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Biggest Comedian Who Use To Be Funny, But Now Sucks...
Eddie Murphy
34%
 34%  [ 1293 ]
Mike Myers
5%
 5%  [ 209 ]
Dana Carvey
8%
 8%  [ 311 ]
Jim Carrey
9%
 9%  [ 353 ]
Dave Chappelle
1%
 1%  [ 42 ]
Ellen DeGeneres
5%
 5%  [ 221 ]
Tom Green
11%
 11%  [ 429 ]
Chevy Chase
10%
 10%  [ 405 ]
Adam Sandler
4%
 4%  [ 168 ]
Bill Murray
3%
 3%  [ 129 ]
Any of the People Who Left SNL For Movies
4%
 4%  [ 165 ]
Anyone In tgpo's Crappy Little Movies
1%
 1%  [ 53 ]
Total Votes : 3778

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Rhysfire
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Post Posted: Mar 15, 2004 18:28 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
OMG who said Bill Murray? He was hysterical in Lost In Translation. Adam Sandler redeemed himself a little in 50 First Dates. I was sure it was going to be sh*tty like Waterboy or Little Nicky but it was good. Maybe it's cuz' I'm a girl, but I ate that up. *Forgetful Lucy... cracked her head like Gary Busy* ;p

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Post Posted: Mar 16, 2004 02:24 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
BJ_M wrote:
Will Hay wrote:
Steve Martin, but can't remember him ever been funny to be honest.
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i don't know -- he is one of the few that ever had me in stitches .. and those days of SNL w/ JB and company were still the best by far .... (does anyone still watch snl anymore?)


Being in the UK we were only force fed his hollywood stuff.
Whilst I loved Planes, Trains.. his role could've been played by anyone, he didn't add anything to the film by playing the role.
Still enjoyed the film though smile.gif
I would have liked to have seen that chap from Malcolm In The Middle play Steve Martins movie roles (character: Hal?), now there's a funny guy.
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Post Posted: Mar 16, 2004 02:46 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
mikel wrote:
Losing one's ability to be funny..........is nothing to laugh at. biggrin.gif biggrin.gif

mikel


It's all fun and games until someone looses an eye....or the ability to be funny...smile.gif

Did I spell looses wrong? That word always looks wrong to me.
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Post Posted: Mar 16, 2004 08:36 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
hech54 wrote:
Will Hay wrote:
Steve Martin, but can't remember him ever been funny to be honest.
Will Hay


I think you have him confused with Martin Short....NOTHING Martin Short has ever done has been funny.


Erm, no, I mean Steve Martin, hence the 'Steve Martin' phrase/name/words/collection of letters in my post.
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Post Posted: Mar 16, 2004 09:08 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
BJ_M wrote:
Will Hay wrote:
Steve Martin, but can't remember him ever been funny to be honest.
Will Hay



i don't know -- he is one of the few that ever had me in stitches .. and those days of SNL w/ JB and company were still the best by far .... (does anyone still watch snl anymore?)



the fork in the eye -- i guess i go for that type of humour .. he has had some real duds though also ..


I was a big fan of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, thought he was good in that, and how about Planes, trains and automobiles ?
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Post Posted: Mar 16, 2004 09:09 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
dphirschler wrote:
I realize Eddie Murphy is taking a hit here, but don't forget his brilliant series "The PJs".


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Post Posted: Mar 16, 2004 09:22 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
Will Hay wrote:
Being in the UK we were only force fed his hollywood stuff.
Whilst I loved Planes, Trains.. his role could've been played by anyone, he didn't add anything to the film by playing the role.
Still enjoyed the film though smile.gif


Hardcoreruss wrote:
I was a big fan of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, thought he was good in that, and how about Planes, trains and automobiles ?


Yeah, I forgot about that, you can add D. R. Scoundrels to the films I enjoyed (very much) with SM in, but I still say he doesn't make the role his own, there are a few that could happily play the same role.
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Post Posted: Mar 16, 2004 18:39 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
Holy Mackeral, Sapphire! This topic has spawned more angry responses than the usual thread on DVDRhelp, "Why My Capture Card Sucks and Can't Produce a Watchable VCD or DVD."

And in all honesty, some of the responses are intemperate. Ellen DeGeneris used not to be funny. The peak of her unfunniness was when she announced she was a lesbian on her lousy sitcom to try to get up the ratings. She thought America's massive gay and lesbian audience would tune in and boost her ratings. She found out that gays, too, found her unfunny.

After that blew up in her face, and after she got thrown off the air, and couldn't get work for three years or so, she's undergone a change. She isn't world-class funny, but she can induce a smile or two. Comedy is based on truth, after all, and having her face shoved into the truth (she was lying like crazy to herself and everyone around her) she's slowly gaining a sense of humor.

On the other hand, Martin Short, the onetime savior of SCTV, has been stuck doing that stupid "Jiminy Glick" character for the last few years. (He even had a brief daytime talk show where his unfunniness became rampantly obvious.) He needs to do what Robin Williams used to do; go out late at night to comedy clubs with Open Mike Night, try to be funny, bomb continually and get booed, and go through a fall like DeGeneris before he can be funny again.
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Post Posted: Mar 16, 2004 18:57 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
The next funny joke Ellen DeGeneres tells will be her first.

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Post Posted: Mar 16, 2004 19:02 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
get hold of - if you can find it -- "Mr. Mike's Mondo Video" for some good old laughs if you like pre 1986 SNL
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Post Posted: Mar 16, 2004 19:52 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
With the right drugs (err... or so I hear) some of the Monty Python gang had their moments. The meaning of life. But I always need someone to explian British humor.(Hey another oxymoron "British humor")just kidding. British humor may be iffy, but their rock is great!!!!! THE WHO!!! Sorry just a little flashback. Time for my medicine.
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Post Posted: Mar 16, 2004 19:57 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
THE WHO was canadian

the WHO was british
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Post Posted: Mar 16, 2004 20:00 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
um WHO?

Seriously though who is who. Who did Pinball Wizard. Is that THE WHO or The WHO?

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Post Posted: Mar 16, 2004 20:12 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
BJ_M wrote:
get hold of - if you can find it -- "Mr. Mike's Mondo Video" for some good old laughs if you like pre 1986 SNL


Those were some great years(1975-1986) for SNL.IMO SCTV was the funniest show on TV with the Chappelle show a close second.
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Post Posted: Mar 16, 2004 20:13 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
You know WHO! I said that I had to take my medicine. The all caps was an act of excitement! And the others were who? JK. I may unintenionaly offend your country, but I would never insult your Rock!
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Post Posted: Mar 16, 2004 20:20 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
u dont think dave chapelle is still funny?
i think he is one of the only funny ones out there right now
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Post Posted: Mar 16, 2004 21:06 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
ZAPPER wrote:
You know WHO! I said that I had to take my medicine. The all caps was an act of excitement! And the others were who? JK. I may unintenionaly offend your country, but I would never insult your Rock!


i meant it as a joke -- the canada band is the "guess who" (Burton Cummings) , who was and is pretty well known and spawned a lot of people (THE BAND is one offshoot, as well as BTO) ...

i wasnt living in canada though at that time ...
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Post Posted: Mar 16, 2004 23:31 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
Why couldn't it be DOCTOR WHO?
as in COMEDIC SCIENCE FICTION SERIES
Where is the Tardis?

also want to go on record
SANDLER...-never funny
MURPHY.....-ONCE FUNNY

the WHO originally called themselves the "HIGH NUMBERS"
too many bennies perhaps?

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Post Posted: Mar 16, 2004 23:44 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
I always thought Richard Jeni was pretty funny. Haven't heard anything of his in a while though.
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Post Posted: Mar 17, 2004 19:05 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
BJ_M wrote:
THE WHO was canadian

the WHO was british

Wasnt it "The Guess Who" that were canadian?Oh just saw your later post,sorry.BTO=Bachman Turner Overweight.
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Post Posted: Mar 17, 2004 20:48 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
MOVIEGEEK wrote:
Those were some great years(1975-1986) for SNL.IMO SCTV was the funniest show on TV with the Chappelle show a close second.


Funniest TV shows:
SNL (through Eddie Murphy)
Monty Python's Flying Circus
In Living Color


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Post Posted: Mar 20, 2004 04:22 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
Dave Chappelle is probably the funniest person in the world I can think of.. with only Will Ferrell offering any resistance in my mind. (it's an ongoing battle). I cant believe he's on this list. But I guess to each their own.

Eddy Murphy is without question the biggest leap from funny to not funny.. Compare delerious with the Haunted House.. or whatever his new movie is called.. some people should retire.

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Post Posted: Mar 20, 2004 11:02 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
disturbed1 wrote:
George Carlin, Cheech and Chong, Sam Kinison, Gallagher, and Larry the Cable Guy. That's funny I don't care who you are.


Carlin, Cheech & Chong and Kinison all brilliant. But Gallagher ? As was once said - "Gallagher! Only America could produce a comic who ends his show by destroying food with a sledgehammer. Gee, I wonder why we're hated the world over." ieek.gif

I have no idea who Larry the Cable Guy is.
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