Michael Barrymore

[hexagon_sun]

Quote[/b] (Mad Cyril @ Feb. 02 2006,15:48)]Vernon Kaye - There's a face I'd like to punch.

Looks like plenty of people have already had the pleasure

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

Quote[/b] (EastStandBlue @ Feb. 02 2006,16:11)]Jimmy Carr can be funny, but coming across as the most pompous, conceited tw&t on television only makes me think he deserves a good kicking.

I saw him do a Stand up set - admittedly at Lee Hurst's club in Bethnal, which is probably not exactly his kind of crowd - and he crashed and burned in a big way. He was about as funny as a trip to the dentist's to be honest.

My opinion hasn't changed a great deal...

Give me Buzzcocks any day - at least you get to see three blokes (Lamarr, Bailey & Jupitus) all of whom are actually very funny in their own right, and at least one of whom is seen in Roots Hall from time to time...

 

[Guest]

Barrymore's a ****.

And I agree that Carr is overrated.

 

[* ORM *]

Ant & Dec not funny ? Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr !

I think these are two top FAMILY entertainers. A lot of it may well be scripted but Angus Deaton is a perfect example of autocue counting for nothing.

There again I'm a big fan of George & Mildred, Bless This House and The Good Life. I do draw the line at Terry and June !

Little Britain still baffles me, as did the Office whereas the Fast Show and TittyBangBang were/are unmissable. I didn't like Phoenix Nights but Max and Paddy was superb.

 

[hexagon_sun]

Quote[/b] (* ORM * @ Feb. 02 2006,19:28)]Ant & Dec not funny ? Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr !

I think these are two top FAMILY entertainers. A lot of it may well be scripted but Angus Deaton is a perfect example of autocue counting for nothing.

There again I'm a big fan of George & Mildred, Bless This House and The Good Life. I do draw the line at Terry and June !

Little Britain still baffles me, as did the Office whereas the Fast Show and TittyBangBang were/are unmissable. I didn't like Phoenix Nights but Max and Paddy was superb.

Now I'm beginning to understand the terrible jokes

 

[Xàbia Shrimper]

Quote[/b] (perth shrimper @ Feb. 02 2006,08:18)][Barrymore's] a 'funnyman' that should have disappeared along with Tarby, Forsyth, Les Dennis and  Noel Edmonds about 10 yrs ago.

Woah!!

No way can Bruce Forsyth be grouped with this lot! The man is a comic genius ...

WS
Jávea

 

[Yellow Army]

Last thing i heard about Barrymore was BBC was signing him up to do a new sitcom, Only Pools and Corpses, and will be taking a similar role to Delboy

- that was harsh

 

[Sebastian Weetabix]

Quite liked Bob Monkhouse myself. Very quick witted and kept it clean. Bruce Forsyth hasn't changed in donkeys years. My dad went see him at the London Palladium iin the late fifties and he was meant to have been brillient then. Dated I agree but do you really want smut on a early saturday night on the telly?

 

[Guest]

Quote[/b] (Steve_Clubshop @ Feb. 02 2006,20:12)]Last thing i heard about Barrymore was BBC was signing him up to do a new sitcom,  Only Pools and Corpses, and will be taking a similar role to Delboy  

 - that was harsh

Indeed, not only harsh but a bit of a poor effort as well.

Must do better!

 

[SARF]

Quote[/b] (Sebastian Weetabix @ Feb. 02 2006,21:02)]Quite liked Bob Monkhouse myself. Very quick witted and kept it clean. Bruce Forsyth hasn't changed in donkeys years. My dad went see him at the London Palladium iin the late fifties and he was meant to have been brillient then. Dated I agree but do you really want smut on a early saturday night on the telly?

Monkhouse was different level again.. Better than Brucie..
His live shows were a lot 'Bluer' than his T.v. work and brilliant.

 

[The Artful Shrimper]

Brucie was compering the strictly ballroom dance thing which is a fave of my "she who must be obeyed" half. I must say he needs some new script writers, a lot of his "jokes" were very corny, lacked that special sparkle of old.

Bob "and his james bond eyebrow" Monkhouse wrote many of his own jokes and must be commended but didn't have the prescence of Brucie.

Barrymore as has been said copied the cleese walk and indeed everything john Cleese did, the shouting and barracking.

Ant and Dec are excellent. No jokes or scripts just two mates having a giggle.

 

[canveyshrimper]

Bob Monkhouse along with Dave Allen was one of the sharpest and aware stand up comics ever. The classic Monkhouse joke being.

"When I told them that I wanted to be a comedian they laughed, well they're not laughing now"

 

[Mad Cyril]

Quote[/b] (canveyshrimper @ Feb. 03 2006,08:53)]Bob Monkhouse along with Dave Allen was one of the sharpest and aware stand up comics ever. The classic Monkhouse joke being.

"When I told them that I wanted to be a comedian they laughed, well they're not laughing now"  

 

My favourite was:

I wouldn't say I was unlucky but I went to a funeral the other day and caught the wreath.

 

[EastStandBlue]

Little Britain is woeful... If theres ever been a more overrated and grating comedy on television i'd like to see it. Its plain and simple Dumb-Funny, trash, catchphrase comedy. Although The Catherine Tate show is marginally better, i still can't watch it without me wanting to punch her.
Buzzcocks has been one of the most consistently funny shows in recent TV, Lamarr is what Jimmy Carr strives to be.

Stand-Up wise, Dave Chappele and Richard Pryor are hillarious