Hill. His stand up is fucking brilliant.
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Far Cough
10:48 Tue Dec 5
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George Carlin is tough to beat, Pryor was the best though with Connolly not far behind
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FruityBoots.
10:46 Tue Dec 5
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James Acaster has been on a few things lately, finding him quite funny when I see him.
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nerd
10:41 Tue Dec 5
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I do find jim Jeffries funny. His stuff about the American gun laws is hilarious. Very good live, he does not give a shit.
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lab
8:53 Tue Dec 5
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Bernard Manning is the funniest comic ive ever seen .
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DaveT
6:35 Tue Dec 5
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Grumpster,
I reckon I was there the same night. Agree totally weird but strangely enjoyable. Lee Hurst is still good. Saw Milton Jones last week and think he has become a bit stale. Always like Ed Byrne and Frank Skinner. Chris Ramsey, Ross Noble and Ed Gamble make me laugh. Wish Frankie Boyle didn't try so hard to push the boundary in being outrageous and offensive.
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goose
6:29 Tue Dec 5
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saw Harry Hill at the backyard club - must have been 15 years ago!! he was hilarious.
seen Gervais & Flannagan live - both very funny. went with the ex to go and see michael mcintyre, seats were miles away but he was still very funny.
i guess my taste must be very mainstream.
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BournemouthHammer
6:29 Tue Dec 5
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Rik Mayall was one of the best comedians in his day.
I go to quite a few comedy nights and Zoe Lyons is a great stand up comedian as is a fella called Mike Gunn. On a larger scale, Flanagan is really good
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Trevor B
6:04 Tue Dec 5
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zico
I saw that Boyle one a little while ago, he cracks me up, most of his stand up shows are/were on netflix.
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neilalex
5:50 Tue Dec 5
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Harry Hill was a surprisingly good stand up, really exceptional. Saw him all of 20 plus years ago at the Tunnel Club which was ferocious at the time and he wasn't especially a big name. He did the coin thing only it was his girlfriend who died in the gag at the time. He was very, very funny, unique and inventive. You wouldn't think it looking at the shit he does outside of stand up.
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zico
5:47 Tue Dec 5
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madeeasy 5:11 Tue Dec 5
Jimmy Carr's best dealing with a heckler was on DVD. A bloke in the audience said something about Jimmy Carr's mum, who as far as I know was in fact dead, although I am not sure if the bloke in the audience knew this. You can see Carr is a bit annoyed about it but he just turns it all on the bloke who starts laughing less and less until he just looks like a total twat slumped in his seat. Brilliant.
Also if you can find it somewhere I can't find it these days there was Frankie Boyle talking to this couple who Boyle thought were mother and son. She obviously wasn't too pleased and it was cringe worthy stuff but incredibly funny.
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E12Hammer
5:46 Tue Dec 5
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Used to love "In Bed With Me Dinner" with Bob Mills.
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Grumpster
5:40 Tue Dec 5
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chim chim cha boo 5:17 Tue Dec 5
Saw Harry Hill at Lee Hurst's Backyard Club for a fiver a couple of years ago, with Hurst also doing an act.
Probably the best fiver I've ever spent in my entire life.
I mean it was the most fucking weird thing I've ever seen in my entire life, but I'm also not sure I've ever laughed so much at hoe mental and hilarious he was. My head was hurting me for about a week afterwards and looking at everyone at the bar afterwards, they were all as confused as I was at what we'd just seen.
Brilliant and I loved his Time Capsule programme on recently, fella is clearly a little mental.
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Trevor B
5:31 Tue Dec 5
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not quite sure how I got Henning Wehn confused with Werner Herzog.....
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B6NY B
5:31 Tue Dec 5
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Kevin Bridges - the bollocks, want to see him live next.
Micky Flanagan - Obviously good his last show wasn't as good as previous 2. Seems to have run out of things to cover a little.
Frankie Boyle - Watch all of his shows Netflix recently - he was excellent.
Jack Dee - his 1997 show is one of the best I've ever seen, def in my top 3, it's on youtube I think.
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Takashi Miike
5:19 Tue Dec 5
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out of the current British ones, I like Nick Helm the most
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cheeses cruyf
5:19 Tue Dec 5
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On the subject of audience participation Frank Skinner asked a bloke at the front what he did for a living and someone from further back shouted I'm a ventriloquist
Well l thought it was funny
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chim chim cha boo
5:17 Tue Dec 5
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I know a lot of you don't like him (that's why I'm posting it) but Harry Hill is by far the best stand-up I've ever seen (and I saw Bill Hicks at The Apollo Shaftsbury Ave years ago).
'I was concerned about my nan getting old and having a fall so I got her an alarm to put round her neck. Now if she has a fall at home the alarm goes off and alerts the estate agent'.
'The most tasty part of a chop is the fat on the outside. You must never eat the middle as it's deadly poisonous. My dad used to eat that bit for me'.
'Mums tuck you up tight in bed, don't they? My mum once tucked my brother up so tight that in the morning he was a fossil'.
'The most tasty part of a pie is the crust...'
'If you love someone it's a good idea to make them a cup of tea and drop a pound coin in it. That way they get a lovely cup of tea and an extra surprise treat at the end of it'.
'Dad always said "fight fire with fire". That's why he got chucked out of the Fire Brigade'.
'My nan sadly passed away a few weeks ago after choking on a pound coin'.
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Lily Hammer
5:16 Tue Dec 5
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I've seen Doug Stanhope a couple of times now. Love the bloke. He has good material planned, but he can also go off on some dark poetic ad lib.
I had a woman at my workplace recently called Kathy Griffin. I'd never heard of her before, and it 's not normally my kind of thing; loud bitchy american gossip type, but it was more interesting than funny, though she had some funny stuff too.
Interesting because it turns out she's the comic who posed for a photo holding the bloody severed head of Donald Trump and that effectively ended her career in the States. Completely blacklisted. She tells that story amongst others, how the FBI had her in on conspiracy to assassinate the POTUS. Staggering stories. And now she's touring the world and basically does not give a flying fuck what she says. Let's you know which celebs are alright and which ones are utter cunts. All the dirt.
eg. Was it common knowledge that Andre Agassi was bang on Crystal Meth, even when he was still playing?
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