>>20591

Keith Lemon is a successful television personality with a string of hit TV shows and a movie to his name.

At the very least, now you can say that you know what a Keith Lemon is even if you don't necessarily want one.

I don't know if the posts in this thread have been specifically arranged to provoke my specific class warrior TRIGGER point.

Are Keef is a humble lad from Franley who managed to make it. He spent years just dicking around in Leeds town centre winding people up outside the Merrion centre (hence the name of the character) and performing as a character stand-up before he even got a break into TV in the early '00s. Lot of folks don't like him, but he got where he is by hard work and persistence.

>>20593

This twat on the other hand is demonstrably void of any talent whatsoever. He had a brief qualifying period on the comedy circuit (i.e he played the fringe once in 2007) before being directly injected into the world of panel shows and Big Brother spin-offs when he was barely into his twenties. I wonder if it could have possibly helped that his father, Michael Whitehall, is a multi-millionaire producer and agent?

Sage for every single thing that's wrong with this country.

>>20594
>he got where he is by hard work and persistence
That doesn't make him funny, mate.

>>20595

He is though. He's very funny. He's a good barometer of taste, because he's actually quite clever and sharp humour wise, whilst attempting to be as low brow as possible. If you can like stuff like Viz (I tend to assume everyone on .gs does, or else what is wrong with you) I don't see why you wouldn't like him.

Oh wait, yes I do- Because your mates on the internet haven't told you he's being ironic about it yet, and you don't get to pat your own back for liking a mainstream comic either.

>>20596
I think Keith Lemon is a kind of Marmite. Some people I knew went nuts for him but I really dislike his stuff myself and find it really annoying and sort of unneccesarily cruel as well as unfunny.

I wouldn't say I am a kind of comedy snob, I like Micky Flanagan's stand-up and he's pretty damn mainstream I think? Also another working class lad made good.

>>20596
>whilst attempting to be as low brow as possible
Yeah, that turns me right off. I don't care for irony, satire nor cultural commentary if that's your vehicle for it.

Anyone for some Stewart Lee?

>>20593
If the Asian bird isn't in it, I'm not watching it.

>>20598

That you don't find him funny =/= objectively untalented.

I'm not even class warrior lad, but he is a talented comedian. If you've never watched Keith Lemon's Very Brilliant World Tour, which was the first time he debuted the character on television unless I'm mistaken, then you're missing out. It is fantastically witty.

>>20598
I find Stewart Lee intensely irritating and the image of up-themselves Guardianistas.

>>20598
Agreed.

The problem with comics who attempt a satirical/ironic portrayal of low-brow humour, is that they invariably end up being indistinguishable from truly low-brow comics.

>>20593
This prick has stolen jokes in the past. And his face...Backpfeifengesicht.

>>20602
>>20598

I wouldn't say Lemon is trying to satirise or do low-brow humour ironically. He still plays it straight, but there is clearly an intellect behind it, and if you dislike something just because it is low-brow then really that's the very definition of snobbery.

>>20601

But that's the point. His articles in the Graun itself have the distinct air of a man seeing how far he can push it before one of the editors realises he might not be entirely sincere.

>>20604
>But that's the point.
Ha. Ha?

You can't push things in the Guardian to the point to which they seem insincere these days anyway, since they all do.

>>20601
But I am an up-myself Guardianista, so uh, yeah. Though I will defend to the death of certain relationships my right to tell off-colour jokes, so I sometimes get into proper arguments with my brothers who want to out-Guardianista me.

>>20604
You say this like snobbery is a bad thing.

>>20603
Does that make the jokes less funny?

>>20607

It was an indictment of him rather than the jokes, you soft twat.

>>20596
>he's actually quite clever and sharp humour wise, whilst attempting to be as low brow as possible.

This. People are unable to distinguish between the two, like when they think Till Death Us Do Part was about encouraging racism instead of poking fun at it or that Frasier is clever because the Crane brothers are intellectuals when each episode is almost exactly the same as the rest. It's probably why The Big Bang Theory is so popular. You need to look beyond the setting and at the actual content.

>>20610
I agree for the most part, but I would argue that the main reason that The Big Bang Theory is as popular is exactly as most people think, i.e. that it appeals to the fashionably geeky, which is going to be vogue for quite some time by the looks of things. That aside, the actors are very good at comedy acting, so the quality of the show probably does help a bit, but I still maintain that its success is largely down to people getting all giddy because they "get" a Schrodinger's Cat joke.

>>20611
I think Sheldon just mentioned Super Mario once, not in a joke or anything, but somehow it got a huge laugh. It really is terrible though.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cyx6nWdFas

>>20612

Sums up my gripes with TBBT perfectly. Without the laugh track it's an awkward as fuck show about a group of people who get together and occasionally mock their autistic friend while sitting eating takeaways.

They never even have the TV on for fucks sake and it's not like the conversation is dripping out of them.

I'll stop... _{fucking show.}

>>20611
>people getting all giddy because they "get" a Schrodinger's Cat joke.
Especially when they also don't get it.

>>20614

>>20614

I think that's a super position to take.

>>20615
Who the hell is this? I think I recognise him from Zero Punctuation.

>>20619

Bill Bailey is looking really old now, it's a bit sad.

>>20619

I wondered the same for a long time myself. He came up when I searched for "deadpan face", leading me to finally discover the picture's origins. I left you a clue in the file name.

>>20621

It's not Yahtzee. He's a much uglier bastard.

>>20621
You poor, deranged fool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoxgcC9ONnA