Comedian

[Deleted member 294929]

When a black comedian comes on stage he / she has to go on about race or the colour of their skin.... why?

Why can't they just be funny.... some comedians are just not funny...... but try just make us laugh... that is what a comedian is there to do.

 

[The Samaritan]

When a black comedian comes on stage he / she has to go on about race or the colour of their skin.... why?

Why can't they just be funny.... some comedians are just not funny...... but try just make us laugh... that is what comedian ate there to do.

Thinking about it you could be right. Thinking about so-called comedians, when an Irish/Scottish/Canadain so-called joker comes on stage he/she always talks
about their country of orgin in not appearing on stage in that country.

Women jokers that come on stage have to make, carry on making jokes about women.

I guess it is what it is.

 

[^woody^]

The theory is flawed. When Russel Brand goes on stage, he does not talk about turds. Likewise, James Corden does not joke (I dont use this literally) about useless fat basturds.

 

[Hairymelon]

Charlie Williams was a great 1970 comedian ‘ me old flower’ he would say to hecklers’ if you don’t shut up I’ll move in next door to you ‘

 

[Deleted member 294929]

Thinking about it you could be right. Thinking about so-called comedians, when an Irish/Scottish/Canadain so-called joker comes on stage he/she always talks
about their country of orgin in not appearing on stage in that country.

Women jokers that come on stage have to make, carry on making jokes about women.

I guess it is what it is.

But that gets a bit boring for every act.
This girl come on after the fella, from Brighton and joked that the BBC only got her on as she was a lesbian... However the host was male heterosexual, he didn't go on about being white heterosexual..

If you have a corker of a story line/joke that involves you being a black man or lesbian then you have got to go for it. As that's what being a comedian is all about..

But Act after act gets boring if your jokes are all the same.

 

[The Samaritan]

But that gets a bit boring for every act.

I hear you and totally agree.
Thinking about it - once you've seen a so-called joker on tv, they will always through in their best bits and even if
you like them at that point, the next time around, rarely will they have anything really new to add.
So it does get boring if they are not already boring in the first place.

 

[Deleted member 294929]

Some are really awful, the audience I'm sure do sympathy laughter

 

[The Samaritan]

A friend of my OH once told us that he used to earn extra money when he was in between jobs by working for a theatre rep when he'd get paid to watch a show and was encouraged to lol, clap etc. He said it worked 99% of the time when he and at times a few others clapped/lol,etc most of the others followed them like sheep even if the so-called joke was not even a joke

 

[conny]

The current one I can't stand is Rosie whatshername. Think she has cerebral palsy but between her foul mouth, aggressive me, me, me, stance and the fact that nothing she shouts out is funny, just leaves me baffled as to why she is hired as a comedienne and what the audience find funny in her diatribe.
I noticed a few months ago, as I was channel hopping, she was on an edition of Live at the Apollo. The camera was panning the audience and was passing across some dour looking blokes face, who obviously didn't think she was funny), and suddenly you saw he recognised the camera was on him so he suddenly burst out laughing.

 

[Deleted member 294929]

The current one I can't stand is Rosie whatshername. Think she has cerebral palsy but between her foul mouth, aggressive me, me, me, stance and the fact that nothing she shouts out is funny, just leaves me baffled as to why she is hired as a comedienne and what the audience find funny in her diatribe.
I noticed a few months ago, as I was channel hopping, she was on an edition of Live at the Apollo. The camera was panning the audience and was passing across some dour looking blokes face, who obviously didn't think she was funny), and suddenly you saw he recognised the camera was on him so he suddenly burst out laughing.

My mate said this the other week. She really is awful. Not funny one iota

 

[crystal ball]

The only female comedians I found funny were Victoria Wood & Linda Smith both now sadly passed away.

 

[Trazor]

One of the best........

 

[ReganAndCarter]

When a black comedian comes on stage he / she has to go on about race or the colour of their skin.... why?

Why can't they just be funny.... some comedians are just not funny...... but try just make us laugh... that is what a comedian is there to do.

Same with female 'comediennes' who think a comedy act is droning on about womens' problems. It's not. I struggle to name any funny women, maybe the late Joan Rivers.

 

[Bosswhite]

The current one I can't stand is Rosie whatshername. Think she has cerebral palsy but between her foul mouth, aggressive me, me, me, stance and the fact that nothing she shouts out is funny, just leaves me baffled as to why she is hired as a comedienne and what the audience find funny in her diatribe.
I noticed a few months ago, as I was channel hopping, she was on an edition of Live at the Apollo. The camera was panning the audience and was passing across some dour looking blokes face, who obviously didn't think she was funny), and suddenly you saw he recognised the camera was on him so he suddenly burst out laughing.

I quite often watch "Live at the Apollo" but lately the comedy has reached the depths , its become a platform for handicapped people to air their views as to how their handicap is accepted by the population , same with Gay Comedians , their alternative jokes are not even funny .

I see Rosie has now taken up acting and has featured in several other shows as a handicapped actor I feel this is a better method of highlighting her problems than her jokes .

I do think that the blind guy comedian cracks some good gags though .

 

[Deleted member 18243]

The only female comedians I found funny were Victoria Wood & Linda Smith both now sadly passed away.

Marti Caine was a great stand-up comedian, but apart from her I cannot think of any other good female stand-ups. There have been many great comedy actresses though; many in sketch shows and some in ventriloquism.

Rosie is on telly because she is disabled, not because she is funny. Part of the BBC's diversity quota.