Comedians we forgot...

[srw]

Is Richard Herring widely remembered?

He's got a column in the Metro (not a very funny one), so he's very widely read. Fist of Fun was more notable for its formal invention than its jokes, IIRC.
[edit: @AndyRM - have a TMN for getting in their first, but nul points for your taste in humour]

 

[lutonloony]

That's his choice, so what? And?

He had such a tough, restrictive and abusive childhood that I think he has always wanted to do and wear the opposite of what people think he should, you clearly being one of them.



That's how he speaks.



Yet again, and?

I know exactly what his response would be, and it would start in 'F' and end in 'f'!



I was going to say 'each to their own', but I am curious.

Pathetic?? Please explain?

Puerile and so on, maybe at times, but he never stays on a subject long enough and I would rather have him than someone who simply churns out a pre-prepared routine, especially when you hear them doing *exactly* the same jokes on more than one programme


Oh and he's 'forgotten' is he??
You don't come to Glasgow a lot, do you?? I mean, what a laughable statement (much more laughable than his trike)!

When he dies, Glasgow will practically give him a state funeral!

Nothing to do with his humour, but IMO a very underrated musician too

 

[smutchin]

I used to quite like Lucy Porter.

Why 'used to'? She's still great! Saw her at a local gig last year, very funny.

 

[ufkacbln]

Glaswegian?

The inimitable Ivor Cutler

 

[Fnaar]

Norman Collier

 

[John the Monkey]

He still has a loyal following but not the mainstream success (ie BBC series) that Stewart Lee has. I saw him on his last tour and was surprised that the theatre wasn't full. His Leicester Square Theatre podcast is excellent.

Or as some of the cool kids are calling it, RHLSTP (rhlstp).

 

[John the Monkey]

However if Michael McIntyre appears then so does the remote control's change channel function

I'm not a fan of his act, but I head him being interviewed on something once, and he was great - very sharp, and some great adlibs & yes and-ing the stuff the host was doing.

A bit like Billy Connolly, Peter Kay in that I can appreciate that he's good at what he does, but personally, don't like it.

 

[stephec]

Why 'used to'? She's still great! Saw her at a local gig last year, very funny.

She's another one who doesn't seem to be on tv anymore.

 

[John the Monkey]

I watched Greg Proops and Mark Lamar on a repeat recently, havent seen either of them for ages, but they were popular about 15 years ago.

I don't know about Mark Lamar, but Greg Proops has a pretty successful podcast, seems to tour a lot (judging by the dates he gives out towards the end of the shows) and does a fair bit of stuff with the American version of "Whose Line..." which seems to have been a bigger mainstream hit there than here. I've got one of his albums somewhere too, from 2012, I think?

 

[AndyRM]

I seem to forget and rediscover Mitch Hedberg every couple of years. A very funny guy who would be more widely known had he not overdosed.

 

[ufkacbln]

[QUOTE 4418064, member: 259"]Vivien Stanshall. The sessions he did for John Peel, which became Sir Henry at Rawlinson End, are some of the saddest and funniest things I've ever heard.[/QUOTE]

I have the original album and book

 

[ufkacbln]

[QUOTE 4418057, member: 259"]I've given you a like, but Ivor Cutler wasn't a comedian, even in the classical sense of the word, even though some of what he did came out funny. I always thought of him as much more strange and dangerous than Johnny Rotten.[/QUOTE]


I was fortunate enough to be friendly with the organisers of an event with Ivor Cutler back in the 70's when he was guesting on John Peel.

We spent a pleasant couple of hours in the bar afterwards.

He was frequently described as a "humourist"and recognised that description

Whether you consider humourist as a comedian or not is up to you, but he certainly needs to be remembered as funny

 

[ufkacbln]

[QUOTE 4418064, member: 259"]Vivien Stanshall. The sessions he did for John Peel, which became Sir Henry at Rawlinson End, are some of the saddest and funniest things I've ever heard.[/QUOTE]


.... and I know how to tell the time when lying in the Garden

 

[glenn forger]

Les Dawson was a favourite of the Queen Mother, that's why he did the Royal Performance so much. Have him and the breathtaking Shirley Bassey:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxmu9HKN4gY


Bassey does quite well, she treads on a laugh and stumbles a bit but she's so charming and funny next to that lugubrious Lancastrian . You can hear the welsh accent she's trying to suppress when she says "Barnsley"

 

[glenn forger]

Remember Bob Monkhouse had a chat show and he had loads of offbeat comedians on? That "Spook!" bloke was on, a really unique act:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxWHy4f9W30