Romesh Ranganathan

I can’t believe I haven’t had the call to up the standard with my rapier wit and towering intellect. Fucking borderline racism as far as I’m concerned. Cunts.
 
Magicpole said:
I can’t believe I haven’t had the call to up the standard with my rapier wit and towering intellect. Fucking borderline racism as far as I’m concerned. Cunts.
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The Scottish quota is full at the moment mate. I also remember that you haven't done the Scottish to English conversion course, a legal requirement for all sweaty's, and as such no fucker will understand a word you screech.
 
BimboBob said:
The Scottish quota is full at the moment mate. I also remember that you haven't done the Scottish to English conversion course, a legal requirement for all sweaty's, and as such no fucker will understand a word you screech.
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You cheeky fucker. I have a glorious and, yes, I will admit it, sexy voice, perfectly understandable and a delight to listen to. I have travelled the world charming the socks and sometimes more, off people and am universally loved and admired. Probably.

That cut to the core.
 
I don't mind Ranganathan, but I do note how all the regular BBC comics are entirely interchangeable. Same views, similar backgrounds, same outlook on the world and so on. Topical news quiz formats are invariably a group of men (it's usually men) competing to see who can agree with each other most impressively. It's not even that I might disagree with them, it's just boring.
 
Magicpole said:
You cheeky fucker. I have a glorious and, yes, I will admit it, sexy voice, perfectly understandable and a delight to listen to. I have travelled the world charming the socks and sometimes more, off people and am universally loved and admired. Probably.

That cut to the core.
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Sorry mate, as I said, you haven't done the conversion course so I'm having trouble understanding what you are saying.

Something about socks was it?
 
chedlee said:
When I was growing up my dad absolutely hated Bob Monkhouse. I couldn't understand how he could hold someone, who was basically just trying to help people laugh and enjoy themselves, in such contempt. Then I watched Patrick Kielty and I knew exactly what he meant. I just found out he is married to Cat Deeley FFS, could he get any worse?
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To be fair Kielty did unknowingly released full frontal pics of Cat. so swings and roundabouts and all that
 
Same with the scouser John Bishop. He has obviously been told to speak slower so non Scousers can understand him. The result is he struggles to get the words out as his brain works slightly quicker than his mouth and so they go out of sync. He sounds as though he is breaking in a set of gnashes for someone.
 
No issues with Romesh, he is on a lot of TV, but he's a dry comedian and fits into lots of boxes that programme makers want. I like the pie and mash shop interviews on the iplayer. Get a great insight into comedians and tours/life etc.
 
Romesh is alright. At least he's a bit different in style and he self-deprecates better than most. Plus he's the only British comedian that doesn't tell jokes about his kids that are, 'So my kid did this funny thing hahahaha.'


If we're talking about box-ticking and somewhat unfunny comedians that seem to find their way onto every single TV show with comedians on, look no further than the pairing of big-teeth, overweight, blonde and Essex comedians Rob Beckett and Roisin Conaty.

How have they not been mentioned yet?

Also, people keep mentioning BBC but Channel 4 has really taken a dive as far as cookie-cutter, PC friendly comedians are concerned.


British comedy in general has done a really poor job of transitioning from the old-school jokes galore style of the pre 1980s to the more modern alternative and personable style, at least at a mainstream level. To really be a standout these days you either have to have a really big and exciting personality or have some really astute (and often offensive) points to make, often both. Unfortunately, in the UK the platform for the latter isn't that big, so clever and offensive comedians like Stewart Lee, Jerry Sadowitz and Frankie Boyle and others tend to get a bit lost by the wayside. So all we're left with is a bunch of fairly funny but not funny comedians and the only source of big laughs come from the depressingly very few large-ham guys like Peter Kay, Lee Evans, Michael Mcintyre, Jack Whitehall and co (whether you like them or not). Hopefully we get some more British comedians hopping the pond because the US is a much better place to develop. Netflix is doing a lot of these Brits favours by giving them a platform to actually express themselves.

Saying all that, it's not that the UK public aren't without fault. We had three comedians in the BGT final last year and whilst one of them was brilliantly funny, we somehow managed to vote him into second place behind one of the other ones; the one with the more family friendly style and backstory. So there's that to note. (I actually saw the third comedian Mikey P Kerr live not too long before he was on BGT and his material is a bit less TV friendly live, and he was very very good I should add).
 
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I don't mind him. But then I've never found Manning, Chubby Brown, etc, funny in the slightest.
 
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