Be Excellent To Each Other

Is it Dimrill?

Yes.

i saw the Mighty Boosh at Derby Uni SU back in 98. Before the TV shows they were actually really original.

Told.

I might at some point try and steal your life. If it means I get your house in London, plus your bank account, but minus the job. Basically so as I can be a bum in London.

Grim.. lives in a bookshop?

Jam jam jam… bleurgh!

Tim Vine is excellent.

He wears down your defences and then nails you with pun after pun after pun.

"I jumped in a taxi and said 'King Arthurs Close'. The driver said 'Don't worry, I'll lose him at the lights."

I'm sorry, but that is very good.

I like puns as much as the next man (possibly more), but I couldn't withstand a barrage of them like that.

You get machine gunned by them. You can't help it. That is how it works.

Good or not, you can't do it for 45 minutes and expect people to retain the slightest interest. You can't do it for 10 minutes and expect people to retain the slightest interest.

It could very well be different if I saw him live, as we've already discussed. I find him way too relentless to be funny on TV.

I have a great amount of respect, mind, even for his sheer ability to remember all those jokes and execute them second after second without pause. That's some skill, just not for me.

"I had dinner the other night with Garry Kasparov. There was a nice checked tablecloth. I asked him to pass me the salt... it took him an hour!"

"Exit signs... they're on the way out."

"Did you know that all male tennis players are witches? I know, take Goran... Even-he's-a-witch!"

That third one is my favourite joke of all time.

Tim Vine is my guilty pleasure. His relentless jokes make me giggle a lot. I had a stand-up DVD of his, and it wasn't as good over a long period (at least not via the remove on TV), but there were so many great little jokes.

He's the only person I've seen live to suffer a >60% walkout rate. And not at a free gig, either.

Have you ever been to Up The Creek on a sunday night? I loves the nights when we boo the lucky dips before they get to the stage.

No, I haven't. I should go there more often, really.

We should organise a big outing to there some time soon. Always a good laugh, if only to stare in wonder at how bad some of the lucky dips are, and then mercilessly heckle them to death. I love the UTC crowd on Sundays. They'll generally laugh like drains at funny people, and tolerat the mediocre, but they absolutely murder terrible people.

The best night I ever had at the creek was the time curiosity first took me there. One of the amateur comedians (the lucky dips) came on, and Curio had seen him a few weeks before and he had been heckled off. We were shedded and laid into him the second he started the Worst Stand Up Act Ever. I think he lasted 15 seconds before he went off crying after Curiosity asked if he could do the splits.

I'm less impressed about the night we went there so drunk, heckled mark Watson repeatedly by shouting 'Brilliant' everytime he said it (often), and then fell off my chair in front of the stage during Russell howard - he gave me a look of abject pity and decided that taking the piss was too easy.

I watched Mcintyre's Roadshow in Manchester last night, featuring Sarah Millican as the second in the lineup. Man, her voice is so incredibly dull and monotonous, yet constantly high-pitched and Geordie. I nearly fell asleep watching her. She wasn't funny, either.

She is one of the (very) few female stand ups that I have seen live, and enjoyed. I dont know why, because her middle aged singleton line isn't something I like, unless it is coming from the sweet sweet lips of Lucy Porter.

I also like the blonde girl, Holly someone or other.

Be warned. We always sit at the front.

Why is everyone raving about Sarah Silverman at the moment? She's terrible.

Sarah Silverman is a media push though. Much like Mcintyre. If the media ever tell me a stand up is funny, its a fair bet that I don't agree.

I would, though.

(Silverman, not the fella)

Really? I think she's got a horse face.

Sarah turned in a comparatively poor performance, I thought - though she has only been going a couple of years so that was probably her biggest gig to date. Although advertised as "new" comedians, Bishop, Ferry and Manford have been going for a decade or more.

Lucy Porter is rubbish, and like Sarah Silverman, simply uses looking good as a cover for shock jokes and fuck all else.

He was very funny, I thought. Hadn't heard of him before, and was pleasantly surprised. Dealt with the heckler very well, too.

FTFY by removing unneccesary and incorrect words.

Silverman was that one who put on a 45 minute concert in That London and got booed because it was too short, isn't she? She was probably expecting at least 3 commercial breaks.

iirc, it was a gig of 'new material' which cost about £50 a head, and turned out to be a recitation of her DVD that had been out for quite some time.

Silverman & Matt Damon in the "I'm Fucking Matt Damon" video.. was quite funny..

She was on Bill Maher and basically dying on her arse. So she said "cunt", to date the only time I've heard someone say that in a couple of years of listening.

Summed her approach up quite well, I thought.

There is something about her, same with Kristen Schaal but only for the way she plays a stalking sex fiend on Flight of the Conchords.

He's very good live.

I quite like Silverman, too.

yeah, i know

I love Mitch. He's awesome. I wish I'd seen him live before he died. My wife did and I'm insanely jealous.

And I've not seen Sarah Silverman do standup, but her sitcom's all kinds of best.

I agree with this. Her telly show is hilarious.

Really? It makes my skin crawl until I'm inside out.

Really. It's amazing. About the only thing absolutely guaranteed to make me laugh out loud that's on at the moment.

Yes, really. It makes me laugh until my skin falls off.

Wow, how could I have got this so wrong? I tend to agree with you nearly everything.

Hello.

Has there ever been such a thing as a stand-up duo?

Closest I can think of is Flight of the Conchords.

There's people like Hale and Peace and the Two Ronnies, but I don't think they ever did stand up together, just sketches.

I think hale and pace started as standup.

There are a few stand up comedy troupes out there, but the ones I've seen are explicitly aiming for a TV gig and fucking it up when they get there. Pappys Fun Club and We are Klang stand out (Although Matthew Crosby and Greg Davies respectively did well out of them from a solo perspective)

Oh, Frisky and Maniche are a duo. If they're still going.

I miss the standup:(

The Raymond and Mr Timpkins Revue.

I think that's what they were called.

Anyway, they were a duo.

Do Lee and Herring count?

Newman and Baddiel?
Punt and Dennis?
Morecombe and Wise?
Cannon and Ball?
Hinge and Bracket?
Rod Hull and Emu?

Bert and Ernie.