Comedians

[The Underdog]

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Love the Mighty Boosh, but from what I've seen I'm not convinced that they are stand up funny. I feel a lot of their tv show is predictable and a bit lame, and what I've seen of their standup has all been along those lines.

I saw the Boosh twice at the Comedy Festival and they were freaking hilarious live.
I don't watch as much stand-up as I used to but enjoy Stewart Lee and Daniel Kitson. Really enjoy Kitson's "serious" shows too.

Oh yeah, Wil Anderson sucks (in my opinion which is just that, an opinion, not fact or anything)

[Murphy'sLore]

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I recently read Denise Scott's "All That Happened At Number 26" and I laughed till I cried. Don't know if that counts.

Love Ross Noble, twisted genius. Wil Anderson annoys me, but I have to tolerate him because of his Bulldogness.

[comrade]

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Daniel Kitson is very good.

Gervais's live shows are quality.

I've seen Ross Noble a few times. First time was good, the second was just an incoherent rambling mess without the payoff at the end.

Does Tripod count? I was a pretty big fan of these guys when I was 15.

[Twodogs]

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Cal Wilson is brilliant

I saw Jo Brand at the comedy festival years ago. It must have been 1998 because my ex was preggers with our first kid and he's just started high school. She was ****ing hilarious.

My theory is that it's Australian female comedians that are tragically unfunny for some reason. Most of the O/S females I've seen are very funny.


Back in the '80s I used to go to the the midnight sessions at Le Joke in Fitzroy almost every week. I saw some very funny comedians but the funniest one was a bloke called Rick Carter. He'd tell stories about hs drug taking (The cops burst in and yelled "DONT MOVE". I just looked at them and said "mate, have you smoked any of this stuff? I cant even find my dick!") The great irony is that now he makes his living by playing cops in TV dramas.

[Bornadog]

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In the 80's loved the Young Ones, so when Rick Mayall came out went and saw him. He was very very funny. Before he came on, there was a bloke called Ben Elton who did about an hour, not bad

[ledge]

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Ben Elton has very intelligent comedy, a thinker outside the square, very very smart man

[LostDoggy]

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I recently read Denise Scott's "All That Happened At Number 26" and I laughed till I cried. Don't know if that counts.

Love Ross Noble, twisted genius. Wil Anderson annoys me, but I have to tolerate him because of his Bulldogness.

I like Denise Scott when she's on Spicks & Specks - she's very funny. I'll have to read her book then.

Totally agree with your Ross Noble & Wil Anderson comments too.

[Bulldog4life]

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Over the years I have seen The Two Ronnies, Ronnie Corbett..solo..,Dick Emery, Dave Allan & Little Britain live. My favourite was a tie between Dave Allan & the Little Britain guys. Non stop laughing with them both from start to finish.

Looking forward to seeing Ricky Gervais when he tours. I also would like to see Barry Humphries show too.

[Twodogs]

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Jimmy Carr at his best;



It's a bit rude

[LostDoggy]

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Jimmy Carr at his best;



It's a bit rude

Yeah love that clip, comedians that can shoot down hecklers are very entertaining, Rodney Rude and Kevin Bloody Wilson are both good at it too

[Daughter of the West]

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I saw Lehmo a couple of years ago at the Comedy Festival, and to my surprise, he was FREAKIN' HILARIOUS!

The show was about how he made a transition from being an insolvency accountant with Ferrier Hodgson to a stand up comedian, and the jokes he made about the stuff that my mates and I (all accountants) deal with everyday had us just about on the floor with laughter.

I don't know if you would have found it so funny if you were a nurse or something, but we sure did (and the fact that Lehmo kept picking on one of our mates as well added to it too).

Not sure who I'll see at the Comedy Festival this year, I usually try to see three or four shows.

[LostDoggy]

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Russell Peters is worth seeing. His ability to explain how he tried to stand up to his Indian father as a child is quite funny.

Was about to post him, very funny man.

Also a fun of Martin Lawrence.

[jazzadogs]

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Going to see Josh Thomas in April, looking forward to it. I love Your Gen, and although I think that's mostly because of Shaun Micallef, I enjoy Josh Thomas' work.

Saw Wil Anderson a year or two ago and I quite enjoyed it...really liked the Glass House, and I find Gruen Transfer really interesting.

Jason Byrne was good but still not much 'stand-up'. More just activities that he'd make funny.

Demetri Martin is brilliant, haven't seen much of him but what I have seen is absolutely hilarious.

Danny Bhoy and Stephen K Amos were both good when I saw them a few years back, Arj Barker is good and bad.

I love Hughesy on Before the Game, but can go without his stand-up/radio show.

[LostDoggy]

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I love Hughesy on Before the Game, but can go without his stand-up/radio show.

Agree. He is ok in very small doses like before the game.

Forgot to mention Dane Cook, hes hilarious imo.

[Ozza]

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Have seen quite a few at the comedy festival over the last few years - but Ross Noble was by far the funniest. I was in stitches for 2 and a half hours.