Fired Comedian Ordered to Get Day Job Back After Jokes Ruled 'Simply Funny'

Re:Fired Comedian Ordered to Get Day Job Back After Jokes Ru... by tweetle_beetle on Sunday January 07, 2024 @05:37PM (#38905934)

The clip is from Limmy's Show, an offbeat, and relatively niche sketch programme that was only shown at odd times on TV south of the border. It definitely isn't mainstream comedy and makes most sense in the context of the series and its reccuring characters, themes and the bouncing between surreal and mundane. He's probably best known for the mundane - e.g. a whole self-filmed sketch about repairing a single broken tile in his actual bathroom.

I'm not sure the fact that he's Scottish has much to do with your appreciation of the comedy in the linked sketch per se. It falls into a tradition of British sketch comedy which is quite different in style to improv originated sketch comedy in North America - more confronting and unsettling.

Before you completely write it off, watch a few episodes of the series, or look at his Twitter.

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Re:Fired Comedian Ordered to Get Day Job Back After Jokes Ru... by stavros on Sunday January 07, 2024 @07:02PM (#38906557)

Limmy's show is the only show I hate which I've watched four times, start to finish.

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Re:Fired Comedian Ordered to Get Day Job Back After Jokes Ru... by hodgesrm on Sunday January 07, 2024 @10:03PM (#38907767)

Do you can't stand it and still watched? De gustibus non est disputandum. [You can't argue about taste.]

It can work the other way as well. I actually like Hitman Agent 47 which got an epically bad rating of 8% from the critics though audiences were more indulgent at 40%. [0] It was comforting to read in the comments that the previous movie was less horrible. It should be an excellent viewing experience.

[0] https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/hitman_agent_47

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Re:Fired Comedian Ordered to Get Day Job Back After Jokes Ru... by stavros on Monday January 08, 2024 @03:59AM (#38909630)

I have no idea, I find it weird and annoying, yet there's something comforting about watching it. I can't explain it.

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Re:Fired Comedian Ordered to Get Day Job Back After Jokes Ru... by sph on Monday January 08, 2024 @08:38AM (#38911713)

Maybe you love it and don't want to admit it to your exterior, rational persona, hence your "hate".

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Re:Fired Comedian Ordered to Get Day Job Back After Jokes Ru... by stavros on Monday January 08, 2024 @08:40AM (#38911745)

I don't, though. I don't laugh at the jokes, and it has this weird, offputting vibe, but there's something about it that makes me like watching it.

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Re:Fired Comedian Ordered to Get Day Job Back After Jokes Ru... by idk1 on Saturday January 13, 2024 @05:02AM (#38978564)

There's a great Stewart Lee joke that's like this when he's talking about his critic who secretly love him... "I hate Stweart Lee, I've bought tickets to all of his live shows and seen him three times."

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Re:Fired Comedian Ordered to Get Day Job Back After Jokes Ru... by swozey on Monday January 08, 2024 @01:32PM (#38916061)

I grew up on British comedy, I'm an American who grew up in Europe. Lots of Are You Being Served, the one with Hyacinth the angry wife who abuses her husband (keeping up appearances?), etc. The Mighty Boosh.. I love a lot of British humor.

Strangely enough, I grew up in Germany and the only German show I remember at all is Asterix and Obelix but that may have been a language barrier thing.

I'll check it out!

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