You forgot to mention how crap Brendan Burn is. But hey, at least he knows how to say the word fuck. A lot.
God yes. He was extremely poor. Brendan, to quote Michelle Pfeiffer in 'Scarface': Why do you have to say "fuck" all the time?'
Hate to disagree, but I really like Julia Morris. Live standup that is recorded for TV ALWAYS looks appalling. It's performed for a live audience and the only point of recording it is for those who actually saw it to be reminded of it as they will recall the reality of the live show. I don't think I have ever seen a standup comedian on TV that has made me even almost laugh.
It's the same with recordings of plays in the theatre - just records, nothing more. It is impossible to judge a comedian by a crudely recorded clip on TV.
Julia gets fantastic ausdience response during her performance and I don't beleive ALL of them can be wrong. I find her act extremely appealing.
I'm sorry, but the excerpts from her act were totally awful. I can't beleive any amount of atmosphere or presence could have made material like "I went into Debenhams - Whoops! Fashion alert!" amusing in any way, shape or form. Unless the clips shown were shocking parodic inserts into a devastatingly witty routine then she *must* be terrible. Perhaps it is all a matter of personal taste but I loathe this trite sub-Kathy Lette (who, let's face it is bad enough) bollocks. Her style seemed the worst kind of 'like me, like me' posturing also. (Although at least she wasn't just plain offensive like that Brendan Burn bloke.)
... and another thing. I don't agree that good stand up doesn't transfer on to video/TV/records. Plenty of stand ups have made superb recordings. Bill Hicks, Chris Rock, Jerry Seinfeld, the 'Audience With's both Billy Connolly and Victoria Wood are fantastic. The Stephen Wright stand up LP 'I Have a Pony' is one of the funniest things I have ever heard. All of these artists are funny in recorded form because they have funny material.
From your comments on an earlier thread I presume you have met Ms Morris and she is a lovely person. She probably is - I'm not judging her personally. But I don't think it's unreasonable to make a judgement about how funny someone is from excerpts of their comic material.
>From your comments on an earlier thread I presume you have met Ms Morris and she is a lovely person. She probably is - I'm not judging her personally.
I think it's only fair to point out that Beccy is working at the Gilded Balloon this year... mind you, you could probably guess that!
I take accept your comments Al, but something like An Audience with Victoria Wood is actually filmed in a TV studio with the intention of being broadcast in its entirety to the masses which is not quite the same as a single camera perched precariously on a ledge in a corner of a damp cave.
People coming out of the show seem to really enjoy her - I've seen it many times and still don't get tired of the majority of it.
Not that we care about critics of course, but she got a 5 star review in the Metro today...
Still, each to their own, otherwise explain the Perrier nominations to me!!?
Oh Rob - Paul says hello.
Al is just bitter.
Jon is just shandy.
*snigger*
kinder surprise is just chocolate.
>Al is just bitter.
Damn straight! I'm mad as hell etc. etc.
Shame Brendan Burns is so shit. He really likes SOTCAA apparently.
A website about corpses eh? fucking hell, i love shagging fucking corpses. In front of a fucking live audience in my fringe fucking show - that'll teach the cunts that come and see me - you'll get no fucking around from Brendan, you wankers!
I saw Julia Morris in Edinburgh. She was better than I thought she'd be, but not brilliant. However she was far, far better than the blonde, American, bimbo she was on the same bill as who did a series of jokes about how much she likes to suck men off. PUUURRLLLEEAAASSSEEEE!!!!
And Brendan Burns came across as extremely crass and offensive on that show, he swore too much and "guess what you're the star of my next 10 wanks" is not a classy line.
Oh dear, I sound a bit like Mary Whitehouse here. What I mean is that swearing and sex talk is fine, as long as it's FUNNY and not offensive.
The misogynistic wank-starring line has been nicked from Bernard Manning. Check out any of his live tapes (they're all the same)