I used to like Billy Connolly and found him funny

TalbotAvenger · **Posted:** Tue Jan 16, 2007 11:00 pm

but now think he is a bounder

Does anyone else feel the same way about any other Comedian, Actor or singer?

PS

I will always hate Queen, Freddy Mecury, Robbie Williams and meatloaf

Tax Paying Poolie · **Joined:** Sat Aug 19, 2006 8:18 am **Posts:** 9053

I've never in my life understood how anyone can like Billy Connolly!

no6bus · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:55 pm **Posts:** 5095

TalbotAvenger wrote:

but now think he is a bounder

Does anyone else feel the same way about any other Comedian, Actor or singer?

PS

I will always hate Queen, Freddy Mecury, Robbie Williams and meatloaf

yes but any fan of the hillman avenger cant be taken seriously :laugh:

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Tue Jan 16, 2007 11:08 pm

Ben fuckin' Elton!!!! :evil:

katcha · **Posted:** Tue Jan 16, 2007 11:09 pm

ah he's ok - naturally funny bloke - decent actor - bit up his own arse at times but he's ok - freddie mercury mind......argh

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 36396

Connolly was OK till he lost touch with what made him funny ...now he's just 'famous'...

katcha · **Posted:** Tue Jan 16, 2007 11:15 pm

Snowy wrote:

Connolly was OK till he lost touch with what made him funny ...now he's just 'famous'...

aye point.

jokes about hollywood types aint the same as jokes about hairy arsed welders !

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 36396

The jokes about the shipyard were funny.....tales of his Kids 'vacation' in the South Pacific just make me wanna puke.... :evil:

no6bus · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:55 pm **Posts:** 5095

seen him live at newcastle city hall was very very funny

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Tue Jan 16, 2007 11:48 pm

no6bus wrote:

seen him live at newcastle city hall was very very funny

1980....fair enough!!!! :grin:

no6bus · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:55 pm **Posts:** 5095

MutleyRules wrote:

no6bus wrote:

seen him live at newcastle city hall was very very funny

1980....fair enough!!!! :grin:

no early nineties :roll:

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Tue Jan 16, 2007 11:54 pm

no6bus wrote:

MutleyRules wrote:

no6bus wrote:

seen him live at newcastle city hall was very very funny

1980....fair enough!!!! :grin:

no early nineties :roll:

Ohh right!!!! :roll:

BritishWestHpool · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 11:35 pm **Posts:** 1243

TalbotAvenger wrote:

but now think he is a bounder

Does anyone else feel the same way about any other Comedian, Actor or singer?

PS

I will always hate Queen, Freddy Mecury, Robbie Williams and meatloaf

Can't really argue with any of that Talbot.
I'm sure I used to find Jasper Carrot funny when I was a kid. Not seen him since but cant imagine I will anymore.

Spender · **Posted:** Wed Jan 17, 2007 4:14 am

Little Britain, great for a series and then they overcooked it, same as they all do. Visual jokes are only funny once.

Harry Enfield, great series again but thought he was too good to be true.

Charlie Higson, was he ever funny??

Steve Coogan, lost it. Brilliant around the Paul Calf era. Fooking students!!

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 36396

I HATE IT when people say they love a certain comedian or a ceratin musician and everything they do ....bollocks. They get some things right and some things wrong and too much of anything produces repetition. SO THERE :roll:

townendtimmy · **Posted:** Wed Jan 17, 2007 9:23 am

ive read billy connollys auto/biography by his missus pamela and its a right good read like. but i cant understand anyone liking a man that sings rhymes while playing a musical instrument

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 36396

townendtimmy wrote:

ive read billy connollys auto/biography by his missus pamela and its a right good read like. but i cant understand anyone liking a man that sings rhymes while playing a musical instrument

Er,...but isn't that what singing actually is ...someone putting 'rhymes' to 'music...?

townendtimmy · **Posted:** Wed Jan 17, 2007 10:02 am

that folky type is'nt my idea of music sorry, i re worded that confised

Albatross · **Posted:** Wed Jan 17, 2007 10:37 am

Not seen much of his recent stuff, but I still love his World Tour of Scotland, in part because he's so enthusiastic about his own land... not bothered with the other World Tours, I don't think they could capture the magic like that did - imagine the difference between for example "Elvis C's Hartlepool" and "Peter Mandelson's Hartlepool", which would be the better one to watch?

Repetition can make for great comedy when it works, the thing with Little Britain for me is that it just goes for gross-out humour which I find less funny. You also need to change things around and have different characters - The Fast Show had a whole bunch of new ones on a regular basis for example, Rowley Birkin QC was I think only in Series 3 as was Johnny (the painter with the black obsession), while the guy in the hat going "Int whatever it is brilliant" was first series as was one of my personal favourited Professor Denzil Dexter.

Can I nominate Steve Harmison in the used to be good but now isn't stakes?

grabec · **Posted:** Wed Jan 17, 2007 11:13 am

Think you're behind the times a bit about 'folk', townend. Try catching a Jez Lowe concert, (he's an Easington lad but now tours internationally); then tell us what you think.

parmopooly · **Posted:** Wed Jan 17, 2007 11:14 am

I'm a folk singer. Every time I sing, everyone says, " Oh Folk"!

Salty · **Posted:** Wed Jan 17, 2007 11:17 am

jez lowes alright, but vin garbutts better as is martin carthy as is nic jones as is .........etc

grabec · **Posted:** Wed Jan 17, 2007 11:27 am

Warbling in the Woodie must be a tradition. When I used to go in there, Billy Taylor was always bursting into song!

Salty, tho I'd be hard put to put your list in preferential order, I think Jez is one of the best folk songwriters around. Not all his stuff is equally good but the best is sublime....

Spender · **Posted:** Wed Jan 17, 2007 11:29 am

Jez 'No Monkeys were harmed in the making of this song.' Lowe.

Cheeky bugger....... :evil:

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Wed Jan 17, 2007 12:11 pm

I used to like Connolly but it's literally decades since I've seen him so dunno now. One thing I do know is I adored his missus!

And I happen to think Meatloaf has a terrific singing voice. But I can see why it has far too much character for the Ramones/Buzzcocks lovers to appreciate it.
And yes a lot of his songs are crap.

TalbotAvenger · **Posted:** Wed Jan 17, 2007 12:14 pm

richard head wrote:

I used to like Connolly but it's literally decades since I've seen him so dunno now. One thing I do know is I adored his missus!

And I happen to think Meatloaf has a terrific singing voice. But I can see why it has far too much character for the Ramones/Buzzcocks lovers to appreciate it.
And yes a lot of his songs are crap.

He has had the same song writer for eons, and every single song sounds the same

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Wed Jan 17, 2007 12:32 pm

TalbotAvenger wrote:

He has had the same song writer for eons, and every single song sounds the same

He must have modelled himself on Bono then.

Salty · **Posted:** Wed Jan 17, 2007 1:19 pm

grabec wrote:

Warbling in the Woodie must be a tradition. When I used to go in there, Billy Taylor was always bursting into song!

Salty, tho I'd be hard put to put your list in preferential order, I think Jez is one of the best folk songwriters around. Not all his stuff is equally good but the best is sublime....

yeah, he's pretty good :sweet:

once upon a time I went to a folk club in hartlepool, ina pub near the brewery i think.... it was daed good tho

also used to go to the sword dance at greatham on boxing day if i wasn't too hung over or there was a match on ,like this season

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Wed Jan 17, 2007 1:30 pm

That'll be The Causeway Mr.Salt!!!! :grin:

Salty · **Posted:** Wed Jan 17, 2007 1:47 pm

cheers
i remembered the stranton [??] but i clearly have a crap brain! :grin:

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Wed Jan 17, 2007 1:54 pm

The Stranton is next to the Brewery but it'll have more likely been The Causeway that you've been to....the have Folk nights quite often!!!! :grin:

Salty · **Posted:** Wed Jan 17, 2007 2:01 pm

:sweet:
do they still do em?

the pub i remember had 2 sections to it, the club was kinda in a backroom...... confised

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Wed Jan 17, 2007 2:05 pm

Yes they still do them!!!! :sweet:
Martin Stephenson was/is sold out....not sure whether he's played already though....I saw it advertised just before Christmas!!!!

The Causeway has now been extended aswell!!!! :sweet:

Fensy · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:15 pm **Posts:** 6471

MutleyRules wrote:

Yes they still do them!!!! :sweet:
Martin Stephenson was/is sold out....not sure whether he's played already though....I saw it advertised just before Christmas!!!!

The Causeway has now been extended aswell!!!! :sweet:

Causeway is my pub of choice even though it is miles away, cracking pint, I used to work there as well. I usually go there after the match. They usually have a fair few bands etc on. There is a bloke who plays there weekly, I think, called Lee Maddison who is good

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 36396

Cornelius Atweasle wrote:

I liked the early Billy Connolly. His show at the Borough Hall in 1985 (?) was first class.

But today he's the type of Jock he used to parody. He's the live-away Jock, the type who loves Scotland so much but hates living there.

So unfunny now and past his sell-by date. A bit like me.

He probably has tartan tiles in his pool and wears a kilt to amuse the locals ....in sunny L.A. ...... and I don't mean Lower Aberdeen.

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Wed Jan 17, 2007 4:10 pm

Fensy wrote:

There is a bloke who plays there weekly, I think, called Lee Maddison who is good

He certainly is because I saw him there myself two years ago! Excellent singer and a wondeful atmosphere.

townendtimmy · **Posted:** Wed Jan 17, 2007 7:25 pm

parmopooly wrote:

I'm a folk singer. Every time I sing, everyone says, " Oh Folk"!

townendtimmy · **Posted:** Wed Jan 17, 2007 7:28 pm

grabec wrote:

Think you're behind the times a bit about 'folk', townend. Try catching a Jez Lowe concert, (he's an Easington lad but now tours internationally); then tell us what you think.

its not my scene, when i think folk music i think of my old PE teacher aka TB aide John Burton and his band Skerne :shock:

i probably do need educating in music like, i just dont get time to relax and enjoy it

grabec · **Posted:** Wed Jan 17, 2007 7:45 pm

Salty wrote:

:sweet:
do they still do em?

the pub i remember had 2 sections to it, the club was kinda in a backroom...... confised

Well, that description sounds a bit like the Nursery, but that's not really near the brewery. There seems to be a bit of a question about just where you were that night!

Salty · **Posted:** Wed Jan 17, 2007 7:48 pm

which really cant come as a surprise!! :grin:

it was like a corridor seperating the 2 main bits, and was in the town somewhere......I defo remember Strongarm being involved!! :grin:

TalbotAvenger · **Posted:** Wed Jan 17, 2007 10:17 pm

Salty wrote:

which really cant come as a surprise!! :grin:

it was like a corridor seperating the 2 main bits, and was in the town somewhere......I defo remember Strongarm being involved!! :grin:

Some people have a kidney shaped swimming pool, Salty has a swimming pool shaped kidney and liver

Salty · **Posted:** Wed Jan 17, 2007 11:22 pm

fit as a fidddle me like :razz:

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Thu Jan 18, 2007 12:08 am

grabec wrote:

Well, that description sounds a bit like the Nursery, but that's not really near the brewery. There seems to be a bit of a question about just where you were that night!

But it is in Hopps Street!!!! :sweet: :grin:

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Thu Jan 18, 2007 12:13 am

PS....I'm currently taping his....(Connoly's)....Film which is on Ch.5!!!! :uhoh:

PPS....'The Man Who Sued God'....what's it like???? confised

Fensy · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:15 pm **Posts:** 6471

Salty wrote:

which really cant come as a surprise!! :grin:

it was like a corridor seperating the 2 main bits, and was in the town somewhere......I defo remember Strongarm being involved!! :grin:

Sounds like it is definatley the Causeway Salters. The bar on the right and 2 rooms on the left of the corridor

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