Worst Comedy Show You've Seen

[unfrufru]

everyone always talks about the best shows they've seen, what about the worst?

mine would have to be a tie between Scott Capurro where he insulted every minority group until most of the audience left, then pulled his scrotum out and waved it around. that and that dickhead hollywood brett scheargold or whatever his name was. saying cockout every 2nd word and leaving out most of the syllables of the other words, is not funny

[Alisso]

Whoever was MC-ing the night Justin was on at the Epping Hotel when I went with Veronica earlier this year. When no one laughed, he threatened to get his cock out. We stopped listening and started talking till Jussy came out *G*

[kebab_oner]

"chicka boom bah - he's pulled out another fwucken pearrrrler! I'm warnin ya, I'll get me cockout! cockout!"

c'mon, hollywood is the master - there's true genius behind what he does. you know he only moonlights as a comedian to supplement his professional wrestling career, yeah?

but anyway, worst show would have to be any time I've seen George Smilovici. that guy's a piece of shit. "I'm tough" indeed. he may well have been back in 1986, but it's 2003 somebody get him the fuck off stage!

[Mythor]

Big Girl's Blouse is the only one I can think of at the moment.

[Nick]

The Cheese Brothers! One of the guys Paul McCartney was from full frontal or something like that. But they were not funny, they sang and were just shit *shudders* and they touched me!

Ergh!

[dermo]

Was probably Terry Alderton last month at the Comedy Bunker. His act was so old and full of material like..... "Men and women, haha, they're a bit different aren't they?...Women are all lalalalla and men, right, men are all llalalalalaa lal lalala". GAH!

[veronica tghf]

Originally Posted by Alisso

Whoever was MC-ing the night Justin was on at the Epping Hotel when I went with Veronica earlier this year. When no one laughed, he threatened to get his cock out. We stopped listening and started talking till Jussy came out *G*

I was going to nominate that guy as well *g*
Having suffered him for a while before Justin performed, we then suffered him for AGES before there was finally a break and we made the wise decision of leaving and just sitting outside talking till my lift arrived.

Justin was really really good, unfortunately the MC wasn't.

[Haggis]

Comedyoscopy. McDermott just seemed to be unable to sustain an hour-long show on his own.

[Stevie Goss]

Wow, I can't really decide which has been the worst out of the worst comedy I've seen. And I've seen a fair share of the worst (my standards as high, as you very well know)...let me get back to you all on this one :P

[aussiechica]

GUD (when I saw it in its 'early days' at the Riverside) was pretty tragic. Apparently, its improved but yeah, pretty big letdown at the time

[Alisso]

Originally Posted by aussiechica

GUD (when I saw it in its 'early days' at the Riverside) was pretty tragic. Apparently, its improved but yeah, pretty big letdown at the time

Oooh, good point...the other guy just seems to be a shit comic, but I expect better from McDermott. And I was at the first ever attempt at Gud. Riverside can't have been that bad. Nothing could. They didn't know all the words, the crowd was an O Week uni crowd who mainly just wanted to get pissed, and the biggest laugh of their performance was won by a heckler *G*

That was a shocker of a night. Thank fuck it improved *G*

[SR]

Terri Psiaskis at this years O-week comedy night. Dave O'Neill was a hit with the drunken bogans, and Justin Hamilton was even more popular, but Terri "This is no joke" Psiakis was exactly that.

No joke.

[smuffy]

Originally Posted by SR

Dave O'Neill was a hit with the drunken bogans

Dave's always a hit with the drunken bogans at O week comedy gigs. He's tested his material enough times!

Worst ever was a guy called Neil Hamburger at Champagne Comedy last year, who:
a) hocked back all through his routine (would've been funny as a response to a heckle, but NOT funny every two minutes)
b) decided to do a bit about what movies would be like if they were made in the toilet, and just took one word out of each title and replaced it with the word 'shit'. Kinda funny for the first five, VERY FUCKING OLD fifty titles later. When he said 'I could do more of these', three quarters of the 100-strong crowd (including people who had obviously only come to see him) yelled 'NO!' Full on the only act I have ever seen heckled off stage.

[unfrufru]

Originally Posted by aussiechica

GUD (when I saw it in its 'early days' at the Riverside) was pretty tragic. Apparently, its improved but yeah, pretty big letdown at the time

i was at the riverside, i thought it was fantastic. i went in thinking "oh god this is gonna be daas with a keyboard" but i really enjoyed it. being a semi-local i knew about 50 people who went that night and they thought it was brilliant

[op shop girl]

Originally Posted by unfrufru

i was at the riverside, i thought it was fantastic. i went in thinking "oh god this is gonna be daas with a keyboard" but i really enjoyed it. being a semi-local i knew about 50 people who went that night and they thought it was brilliant

Ditto, I was there and thought it was great. Actually, apart from For Holly, that was the only time I've ever seen GUD perform live so I can't make any comments on whether or not they've improved.
But from memory* it was pretty good.

I'd have to say the worst comedy show I've ever been to was Habib on Parole. It was like a cheap, tacky imitation of Nick Gianopolis' (sp?) "Wog" franchise, minus any form of comedic talent.
The stereotypes were insulting as the level of exaggeration extended beyond what could be reasonable considered as humour.
The "actors" themselves displayed all the talent of a drunkard at a karaoke bar- convinced that the sunshines out of their arse.
The only saving grace was the scattered stand-up of Tahir Bilgic. I still can't listen to certain songs without laughing. I think that if Tahir wishes to pursue a comedy career extending beyond the Lebanese community, he's going to have to drop his Habib character.

That was the only comedy show I've ever considered walking out of at intermission. I would have done so if I wasn't raised to be such a tight arse- no matter how shit something is, I have to get my moneys worth.

*not that my memory should be trusted in any shape or form