*notdead - with just about the whole set of episodes of Mock The Week on the feed too!

Is Frankie BACK on Mock the Week!??!

Loved him on Mock the Week...but man do I rarely find standup funny and this was not an exception.

The comedy programs I love are those that give people a chance to be sharp and witty, rather than performing a routine. Mock the Week, Buzzcocks, hell even QI make tear up with laughter on occasion, I don't think I've ever been that amused by any standup.

It's a crime that he's now off Mock the Week.

Ah, the second to last clip from "Mock the Week" - I remember that one. Had me on the ropes.

As for his Diana joke - I prefer Jimmy Carr's story about his first fender bender when he and his mates accidentally clipped a Merc in Paris.

Just one nitpicky thing: it's Mock the Week (a wordplay on mocking the weak), not Mock of the Week.

Who was your favourite, Michael McIntyre?

In reply to this comment by MilkmanDan:
Confession 1: I didn't know which one was Frankie Boyle, so I decided to guess based on which one "dropped the best lines".

Confession 2: Upon googling, I determined I was wrong.

Still, funny stuff

>> ^messenger:

I'd never noticed that before, but it's true. After thinking about it for 30 seconds, here's what I think:
It's about power.
A person who makes others laugh holds a kind of power over them, a control of their feelings. We're comfortable letting men have this kind of power over us because we're comfortable having men be the boss, hold the floor. We're more reluctant to give a woman that power, especially if she already has sexual power.
Most people -- men and women -- prefer and value a powerful man, which is why we follow strong leaders, elect more men, and laugh more at funny men. This is also why, as a guy, being funny is important when trying to meet women. Being funny isn't just for breaking the ice; it also sets a power dynamic of the man controlling the woman's emotions, "handling" her, which she usually likes, if he does a good job and doesn't seriously offend her. It shows he's confident, powerful, in control, and can make her feel happy -- all good things from a woman's perspective. On the other hand, men don't like being controlled by women, and so typically don't find funny women attractive, as much as intimidating.
Every successful female comedian I can think of is a ditz (lack of mental power), a lesbian (no threat to women, not an option for men), or doesn't have sexual attractiveness: Ellen Degeneres, Roseanne Barr, Rosie O'Donnell, Joan Rivers. None of these women hold any sexual power over men, so women can safely laugh at them too.


I know it's conceited of me, but i somehow feel proud that this isn't true in my case..

For example, none of the women you listed as funny do i find funny. There's several over here that i've seen on QI and HIGNFY and mock the week that i've found very funny, and they're also really hot imo. True i can name more funny men than funny women, but i suspect that's not my fault specifically.

Maybe this says something about me feeling more comfortable with a woman in charge? Ahem..

Edit: Oh yeah, and i'm a straight male. Just thought i'd mention that for teh analysis.

>> ^foad:
videosift.co.uk sucks, go away you chimney sweeps


F.O.A.D.

the show is just Mock The Week, no "of". i'm guessing its a play on mocking the weak. they could probably rename the show "7 comedians riffing on current events"

anyways... some funny stuff in there.

>> ^spoco2:
It's here Except... they've edited it now (there's a note on the top).
The original, moronic, quote was "People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn't have a chance in the UK, where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless."


Jesus, what sort of lies are they spreading out there? I mean, the actions of our utterly clueless government with their policies of neglect has over a period of what, 20-30 years? resulted in the NHS being dirty, understaffed and wasteful. But people talking about the NHS as though it's a place where people with a fag on (smoking a cigarette for my overseas brethren) condemn people to death or disfigurement over a heap of organs and body parts for any illness that can't be cured by tablets makes me a little bit agitated.

20-30 years ago, the NHS was an amazing system and i wouldn't have traded it for any other country's system. For the level of care and attention and competency you couldn't have been reliant on anything better.

The brutal fact is that we only moan about it so much because we're used to perfection. I'd still take the NHS over any other even today.

It's an horrific shame that politicians will lie so badly to their own people (in this case americans, but it happens all over the world). I could walk into my local hospital right now and get healthcare of an equal or better standard than the average american person with the average health insurance. It's still a brilliant service, it's just not perfect anymore.

I just had a wave of tragic angst that we haven't moved on. We're still like the tribes we used to be, with our great elected shaman stood on a mound in front of us, arms raised, telling us with religious certainty that the eclipse was because the sun god is angry and we must place more meat on the sacrificial altar tonight. Then later he has a lovely beef steak and his pick of the virgins. We haven't moved on, we're still being led around by lies and assurances from people who are as lost as we are.

So the shaman waves his hands and a million americans believe that the NHS is an evil boneyard.

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>> ^westy:
THE FOOKIN PRESENTER IS SO SHITA AND NOT funny i hate him he should duely piss off , ass for the guy from peep show he is corect funny and actualy origonal and dosent tell a bad joke then continue to go with the bad joke for 30 seconds .
lets ban "dara o bria " from the sift can we do this ? ore at least have some slander about him on anny vid he is in i mean what a useless comidean i dont mind comideans that rnt funny for me but this guys just a twat.


What is this, youtube?

Dara O'Briain is actually a fantastic stand-up, but not so great in this clip or as a presenter generally.

Mock the Week's only worth watching when David Mitchell's on. He's not just hot on post-mortem rights, he could also single handedly solve the financial crisis, if only people would listen.

>> ^dgandhi:
This and QI have got to be the cheapest TV productions this side of Faux News, and yet we in the US can't manage to cobble together half a dozen celebs who can manage to be more extemporaneously interesting than hollywood squares. It makes me laugh, but the quality gap saddens me.


There's plenty of others, of varying quality (Have I Got News For You, Mock the Week and at times Never Mind the Buzzcocks are good). I was wondering the other day why all the quiz-coms (that's what our schedulers seem to want us to call them) are British. It's a simple format, get a topic (current affairs, public opinion, music, whatever), a host who's good at improvised comedy and several similarly minded guests and make sure all of them have an IQ of above 50. 8 out of 10 cats fails occasionally on the last requirement (Kelly Osbourne, for example). I don't know if it's been tried in the US or elsewhere. I can imagine American producers getting Kevin Federline and Paris Hilton as guests and then wondering why it bombs.

You have got The Big Bang Theory, which makes up for a lot.