Eddie Izzard

[andy-hughes]

I am the first to understand that comedy is subjective - I have a member of my family whom I love dearly, notwithstanding that she thinks Michael McIntyre is funny ...

But I watched about twenty minutes of Eddie izzard on tv tonight, and I simply don't get it

I couldn't raise a smile if my life depended on it, so what am I missing?

[ToraToraTora]

ok Andy, let me have another go:

[andy-hughes]

TTT - // Mark as Best Answer
well Andy, I think the fact you like Chubby Brown and Bernard Manning is a good indicator, you are never going to find modern comedians funny because they don't tell jokes, they just relate everyday life. //

I understand that, which is why I also adore Peter Kay, Victoria Wood, Ben Elton, Billy Connolly, and Jimmy Carr - so I am not rooted in the 1970's which my answer may have inferred.

[andy-hughes]

TTT - // ok Andy, let me have another go: //

Thank you - exactly the same result.

[Sqad]

TTT.....Mrs sqad. found it hilarious, I found it OK.

[ToraToraTora]

sqad, snow or the Scots?

[emmie]

both were hilarious.

[Patsy33]

I find him interesting to listen to, but have never watched any of his stand ups. Maybe I should?
Michael McIntyre makes me laugh, he is so observant of people and life. Same with Peter Kay.

[emmie]

Eddie Izzard is quite surreal i found, his style is like no other...

[ToraToraTora]

ok Andy last attempt, TBH I quite like MM but not his Big Show. All that unexpected star, text all she ite. I just watch the bit of stand up at the start. .... and the Wheel is dreadful, watched it once!

[andy-hughes]

Patsy - // Michael McIntyre makes me laugh, he is so observant of people and life. Same with Peter Kay. //

I can see the similarities but I find two things - one is the Peter Kay is far more accurate and amusing with his insights, and the way he delivers them, and I adore his Lancashire accent, I could listen to him read the phone book. I also love the facial expressions, but the exact opposite happens with MM - I hate his flutey voice and his chubby school-boy face.

[Apc2604]

Eddie Izzard was OK before he became an icon for the far left, and brought that to the fore in his comedy!

[Sqad]

Izzard? the guy who goes to his investiture at the Palace in lipstick and a skirt? ..about as funny as a fireman at a crematorium.

[ToraToraTora]

....ooo sounds a bit soft southerner ist to me!

[andy-hughes]

TTT - // ok Andy last attempt //

I listen and I think "Yeah ... so ... and ...".

[ToraToraTora]

I know why you didn't like the snow one Andy, you don't have snow up north do you? You have something called snore! :)

[Apc2604]

Thanks for those YouTube clips TTT. I know I shall enjoy them. I like light hearted comedy. I hate comedy that relies on bad language or people tell me is funny when I don't get it at all. I find Miranda Hart totally unfunny, but extremely annoying.

[Patsy33]

Andy, Peter Kay is in a class of his own. First class! I was only pointing out their observation of people, as you understand.
I love his accent too. I think this definitely helps with being funny.

[emmie]

could never get on with Peter Kay, don't find his humour to my taste.

[ToraToraTora]

The problem with Peter Kay is he repeats everything 65 times.

[andy-hughes]

TTT - // I know why you didn't like the snow one Andy, you don't have snow up north do you? You have something called snore! :) //

They have snore in Lancashire, but I'm not as far north as that - Manchester is nearly forty miles north of here, so slightly inaccurate on that one!!

I didn't like the snow one because for some reason, I know that if Peter Kay had done the same routine word for word, I would have been fighting for breath.

It's less McIntyre's material than him as a personality.

I think I may meet him one day, and I will really like him as a person, but still not find him funny.

I always wonder if I will like Dean Friedman as a person, because I think Lucky Star is the most treacly, insipid, vapid, utterly creepy song I have ever heard!!!