Carrot top. Horrible prop comic and shill for crappy long distance service. Make the rest seem like Jerry Seinfeld.
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Only one of these guys has been mentioned, so maybe not too many agree, but:
Jim Carrey
Ben Stiller
Adam Sandler
I like Jim Carrey when he’s not trying to be funny, and I liked Stiller and Sandler when they were getting their start, but they all annoy the piss outta me now. If they’re ever in a movie together, I’m gonna shoot someone.
Jim Carrey. Yes, absolutely! How could I forget! I can NOT watch any film with him in it (doing comedy that it. He’s just about bearable when he’s not.
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RE: Sam Kinison. Watch what you say about Sam. He was the voice of my generation.[/QUOTE]
Please tell me your generation has a mute button…
First thing I thought- Robin Williams. I am getting to really like him as an actor but when he starts schticking it up I want to gag.
Don’t confuse the OP with the topic “Comics who have lost it”. Bill Cosby was one of the best stand ups ever. I saw him in concert about a year before the cosby show came on. Watch that concert movie he made and if you don’t think he was funny I don’t know what to say. Seems to me he just doesn’t try any more. His finely craft monologe has become the ramblings of an old man. He’s retired but people keep paying him.
Robin Williams coke fueled early days were great to watch. I watched his first HBO special in awe. Now when he tries to do stand-up I want to hold him down and pour ritilin down his throat.
I didn’t say that Robin Williams was never funny. He was funny early on, but he was also annoying. Too desperate, and he compensated for what was 80% so-so material with that crazed, pushy delivery.
Bill Cosby was bust-a-gut funny for more years than most comedians have been alive. I will concede that he is not what he used to be, but hell, neither am I.
I never laughed harder at a routine than I did when I heard Eddy Murphy’s “Raw” album. His movie career has been regrettable since “BHC”.
Some more for your scorn:
Tim Meadows: The “ladies man” routine makes me want to mail him an envelope full of white powder.
Joe Piscopo: “Are you from Jersey? I’m from Jersey, nyuk, nyuk.” Go fuck yourself, Joe.
Tracey Morgan: A prime example of pre-emptive capitulation.
David Spade: hates his audience, is most unfunny, has had completely undeserved success.
Dana Carvey: Here’s a thought, Dana–try to come up with some material that is relevant to this century…or even this decade…
What about Joe Besser, who played the “adult baby” in so many old comedy routines, with his sailor suits and giant lollies? He would always get mad and say “OOOH, I’ll HARM you!” in a silly voice. This has become a catch-phrase in my household, even though he wasn’t that funny.
I think Ben Stiller’s biggest problem is overexposure, but he is a genuinely funny guy, and The Ben Stiller Show (which also featured Janeane Garofalo, Andy Dick, and Bob Odenkirk from Mr. Show) was an excellent sketch comedy show.
I can accept that Bill Cosby used to be great and just kind of “lost it” with age, and on the strength of his Doper supporters, I’ll even consider seeking out some of his old stand-up material. I realize I came off as overly harsh, even though I honestly didn’t like his recent performance at all.
On that note, Eddie Murphy may have “lost it” as well, but Delirious is comedy gold, along with his Saturday Night Live performances and his earlier movies like Trading Places, Beverly Hills Cop (1), and Coming To America.
I’m surprised nobody has mentioned one of the usual targets, Yakov Smirnoff. Honestly, the guy cracks me up, although it is probably more for '80s nostalgia than any other reason. I think it’s great he still performs regularly in Branson, Missouri!
Ironically in a thread about annoying (bad) comedy, there was this line. Beautiful, absolutely beautiful.
Check out Bill Cosby Is A Very Funny Fellow…Right! if only for the Noah bits.
Bob Sagat. Saw him do standup on the Comedy Network. He was actually funnier on Full House.
Dom Delouise. His appearances on Carson, Merv Griffin, and similar shows used to be excruciatingly bad. The whole point of his humor seemed to simply be that he was fat.
I used to hate Gilbert Godfried with a passion, till I heard him on Howard Stern. Gilbert is unfunny when he’s trying to be generally annoying. When he’s being specifically annoying to somebody, that’s when he can get painfully funny.
One woman called in intending to discredit Godfried. She said she once drove him to a gig and he started saying cruel things about her family and she wanted him to apologize.
Godfried explained that she was one of those people who were children of Holocaust survivors who started telling him right away from the moment he got in the car about how much her parents went through and how much they suffered. She continued in this manner till he finally got tired of it and started making tasteless jokes about it. He asked her if she ever had panic attacks while taking a shower.
Every time the woman got angry, Godfried would crack another tasteless joke and get her more agitated. He asked her if she ever imagined her pizza screaming when she put it in the oven.
This went on for a good twenty minutes. It was just hilarious how far down Godfried was willing to take himself.
AAAARGH! Bob Saget makes my teeth hurt. If I didn’t want to kill him so much, I’d feel embarassed on his behalf because he’s mortifyingly unfunny.
Has no one yet mentioned Richard Lewis?
You may remember him as Prince John (with the moving mole) in Robinhood: Men in Tights." His entire act is the Neurotic New Yorker, but it’s as dull as dirt! So his Uptight-Over-Caffeinated-Woody-Allen patter irritates the crap outta me.
Shows what kind of guy I am, but I think that’s very funny.
I was about to say Richard Lewis. I don’t think he was ever any good, but I saw him on Conan a few months back- he’d just gotten out of rehab and seemed to have given up sanity along with booze.
Holy crap! Nobody’s nominated Howard Stern himself! He’s incredibly self-indulgent, and he’s been doing the same dumb, unfunny crap for decades now. Sorta like a younger Don Imus, a guy Stern apparently hates even though I think he got a lot of his ideas from him. Howard Stern SUCKS. His stuff was apparently shocking years ago. Now it’s not, which makes it appear as boring as it really is. Someday, physicists will discover that dark matter doesn’t make up 80% of the universe. 40% is Howard Stern’s ego, and the other 40% is his overinflated reputation. I can’t believe anyone still listens to this man, but I bet if they pulled the plug, he’d keep talking.
I forget the guy’s name, but I believe he was an Australian comic. He appeared on The Hudson Brothers, The Starland Vocal Band Show, and The Kelly Montieth Show. Those were all summer replacement shows on CBS back in the '70s. Anywho, this guy’s schtick was that he had an emu puppet. As he would attempt to “lecture”, the emu would smash eggs and fruit and such on his head. This might have been mildly amusing the first time, but he would have a segment doing exactly the same thing week after week.
I think that was Rod Hull and his Amazing Emu.
I find Dennis Miller and his contrived condescension annoying. I have never understood one of his obscure references. “La Lewinsky gave more head than the enemies of The Revolution.” (Actually I get this one since I made it up.)
His career is based on pseudo-intellectuals who like to think they are in on the joke, and rhythm laughter (laughing simply because the comedian indicates it’s time to.) I don’t think people understand Robin Williams or Colin Quinn most of the time either, they just know where to laugh in the rhythm of the babble. When Williams pulls his imaginary penis at the end of an unintelligible riff, for example, that’s the cue to laugh.
In fairness I used to like some of his comedy (not the watermelon bit, but the routine leading up to it) until he stayed at a hotel I worked at in Alabama. He’s one of the most obnoxious people I ever met and I especially wanted to slug him for making nasty cracks about the Southern accents of some of the staff and other guests.
For annoying based on “comedy”, I’ll go with Robin Williams. His manic schtick got old 20 years ago and the last few concerts I’ve seen have basically been saying “fucking” in front of every other noun and adjective and grabbing his crotch while mentioning current events.
I used to really like David Brenner but he lost it somewhere in the 80s. Even his surprise marriage to his girlfriend during his comeback special didn’t boost his Q factor back to 80s level.
Charlie Callas- his entire act was sticking his tongue out and otherwise mugging. Not a bad opening strategy, since he was funny looking, but not enough to build an act on. I remember some appearances on Mike Douglas and Dinah Shore where I just wanted the earth to crack open and swallow him.
Burns and Shriver- two comedians who could be 4x as annoying as just one.
“huh?”
“yeah.”
“huh?”
“yeah.”
“huh?”
“YEAH!”
They used to be on shows like Flip Wilson with depressing frequency.