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    Which comedians have you seen live who weren't as good as you expected?

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    30 minutes ago, Anon said:

    David O'Doherty - I saw him at the fringe the year after he'd won loads of awards. Unfortunately he'd apparently had a pretty rough 12 months and his new show was a thoroughly miserable crawl through a nasty break up. I'm not sure how much cynicism was involved in his choice of material since overly personal and intimate routines were very much "in" at that time. I still think he's a good comedian, we just happened to catch him at a really bad time.

    Marcus Brigstocke - This one is on me because in retrospect I don't know why I expected any better, but I did. His work isn't dreadful, just painfully ordinary paint by numbers stuff that anyone who has listened to two or more radio 4 panel shows could write in their sleep. He also came across as quite pompous, and it wasn't put on for humour, or if it was, it didn't work.

    Matt Forde - I've already complained about this gig in another thread, but duck it, he's a Forest fan so I'm twisting the knife. Forde got into an extremely petty argument with Sean Walsh during his Edinburgh review. Both of them were too arrogant to let it go and the state of their passive aggressive "banter" was utterly woeful. I'd call it a dick swinging contest, but that metaphor is far too generous.

    I don't know any of those guys.

    After 15 years in the States I'm a bit out of the loop with UK comedians.

    Suggestions always welcome.

    My favourite comedian is Doug Stanhope and he's coming here next year. I'm toying with going to the Sheffield gig, but the mate I used to go and see him with in Orlando every year is the only person I know into his type of humour. And he's 4,500 miles away.

    Which comedians have you seen live who weren't as good as you expected?

    in The Jim Smith Room

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    19 minutes ago, Anon said:

    Although I've made similar mistakes regarding political comedians who actually can't do anything beyond rant about news headlines, what else were you possibly expecting from Maher?

    I'd seen him do stand up on TV and it wasn't like one long monologue as this was. Literally 90% of the set was about Trump. I despise Trump, but it felt like he was just trying to convert the one audience member who liked Trump.

    Jonathan Pie ranted, but it was brilliant, far cleverer than Maher.

    And I've seen Trevor Noah twice and he was utterly brilliant. It didn't feel like I was sat in the audience for The Daily Show at all.

    The same goes for the one time I saw Seth Myers. Some politics as per his show, but really smart humour.

    Who have you seen along political lines?

    Which comedians have you seen live who weren't as good as you expected?

    in The Jim Smith Room

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    11 hours ago, Andrew3000 said:

    Unfortunately the late Sean Lock, about 10 yrs ago in the Darwin suite. He was just off and I can't recall whether this happened before or after one of the audience make a big fuss of puking everywhere during the performance. 

    I never saw him life, but that is a shame because what I've seen on YouTube is really good.

    Having said that, any comedian can have a bad night.

    Seen Jim Jefferies 7 times, 6 were brilliant but he defo seemed off for the last one. Mind you that was the only one in an arena and a couple of times it was very small venues before he was really well known, so maybe he's better suited to that type of audience. Very sad about Sean Lock.

    Mel Morris interview on Radio Derby 1pm

    in Derby County Forum

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    38 minutes ago, Carl Sagan said:

    Mel effectively says there was a trigger (something to do with him wanting to sell but covering the losses until that happened?) which meant parties interested in buying the club were always going to be happy to wait for admin before moving as it was going to be in their interest to take the club on debt free. Which is why he claims this is in the best interests of the club now, as it will move that process along.

    He says he's lost £200 million. I think he said that, just over the weekend, fifteen potential buyers expressed an interest.

    I think @Eatonramsaid £200m and was ridiculed.

    Quite honestly, he deserves ridiculing, but apparently not for that.

    R.I.P Greavsie

    in Football Forum

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    3 hours ago, Pearl Ram said:

    He said one of his biggest regrets in football was not signing for us when he left Tottenham and joined West Ham instead because he’d just moved to Dagenham and didn’t fancy uprooting again.

    One of the all time greats, RIP.

    Wow, is that true?

    I had no idea!

    Which comedians have you seen live who weren't as good as you expected?

    in The Jim Smith Room

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    I've probably seen over 100 professional comedians and rarely do they let you down, but these did.

    Chris Rock - just ranted about his divorce

    Lewis Black - just ranted full stop

    Bill Maher - just ranted about Trump

    Bit of a theme here.

    Patrick Kielty - absolutely brilliant callback at the end, but up until then a bit plodding

    Jim Norton - left halfway through, totally bored

    I wouldn't have though Black and Norton are that well known here, but they're pretty big in the US and Black sold out a big venue for two shows.

    Administration - In practical terms

    in Derby County Forum

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    5 hours ago, NottsRam77 said:

    maybe .. maybe guys mels health has taken a turn and he just wants out and doesnt need all this in his life and whatever remains of it

    And that is one of the reasons I refuse to condemn the guy at the moment.

    We're all staring at the tip of an iceberg with ⅘ buries under the surface.

    Other than we're FUBAR, we really don't know that much of what has been happening behind the scenes.

    Nevertheless, Mel has been tried, convicted and sentenced by many on here even though they know the CPS still has a mountain of evidence to put before the court.

    Mel may very well be everything people are accusing him of, and if that is the case, then ugh, I don't know what to say.

    But I'd rather know for sure than look like a clown if he is in poor health and stressed senseless, or that he is running out of his own money because he's leveraged up to the eyeballs.

    New joke thread (trigger alert, may offend if you want it to)

    in The Jim Smith Room

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    5 hours ago, sage said:

    Just had some awful news, my best mate has been killed in a collision with a cement lorry 

    On the plus side, he already has his own statue 

     

    My mate drowned in a boating accident.

    We had a wreath made in the shape of a life belt because, well, we thinks that's what he would have wanted.

    -----

    My brother says he's always having to tighten his belt.

    Then again, he is a heroin addict

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    If you don't have kids hire a babysitter before a night out.

    When they arrive say he's asleep upstairs in bed and not to wake him

    Then when you get back, go upstairs and scream 'where's my baby'

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    The people next door to me have made a sex tape.

    Obviously, they don't know it yet.

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    The president of France said that the English are arrogant with their refusal to learn foreign languages; at least, I think that’s what he said…  it all just sounded like “haw-he-haw-he-haw-he-haw"

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    As a family we couldn't decide whether to have grandma buried or cremated… in the end, we let her live.

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    You give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; but you teach a man to fish – saved yourself a fish haven’t you?

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    All from Gary Delaney's Gary in Punderland book. There are 1,000 jokes in that book and they are the only clean ones I can remember.

    Watchable telly

    in The Jim Smith Room

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    8 hours ago, 86 Hair Islands said:

    I lasted 2 episodes. Garbage.

    Gave up on that midway though season 3. Liked the first two though.

    Too visceral for me right now, but some pals of mine said it's excellent. 

    For me/us it went from a 6 on season 1, to a steady seven on 2 and 3, to an 8 or 8.5 on 4, and the first two on season 5 get a 9


    There's some brilliant script writing and attention to detail. I love that things happen for no reason as they would in real life.

    And I like the way they never explain the acronyms they use. I always have my phone to hand and last night was having to look what CAPS is because I'd never heard of it.

    Possibly a few too many coincidences and Bosch seeing stuff at crime scenes he'd never normally see, but overall I'm very impressed. 

    Titus Welliver really nails his part.

    The coronabrexit thread. I mean, coronavirus thread

    in The Jim Smith Room

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    47 minutes ago, Archied said:

    Are you honestly telling me you’ve not seen some pretty bad posts on here regards unvaccinated dying ? Are you honestly telling me that there’s been no so called insensitively around using these stories to back up a view ? 
    if it’s appalling to talk in general terms one way then a consistent yard stick should be applied and there’s a glaring lack of that 

    I dive in and out of here and can go a week without reading this thread and I don't start scrolling back, but I don't remember seeing something that was gleeful.

    I think calling such a person idiotic or even that they brought it on themselves doesn't mean you're happy they died.

    Insensitive? Yeh maybe, but that's not what you said and what I responded to.

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