# Holy crap, that guy's unfunny - but everyone else loves him! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 18, 2008, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-that-guys-unfunny-but-everyone-else-loves-him/477659 "2008-12-18T00:20:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-that-guys-unfunny-but-everyone-else-loves-him/477659/201 "2008-12-22T04:37:15Z")
> [@hobscrk777](#): > > I thought this thread might have been about Dane Cook. > > Or Sara Silverman. Ahh yes, I’m happy to see that the two people I came in here to add made on the list by post # 3. I’m actually surprised they didn’t make it by post #2 . ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-that-guys-unfunny-but-everyone-else-loves-him/477659/202 "2008-12-22T07:40:00Z")
Re: Colin Quinn Andy Dick Andrew Dice Clay I think you’re forgetting the “…but everyone else loves him” part of the title. Gallagher would fall into this category as well, but he’s so bad he can’t even make the first 200 posts of a “comedians you hate” thread. ---
**Author:** ![Prelude\_to\_Fascination](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Prelude\_to\_Fascination](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prelude_to_Fascination)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-that-guys-unfunny-but-everyone-else-loves-him/477659/203 "2008-12-22T15:01:24Z")
In going through this thread, there are many comedians I either don’t recognize at all (the Little Britain thing), or others I’ve heard of but never paid attention to (Sarah Silverman). Others are “classics” (who’ve been around for decades: Billy Crystal, Richard Lewis). Those I’m most familiar with, and will defend, to a point. When they were new, they were hysterical. Jewish comedy of course, had been around for years before Lewis, but he was one of the few that was so overtly Jewish in front of mainstream America (Woody Allen arguably being the first). David Brenner also smacked of Jewish tendencies (of course, since he’s Jewish), but Lewis’s neuroses were just funny. At the time. As for Billy Crystal, I remember seeing him on the Mike Douglas show in the 70s, and he did a spot on impression of Howard Cosell and Muhammad Ali. Also, there was a bit he did with an audience member and potato chips. As I remember, Crystal had some African movie bit, where the audience member would be walking through the grass, and Crystal would crunch potato chips in a bowl, synchronized to the footsteps. I know it doesn’t read well, and I don’t remember much other than that, but I do remember it being hilarious in execution. So my point is, I guess, that at least some of these people were funny years ago, but have pretty much worn out their welcome, and are no longer funny. But had you seen them in the beginning, maybe you’d have felt differently. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-that-guys-unfunny-but-everyone-else-loves-him/477659/204 "2008-12-22T15:21:13Z")
> [@OpalCat](#): > > Same here. Not only is she not funny, she actually makes me angry with her stupid mugging. YAY! Another I hate I Love Lucy person! ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-that-guys-unfunny-but-everyone-else-loves-him/477659/205 "2008-12-22T15:39:28Z")
> [@Cagey\_Drifter](#): > > I can’t stand Robin Williams. Totally agree with you on that one,apart from finding him unfunny his smug,sanctimoius preaching at every opportunity gets on my tits. ---
**Author:** ![George\_Kaplin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3e96dc/32.png) [@George\_Kaplin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/George_Kaplin)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-that-guys-unfunny-but-everyone-else-loves-him/477659/206 "2008-12-22T17:34:12Z")
On the plus side, Henry Rollins never fails to cheer me up. ---
**Author:** ![RiverRunner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/977dab/32.png) [@RiverRunner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RiverRunner)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-that-guys-unfunny-but-everyone-else-loves-him/477659/207 "2008-12-22T18:46:34Z")
> [@Sublight](#): > > Re: > Colin Quinn > Andy Dick > Andrew Dice Clay > > I think you’re forgetting the “…but everyone else loves him” part of the title. > > Gallagher would fall into this category as well, but he’s so bad he can’t even make the first 200 posts of a “comedians you hate” thread. Now for my bit of heresy: I love Gallagher. (Well, I used to.) Loved him. Went to see his show twice and both times got two and a half hours of well-crafted, well-delivered, funny and creative comedy that was _different_ from everything else out there. Unfortunately, the last time I went to see him he pretty clearly wished he was someplace else doing something else and he stunk the place up. Even so, I still love Gallagher. I don’t get the hate. RR ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-that-guys-unfunny-but-everyone-else-loves-him/477659/208 "2008-12-22T18:56:21Z")
> [@RiverRunner](#): > > Even so, I still love Gallagher. I don’t get the hate. I think most folks focus on the Sledge-O-Matic part of the show. That’s the low point of his shows for me, but everything _before_ that is usually fun as hell. I still remember his stuff about language (“The first letters were A, B, G, D, or ah, buh, guh, duh. Abuhguhduh. 'Ab a gud uh. Have a good day!”) Complete BS, but funny stuff. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-that-guys-unfunny-but-everyone-else-loves-him/477659/209 "2008-12-22T19:44:17Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > Complete BS, but funny stuff. :dubious: if you say so. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-that-guys-unfunny-but-everyone-else-loves-him/477659/210 "2008-12-22T20:01:58Z")
> [@OpalCat](#): > > :dubious: if you say so. What can I say? I laugh easy. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-that-guys-unfunny-but-everyone-else-loves-him/477659/211 "2008-12-22T20:05:37Z")
> [@OpalCat](#): > > Video is more descriptive. They aren’t called “VHS stores” after all. Video applies to both VHS and DVD, and most stores do still carry both. That was merely an aside, not a quest for information. I stand corrected. Thank you. I haven’t seen a VHS for sale in well over a year, but I digress. I also can’t stand Lucy Ricardo in any of her manifestations. Blech. ---
**Author:** ![beckwall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b487fb/32.png) [@beckwall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beckwall)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2008, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-that-guys-unfunny-but-everyone-else-loves-him/477659/212 "2008-12-23T03:36:51Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Yep. I’ve been scrolling through this thread thinking “Love him. Love him. Hate him. Etc.” and seriously questioning the tastes on most of the respondents. 😃 > Well, everybody except those who hate Ray Romano. Them, I like. Hallelujah! I thought I’d be jumped on and bitch slapped, but Silenus will protect me. Ray Romano funny? Not in this lifetime. And go ahead and add his sidekick Brad Garrett to my list, he’s like a shouting caricature of idiotic nonsense. Silly maybe, funny - no no no. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2008, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-that-guys-unfunny-but-everyone-else-loves-him/477659/213 "2008-12-23T04:35:18Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > I think most folks focus on the Sledge-O-Matic part of the show. That’s the low point of his shows for me, but everything _before_ that is usually fun as hell. I still remember his stuff about language (“The first letters were A, B, G, D, or ah, buh, guh, duh. Abuhguhduh. 'Ab a gud uh. Have a good day!”) Complete BS, but funny stuff. The one joke of his I haven’t managed to scrub out of my brain is something about “Have you noticed that the guy who sings ‘Walk Like a Man’ sounds like a girl?” Extremely not funny floating. ---
**Author:** ![El\_DeLuxo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_deluxo/32/9043_2.png) [@El\_DeLuxo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_DeLuxo)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2008, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-that-guys-unfunny-but-everyone-else-loves-him/477659/214 "2008-12-23T07:53:04Z")
**Gallager** and **Carrot Top** both have always struck me as annoyingly stupid, not funny. **Jim Carrey** not only unamuses me, his act actually makes me nervous if I am subjected to it for very long. The same goes for \*\*Robin Williams **– it’s like being locked in a small room with three coked-up seven-year-olds. \*\* Paula Poundstone** is incredibly boring, and appears to suffer from some kind of mild brain damage. That guy whose whole shtick was being a slow-witted drunk – I can’t remember his name, but imagine a redneck Dean Martin with a beard, and without the pipes. **Roseanne.** Whenever I see her she’s either being a horrifying crazy-ass loon-bitch or the most reprehensible type of low-class woman, all bitchy and bossy and loud and crass; I am not sure which persona is closer to “the real her”, but neither one is anybody I would ever want to be within a mile of. \*\* Steven Wright\*\* – the frizzy haired dude who kind of mumbles at the floor with a total flat-affect effect, like he was all dosed up on Haldol or Thorazine – just depresses me. If he’s trying to come on like a mental patient he does too damned well at it for my liking. The three very worst of all though – the ones I actually desire to inflict physical distress upon – are **David Spade** (who I want to drown in a toilet), **Pauly Shore** (whose head I would dearly love to go upside of seven or eight times with a two-by-four), and the hideously vapid **Dana Gould** , who I would enjoy seeing someone douse in high octane gas and then light on fire, right in the middle of his act… ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2008, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-that-guys-unfunny-but-everyone-else-loves-him/477659/215 "2008-12-23T10:48:04Z")
> [@beckwall](#): > > Hallelujah! I thought I’d be jumped on and bitch slapped, but Silenus will protect me. The fact I made the same point (Ray Romano not being funny) on Page 2 of the thread not good enough for you, eh? I’m going to have to exploit the fact people don’t notice what I post anymore… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2008, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-that-guys-unfunny-but-everyone-else-loves-him/477659/216 "2008-12-23T21:48:53Z")
Adam Sandler Jerry Seinfeld (and his whole crew) Jim Carrey Conan O’Brien David Letterman (used to be funny, lately is just a bad parody of himself) Jay Leno (I can’t stand the “Rodney Dangerfield” schtick he’s been adding to his monologue lately) Anybody from _Friends_. Will Ferrell (I liked \*Elf \*but that was about it) Bobcat Goldthwait Sam Kinison (hey, I’m sorry the guy’s dead, but…screaming isn’t funny) Oh, and…Adam Sandler. Just because I can’t stand him so much I felt the need to mention him twice. ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2008, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-that-guys-unfunny-but-everyone-else-loves-him/477659/217 "2008-12-23T22:14:52Z")
Maybe I’ll start another thread: “What kind of soup don’t you like that ‘everyone’ else does?” It will go on for pages and pages–no one paying much attention. And poster X really doesn’t care whether poster Y doesn’t like his/her favorite tomato soup. S/he will still keep drinking it. ---
**Author:** ![UncaStuart](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uncastuart/32/404_2.png) [@UncaStuart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncaStuart)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2008, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-that-guys-unfunny-but-everyone-else-loves-him/477659/218 "2008-12-23T22:34:25Z")
> [@DLuxN8R-13](#): > > That guy whose whole shtick was being a slow-witted drunk – I can’t remember his name, but imagine a redneck Dean Martin with a beard, and without the pipes. **Foster Brooks** ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2008, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-that-guys-unfunny-but-everyone-else-loves-him/477659/219 "2008-12-23T22:41:24Z")
> [@guizot](#): > > Maybe I’ll start another thread: “What kind of soup don’t you like that ‘everyone’ else does?” It will go on for pages and pages–no one paying much attention. And poster X really doesn’t care whether poster Y doesn’t like his/her favorite tomato soup. S/he will still keep drinking it. You’re so deep that you’re like…really deep. ---
**Author:** ![beckwall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b487fb/32.png) [@beckwall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beckwall)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2008, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-that-guys-unfunny-but-everyone-else-loves-him/477659/220 "2008-12-23T22:47:02Z")
> [@Martini\_Enfield](#): > > The fact I made the same point (Ray Romano not being funny) on Page 2 of the thread not good enough for you, eh? > > I’m going to have to exploit the fact people don’t notice what I post anymore… 😉 Many apologies. :smack: Of course it matters to me what you post, I just didn’t see your entry on page 2. Pull up a chair, join the club, there’s a secret handshake and password waiting for you. In fact, you can be president of the club, if you want. I was just waiting for a throng of anti-RR people before I busted in with my 2 cents worth. Forgive me? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-that-guys-unfunny-but-everyone-else-loves-him/477659.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-that-guys-unfunny-but-everyone-else-loves-him/477659.md?page=12)