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Comedian (!) Michael McIntyre has now joined the ranks of people who can irritate me to the point of violence just by a glimpse of their image - he doesn't even have to move or speak! A picture will set me off!
The other person who has that effect - for the record - is Miranda Hart.
So, I thought, he is the most popular comedian in the country, I must be missing something, so I have just tortured myself with one extended 'joke / funny story' on this week's show.
I gritted my teeth and entered a Zen state to avoid destroying my computer when the combination of his floppy hair, fruity voice, robotic movement, tight suit, and psychotic levels of pointless enthusiasm combined to make me need to make it stop for ever ...
and I could no more smile than fly, much less laugh out loud!
The cutaways to the audience showed people in serious medical danger of ruptures or oxygen deprivation, such was the depth of their hilarity at Mr McIntyre's pointless rambling about the lights in his hotel room (I know, hardly a subject for comedy gold is it?)
So is it funnier if you are there in the theatre? Am I missing something here? Or, as I often suspect - do we need to be shown what the filmed audience were actually watching and hearing, because I can't believe it was this guff!!!
Fans are haters - points of view awaited ...
The other person who has that effect - for the record - is Miranda Hart.
So, I thought, he is the most popular comedian in the country, I must be missing something, so I have just tortured myself with one extended 'joke / funny story' on this week's show.
I gritted my teeth and entered a Zen state to avoid destroying my computer when the combination of his floppy hair, fruity voice, robotic movement, tight suit, and psychotic levels of pointless enthusiasm combined to make me need to make it stop for ever ...
and I could no more smile than fly, much less laugh out loud!
The cutaways to the audience showed people in serious medical danger of ruptures or oxygen deprivation, such was the depth of their hilarity at Mr McIntyre's pointless rambling about the lights in his hotel room (I know, hardly a subject for comedy gold is it?)
So is it funnier if you are there in the theatre? Am I missing something here? Or, as I often suspect - do we need to be shown what the filmed audience were actually watching and hearing, because I can't believe it was this guff!!!
Fans are haters - points of view awaited ...
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yeah it's a funny thing humour , isn't it .
There is a comedienne , Amy Shumer,who i glimpse from time to time when i'm channel hopping .
Her repertoire seems to consist soley of comments about female/male / body parts / sex / swearing .
I'm by no means a fuddy-duddy - but i just can't see what's funny - and yet her audience appears to find her hilarious
There is a comedienne , Amy Shumer,who i glimpse from time to time when i'm channel hopping .
Her repertoire seems to consist soley of comments about female/male / body parts / sex / swearing .
I'm by no means a fuddy-duddy - but i just can't see what's funny - and yet her audience appears to find her hilarious
don't punish yourself andy, there are countless things that induce me to try and build a weapon of mass destruction! I just avoid them as best I can though occasionally I will have to suffer 30 seconds of, for example, eastenders before I can change channel having dived across the lounge for the remote. Takes all sorts but I think MM is ok.
