Stand-Up Comedien views/reviews thread.
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Thought I would start a Thread for everyone to pass on opinions and reveiws of stand-ups they have seen as they tend to not got mainstream reviews to pass the word around.
Just seen the Altitude festival in Meribel so will start with that to get the ball rolling and add what I have seen in the last year.
I'm talking about actual stan-up shows I have attended not stuff seen on DVD just to make it clear.
Please anyone else add thoughts/opinions/revieiws of stand-up shows they have seen.
Meribel Altitude Festival:
Marcus Bridgestock: (he of radio 4 fame): An absolute stand-up genius, if you have any interest in comedy you must see him live.
Milton Jones: The best 'one-liners' in the business, like Jimmy Carr but miles better. had me in tears on a couple of occassions.
Andrew Maxwell: very funny stand-up and great audience interaction and involvement, well worth seeing.
Andre Vincent: Worked better as in audience participation and improv' shows but still very funny.
Mitch Benn: Great comedy music and songs (like a posh Bill Bailey) Normal stand-up jokes were a little lacking though.
Fred Macauley: Another Scottish comedien who is funny but overly obsessed with being Scottish and his act suffers for it. Family Freindly though.
Omid Jahlili: O.K family freindly comedien, great impressions and moral comedy but the jokes that link it all are not that great.
Suki Webster and Pete Frost: We only saw these two in an improv' session but they were both pretty good at it.
Others:
Paddy Mcguiness (Bristol 2009): Pretty good but not a great stand-up, lots of energy and low-brow simple comedy that kept the audience involved but played too much on advertising and former glory and not that hilarious.
Richard Herring (Cambridge 2008): Of Lee and Herring partnership. Very funny, very well written, good audience awarenes and close to the bone humour but seemed a little bitter about the whole thing and was a complete t
t to a fan (me) after the show in a meet & autograph session.
Justin Moorhouse (Derby): Absolutely brilliant, amazingly funny guy in a small show. Great udience interaction and great at building long comedy stories over the whole 1.5 hours to a great finish. definatley see if you get the chance. And thankfully never traded on the Pheonix nights connection.
Dave Spikey and Ted Robbins (Blackpool): Great family show but the comedy was slighty simple and didn't have me laughing as much as expected. They seemed a little out of there depth and trading on Pheonix nights popularity.
Roy Chubby Brown (Blackpool): I was expecting this to be bigoted racist rubbish when a mate dragged me too it...... How wrong I was, really funny really energetic and great rapour with the audience even had the large 'Asian' contingent (it was the northwest) rolling about laughing as the jokes were good natured ribbing rather than offensive racism. Very surprised by how much I enjoyed it.
Just seen the Altitude festival in Meribel so will start with that to get the ball rolling and add what I have seen in the last year.
I'm talking about actual stan-up shows I have attended not stuff seen on DVD just to make it clear.
Please anyone else add thoughts/opinions/revieiws of stand-up shows they have seen.
Meribel Altitude Festival:
Marcus Bridgestock: (he of radio 4 fame): An absolute stand-up genius, if you have any interest in comedy you must see him live.
Milton Jones: The best 'one-liners' in the business, like Jimmy Carr but miles better. had me in tears on a couple of occassions.
Andrew Maxwell: very funny stand-up and great audience interaction and involvement, well worth seeing.
Andre Vincent: Worked better as in audience participation and improv' shows but still very funny.
Mitch Benn: Great comedy music and songs (like a posh Bill Bailey) Normal stand-up jokes were a little lacking though.
Fred Macauley: Another Scottish comedien who is funny but overly obsessed with being Scottish and his act suffers for it. Family Freindly though.
Omid Jahlili: O.K family freindly comedien, great impressions and moral comedy but the jokes that link it all are not that great.
Suki Webster and Pete Frost: We only saw these two in an improv' session but they were both pretty good at it.
Others:
Paddy Mcguiness (Bristol 2009): Pretty good but not a great stand-up, lots of energy and low-brow simple comedy that kept the audience involved but played too much on advertising and former glory and not that hilarious.
Richard Herring (Cambridge 2008): Of Lee and Herring partnership. Very funny, very well written, good audience awarenes and close to the bone humour but seemed a little bitter about the whole thing and was a complete t
t to a fan (me) after the show in a meet & autograph session.Justin Moorhouse (Derby): Absolutely brilliant, amazingly funny guy in a small show. Great udience interaction and great at building long comedy stories over the whole 1.5 hours to a great finish. definatley see if you get the chance. And thankfully never traded on the Pheonix nights connection.
Dave Spikey and Ted Robbins (Blackpool): Great family show but the comedy was slighty simple and didn't have me laughing as much as expected. They seemed a little out of there depth and trading on Pheonix nights popularity.
Roy Chubby Brown (Blackpool): I was expecting this to be bigoted racist rubbish when a mate dragged me too it...... How wrong I was, really funny really energetic and great rapour with the audience even had the large 'Asian' contingent (it was the northwest) rolling about laughing as the jokes were good natured ribbing rather than offensive racism. Very surprised by how much I enjoyed it.
best stand-up i've seen live was noel fielding [mighty boosh] in manchester circa '99. the whole set was basically an hour long story about his pet starfish having a gunfight at high noon with a jellyfish at the local swimming pool. completely random, well observed and very very funny. went along as he was on lee mack's 'gas' [bring it back!] so didn't realise the other guy [who wasn't funny] was julian barratt.
watched frankie boyle's dvd the other week. he flounders when trying to tell jokes or do obvious gags but is side splitting when on full on insult mode. also, the bit about lewis hamilton and is brother is amazing.
watched frankie boyle's dvd the other week. he flounders when trying to tell jokes or do obvious gags but is side splitting when on full on insult mode. also, the bit about lewis hamilton and is brother is amazing.
shirt]best stand-up i've seen live was noel fielding [mighty boosh said:
in manchester circa '99. the whole set was basically an hour long story about his pet starfish having a gunfight at high noon with a jellyfish at the local swimming pool. completely random, well observed and very very funny. went along as he was on lee mack's 'gas' [bring it back!] so didn't realise the other guy [who wasn't funny] was julian barratt.
watched frankie boyle's dvd the other week. he flounders when trying to tell jokes or do obvious gags but is side splitting when on full on insult mode. also, the bit about lewis hamilton and is brother is amazing.
I've seen the footage of this, I believe the joke (or what made us laugh) was that Barret is deliberately bad but Noel Feilding and his table are absolutely dying of laughter when it isn't funny making it some wierd surearl comedy that sets you off laughing.watched frankie boyle's dvd the other week. he flounders when trying to tell jokes or do obvious gags but is side splitting when on full on insult mode. also, the bit about lewis hamilton and is brother is amazing.
Next up is Michael Macintyre..... really looking forward to that show.
it was more what i'd assume to be an early version of the boosh. i would recall if it was deliberately bad.
barratt did some on his own but i really can't remember if it was any good. then they did a few skits together, then noel's slot, then a song.
i don't find mcintyre funny, which brings us to:
sarah silverman - just why is she so popular? even woody allen and joan rivers don't find jewish jokes funny anymore. the secret policeman's ball skit she did was excruciatingly bad.
barratt did some on his own but i really can't remember if it was any good. then they did a few skits together, then noel's slot, then a song.
i don't find mcintyre funny, which brings us to:
sarah silverman - just why is she so popular? even woody allen and joan rivers don't find jewish jokes funny anymore. the secret policeman's ball skit she did was excruciatingly bad.
shirt said:
it was more what i'd assume to be an early version of the boosh. i would recall if it was deliberately bad.
barratt did some on his own but i really can't remember if it was any good. then they did a few skits together, then noel's slot, then a song.
i don't find mcintyre funny, which brings us to:
sarah silverman - just why is she so popular? even woody allen and joan rivers don't find jewish jokes funny anymore. the secret policeman's ball skit she did was excruciatingly bad.
Never seen her doing stand-up, I don't tend to watch much stand-up on TV or DVD as I prefer it live. The Sarah Silverman Show although it took a while to get into is brilliant.barratt did some on his own but i really can't remember if it was any good. then they did a few skits together, then noel's slot, then a song.
i don't find mcintyre funny, which brings us to:
sarah silverman - just why is she so popular? even woody allen and joan rivers don't find jewish jokes funny anymore. the secret policeman's ball skit she did was excruciatingly bad.
Don't get me started on Sitcom/Sketch show reveiws though....... Current DVD collection is about 140 Comedy series, might start a website to review them all.
Just wanted to start a thread for people to pass on knowledge of good/bad stand-ups they've seen to help other PH'ers choose what they see as it's hard to find decent reviews of live stand-up.
you like your comedy then!
lee mack: straight gag man, nothing remotely alternative about his material, but still inventive original and very funny. he's the only 'joke' comic i like.
harry hill: his recent dvd is crap. not sure if the first tour is on dvd but i saw him in 97-98 in leeds and it was first rate. probably helped by the inclusion by 'bog brother alan hill' aka al murray.
lee mack: straight gag man, nothing remotely alternative about his material, but still inventive original and very funny. he's the only 'joke' comic i like.
harry hill: his recent dvd is crap. not sure if the first tour is on dvd but i saw him in 97-98 in leeds and it was first rate. probably helped by the inclusion by 'bog brother alan hill' aka al murray.
shirt said:
you like your comedy then!
lee mack: straight gag man, nothing remotely alternative about his material, but still inventive original and very funny. he's the only 'joke' comic i like.
harry hill: his recent dvd is crap. not sure if the first tour is on dvd but i saw him in 97-98 in leeds and it was first rate. probably helped by the inclusion by 'bog brother alan hill' aka al murray.
Love the comedy..... As we speak series 13 of Southpark is streaming to my computer.lee mack: straight gag man, nothing remotely alternative about his material, but still inventive original and very funny. he's the only 'joke' comic i like.
harry hill: his recent dvd is crap. not sure if the first tour is on dvd but i saw him in 97-98 in leeds and it was first rate. probably helped by the inclusion by 'bog brother alan hill' aka al murray.
Can't really get into Harry Hill, TV Burp and his YBF Comentary are hilarious but his stand-up I find a little lacking.
Did see Lee Mack on Dave the other day and enjoyed it, need to get tickets to a live show of his.
BTW the Meribel Altitude Festival was filmed for Dave, it's well worth watching if you spot any of it being shown..... I'm the "Engineer" at the front getting sympathy then abuse from Milton Jones and Marcus Bridgestock.
pedantlewis said:
Anybody seen Tim Minchin live? I'm currently agonising over whether or not to buy a ticket for his Bristol show in October.
Guy with the mad ginger hair??? Meant to be really funny, but that is only what I've been told.Brsitol you say...... Were at? I may have to get a ticket.
Nobody You Know said:
Guy with the mad ginger hair??? Meant to be really funny, but that is only what I've been told.
Brsitol you say...... Were at? I may have to get a ticket.
That's the chap. Playing here.Brsitol you say...... Were at? I may have to get a ticket.
Have a peek at some of his earlier material on Youtube to get a feel, I suspect he's a bit of an acquired taste.
Jimmy Carr wasn't very good, there's only so many one liners you can cope with, especially when you've heard most of them already.
Russell Howard was very good, original stuff, interacted with the audience and some of that was even better than the rehearsed material. Would definitely go and see him again.
Russell Howard was very good, original stuff, interacted with the audience and some of that was even better than the rehearsed material. Would definitely go and see him again.
SEE THE WIKI thread.
Otiz Canilloni - OK - Old school, been around for years. averagely amusing. 55%
Omid Ddjalili - Gay Camels in Gladiator - Iranian - NOT funny
Eddie Izzard - outstanding 85%
Shappi Korsandi - mediocre 60%
Angie McEvoy - predictable female routine, fairly amusing though 50%
Jeff Mirza = taxi driver from hounslow!! 50%
Mark Restuccia - a mate of mine - not very funny yet (newcomer) but give him a go = 30%
Charlie Saffrey - good 60%
Otiz Canilloni - OK - Old school, been around for years. averagely amusing. 55%
Omid Ddjalili - Gay Camels in Gladiator - Iranian - NOT funny
Eddie Izzard - outstanding 85%
Shappi Korsandi - mediocre 60%
Angie McEvoy - predictable female routine, fairly amusing though 50%
Jeff Mirza = taxi driver from hounslow!! 50%
Mark Restuccia - a mate of mine - not very funny yet (newcomer) but give him a go = 30%
Charlie Saffrey - good 60%
Edited by parakitaMol. on Tuesday 8th September 13:52
check out this chap - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK3L1_AWf1M
i went to Uni with John - he was a funny chap then, even moreso now. Doing quite well oop north apparently
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i went to Uni with John - he was a funny chap then, even moreso now. Doing quite well oop north apparently
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