Re: Funny and unfunny comedians
Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2014 12:22 am
Unfunny: undoubtably that Keith Lemon guy. I've never watched him before and, I tried to get into some of the characters that the guy who plays him have done in the past - but I couldn't get into them at all. I recently saw the film he made, only because someone I know likes the show he does so I thought I'd check the film out. It was on TV last week. It is called "Keith Lemon The Film" (imaginative title) and it was crap. Afterwards I went online to read some reviews, this is what Wikipedia had to say:
"After receiving a rare 0% on Rotten Tomatoes, it is considered one of the worst movies ever made by critics. The film was universally panned. In a one-star review in The Daily Telegraph, Robbie Collin said "it may be the most staggeringly perfunctory piece of filmmaking I have ever seen."[5] Phelim O'Neill, in another one-star review for The Guardian, said "the script that must have taken longer to read than it did to write."[6] Writing in The Sun, Alex Zane was slightly less critical in a two-star review entitled "This Lemon sucks", saying that "this film just doesn?t capture the anarchy that makes Keith Lemon enjoyable, unpredictable and, most importantly... amusing."[7] In writing for Total Film, George Bass describes the funniest moment in the film as "a bus sign (?T?LEEDS?). Six letters and an apostrophe. Save yourself the ticket."[8] Chris Tookey of the Daily Mail named the film as one of the worst British comedies of all time and said that, "Nothing funny happens... In some inner circle of Hell, this movie will be for ever playing."
I don't understand how this character, or the guy who plays him, has had any success. I was watching The Jonathan Ross show earlier tonight and it was interesting to see Boris Johnson, Tulisa, and James Cordon interviewed. When that tool Keith Lemon came on I turned over.
"After receiving a rare 0% on Rotten Tomatoes, it is considered one of the worst movies ever made by critics. The film was universally panned. In a one-star review in The Daily Telegraph, Robbie Collin said "it may be the most staggeringly perfunctory piece of filmmaking I have ever seen."[5] Phelim O'Neill, in another one-star review for The Guardian, said "the script that must have taken longer to read than it did to write."[6] Writing in The Sun, Alex Zane was slightly less critical in a two-star review entitled "This Lemon sucks", saying that "this film just doesn?t capture the anarchy that makes Keith Lemon enjoyable, unpredictable and, most importantly... amusing."[7] In writing for Total Film, George Bass describes the funniest moment in the film as "a bus sign (?T?LEEDS?). Six letters and an apostrophe. Save yourself the ticket."[8] Chris Tookey of the Daily Mail named the film as one of the worst British comedies of all time and said that, "Nothing funny happens... In some inner circle of Hell, this movie will be for ever playing."
I don't understand how this character, or the guy who plays him, has had any success. I was watching The Jonathan Ross show earlier tonight and it was interesting to see Boris Johnson, Tulisa, and James Cordon interviewed. When that tool Keith Lemon came on I turned over.