I guess I meant "in general". I struggled with Jimmy Carr, because I used to hate him but he has grown on me. With Gervais and Hill though, it was easy.
Ricky Gervais: a great writer and actor, but a tad overexposed and self-indulgent. I can't listen to his stupid podcasts, for example, but The Office and Extras are TV classics, and if you ever spot Meet Ricky Gervais being repeated, make sure to catch it. As for his stand-up, it's okay, but has the distinct feel of being Not All His Own Work.
Eddie Izzard: Er... fish... erm... bananas... erm widdlywoodle bird. NOT FUNNY.
Jimmy Carr: I tied myself in knots the other day trying to justify why Jimmy Carr is funny whereas Frankie Boyle (in his current series) is desperately unfunny. Maybe it comes down to nothing more than personal preference.
Harry Hill: Eddie Izzard with jokes, and good jokes at that.
heh, you and I have such different taste in comedy! I've heard a few of the 'jokes' from Boyle's latest show and to be honest they made me feel a bit sick. Jimmy Carr is (annoyingly) growing on me. I think he's one of those where the more you see of him the more you 'get' it. I HATED him at first, but since the "why would you hit your own wife? that's like keying your own car" joke I'm starting to warm to him. Harry Hill I have never understood, and Ricky Gervais - I just feel anger at his mere existence. Can't STAND him. I might fund him funnier if he wasn't such an objectionable person.
I wonder if the difference between Carr and Boyle is that, in Boyle's jokes, the "offensive" bit is the punchline, whereas Carr's jokes start out with the "offensive" bit, but often have a charming/cute/clever punchline. So whereas with Boyle you're all, "Yawn, what's he going to say now to provoke an easy shock-laugh?", with Carr it's more, "Right, I'm looking forward to hearing how he makes this joke acceptable."
I think you might have something there! Perhaps that's also why Jimmy Carr is someone you start to get after a while, whereas Boyle there's nothing to get.
I think similarly. I occasionally find Jimmy Carr makes me laugh, whereas Frankie Boyle increasingly just makes me frown. harry Hill very occasionally makes me laugh.
I think Jimmy works because he has taken traditional unreconstructed working class comedy ALA Bernard Manning and subverted it in a charming middle class way. Also his timing is excellent. I kind of like Boyle, but he's still just a poor man's Jerry Sadowitz without the battering ram of hatred behind his act (and at least Jerry was a top class prestidigitator...) Harry Hill used to be funny, I got bored of him, he's a PG vic reeves without the comedy genius.
There's the set of people who dig the surrealism/absurdism of The Goon Show, Python, Milligan & Izzard. And then there's the set of people going 'Wurlitzer land speed record? Cake or death? They're just talking rubbish! Where are the jokes?'
I love Eddie Izzard to death, quite like Ricky Gervais (especially The Office and Extras) and sometimes find Harry Hill and Jimmy Carr funny. There wasn't an option for 'sometimes funny' so I ticked 'funny'. Eddie Izzard and Tim Minchin are my favourite comedians. And Robin Ince I love quite a lot too, especially when he gets all angry about stuff.
I honestly don't understand why he is as famous as he is. I don't think I would loathe him so much if he wasn't so damn SMUG. And he doesn't care that people hate him because he's rich and successful. Ugh.
I will admit that I don't find Harry Hill all that funny either, but that I can be found in the TV Burp audience at least once a series. This is because I blag in on the production ticket, though, and it's filmed at White City and they do a really good line in free booze and food for the blaggers.
Also, I don't think I'll ever stop finding Eddie funny. medusa_nw and I went to his last tour, and I pulled muscles laughing.
I met Eddie Izzard once, many years ago, when he was on Have I Got News For You and shortly before he became meteorically famous. He was much smaller than I thought he'd be, and really sweet. My friends and I used to go pretty much at least once every series back then, and we'd wait afterwards to get guests autographs. Angus Deaton and Paul Merton and Ian Hislop all stared to recognise us, we had all of theirs, so when Izzard was on we didn't bother asking for theirs, we just asked him. He was so touched, he kept saying "you waited for me? for ME? Really?" (turning to friend) "they waited for ME!". He was totally adorable and I wanted to take him home and put him in a box and feed him lettuce.
Unrepeatable - Brilliant Definite Article - Brilliant Glorious - Brilliant Dressed To Kill - Pretty funny Circle- still funny, but suffered from having to be heavily re-written after that whole watchdog thing Sexie - has funny moments
Not bad really. And I think there might be some rule about comedians getting less funny as they get older. Look at Harry Enfield, Steve Martin, Ben Elton, Rory Bremner, Vic Reeves. Um. Bruce Forsythe.
I have never found anything that Gervais does funny, with the possible exception of his cameo in GTA IV. Izzard has grown on me, due to being just completely barking. Jimmy Carr makes me want to put my fist through the TV every time I see him. Harry Hill - TV Burp? More like TV Vomit. 'nuff said.
My urge to punch Jimmy Carr has lessened somewhat, I don't know whether he has become less objectionable or I'm starting to "get" him. The reverse is true of Ricky Gervais. The more I see his smug face the more I want someone to punch it.
With the proviso that both Harry Hill and Ricky Gervais have both either been funny, or have been involved with funny things, but generally I just don't get them.
Ricky Gervais, There is something there, but it's not my taste Eddie Izzard, Used to be very funny, not so much now. Harry Hill, Meh Jimmy Carr, Makes me want to puch him Bill Bailey, went to see him recently and he praised the quality of my heckles, so I'm happy with him :) (Though he is a bit safe)
First time I saw Bill Bailey = Very Funny Second time, not so much :(
Eddie = hilarious up until Sexie Ricky = clearly a very nasty person (like Jack Black) and a real bully, which makes me dislike *everything* he does Harry = twat. Jimmy = funny when he presents Big Fat Quiz and is on QI, no interest in seeing his stand up Dylan Moran = laughed till I cried when I saw him, now *he* is funny!
I hate Ricky Gervais and I want to punch him in his gerbilly chops whenever I see him, but in spite of this I do actually find his stand up funny. DAMN HIM!
Izzard is funny. He has periods of being less funny, but every show he does has moments of absurd genius.
Jimmy Carr is also smug, but nice smug. I enjoy his comedy and I think he's a good panel host but I wouldn't go aout of my way to watch him.
Harry Hill is funny, but only in small doses. Some of the stuff he does is far too weird to make sense but his books are adorable (Tim the Tiny Horse is ace) and TV Burp is brilliant - plus there are moments in his stand up that totally crack me up, like tunes he plays on the hornamaphone.
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For example Ricky has done some things that I think are funny and some that isn't.
Harry Hill was funny once, as was Eddie
Jimmy Carr has one funny joke
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Eddie Izzard: Er... fish... erm... bananas... erm widdlywoodle bird. NOT FUNNY.
Jimmy Carr: I tied myself in knots the other day trying to justify why Jimmy Carr is funny whereas Frankie Boyle (in his current series) is desperately unfunny. Maybe it comes down to nothing more than personal preference.
Harry Hill: Eddie Izzard with jokes, and good jokes at that.
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Harry Hill used to be funny, I got bored of him, he's a PG vic reeves without the comedy genius.
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There's the set of people who dig the surrealism/absurdism of The Goon Show, Python, Milligan & Izzard. And then there's the set of people going 'Wurlitzer land speed record? Cake or death? They're just talking rubbish! Where are the jokes?'
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Can't stand him.
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Eddie Izzard and Tim Minchin are my favourite comedians. And Robin Ince I love quite a lot too, especially when he gets all angry about stuff.
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Also, I don't think I'll ever stop finding Eddie funny.
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/Eddie-Izzard-Unrepeatable-Definite-Glorious/dp/B000J3EG4E/ref=sr_1_2?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1293021268&sr=1-2
Unrepeatable - Brilliant
Definite Article - Brilliant
Glorious - Brilliant
Dressed To Kill - Pretty funny
Circle- still funny, but suffered from having to be heavily re-written after that whole watchdog thing
Sexie - has funny moments
Not bad really. And I think there might be some rule about comedians getting less funny as they get older. Look at Harry Enfield, Steve Martin, Ben Elton, Rory Bremner, Vic Reeves. Um. Bruce Forsythe.
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Izzard has grown on me, due to being just completely barking.
Jimmy Carr makes me want to put my fist through the TV every time I see him.
Harry Hill - TV Burp? More like TV Vomit. 'nuff said.
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Eddie Izzard is very funny.
I don't normally like Jimmy Carr, but recently I've seen him on some shows and he made me laugh. Odd.
Harry Hill isn't funny.
I prefer: Monty Python, Bill Bailey, Dylan Moran, Bill Hicks, George Carlin and Billy Connolley.
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Eddie Izzard, Used to be very funny, not so much now.
Harry Hill, Meh
Jimmy Carr, Makes me want to puch him
Bill Bailey, went to see him recently and he praised the quality of my heckles, so I'm happy with him :) (Though he is a bit safe)
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Second time, not so much :(
Eddie = hilarious up until Sexie
Ricky = clearly a very nasty person (like Jack Black) and a real bully, which makes me dislike *everything* he does
Harry = twat.
Jimmy = funny when he presents Big Fat Quiz and is on QI, no interest in seeing his stand up
Dylan Moran = laughed till I cried when I saw him, now *he* is funny!
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Izzard is funny. He has periods of being less funny, but every show he does has moments of absurd genius.
Jimmy Carr is also smug, but nice smug. I enjoy his comedy and I think he's a good panel host but I wouldn't go aout of my way to watch him.
Harry Hill is funny, but only in small doses. Some of the stuff he does is far too weird to make sense but his books are adorable (Tim the Tiny Horse is ace) and TV Burp is brilliant - plus there are moments in his stand up that totally crack me up, like tunes he plays on the hornamaphone.
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