What does it mean

Do you sell kitchens?

@@zid-ziddy-zid6821 That hes a sucker for reverse psychology

Indeed, especially when it is like a week later, Iv'e even had someone do it the next day ffs, "I fuckin told you this yesterday"

Or someone telling your joke or anecdote a little later on that same day to another group of people while you're present, and getting a bigger reaction than you did.

Yes jim, this and replies to your comment have happened to me more than once. If there is a place of everlasting pain once dead then these joke thieves deserve every hour.

+Jim I always had people asking me to tell the story. I'd try my best to add a sortof..building-up-vibe to the story, but most of the time, the people were rude, drunk, busy or all three and would yell; 'get on with it' halfway through. They'd then leave, come back near the ending and spoil the clou with; 'but hey, wha-what? Who wassat then? Who was the girl that got the coffee, who..I don't get it...tell it again!" And I'd be forced to re-tell it, during which they usually walked off agáin. I only once had a group listening to my stories (I will admit they can take up to 7 minutes if it's a réálly good one) and they burst into laughter and loved it. Honestly, I think I've just been aiming at the wrong crowd all this time. I need the kind that listens to 'classic scrapes from James Acaster' and is sober. I've got so much material. The time I punched a clown in the face with a swimmingpoolnoodle. The time I was in a school-protest-band, but we hád to split up because of drama, before we could have a gig. The time I got my face stuck in two pieces of barbed wire, while trying to pet a pony. The time I rescued a guy, while surrounded by hookers on the red light district in Amsterdam. The time I was encouraged to draw swastika’s by my black geography teacher. The time I played Jesus in a schoolplay, but made the entire school laugh their bums off by accident. The time I handed in a urine-sample at the doctors office, but things went horribly wrong. The first time I visited England, when I was almost run over by a double-decker, my toiletpaper got stolen and when I had dinner, we found foreign items in the food. ALL of these stories, I have never been able to share at parties. They are such góód stories. I nééd to become a comedian...

I had a friend that would often pass off my anecdotes as his own. The worst thing was he'd tell them to other people infront of me, then turn to me and say "didn't something similar happen to you?" encouraging me to tell my own "similar" anecdote. I'd always just reply "no" through gritted teeth. I don't know how people have the nerve to do that shit.

Laughed so hard at it!

B. Hagedash I heard that story already.

Agreed

Yes but it's not a repeated anecdote

Fair enough. But he also says he doesn't have any anecdotes at 0:16. Haha.

Correct. Sort of. Perhaps he meant anecdotes about himself rather than other people ie in this case Morecambe & Wise.

Could be. Haha. Anyway, I'm just being pedantic for the fun of it. Good clip.

Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for commenting.

miranda panda i need that to happen

He actually would have made a great host for Taskmaster

PLEASE that would be hilarious

got a funny story about being poisoned to death...

"I'm not lying, I'm writing fiction with my mouth." - Homer Simpson

Dine... in? Perhaps?

Yeah except it's not a true story - it's a constructed joke. That's Skinner's great failing as a comic - too often he presents cookie-cutter jokes as though they were anecdotes.

WalterLiddy It was probably true. It wasn't exactly a joke, it was just pertinent to the conversation. I can't imagine him saying that otherwise and it ever being considered funny.

Cristian Villavicencio he wouldn't

Same🙂

They will be building more floors, which I am looking into buying. It's a storey for another time though.

Did they build on a big plot?

It's just wrong on many levels.

Recursion. The act of going inside the anecdote where another anecdote was being told is closer to recursion than inception. People mix up the names because of the movie, which isn't really their fault, but every time I hear it, it gets to me.

It was infact an anecdote about an anecdote about an anecdote given context with an anecdote about a person looking for an anecdote. A 5 fold anecdote.

WalterLiddy "rip her to shreds"? People in the comments really do use some ridiculous metaphors to describe literally jokes.

ConspiracyJuice it's called creative language, maybe you should try it sometime

It's not even the language use. It's just people in the comments have such a childish idea of what comedians do. They seem to think panel shows are like rap battles and every comedian is trying to 'put the other down' and outwit the other. And I just don't consider Ayoade potentially making a lighthearted joke about her repeating an anecdote (something that isn't even witty, just a casual observation) as 'ripping her to shreds'.

WalterLiddy, would you also call someone gentlemanly for not walking around punching people in the face? I mean, if they *could* do it and they don't, it merits applause and respect, right?

I understand your reaction, ConspiracyJuice, and agree that there is a tendency to exaggerate the ways in which comedians interact. In an episode of The Comedian's Comedian, Stewart Lee cites a main reason for his absence on panel shows being that very notion that it is a game of one-upmanship and that the participants are just jostling to most cleverly put down each other.

He dined out in* one. ;)

I'll agree, except I have to add Richard Burton...of course there are two flaws with my justification - apart from the obvious one, he was also an alcoholic so probably bored people silly repeating himself. But oh, that voice...

cheekyegg and David Attenborough

I am fairly certain that it is illegal by several paragraphs in books of royal law to not write out BRIAN BLESSED!!!s name in all caps and a minimum of two exclamation marks.

FACT

Can't stand Gabby Logan.

manhole

apparently, I can't tell apart white blond Gabbies. Does that make me racist?

Czeckie it makes you Gabby-ist

Why can't he be beautiful and she be amazing? Pray?

Boom boom!

fongfongy I work with a kiwi guy and he told me it actually used to be somewhat common for people to cut ofd their fingers or toes for a pay out. They used to give a pretty big compo for losing a finger at work so the lazy ones or the ones that were bad with money would do it every so often if they wanted a quick bit of cash. They changed the law now though so it's not quite as easy

Well I am a New Zealander and there is very few people around with missing fingers. I think we discovered health and safety.

jungefrau 😂

Only if you make the telling of it into a story. If you simply tell them, you're just telling them.

... by being the subject of an anecdote, actually.

@@interestedbystander196 fair enough

Oh, I don't know if you will read this, but your comment had me laughing heartily! The pure way you describe the sensation of having realized you're telling a story going nowhere interesting at all, and how you pitifully try to give the audience what they tuned in for is hilarious!

quite a long time ago

Paul Merton stopped in 2007. The show came back with Frank Skinner in 2012.

Showsni 1942 ish

Really? I don't think they look at all alike. Or sound alike. Or do similar material. Or have similar personalities. Otherwise I agree with your question completely.

Room 101

yeah

vasquezovj65 it's British, so both

Both and neither. It's basically a show where celebs rant about things that annoy them, and the person who gets most of their pet hates put into Room 101 by Frank wins the show (but no one cares who wins)

It's what is referred to in Britain as a panel show. There are tons of them on British television.

Room 101

MsDoctorCooper room 101

It's pretty shit because of the host, but there are some good bits with certain guests.

Bruce William: I like Frank!

No, I'm British. His humour doesn't appeal to me. This might surprise you, but not every British person likes him based solely on the fact they're British.

MsDoctorCooper room 101

Bryon Lape nah. Too much work done.

Bryon Lape Oh yes, I love a bit of Gabby Logan.

Challenge accepted

I'd be surprised, he looked like he was genuinely having fun doing it, in Richard's withdrawn kind of manner.