Do You Have To Be There?

[andy-hughes]

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 ...

[Peter Pedant]

o god and people paid to see Orville apparently

green bird
which was really a ventriloquists doll ....

[Bazile]

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

[jennyjoan]

Russell Howard - do think he is a kind and compassionate young man who delivers his jokes very funny. Have only started to watch him recently but tape him now and again.

[Bathsheba]

Rhod Gilbert and Peter Kay for me ;)

Baths
x x x

[granny grump]

Love Peter Kay & Billy Connelly - seen him live a few times - also like Ross Noble & Alan Davies - does a great stand up show - Don't like MM;KL;RB or MH as a comedienne but liked her in Call the Midwife

[ummmm]

Russel Howard makes me laugh when he takes the pee out his squint. My son has a squint and he does the same.

My daughter had squint too but she got hers fixed.

[Svejk]

Stewart Lee has to be the unfunniest comedian of all time.
Pretentious crap for pretentious people.

[viv41]

I like Michael McIntyre AND Miranda Hart. Can't stand Russel Howard. The Russel I like is Russel Kane. Everybody's different.

[Psybbo]

Baths, Rhod Gilbert for me too

[douglas9401]

Pretentious? Moi?

[Svejk]

^Lol

[ToraToraTora]

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.

[ToraToraTora]

ROFL at the death star canteen clip, hilarious arky!

[elliemay1]

Totally agree with you, Andy hughes. Can't stand Michael Mc I. Don't find him remotely funny. Hard to beat Morecambe and Wise!

[Caran]

I also can't stand MM and MH and don't get me started on Keith Lemon!

[Quizproquo]

Svejk, Stewart Lee is brilliantly funny, but he wouldn't expect you to get that.

[Cloverjo]

Morcombe and Wise were among the least funny comedians of all time, IMHO, along with Jim Davidson, Bernard Manning and Tommy Cooper, although for different reasons amongst them.

[Svejk]

Lol, quizpro, guess you've got to be speshul.

[Svejk]

Talking of Morecambe & Wise..

[grannie39]

this woman miranda hart is never funny,