political comedy that's genuinely funny
Jan 14 2008
#2
well, the politics aren't perfect or anything, but david cross is funny, bill hicks, i'm sure there's a bunch more. Loads of shows are a bit political and funny, family guy, arrested development, american dad, simpsons/futurama etc.
Jan 14 2008
#3
Jan 14 2008
#4
Bill Hicks -- HE SMOKED FAGS. lol
(Never saw the appeal myself).
Jan 14 2008
#5
Bill Hicks wasnt funny.
Jan 14 2008
#6
guydebordisdead wrote:
Bill Hicks wasnt funny.
Jan 14 2008
#7
Bill Hicks was good. Richard Pryor also was quite political. The most obviously political stuff I really like is Chris Morris's work- Brass Eye, Nathan Barlay, The Day Today, Jam etc. Infact most British comedy is really strong, and i'm sure if you look hard enough some political content can be found in something like the Mighty Boosh or IT Crowd.
Ricky Gervais was only good for one trick and it wasen't his standup.
Jan 14 2008
#8
i still think the office is a better critique of 'post-fordist team working' than anything the autonomists have churned out 
Jan 14 2008
#9
Bill Hicks!
Jan 14 2008
#10
The best political character is Rik, the People's Poet, in the Young Ones.
"Thatcher - we've got a bomb!"
Jan 14 2008
#11
Have I Got News For You and Mock The Week if we're including quizshows. Both are brilliant.
Jan 14 2008
#12
Quote:
The best political character is Rik, the People's Poet, in the Young Ones.
"Thatcher - we've got a bomb!"
... and his other great catchphrase, "Jesus Christ, John. Have you actually read any Marx?"
Jan 14 2008
#13
Def Jam comedy from America is good as well, some sketches by the likes of Dave Chappelle are pretty political. No comic writes to be political though, it wouldnt sell.
Jan 14 2008
#14
the button wrote:
Quote:
The best political character is Rik, the People's Poet, in the Young Ones.
"Thatcher - we've got a bomb!"... and his other great catchphrase, "Jesus Christ, John. Have you actually read any Marx?"
That should be etched on his gravestone.
Jan 14 2008
#15
'The Thick of It' before it became tainted with noncery
Stewart Lee, Mark Thomas, Robert Newman
Jan 14 2008
#16
Ricky Gervais standup and Brass Eye are both appallingly one dimensional. The only funny joke from Gervais Politics is the bit about the Philosophy students at Kings with berets: "yeah you know the type...cunts". Brass Eye nows looks very dated and it's main quality is watching the fucking lowlife C-list celebrities come off like fucking mercenary wankers. The IT Crowd is so poor that it's found its way onto Mexican TV. I dug Nathan Barley but it's only political in the sense that a proto-Situ prank might be. Really it's just a rather charged rant about the poverty of contemporary middle class youth media and fashion.
The Office UK was absolutely fucking superb. I think that's possibly your best bet for a quasi-existentialist deconstruction of the myth of capitalist prosperity. And it's a good illustration of white collar proletarianisation.
Have I Got News for You is witty on occasion but misses Deayton IMO. I also get irritated by this rather obvious, "traditionalist" line of "Great British comedy" that's frankly rather off the Zeitgeist and says nothing to me about myyyyyy liiiiiiiiiife.
Bill Hicks is good but his politics are way out there somewhere in some kinda post-hippy, drug-induced, individualist spirituality. I've met a lot of characters like him out here and they're good company but they're more interested in their counter-cultural superiority complex really.
Jan 14 2008
#17
Alan wrote:
Ricky Gervais standup and Brass Eye are both appallingly one dimensional.
God you're a stupid cunt.
Jan 14 2008
#18
xConorx wrote:
Alan wrote:
Ricky Gervais standup and Brass Eye are both appallingly one dimensional.God you're a stupid cunt.
Isnt he.
Jan 14 2008
#19
xConorx wrote:
Alan wrote:
Ricky Gervais standup and Brass Eye are both appallingly one dimensional.God you're a stupid cunt.
Nah it's just Ireland moves a little slow on these things and thus is gonna like the sub-Jack humour of Brass Eye. Do you get BBC2 yet out there?
Jan 14 2008
#20
Mexicunt.
Jan 14 2008
#21
It's great to see the return of the mexican try-hard. We missed ye!!!
Jan 14 2008
#22
Great minds eh?
Jan 14 2008
#23
Well if that isn't a bourgeois alliance I dunno what is. Brass Eye's still shit though.
Jan 14 2008
#24
Nate wrote:
Does it exist?
Chis Rock - "Niggers Versus Black People". Funny, and political.
Jan 14 2008
#25
Alan wrote:
Well if that isn't a bourgeois alliance I dunno what is.
Oh lol. Good one!
Jan 14 2008
#26
"I love black people, but i hate niggers"
Jan 14 2008
#27
Here GDID I heard you were coming up this weekend?
Jan 14 2008
#28
xConorx wrote:
Here GDID I heard you were coming up this weekend?
This is true. If I can get the money I might just. Just to clarify, I'm not joining organise! if I do come up.
Jan 14 2008
#29
Alan wrote:
Brass Eye nows looks very dated and it's main quality is watching the fucking lowlife C-list celebrities come off like fucking mercenary wankers.
The visual satire alone makes Brass Eye unparalelled
Jan 14 2008
#30
GDID wrote:
This is true. If I can get the money I might just. Just to clarify, I'm not joining organise! if I do come up.
this is Organise you're talking about, we're not known for our earnest recruitment.
Colbert Report is good evidence that there is some.
... even if he's a scab