After Dinner Comics

i’m trying to understand the personal circumstances and the mindset that would lead someone to get on stage and imitate not just a comic but a particular comic’s entire set and i just... can’t

let alone the thinking of a member of the public who sees an ad for a peter kay tribute act and thinks ‘that looks good, that does’ and pays actual money to go and see it

― he facked his death (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 9 February 2018 11:28 (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

all this is otm and yet it's always seemed to me that comedy tribute acts are an untapped market. they probably scorned the first tribute band (Bootleg Beatles?) and now there are several ersatz Slipknots

yeah but i would go and watch SlipNOT in a heartbeat whereas Lee Lard is sad man

as i said upthread tho, there are bands whose work i'll probably listen to until i die but just aren't around to see live anymore, because they've retired, split up or died, so i can see the appeal of going to see a tribute who have put a lot of work into recreating their sound

(hell, the bootleg beatles even play songs which the actual beatles never played live iirc)

but jokes just don't work like music! who in their right mind listens to the same jokes over and over again? who are these maniacs who would go to see someone who looks a bit like a comedian whose work they enjoy imitate their jokes? it's disgusting savagery of the highest order

Missed this thread :(

for shame

A flat I lived in we found a couple of directories of variety acts, 80s probably, simultaneously two of the most hilarious and heartbreaking publications I've ever seen.

Some of the acts looked so terrible you were in fits of laughter while, at the back of your mind, was the realization that they'd probably already hung themselves from a curtain rail in a motel outside Giggleswick.

it's a shit business

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfionMmCGoU

jinx!

one of those catchphrases that's truth means you end up quoting it on the reg

Keep thinking, "Your Dandy, Milord" when I see this thread title.

Just for Les McQueen I can almost forgive Mark Gatiss for... no can't do it.

ha i was just about to make the same post

les mcqueen is real as fuck, even that 11-second clip is hard to watch

itt: bg becomes the lex

― he facked his death (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 9 February 2018 11:41 (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

idnr fping u so n

must try harder

can we count on you chipping in for the ilx fap w/ brian blessed btw

Yeah sure

if everyone who's posted itt chips in it'll only be £1250 each (plus travel)