To wonder why famous people feel they have to over share personal stuff

Sometimes I find a comedian funny on one occasion and not on another. Sometimes I don’t like them at all. Jennifer Saunders and Kathryn Tate come under that heading. Thank heavens for an off button.

HowVeryDareYou

I can't bear Kathryn Ryan or Jonathon Ross. I don't find either of them funny or interesting. Having said that, I can't think of even one woman I find funny

Interesting comment so I thought about this, and y’know I agree with you, I haven’t found even one woman to be funny either.
Dunno why this is!
Obvs there are funny female actors but their lines are scripted for them, and situation comedy is different to stand up.
Before anyone says Victoria Wood, I didn’t find her funny either.

I find Rachel Parris so funny. She looks like the good girl next door, which makes what she comes out with so much more hilarious, and often spot on too.

Ah GG13, humour always wins .

GrannyGravy13

Blimey I need to get out more, agreeing with Fleurpepper and volver on the same thread, same day 🙀🙀🙀

I noticed that !
I think Sandi toksvig is funny and there an Irish girl,who is funny and whose name I don’t know (that’s helpful eh). Can’t abide mel and sue or Sara pascoe. Oh and Michael McIntyre is awful

I don’t really get the OP. It’s not over sharing its just telling a rude not funny “joke”

If nobody found her funny she wouldn’t be making a living out of comedy, but her humour’s not to my taste.

We booked for Sarah Millican at a very small venue many years ago, before she was well known, because we’d seen her once on TV and enjoyed her act. On the night she badly misjudged her audience and was very rude and crude. I felt a bit sorry for her after the interval when only about 12 of us came back. I still enjoy her TV act though.

I tried to watch her new stand up. It’s was just plain embarrassing to me and I was on my own. I’m not a prude but I can’t say I enjoy certain types of jokes. I love Billy Connolly and he swears a bit. It’s the content. So I won’t be watching KR again, it’s not for me.

I don't watch any of them. However, they have a habit of popping up on other things I watch, as guests. Or clips of them appear advertising their shows so it's hard to avoid them really.

Personally, I think Katherine Ryan can be funny and that line made me chuckle. I think Sarah Millican can be hysterical. I don't like either comedian gets it right all the time but I think that is possibly the same for all comics. If you don't like their sense of humour, use the off button. If enough people do that, these comics will no longer be given air space...although these 2 are popular enough to shrug off those on Gransnet.

MerylStreep

^they make these stories up for laughs^ no shit Sherlock 😂

No one has ever said this to me before

Is it a rude thing or a strong agreement thing?

They are sometimes funny these comedians. Someone said why watch if you don't like them?
I think you have to watch for a bit to see if it's funny.
Victoria Wood was usually very funny but vulgar too
I prefer them in sitcoms. I find standup embarrassing. I have to keep checking my pearls.

Oh, seen the light definitely. 💡

Janey has just done a voiceover of a certain red haired person with a frozen bit of his anatomy at a wedding. She's so funny.

volver

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Have I turned to the dark side or seen the light? 😹😹😹

I too think there are double standards for men v women in the comedy world.
I do find Ross quite an unpleasant character though and I am surprised he still has so much air time.

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Blimey I need to get out more, agreeing with Fleurpepper and volver on the same thread, same day 🙀🙀🙀

Whether you like some and not others, that is their job, to make us laugh. Sometimes it is crude, and will offend some people. Jane Godley is indeed hilarious- but she is, like many comedians or comediennes, a bit 'Marmite'.

But the title of this thread just does not apply.

Victoria Wood was funny. Hylda Baker was funny. Joan Rivers was funny. This is just my opinion. I have never thought French and Saunders are funny, either together or separately, nor Sarah Millican, or Mel and Sue. Comedians like Michael 'I pull a silly face therefore I am funny' McIntyre are not for me. Each to their own. Our daughter loves McIntyre, Jimmy Carr and others. It's all personal taste.

volver

Kandinsky

Women are as funny as men but they’re not that great at ‘stand up’
Victoria wood is the exception of course.

I'm going to have to mention Janey Godley but I know I'm going to just light the fuse under some people.

I have just found some of her voiceovers of Nicola Sturgeon, very funny.

I like Joan Rivers

I too thought it read she was joking, not over sharing her private life. Looking forward to the new series with her and Romesh Ranganathan.

Kandinsky

Women are as funny as men but they’re not that great at ‘stand up’
Victoria wood is the exception of course.

I'm going to have to mention Janey Godley but I know I'm going to just light the fuse under some people.

Blondiescot

I'm tempted to refer to the other type of 'pearl necklace', but then I'd be leaving myself open to accusations of vulgarity!

Heehee

This is the character she has chosen, created and grown in order to make money through comedy. Yes it's vulgar and rude and off the cuff but so is a lot of other stand up comedians work.I don't find her offensive at all. I think there are some double standards wrt male v female comedians

Women are as funny as men but they’re not that great at ‘stand up’
Victoria wood is the exception of course.