r/opieandanthony: Parallel thinking? Ted Chippington - a stand-up from the 80's who purposely bombed in front of hostile crowds for his own amusement. Considered a big influence on Stewart Lee, Phil Jupitus, and Simon Munnery. Xpost from r/standup

That's where the similarity begins and ends. Telling bad jokes and puns is a British tradition as old as never brushing their teeth. Their newspapers have Chip-esque pun headlines every day.

8 truthie 2016-02-13

You are such a dud.

-7 Ant_Sucks 2016-02-13

a dude?

4 truthie 2016-02-13

Nope.

19 [deleted] 2016-02-13

If its from overseas, he doesn't know about it. Nobody in the US knows or cares about bad British stand-up comedy, your most notable guys like Tim Minchin are almost completely unknown here. And thats without the time displacement of 30 years.

Andy Kaufman used to fuck with audiences too, the point I'm making is that a) British comedians suck, b) OP is retarded.

11 talkingapeinspace 2016-02-13

Tim Minchin is Australian. Pretty sure Ricky Gervais is known in the US. Retard.

7 samsterlicious 2016-02-13

Not for his standup

1 breadmoccasin 2016-02-13

He didn't get into standup until later in his career. He started in radio, then television, then standup. Most here know him as "a guy on TV".

4 BradStorch 2016-02-13

I thought Tim Minchin was Australian...

10 Dagidugidai 2016-02-13

What's the difference?

5 cabaretcabaret 2016-02-13

They dislike one other while simultaneously emegrating in droves to live in the other's country

8 Luuvstewspewg 2016-02-13

They're all pink on the inside.

2 [deleted] 2016-02-13

I guess that shows how much people in the US actually know or care.

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1 cabaretcabaret 2016-02-13

Tim Minchin is Australian

-2 12YearOldGayKids 2016-02-13

Stewart Lee is better than any American comedian alive, unquestionably.

-7 Jake_91_420 2016-02-13

Ted Chippington is highly regarded by the alternative comedy scene here in the UK. The worlds best current stand up (Stewart Lee) claims Chippington was an instrumental influence in his career and style. It's completely reasonable that a "professional" "comic" such as Norton, has seen some of Chippingtons material at some point.

10 panjshirlion 2016-02-13

Not a single person on this sub had ever heard of him until just now.

-4 Jake_91_420 2016-02-13

This sub is hardly the litmus test for great comedy... you cunts listen to the likes of Joe Rogan and Jim Norton's stand up. Stewart Lee's performances have an element of true self awareness and brutal realism that just doesn't exist in the US on any level. Lee isn't "Disney" or "Walmart" comedy like in the US, so that's why you lot don't know who he is, Lee even does a bit about American stand ups which rings very true to anyone familiar with American comedy.

5 Joemomma101 2016-02-13

British people always talk about how awesome their comedians are, so I look them up, and they always suck. I'll give this guy a chance though. Isn't there some shitty black American comedian who is real famous in Britain? Reginald Hunter.

5 Joemomma101 2016-02-13

I just watched a Stewart Lee video " Sad Comedy", it was horrendously unfunny just like I thought. "You were crying at a stand up show, well that's not any good is it." And the crowd is dying laughing. Am I missing something?

2 Dennyislife 2016-02-13

please you are embarrassing us english. Our stand up sucks dick. It's okay to admit it without losing face.

That said i've watched this clip of Stewart Lee's dozens of times https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1H913UqQ6w

-7 Jake_91_420 2016-02-13

Lee Evans and the like are horrendous, any bbc4 stand up or extreme mainstream (Michael McIntyre, Russell Howard) is also bullshit. But US stand up involves a lot of shouting and "WHATS UP WITH THAT!?!?". In my opinion Stew is orders of magnitude better than Norton, Rogan, Joey Diaz or anyone else from the Hack Brigade.

2 Dennyislife 2016-02-13

All stand up along the lines of Whats up with that. Which is why i'm not a massive fan of it and prefer conversational style of comedy

-4 Jake_91_420 2016-02-13

That style is called "observational comedy" and does not comprise the entirety of stand up, except in the US.

4 Dennyislife 2016-02-13

Okay. I'm off to watch the 345th dvd of the same jokes by Peter Kay.

-4 Jake_91_420 2016-02-13

I would class Peter Kay as a vapid and bullshit mainstream stand up along with Lee Evans and McIntyre.

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5 sanfrancisco69er 2016-02-13

no its not, and the "worlds best" is some faggot no one in america(the only place where 100% of stand up doesnt suck, only abut 90% of it does) has ever heard of? the fuck outta here...

2 cabaretcabaret 2016-02-13

Ted Chippington is only known by anyone who went to fall gigs in the early eighties, or watched Stewart Lee do a 10 minute segment about him on the Culture Show a couple of years ago. He's not highly regarded, he's an underground act a handful of comic reminisce about.

18 jonesy6969 2016-02-13

is a weird coincidence

14 [deleted] 2016-02-13

Holy mother of fuck .... He's even got the "chip" in his name. Let's see what Nor-TONE has to say about this.

9 ElegantLordOTheManor 2016-02-13

Did he influence Neil Hamburger too?

7 WiretapStudios 2016-02-13

HAMMMMMBURGER

3 [deleted] 2016-02-13

"I don't appreciate being called a rapist"

"well then don't rape"

9 MasterShake1171 2016-02-13

Jokes on you, Jim doesn't watch other stand ups.

6 MrKrinkel 2016-02-13

Didn't Andy Kaufman bomb on purpose? He sucked it hard and dummies love him for it

2 racemic_mixture 2016-02-13

Andy Kaufman flat out sucked. They couldn't even have a movie about him be interesting or funny.

4 sanfrancisco69er 2016-02-13

Lol there was no stealing here. There's a place in England called Chipping Norton, and this guy's style of bombing on purpose is nowhere close to original, like all other british comics.

4 Brn414 2016-02-13

If anyone feels like listening to 01-2005 through probably 03-2005, Jim invites Kenny into the studio to either do a character or tell jokes. Its fucking Chip, and Jim ripped it off. I'm not about to go back and listen to that much shit again unless my internet breaks.

4 FatMustacheCunt 2016-02-13

Ted's "Tss, or sumpthin'" Emporium!

3 Dennyislife 2016-02-13

lol at thinking Jim has the same influences as the fat unfunny one from nevermind the buzzcocks uk version.

2 daveyDuo 2016-02-13

Just a coincidence. This seems completely different than the Chip character. Only similarity is the name, which doesn't count for much.

2 Abyss_Squid 2016-02-13

Stewart Lee, Phil Jupitus, & Simon Munnery. Literally a gaggle of who's?

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1 AssMcPlay 2016-02-13

thats what happens when u refuse to follow the comedy scene/industry that ur a part of

1 cabaretcabaret 2016-02-13

Phil Jupitus is a fat nothing. He'd love that because it's boring oxymoronic humour

1 Parallel_Thinking 2016-02-13

Wassat?

1 Abyss_Squid 2016-02-13

Reminds me of how there are 2 different comic strip series 1st published within days of eachother called Dennis the Mencace, one from the U.S. and the other from the U.K. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_the_Menace

1 cc1945 2016-02-13

Yeah guys

Jim saw this guy and used "Chippington" to create the Chip character he did privately to his girlfriend and also used the name Ted for an unrelated and different character on the show

That's 100% what happened

This subreddit can be legitimately embarrassing

0 panjshirlion 2016-02-13

This joke stealing hypervigilance is getting out of fucking hand.

0 JLBlades 2016-02-13

This place sure does love a witch hunt. Even if Jim got the chipperson name from this dude (I really can't see it), there is def no way is he taking his bit.

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-1 panjshirlion 2016-02-13

If you honestly think Jim saw this and based Chip on him, you are truly fucking retarded.

-2 OriginalPostSearcher 2016-02-13

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-9 MaxKawalski 2016-02-13

That guy was funnier than anything that egg-headed, closeted bitch Norton has ever said.

2 meanmug247 2016-02-13

He was amusing but I have to disagree. Jimmy before sex for Sam happened was pretty darn funny.

0 bizzlbone 2016-02-13

Fuck off

0 MaxKawalski 2016-02-13

Make me, dickhead.