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Heard the One About the Right-On Comics Who HATE the Funniest Man in Britain? | Mail Online Heard the one about the right-on comics who HATE the funniest man in Britain? | Mail Online Find a Job Dating Wine Our Papers Feedback My Tuesday, Jul 19 2011 3AM 9°C 6AM 11°C 5-Day Forecast Stories Home News U.S. Sport TV&Showbiz Femail Health Science&Tech Money Debate Coffee Break Travel Rewards Club Debate Home News Board Sport Boards Showbiz Boards Femail Boards Health Boards Money Boards Polls Columnists Login Heard the one about the Quick Find Message Boards right-on comics who HATE Choose Message Board the funniest man in Britain? OUR TOP 10 BREAKING VIEWS PETER MCKAY: Sucking up to the Sun King Nice guy Michael McIntyre is a sign of The Times ANDREW PIERCE: Why Vaz makes a most endures jealousy of rivals unlikely moral crusader By JAN MOIR PATRICK MERCER: Sack the civil servants - Last updated at 2:17 AM on 19th July 2011 not our brave soldiers MELANIE PHILLIPS: If Miliband is such a Comments (0) Add to My Stories Share Like Confirm hero, why won't he tackle the REAL threat to way of life - the BBC? At this very moment, Michael PETER HITCHENS: What do YOU think is McIntyre is Britain’s most worse: Phone hacking or buying votes with successful and popular comedian. blood? Without question, he is the number WILLIAM REES-MOGG: The eurozone has a one funny guy out there. Everyone choice: Split up or die loves Michael. Or, as we shall see, JAMES FORSYTH: After Rebekah, it’s lunch nearly everyone loves him. not dinner at No10 His smiley, currant-bun face and LIZ JONES: Prison is for killers, rapists, floppy hair are instantly bankers - not stupid students recognisable. His television SUZANNE MOORE: Bitterness makes you appearances are a smash hit. old - and a tummy tattoo won't save you Sales of the DVDs featuring his MAX HASTINGS: Our great institutions are stand-up comedy routines have becoming tainted by venality and broken all industry records. incompetence. Where are leaders of integrity when we need them? He even replaced Simon Cowell as a Britain’s Got Talent judge this year — a prime-time telly residency that cemented his elevation to the national showbizocracy. Next year, the 35-year-old comic takes his success even further by embarking on a terrifyingly huge tour. He will skip, skip, skip around the Backlash: Michael McIntyre is country, selling out massive, big- comedy's nice guy city arenas such as The 02 in London and the National Indoor Arena (NIA) in Birmingham. So it is all going well. Whatever way you look at it, Michael McIntyre has http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2016283/Heard-the-right-comics-HATE-funniest-man-Britain.html?ito=feeds-newsxml[19/07/2011 03:58:30] Heard the one about the right-on comics who HATE the funniest man in Britain? | Mail Online arrived. Things couldn’t be better for him. Except that, actually, they could. This week, the mild-mannered comic has admitted being shocked and rather hurt by the persistent ordure heaped upon him by his fellow comedians. For some reason, many of them hate Michael, who is known as one of the industry’s nicest nice guys. There is something about his success and the good cheer of his clean- cut, wholesome routines that drives many of his contemporaries into a EDITOR'S BEST OF THE WEB foam-flecked frenzy. TOBY YOUNG: Is David Cameron going to Through no fault of his own, McIntyre has been vilified by the usual cabal be the next victim of the Murdochalypse? of foul-mouthed Left-wing comics determined to do him down. Their ANDREW HALDENBY: Let's not bury bad devious resolve and bottomless capacity for nastiness reveals what deeply economic news by focusing on Murdoch unpleasant people they are. JULIAN GLOVER: Mothballing ships makes little sense. We need these armed forces TIM LOTT: Blame the Murdoch bullies – but don't forget those who let them get away with it PATRICK COCKBURN: Why must Britain always try to 'punch above her weight'? TODAY'S POLL Was Sir Paul Stephenson right to resign? No Yes VOTE All polls TODAY'S POLL Is Cameron handling the phone hacking scandal effectively? Ads by Google: No Yes Set Your VOTE Smartphone Free On The One Plan All polls from £25pm incl 2000 Mins & 5000 Texts, only on 3™! TODAY'S POLL Three.co.uk/AllYouCanEatD Were jury right to acquit High Cholesterol Casey Anthony of Level? murdering her daughter? Discover how Flora Success: Michael McIntyre will play the O2 next year as part of a pro.activ can help Yes you lower your massive comedy tour No cholesterol VOTE www.floraproactiv.co.uk The comedian Stewart Lee described McIntyre as someone ‘spoon- All polls Milton Jones Joke feeding his audience warm diarrhoea’. Elsewhere, his popular routines Video have been described as unchallenging, safe, predictable and clapped out. Watch Milton Jones TODAY'S POLL And those are the more polite insults. Pull the Udder One and try to make a Reading between the lines, perhaps what the slurs actually mean is that Are compulsory learning cow laugh. tests for two-year-olds a www.facebook.com/thelau McIntyre doesn’t swear (much), doesn’t make jokes about cancer or rape, and doesn’t do ‘edgy’. complete waste of public Booking a money? hypnotist He is a family entertainment man, much more likely to joke about spice Yes Things you should racks or Post Office queues than Baby P and paedophilia. consider Make sure No VOTE its a F.E.S.H In the eyes of his bullying peers, this condemns him as a comedy milksop. Hypnotist He is not ‘edgy’, therefore he is a failure. All polls http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2016283/Heard-the-right-comics-HATE-funniest-man-Britain.html?ito=feeds-newsxml[19/07/2011 03:58:30] Heard the one about the right-on comics who HATE the funniest man in Britain? | Mail Online www.fesh.co.uk To illustrate the heat of the hatred, at the British Comedy Awards earlier Stand Up Comedy TODAY'S POLL in London this year, the all-conquering McIntyre had to suffer a barrage of spiteful Tickets from £8 per jokes and barracking from his fellow comedians. Should there be a cap on person Live Comedians in the what the wealthy have to West End pay for their care? www.99clubcomedy.com Yes Live Comedy No VOTE Tickets Book online to see All polls the UK's finest Live stand up at The highlight TODAY'S POLL www.thehighlight.co.uk Is it possible to feel like Sushi Souffle- Free Show a middle Briton on less Tokyo Comedy than £45,000 a year? Store's Spring Day at the Edinburgh Fringe Yes Aug 4-28 No VOTE www.springdaycomedy.com All polls Red 24 Management Presenters, Experts, TODAY'S POLL Voices and Vitriol: Comedian Stewart Lee described McIntyre's act as 'spoon Comedians Are women REALLY more www.red24management.co feeding his audience warm diarrhoea' dangerous drivers than ‘It just made me feel awful, because I am there with my wife and she has men? gone out and bought a dress,’ McIntyre confessed to Kirsty Young on Yes BBC’s Desert island Discs this week. No VOTE ‘And it is my big night and I won, and yet the overriding experience was All polls that of nastiness. For what reason, I don’t know. I don’t know what I was doing — just making people laugh.’ OUR DEBATE BOARDS Of course, comedians have a reputation for being thin-skinned and unable News Board to cope with being the butt of the joke themselves. TV&Showbiz Boards Yet the gladiatorial hostility aimed at McIntyre has a taint of something Sport Boards really hateful about it, something beyond mere teasing. You don’t even have to be Michael McIntyre’s biggest fan to be appalled at the treatment Introduce Yourself meted out to him and his wife; the pair of them turning up fresh-faced and The Cafe excited to an awards ceremony that would crown him Best Male Comic on Femail Boards television — then being roasted in the ferocity of the backlash that ensued. Health Boards It is so unedifying. It is so un-British. It is not even funny. Coffee Break Boards Yes, one could argue that Travel Boards comedians are a beastly lot by Books Boards trade. And McIntyre is a big boy. Columnists Indeed, he said on Desert Island Polls Discs that he has toughened up inside and grown an extra skin. Debate Home McIntyre knows that the bile comes Debate Help with the territory. House Rules But the question is, why should it? FAQs Especially to someone like him, Feedback who would never dream of dishing Edit your avatar it out. It is just another indication that there is something rotten at the heart of the comedy industry and its practitioners in this country. Yes, it is meant to be a bit of a laugh, but instead we are increasingly confronted by a slime- pit of bitterness and vaunting unpleasantness. Stewart Lee, McIntyre’s chief tormentor, has form in this department. Referring to the car accident that left Top Gear Fresh-faced talent: Michael presenter Richard Hammond with McIntyre and his wife Kitty http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2016283/Heard-the-right-comics-HATE-funniest-man-Britain.html?ito=feeds-newsxml[19/07/2011 03:58:30] Heard the one about the right-on comics who HATE the funniest man in Britain? | Mail Online brain damage, Lee quipped: ‘I wish " he’d been decapitated, and that his head had rolled off in front of his wife.’ When fellow Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson described the then Prime Minister Gordon Brown as a ‘one-eyed Scottish idiot’, Lee responded by saying he hoped ‘Clarkson’s children go blind’.
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