Seems to be all over the place lately - Mock the Week, Have I Got News, Something For The Weekend etc, etc and the Grauniad carried an ad for ahis UK-wide tour which seems to take up the entireity of 2010.



His USP seems to be that
1. He is a Scouser with a right broad Scouse accent and
2. He used to have a proper job as a salesman for a pharmaceutical company.
3. Erm, that's it.

However, his material seems to be about as funny as Michael McIntyre's.

How do we explain this?

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I'm a nasty, violent lefty. You cunt.

Is he related to Bez off of the Happy Mondays?

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Listen, either those cats cool it, or we don't play.

Now I would definitely pay to see Bez doing stand-up comedy.

For me, I find his "punchlines" (or payoffs I think gag punchlines are called) a bit underwhelming. His build ups can be good but then the payoffs are a bit weak.

Heard him on the radio yesterday pointing out that Welsh road signs are 'dyslexic'. There's a joke to be made there somewhere, I can see that, because Welsh and English phonics are so different and the juxtaposition of the two has potential. But just to go for the easy 'dyslexia' line is plain lazy and disrespectful to the members of your audience who have heard every generation of comedian since the fucking 'sixties make the same joke. Jesus, it's almost as if he wants to be called the new Jimmy fucking Tarbuck.

he even does the jokes about how crap it is to be married for a long time

he's not even a scouser he's from runcorn

As I said on January 29th:

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Ten seconds... the pain begins.

Fifteen seconds... you can't breathe.

Twenty seconds... you give up and turn off the Jeremy Vine show.

Ahh, yes, I remember that now, Andy. Sorry for making you have to repeat yourself.

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I'm a nasty, violent lefty. You cunt.

I've seen him in clubs a couple of times, and he's very good. I'm not sure he's suited to panel games, but get him in a small club with a couple of audience members he can bounce off and he's very, very funny indeed.

He won Manchester's City Life Comedian of the Year on something like his fourth gig, back when that award was pretty much a ticket to a professional career, as opposed to being roughly equivalent to "least awful open spot on the local circuit".

his "world cup diary" is on ITV4 at the moment in the background and i'm finding it really, really lazy and cliched.

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"Stop making up quotes and attributing them to me" - Voltaire

He was on "Live at The Apollo" (which thankfully now seems to have lost the appalling MacIntyre) last night. Whadday know - he did the dyslexia/Welsh road sign joke again and loads of jokes about being married. He did have some funny moments, though.

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I'm a nasty, violent lefty. You cunt.

Did he? Sorry I must have missed those. Mind you I did sneeze at one point, perhaps it happened then.

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"Now get those trousers off before someone dies!"

I'm reminded of that cartoonist The Mirror hired just because the royals allegedly bought an original of his featuring the Queen Mother drop-kicking Princess Diana - only to give him their main political cartoon slot, his own strip and a huge fanfare about having secured him, and find out the hard way that he couldn't have carried a joke in a bucket.

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"If the past really is a foreign country, I'm surprised that 'The Daily Mail' would want to live there.” - Roger Quimbly

I can't work out the appeal of this bloke either. I caught him on Top Gear. He had a funny, Liverpudlian way of speaking which made me warm to him. But he didn't seem to get out any actual jokes.

He also turned up in this awful Liverpool bollocks:

http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/opinion ... 95585.html

Though he isn't as bad as the cunt (Ian McCulloch?) who reckons supporting a team in debt is like having your family being raped.

It wasn't just the debt it was the fact that club came 2nd and then for 6 consecutive transfer windows posted a figure in the black by the time Bentiez was banging on about netspend because it was true. His buying may have been poor at times but he was restricted by money. It's a crass terminology but It's more to do with the fact they were taking the money out to service debts, debts that did not hang over the club and were being totally serviced by our profits for long periods.

And it wasn't just Liverpool they buggered, they led the Texas Rangers to file for Bankruptcy and a Brazilian Club got relegated, hopefully that fates been avoided by certain men at Liverpool who I will always be grateful to. But Football is an escapism and it does tear at your heart, I can only feel for the teams who have suffered liquidation, I have little time for Manchester United but I'd hate for them to go down the route we went down.