comedians who've gained stardom by being "cute" instead of funny

Jimmy Fallon
Andy Samberg
Demetri Martin

don rickles

Dr Morbius

no, see, I was born too soon.

Sarah Silverman.

Dylan Moran

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otm

Sarah Silverman is cute + funny (xp)

Sarah Silverman.

First person I thought of when I saw the thread title.

Flight Of The Conchords

^^^realest of talk

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well Silverman's made me laugh more than the 3 I posted combined, x10

Also that's OTM about samberg, but in the last year or so he has since either grown on me or gotten funny.

I can't believe Jimmy Fallon still has a career.

wost of all, fucking Flight Of The Conchords' "jokes" are just cutsey bullshit. oh haha he he says "kebeb" instead of "kebab" amazing lols second season and grammy nom please

http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh289/sheliabluerose/EddieIzzardpink.jpg

Stewart Lee: "So I thought I'd improvise. Like Eddie Izzard pretends to do. And it's actually really hard, I can see why he just reads off a script and goes 'errrr...' occasionally"

Josie Long.

flight of the conchords is pretty funny

Alan Davies... is he a comedian?

Dom just out of interest is there any British stand-up you actually like?

Eddie Izzard -- NO FUCKING WAY. One of the best stand-ups I've seen (admittedly, this was the late 1980s, with my dad) and worth it for the "brought up by wolves" routine alone.

Might have lost it since then; I'll accept that. Unequivocally.

I would like to know precisely what definition of "cute" is being used here. So far the only "cute" person listed is Sarah Silverman, and she's also funny.

so psyched to argue about comedy on this thread

I'm thinking cute as a way of saying 'unthreatening'.

So far the only "cute" person listed is Sarah Silverman, and she's also funny.

She didn't make me (or anyone else) laugh at that Secret Policeman's Ball thing.

i tend to be cute more than funny, probably

Dom just out of interest is there any British stand-up you actually like?

― Holy Suffering Gobi Desert Clit Nun (Matt DC), Thursday, 5 February 2009 15:54 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

tbh, and we've discussed this on another thread, I honestly don't think stand-up is an artform the British will ever be any good at. Stewart Lee is great if occasionally formulaic, and obviously there's old school lulz from sets guys like Dave Allen, Ronnie Corbett, and, grudgingly, Billy Connolly used to put out, but as a whole British stand-up is dreadful. To the point where if I _had_ to put together a list of the 10 best stand-ups in Britain currently, I'd have to put Roy Chubby Brown in the top 5.

ken c

I think Sarah Silverman's only funny if your parents never swore.

Stewart Lee's newish bit about Asher D's autibiography is fire

I honestly don't think stand-up is an artform the British will ever be any good at

please list countries you believe are demonstrably capable of producing good stand-up comedians

I was partly thinking 'unthreatening' yes (except I'd prefer a crowbar to the head to Fallon's head-tossing ladies-I'm-so-adorable shtick), and cute as in I'd totally use Samberg's mouth.

uggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg

the skinny flight of the conchords dude is kinda cute if beardy

wost of all, fucking Flight Of The Conchords' "jokes" are just cutsey bullshit. oh haha he he says "kebeb" instead of "kebab" amazing lols second season and grammy nom please

what a keen and perceptive comment shows real insight imo

please list countries you believe are demonstrably capable of producing good stand-up comedians

― O Supermanchiros (blueski), Thursday, 5 February 2009 16:00 (35 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

USA
Ireland
Maybe Canada.
That's it.

Not Ireland

Comedians who are too whimsical for your taste (or are women).

I think Sarah Silverman's only funny if your parents never swore.

^^^ this

the skinny flight of the conchords dude is kinda cute if beardy

my girl is way into this dude, to the extent that when we watch it the character i identify with most is mel's husband

Tom Hanks
Sally Field

many of Silverman's best gags on her CC sitcom are non-profane.

The outrageously mean shit she said about Paris Hilton going to jail ranks among one of the funniest things I've ever seen (especially since Paris was in the audience).

Also, her Comedy Central show is more often funny than not; the one where she becomes black for a day by putting on blackface and attributes the hostile attention she gets to racism was outstanding.

USA
Ireland
Maybe Canada.
That's it.

so seeing as you're in honest mood, why would the list be so incredibly short? and what affects UK stand-up quality?

Lucy Porter?

If cute = would smash

is the sarah silverman show based on plots adapted from ilx threads

It seems like it!

what year did ethan walk around in blackface?

the spark for this thread btw is I can't believe Demetri fucking Martin has a show, let alone has a big role in Ang Lee's next film.

At least it'd be one less ws thread that Jewel would appear on.

see what I mean?

HE'S 35?

man that guy is lucky they came up with indie

I thought he was 24 or something, now he just reminds me of this creepy grad student/drug dealer that stays in school so he can hit on 18 yr olds.

Nicole is there anyone from the present you don't find creepy?

Puppies?

Demetri Martin is exactly who I thought of too.

I think I was too kind in my estimation of his act for too long, based on him being kinda funny on the Daily Show, and having one Comedy Central special that made me think, "I get it. He's clever!" But he wears thin *real* fast.

Not even PUPPIES, Nicole, you totally ragged on my dog

This feels like the Army-McCarthy hearings!

I'm sure your dog is v. cute even if it is a purse dog and as such is not even legitimately a dog.

lol owned

i've laughed at demetri martin on the daily show. don't know if i could take a whole set.

i've laughed at samberg at least twice on snl.

jimmy fallon's celebrity/ appeal remains a mystery

He is a medium-sized poultry-herding dog and I hate you

is he bigger than a breadbox

Cornish gamehens, maybe.

somebody other than me needs to write an article about how andy samberg is the allan sherman for a modern generation of jews

― and what, Thursday, February 5, 2009 4:49 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i always thought samberg was more of a modern-day sweathog

I thought he was 24 or something, now he just reminds me of this creepy grad student

Because everyone over 30 is creepy!?

strue ;_;

Yes.

poultry-herding dog is the most ridiculous type of dog i have ever heard of

yeah that's like a 'couch holding down dog' or something

do they breed a moustache-waxing dog these days

Origami folding dog

andy samberg is funny. jimmy fallon was good on weekend update. the other guy bugs me

What the hell is Fallon even going to do with Late Night? It'd be pointless for him to try to be another Conan ... maybe he could do something with his inoffensive cutesy schtick. uhrhgh.

Alright I want to see Nabisco's dog

Rejected Iggy Pop song title.

Silverman is not funny at all. I find her really annoying.

Izzard and The Boosh are great though - Dom is crazy.

I'm going to see Demetri soon and hope he is funny because while I loved the special he did a couple years ago the one I saw most recently wasn't as good.

Silverman = both poo poo AND pee pee

Silverman and Cook are oddly intertwined. Both shot to superstardom around the same time (after being around for ten years or so), both are amazingly beautiful looking compared to your average stand-up comic, and they both employ comedy that primarily appeals to the opposite sex.

wheels within wheels

Ezekiel 1:16-21 (NIV)
This was the appearance and structure of the wheels: They sparkled like chrysolite, and all four looked alike. Each appeared to be made like a wheel intersecting a wheel. As they moved, they would go in any one of the four directions the creatures faced; the wheels did not turn about as the creatures went. Their rims were high and awesome, and all four rims were full of eyes all around. When the living creatures moved, the wheels beside them moved; and when the living creatures rose from the ground, the wheels also rose. Wherever the spirit would go, they would go, and the wheels would rise along with them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels. When the creatures moved, they also moved; when the creatures stood still, they also stood still; and when the creatures rose from the ground, the wheels rose along with them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.

Amen.

Ok that's creepy.

I have this theory that IRL, Ezekiel smelled really bad.

ezikiel is way and far away the creepiest bible. in order to demonstrate his problems with the sins of jerusalem, he drew a picture of the city on a tile, and set up armaments against the tile, and finally pressed his face to a frying pan held between himself and the tile, all while lying in a city square. for an undisclosed but apparently rather long series of days.

plus also baked and ate barley cakes with "the dung that cometh out of man", and did so "in their sight". to enhance the protest, i mean.

woof.

Poultry-herding dog:

http://www.freewebs.com/sayhellotomylittlefriend305/dog-chicken.jpg

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id put the mighty boosh etc down as 'comedians whove gained stardom by being 'weird'/'quirky'/'edgy' (but arent obv) instead of funny'.

btw, NY Times' reserved thumbs-up for the Demetri Martin show describes him as "adorable."

(and also that some bits "walk a wobbly tightrope between cute and annoying.")

walking a wobbly tightrope between punchable and just plain change the channel

I heart ron white. I wish he wouldn't hang out with those dudes.

I think I'd kill myself if I got called "adorable" at 35. Babies and kittens are adorable, not grown men.

Younger people can be adorable, but I think the cutoff point is 25 or so. And even that is being generous.

I think I'd kill myself if I got called "adorable" at 35. Babies and kittens are adorable, not grown men.

You know, your viewpoint might change once you find yourself on the other side of 35.

I'm 36

I said "might"!

Yeah, I'm like grandma moses here and I'm not really into the whole idea of being adorable.

little old ladies can be adorable too, but not too many of them in comedy. (Phyllis Diller does get more lovable every year)

watched an ep of demetri martin's show last night: some of the worst shit i have ever seen