Is Jenny Eclair - funny ?

[yenrod]

 

[MacB]

nope

 

[TVC]

One joke - sad dotty woman desperate for a shag, and she's been flogging it for 20 years.

 

[yello]

She has her moments. It'd be too harsh to say she's not funny.

 

[got-to-get-fit]

no,no,no.no!!!

 

[Over The Hill]

No just annoying.

 

[Chuffy]

She has her moments. It'd be too harsh to say she's not funny.

We need an option for 'occasionally'.

French & Saunders on the other hand just need a straight 'no'. No other option necessary.

 

[Mr Pig]

I know lots of people who are far funnier than many 'so called' comedians, and I do object to people being paid lots of money for doing something that the rest of us can do better for nothing!

Talented writers and performers, fair enough, but a lot of these people are just making up the numbers. Joe Brand. Why is she on the TV? She looks like a hippo with lipstick on and is less amusing. I'd laugh at a hippo with lipstick on.

 

[dellzeqq]

you could almost widen this and ask - 'are comedians funny?' And the answer would be, almost without exception, 'no'.

 

[Maz]

I think she is funny.
Wasn't she in 'Packet of Three' in the early days of Channel4? Not sure...

 

[dan_bo]

I bet she's a right laugh out on the piss.

 

[yello]

I know lots of people who are far funnier than many 'so called' comedians

I'd agree with that. I'd even go so far to say that many comedians are rarely funny... on stage anyway.

But, in fairness to them, I think it's often because we expect them to be funny and it's actually all very staged - and understandably so. Very few comedians would actually take the stage unprepared, they all have a script of sorts. They play to a script and it all comes across as dreadfully rehearsed... when the better part of being funny is spontaneity. Or they do silly faces or poses to buy time. It's the antithesis of funny really. It's a one-man sitcom.

So I reckon the true test of how funny a comedian is is to witness them off stage... which you don't ever really get to see. They're almost doomed to failure! I reckon many comedians would be better gag-writers than stand-up but there must be a few that could make you howl with laughter at any time and off the cuff.

I remember when I first realised this... seeing Billy Parkinson on a talk show many many years ago in NZ. He seemed very natural and cracking jokes as if he'd just thought of them. But I'd seen him live the night before and he was pretty much presenting a highly edited version of his stage show. I watched him on the tele with a growing sense of disillusionment... like the child realising santa doesn't exist. I can't forget that sense of being cheated and I reckon it's in many comedians' acts.

you could almost widen this and ask - 'are comedians funny?' And the answer would be, almost without exception, 'no'.

just seen dellzeqq's post - I cross posted

 

[zimzum42]

I don't know about her stand up, but she's funny on LBC....

 

[hulver]

You're all a bunch of miserable buggers.

Different people have different humour. Some people find Jim Davidson funny, whereas I wouldn't piss on him if he was on fire.

I tend to like my comedians either as dry as a nun's wotsit, or as sweary as Bill Hicks.

 

[tyred]

I wouldn't say she's funny. But I doubt many comedians are. Is it just me or are all the best ones dead?