What do people find funny?

[Kim.JumpRope 10]

Hey

So what's everyone finding funny now-a-days?

It can be stand up, sitcom, film, basically anything that makes you laugh.

 

Kim xx

[Funky_Gibbon 42]

Anything except humour designed to make you cringe such as The Office.

 

Actually... anything except that and 2.4 Children.

[Kim.JumpRope 10]

Haha. Could you be anymore specific? What stuff do ye like?

IT Crowd, Big Bang Theory, Miranda, Flight of the Conchords?

[~Kes~ 10]

Peter Kay

Lee Evans

Russell Brand

X Factor auditions

Eastenders (as it's so depressing you gotta laugh)

You've been framed (and similar)

Funny captions like on the 'LOL' sites (LOL cats/dogs etc)

Alan Carr (though he can be tiresome these days)

Jimmy Carr

Comedy panel shows like Never mind the buzzcocks and 8 out of ten cats

Graham Norton

Paul O'Grady

Vernon Kay

Sean Lock

Jason Manford

Live at the Apollo

 

Probably lots more I could add as memory recollects

[Rocklizard. 10]

Harry Hill,

Alan Carr

Graham Norton

Jimmy Carr

Bill Bailey

Simon Amstell

Have I Got News 4 You.

Peter Kay.

Can't stand Russell Brand.

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[shanes teeth 10]

Saw a great act at the Last Laugh on Friday,Christian Riley.Comedy with a guitar.Justin Moorhouse is also always good value.Best recent sit com has to be Miranda.I never get bored of QI(even on Dave).And Ivan Brackenbury is a favourite at the moment.I've not seen Roger Monkhouse for a while but he's always good.

[Guest]

Jimmy Carr

Marcus Brigstocke

Mark Kermode in rant mode

I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, Old Harry's Game, and such like

Bill Hicks

Frasier

Blackadder

Early Red Dwarf

Andy Hamilton

Rob Newman's Jarvis (Still. Thanks YouTube)

Jeremy Hardy

[czechroman 10]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thyL0E5SsAE

 

Like this:hihi:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCWc3VSkInI&feature=related

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[millhouses24 10]

The Office.

Black Books, based on a recommendation from this here Forum, and I LOVED it.

Dylan Moran stand up -excellent.

Harry Enfield.

The Big Bang (I think - is that the one with all the geeks in it?)

 

 

I went to a live comedy night quite recently, and one thing I really, really found annoying and ensured that I won't be going back or recommending them was the use of extra offensive and sensitive subjects as "material". If acts need to make jokes about child abuse to be funny, they shouldn't be on stage.

[czechroman 10]

Victoria wood

french n saunders

peter kay

any with daft, everyday humour!. Dont like chubby brown tbh, know a few others who dont too who have seen him live, although some do.

[Kim.JumpRope 10]

I went to a live comedy night quite recently, and one thing I really, really found annoying and ensured that I won't be going back or recommending them was the use of extra offensive and sensitive subjects as "material". If acts need to make jokes about child abuse to be funny, they shouldn't be on stage.

 

I suppose offensive comedy isn't really for everyone, and some can be of incredibly bad taste. I run a night at the Library Theatre called The Jester Society if you're interested in live comedy.

 

As for sitcoms, Black Books is amazing. So is Miranda, i thought it was one of the funniest things i've seen in a long time. Also any writing of Graham Linehan is always a winner.

[perplexed 10]

I'll have to think about who I think is really a good quality funny bloke/lass, but I can unhesitatingly say that Ricky Gervaise and Micheal MacIntyre are NOT the comedy Gods they think they are...