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Real life people with comedy names.

Started by hummingofevil, July 10, 2019, 02:01:15 AM

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Twed

I would have been the legendary Wayne King if I changed my name when my mother remarried.

Ballad of Ballard Berkley

Quote from: bobloblaw on July 10, 2019, 02:34:55 PM
On a trade magazine, I once subbed an article featuring a Granville Clutterbuck.

Had to check twice that the byline wasn't Roy Clarke.

And once sifted through a pile of CVs in which Susan Topless swiftly rose to the top of the pile.

I used to work with a sub by the name of Tim Barr.

That poor man, imagine the tedious deluge of lumberjack jokes he's had to put up with throughout his life.

I internally bellowed his name, Paul Bunyan style, whenever his name cropped up on my screen. I'm not proud of that.

Bambos Charalambous sounds like a peripheral character from a Matt Berry vehicle.

Shit Good Nose

Quote from: Twed on July 10, 2019, 02:38:38 PM
I would have been the legendary Wayne King if I changed my name when my mother remarried.

My surname isn't King, or Carr, but, apropos of your post, my mum wanted to call me Wayne.  My dad put his foot down and refused.  So I'm not called Wayne.

EOLAN

Quote from: Bently Sheds on July 10, 2019, 12:24:46 PM
A friend of mine worked in a British branch of a German company. One of the guys he regularly dealt with was called Berndt Ratz.

He also tried to convince me there was a guy with the surname of Dreier who was known in the UK office as "hairdryer" but I was having none of it.

West Brom did use to have a Swiss International called Bernt Haas.

Icehaven

Regular customer at an old workplace was called Harri Parri, and I had to hide under the counter first time he came in as I couldn't stop laughing. Dunno why but the 'i's make it funnier than if it was Harry Parry.

Sebastian Cobb

A mates wife claims she used to work with someone called Fanny Pong.

I used to work with a bloke called Michael Cunt

Jerzy Bondov

I was going through an old notebook and found that I'd written TIM FOYLE in massive letters, but I can't remember if it's a name I came across in the wild or made up.

My friend went to school with Hugh Cumber.

shh

Sophia Money-Coutts is a Telegraph society columnist.

hummingofevil

Quote from: shh on July 10, 2019, 04:34:36 PM
Sophia Money-Coutts is a Telegraph society columnist.

"Daddy sends hahgs."

Remembered that awesome clown comic with the rather average comedy name of Doctor Brown has the awesome real life not used for comedy name of Phil Burgers. Imagine being a funny man and being called Phil Burgers and not using your real name as your act.

Fishfinger

#41
I went to school with a farm lad called Aeneas Ball.

Icehaven

Quote from: hummingofevil on July 10, 2019, 05:13:11 PM
Remembered that awesome clown comic with the rather average comedy name of Doctor Brown has the awesome real life not used for comedy name of Phil Burgers. Imagine being a funny man and being called Phil Burgers and not using your real name as your act.

You'd think a stripper who's real name was Heather Sweet wouldn't need to change it, but Dita Von Teese it is.


Inspector Norse

About the only thing I remember from my work experience in an accounting office is doing some copy-pasting and spotting a client named Fook Yao.

Inspector Norse

Then there is this guy. Not only does he himself have an astonishing name, his ex-wife is called Gay Simplot.

NurseNugent

We had a customer many years ago called Mr Jutley-Shorthose, who I always pictured as a Mr Cholmondley-Warner type.   

I had a customer today whose first name was Supaporn. 

NoSleep


Inspector Norse

Quote from: NurseNugent on July 10, 2019, 06:05:13 PM
I had a customer today whose first name was Supaporn.

My girlfriend worked with someone named Porntrip for a while. Rather amusingly this person was employed by the Thai tourist board.

Ambient Sheep

My standard entries, some of which will have been seen by some of you up to four times before, apparently, but some new ones too... all from memory though, maybe parents are more aware these days (or I'm less of an immature dickhead) but I've not met anybody with a silly name since the nineties.  Perhaps I'm just not getting out very much.

ANYWAY:

My first partner went to school with a lad called Ross Knockles and a girl who was a genuine Annette Curtin.  Her headmaster rejoiced in the supremely Carry On-esque name of Sid Bottoms.

Our then-next-door-neighbour's daughter went to school with a Jenna Taylor.  I met her once; she had a helluva attitude on her, and who could blame her?

I saw some pretty stupid looking ones when I used to do international technical support, but I expect that in their own countries they looked quite sensible.  The only one that sticks in my mind twenty years later is Hosny Refaat, from Egypt as I recall.  Not that impressive really.

There used to be a guy in the Cambridge phonebook called I. Wanko.  Hilariously, the same ex- as above started working with him a couple of years after we discovered this... turned out it was a typo, he was actually called "Micky Iwanko".  Polish origin, apparently.

My German teacher was called Mr Hunt.  Yes, his initial was "M".  There was a reason that -- unlike all the other teachers -- we never found out what his first name was until the Upper Sixth, when the caretaker accidentally left the staff contact list on view through the window of his cabin.

Cue an afternoon of us reverting to second-years walking round going "Has anyone seen Mike Hunt anywhere?"


Jockice

Quote from: Ballad of Ballard Berkley on July 10, 2019, 02:53:34 PM
I used to work with a sub by the name of Tim Barr.

That poor man, imagine the tedious deluge of lumberjack jokes he's had to put up with throughout his life.

I internally bellowed his name, Paul Bunyan style, whenever his name cropped up on my screen. I'm not proud of that.

I used to work with an Andy Partridge. Not the XTC one. Another Andy Partridge. One Christmas I had a great original comedic thought and went: "Andy Partridge in a pear tree,'' expecting bellowing laughter from everyone. Instead there was total silence apart from the man himself who looked at me contemptuously and went: ''Every fucking year...''

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Phil_A

I spent about 10 minutes laughing at the name of an athlete I saw on the telly last year, the one and only Marvin Popoola.

Then I promptly #cancelled myself.

(It turns out it's pronounced Poh-poh-ler, not Poo-poo-lah)


earl_sleek

The best name I ever met was Freddie Bendaman.

bobloblaw

Rodger Bumpass

Voice of Squidward on SpongeBob or Carry On character? You decide

Autopsy Turvey


zomgmouse

#58
My friend says she works with someone whose first name is Rhonda and surname is Hadorn. How many people do you know with anagrammatic names? Do you think her parents knew?

Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preserved_Fish
QuotePreserved Fish (July 3, 1766 – July 23, 1846) was a prominent New York City shipping merchant [...] His father, a blacksmith, and grandfather were also named Preserved Fish.


Also also: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0353661/

zomgmouse