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Most Influential Comic w/ Small Body of Work

Started by MortSahlFan, July 14, 2019, 07:36:04 AM

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Cuellar

Ricky Gervais/Stephen Merchant

Seriously. The Office, hugely influential, Extras, good, and then they just disappeared never to write anything ever again.

thenoise

Peter Cook - a mostly deleted series in the 60s, a handful of chatshow appearences and an album or two full of swearing, 50 years later comedians all creaming over themselves about how he's the greatest ever.

Chris Morris - a few TV series and a film every ten years.  And some radio, I guess.  Still, spearheaded the shit 00s Jeremy Beadle clones  and every edgy student ponce still quotes the Brass Eye Special, probably.

Dusty Substance

Quote from: Cuellar on July 15, 2019, 02:35:19 PM
Ricky Gervais/Stephen Merchant

Seriously. The Office, hugely influential, Extras, good, and then they just disappeared never to write anything ever again.

They're also, arguably,  the most influential comedy podcasters. They were doing podcasts as early as 2005 when literally nobody else was.

Cuellar

That's also true.

Without The Ricky Gervais Show podcast we wouldn't have My Dad Wrote a Porno. Doesn't bear thinking about.


Jockice

Quote from: a duncandisorderly on July 15, 2019, 04:17:38 PM
is this thing on?

I assumed he meant Ronnie Carbett, a comedian who made hilarious jokes about how very tall he was, but only did stand-up once. Because his head kept hitting the ceiling!!!!!!!!!!!!

JCR

Quote from: BeardFaceMan on July 15, 2019, 12:28:40 PM
Why is that? Thats genuinely the first time I've heard anyone, fan or comedian, say Kane is influential.

There were several dead dad Edinburgh shows after that, including one from Mark Thomas; not to mention people doing similar feeling shows. When S. Lee complains that all our fathers die in Carpet Remnant World, he was commenting on the number of comics doing material about it at the time.

Quote from: thenoise on July 15, 2019, 03:26:16 PM
every edgy student ponce still quotes the Brass Eye Special, probably.

To be fair, that was superlatively brilliant, and you have to admire his guts in tackling such a theme comedically.

McChesney Duntz

Quote from: MortSahlFan on July 15, 2019, 02:25:18 PM

Mort is the most influential - he revolutionized comedy, and still the best, but he's 92 and still has a live weekly show...  Large body of work, despite the blacklisting.


Surely a joke. Relax.


zomgmouse


Small Man Big Horse

Quote from: JCR on July 15, 2019, 05:35:09 PM
There were several dead dad Edinburgh shows after that, including one from Mark Thomas; not to mention people doing similar feeling shows. When S. Lee complains that all our fathers die in Carpet Remnant World, he was commenting on the number of comics doing material about it at the time.

There'd been a good few before Kane though, Jason Cook did an acclaimed one in 2008, for instance, so if anything Kane just hopped on the bandwagon.

QDRPHNC

Has to be Hicks. Not the smallest body of work, but his influence was immense.

choie

How about Lenny Bruce? I'm not sure how much his output is actually seen today, but he was certainly a massive influence.