Stephen Lynch
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Yeah, go back 10 years, and I think it was hard to find a decent musical comedian, short of maybe Bill Bailey, and he was more comedy about music, than just comedy songs. So much of the funny song stuff was pretty poor imo. (Oughta namecheck the legendary Weird al Yankovic tho!)
Now with Stephen Lynch, Tim Minchin, and a few others, maybe throw Mitch Benn and David O Docherty in too, its getting far better although I still feel it's kinda hard to have a full show just of this stuff, it's far better as a smaller set.
Oh and Don't forget Simon Cowell, who played the biggest joke of all by replacing the popular music industry with a karoake based lottery while we were asleep and no-one seems to have noticed!
Now with Stephen Lynch, Tim Minchin, and a few others, maybe throw Mitch Benn and David O Docherty in too, its getting far better although I still feel it's kinda hard to have a full show just of this stuff, it's far better as a smaller set.
Oh and Don't forget Simon Cowell, who played the biggest joke of all by replacing the popular music industry with a karoake based lottery while we were asleep and no-one seems to have noticed!
To me there's one of the marks of a great comedian, anyone who can make you laugh about something you genuinely would be offended about, like the kitten song, or someone who can make you laugh about death when you'd been to a funeral earlier that day. To break thru that intellectual barrier of 'thats not funny, I can't laugh at that' and hit the primal core of what is actually funny.Psychosocial said:
Not saying it's the only way, Two of my favourite US comics are Jim Gaffigan and Brian Regan who could almost play to an audience of Sunday School kids, they're so inoffensive in the main, yet they manage to be laugh out loud funny, which I admire and respect, as it's often so much easier to get laughs thru shock value and swearing.
I also realise I seem to be contradicting myself, but hey, saves someone else arguing with me if I'll do it myself.
The live version is hillarious where the audience shouts heroes for him to sing about.orannis62 said:
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I liked Jizz-Trough Girl, Homeless Guy, and Fellatio Girl myselfHerb sewell said:
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Oh man, I love Jim Gaffigan. Great comedian.SenseOfTumour said:
Hmm never heard of Stephen Lynch, I'll have to look him up right now.
I've heard of Liam Lynch [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz7_3n7xyDg] if the two are somehow related?
I've heard of Liam Lynch [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz7_3n7xyDg] if the two are somehow related?
I do not find him funny. However, I am biased as I find very few 'musical' comedians to be funny. Yet I find musicians who make funny songs great like Tenacious D and Jonathan Coulton. There is a thin line of differance.
I don't like Mr. Lynch but I do enjoy his distant relative's salad dressing
I don't like Mr. Lynch but I do enjoy his distant relative's salad dressing
Seeing him in March, it's gonna be great. I perform loads of his songs when I'm at open mics or pub gigs, everyone loves them.