Thing about Jimmy Carr, he does strike me sometimes as someone just telling jokes. There's no great performance here or any sense of theatre. And most of this material wasn't that funny. Offensive, maybe to some but overall this seemed very safe.

>> ^Tymbrwulf:

His routine is right up my alley! I wish I could see him live.


I wish you could too, I watched this tour and it was side-splitting. Not one minute passed that didn't at least bring a chuckle, if not choking fits. It's weird how it's always funnier when you're watching it live!

Hopefully he'll go international with his tour dates, I'm sure he'd be able to pull it off

>> ^NinjaInHeat:

That was the weakest performance I've ever seen Louis give... his older stuff kills me though


Sitting at an expensive computer, watching a professional comedian tell jokes for your entertainment and you complain - you got white people problems.

Ahh, but messenger just said 'successful' comedians. I wasn't vouching as to whether I find them funny (Wanda Sykes for instance I really don't like)... and on the attractiveness front I know many who do find Want attractive. So they were just examples.

For the most part I don't like any comedian who has 'a bit'... as in, they have a particular thing that they do their comedy about, be it that they're a woman, or of different ethnic decent, or are short or fat etc. etc. The truly great comedians just tell stories... and those stories are hilarious.

In their prime, Robin Williams and Billy Connolly were superb examples of this. Connolly especially with his ability to go off on a seemingly random set of tangents for a long, long time (making you laugh hysterically all the while), and yet coming back to his original point after it all, long after you might expect him to have forgotten where he started.

They both have lost their edge these days (probably that issue of once you have money and comfort and power you loose the connection with the 'working man' comedy that you began with... or something). I find Ross Noble to be one of the best at doing this style these days. (I had tickets to see him a couple of weeks back with my wife.... and then my son kinda got his arm broken on the trampoline thanks to me so we missed out... doh)

If a woman comedian can do the same, or can just tell jokes that span a wide gamut of topics. One of my favourites at present is Kitty Flanagan.

would you be able to tell jokes if once a month u had cronic pains and leeked blood from your gronal reagoin , then at the age of between 20-50 u spawned another person from within yourself ?


I think its all to do with status and authority , women in general are more dimplamatic at a compramise to there own authority .

the realy good femail comideans r ones that are interlectual and can produce clever jokes but without bing a dyk.

kind of like the best black comideans dont base all there jokes on the colour of ther skin , same with cultral comideans , arguably a good comidean can deconstruct almost annything and make it funny. ( what would be comparable to an actor that simply plays one charactor (themselfs) verses one that can play manny )

I think you naysayers obviously don't understand the brilliance of her act.

The jokes are corny and crude precisely becaaaaauuuuse she's only amatuerish at ventriloquism.

It's a theme.
She's poking fun at herself and the absurity of telling jokes thru a hand puppet.
Hence the deconstruction of it all.

You fellows also seem to fail at understanding why she has to laugh at her own jokes.
If she didn't, the illusion of the talking Monk is much less believeable.

Her laughter distinguishes her from the character of the Monk.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Old-Jews-Telling-Jokes-Broccoli

It's nothing to do with it being an issue with sex... it's to do with, really, when you and your partner, or just you alone, are putting some porn in the dvd player, are you really, seriously wanting to sit through plot? Good or otherwise, it's not why you're there, it's not why your watching porn.

To have some lead in to the sex, to give some context to build some sexual tension is GOOD... to pretty much STOP all sexual feeling and have some comedy/action is just ridiculous.

There's no issue with there being a great film with some great sex in it, but porn has a purpose, it's purpose is to get being hot under the collar and either rearing to do things to each other, or for a solo party to enjoy themselves more than if they had nothing to watch.

Telling a story, telling jokes, doing an action sequence are all absolutely ridiculous in that context.

And again, it's all moot if all you're going to have is the same horrible sex when it gets to that part anyway. Nothings a turnoff more for me than seeing a woman do something she doesn't seem to want to do, and the whole 'gagging on a dick', especially when done by the man holding her head onto his dick is horrible and just ruins whatever mood there was.

>> ^necrontyr:
spoco2:
I disagree about some of your points. I think that either getting real movies to include real sex or getting porn to the point where the acting really is good are both worthwhile. Sex should not be taboo, it is an awesome, hot, fun thing and showing it in movies, in all its sticky glory, should not be an issue.

>> ^blankfist:
Why are dogs so racist?

"Legend" has it these dogs were bred then brought to Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and used as hunting dogs. Supposedly, lion hunting dogs. Well, since hunting for sport was primarily a white person's past time, they were primarily owned by white families. They probably also had used them for protection and quite possibly trained them to be biased based on the color of a possible intruder's skin. Now, I don't know if racism can be bred into an animal, but I do know the amount of alert that dog would have depending on a new person's skin color was noticeable. Of course after introductions, Ella would be keen to that person and only tell jokes about their race when they weren't there.

^sepatown: Fox News has been rated as the cable news network with the largest number of regular viewers. I've actually known people that have told me that Fox is the most "fair and balanced" news channel.

Anyway, I can't think of a single time that I've ever sided with a person that got offended by a joke. But this doesn't even seem like a joke, it just seems like complete utter ignorance of talking heads on a news show. Maybe it'd be different if he was actually a stand up comedian telling jokes, instead of on a news network discussing news stories. I don't even think he was telling any jokes, unless they were all doing impressions of ignorant american assholes.

Old Jews telling jokes may be funny... have nothing to do with Comic Books, you probably want the Standup channel.

I really didn't mind the slow start. You gotta remember that this guy's been telling jokes and running around hyperactive for what a quarter of a fucking century? Part of the joke WAS that he didn't know the modern terms of racial parody, for me, and a man of his intelligence must know that.

My respect for him shot up a mile when i saw a video on here a while ago where the electricity went in some studio during a political interview and robin williams ears perked up, and like an entertainment superhero he came charging into the studio to entertain people whilst the problem was sorted out.

This one:

http://www.videosift.com/video/Robin-Williams-Hijacks-BBC-World-Debate

I thought the second bit was really lame after the bit with "get out of here air, my dick needs room." He's not telling jokes, he's reciting a blog post from early 2000.

Cool then MarineGunrock, a roast is something you participate if you actually like the roastee. It's not where you join because you can insult the guy you don't like and get away with it. If ya'll wanna sit there and talk about how I was ALMOST homeless, fine. I find it funny. If you wanna talk about my religious beliefs, my hobbies, my looks, age, race, pretty much anything.. I'll be laughing right along with you. But when someone mentions fucking my girlfriend after the shitstorm in that playgirl sift, they should know better. If that's the only joke you can tell, you can't tell jokes. And if you think, "I want to fuck karkarlee" is the one of the only well-written jokes on this thread, and not the original shit you can't come up with, then you have a problem. There are limits to what you can and cannot say in a roast. Thinker apologized to me in private. I respect him for that. But for you to go flapping your gun-toting shit-sandwich-eating mouth, for that I'm gone. If you don't like me, then why the fuck are you here? A roast is a ceremony of respecting the roastee by ragging on them, not a place for you to get off on insulting someone you truly don't like because your dildo-toting girlfriend won't let you get a word in any discussion. Fuck you all (except the select few. You know who you are.)
Enjoy the sift without my presence anymore.

Thanks for that. I think everyone finds great stuff because of all the competition on here! You have to have your "A" Game on to get anything sifted these days.

In reply to this comment by moodonia:
Hey Blankfist! Thanks for your kind words, glad to hear you like the oul whiskey, I have to say I have been letting the side down on the drink front. Had a beer with my manager and a couple of her business associates and I was so drunk I had to sneak away before I started telling jokes.... I knew if that happened I would soon be jobless Thanks again and your posts are great, I'm always wondering how you guys find all that great stuff!

In reply to this comment by blankfist:
Congrats, Moodonia! I do enjoy your contributions to the Sift! And, I do enjoy me some delicious Protestant Bushmills (not that nasty Catholic Jameson's garbage. Yuck!).