Andrea Mclean to become stand-up comedian?
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Last week on 'Loose Women' Andrea said comedy is something she'd like to delve into and find out more about, and that if her material was good enough she would consider doing a bit of stand-up.
I think she'd be pretty good. She's quite funny on 'LW' and it's not scripted (I think) so do you think she'd do well?
I think she'd be pretty good. She's quite funny on 'LW' and it's not scripted (I think) so do you think she'd do well?
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She's about as charismatic and interesting as curdled milk, so it'd be interesting to see her die a death on stage:D
Having a sense of humour and the odd witty remark does not make a comedienne. Imagine someone heckling her, she would be so upset someone didn't like her as much as she likes herself, she would just cry.
Another over inflated ego.
I agree, and the dead horse would be less crude too.
Why should that be, though? Why would comedy be a largely male preserve?
So, she's taken the first step, then!
Joan Rivers - funniest person in the world
Amy Poehler
Tina Fey
Sarah Silverman
Josie Long
no, she is not funny in the slightest
Mind you I don't think Sue Perkins is in any danger...
Who next Lorraine Kelly??
..I don't find any of those women even remotely funny, ok well Joan has gotten a few giggles out of me a couple times but the rest are just dismal...really dismal.
And I said a few it's just a few and it's usually the ones like Joan who are very un-pc and that's all she has really theres no eye opening social commentary or anything else, can you see McClean doing un-pc jokes like that? I can't.
No.
I imagine a baby shitting its nappy continually for 2 hours would be funnier than anything McLean could produce.
So, we have ascertained that we don't think she would be funny.
Fine that you don't find any of those women funny; however, you said there are very very few women who are funny and I counteracted that with a list of women who generally are thought of as funny; irrespective of whether you personally find them funny.
& if you want social commentary, try Silverman or Josie Long for starters. Or perhaps you find Michael McIntyre's turgid commentary amusing?
In any case it's a complete travesty to say that there are no funny women, just because you fail to find the ones I quoted funny.
Well you gave me a list of a very few, you didn't give me a good 100 or so did you? something that could possibly be done for male comedians.
Again I'm not trying to say that women aren't funny but I am yet to discover any female comedian that has combined all the elements to provide truly awe inspiring material...what I mean is that there really isn't a female George Carlin or Bill Hicks out there. And if you think Sarah Silverman is anything like the aforementioned duo in her forced pseudo-anarchic drivel then that says it all really..yes Sarah we get that you're a self-hating Jewish athiest who likes to talk candidly about bodily fluids can we move on now please?
As far as Josie Long goes, her catastrophic performance on HIGNFY last night concluded for me all I needed to know about her, however to her she did somewhat admit she was completely out of her depth in regards to political comedy at the start of the show.
Joan Rivers. An extremely funny woman. She is so vulgar, but I can't help but find her funny.
Andrea McLean has a long way to go ......
I don't recall comparing her to those 2 in any way??
As for Josie Long, didn't see her on that, but I've seen her live several times and her political commentary is very astute. 1 crap TV performance doesn't mean we should dismiss her work entirely. But you probably will because you don't like her.
I think the general consensus was that it referred to ex Dawson Creek, ex of Batman, got an oscar nomination last year.