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.
This reminds me the time Richard appeared on a quiz show and responded to the topic of anecdotes by relating how he hated people retelling anecdotes that they knew he had previously heard.
This is where you see how gentlemanly Ayoade is. When she starts (apparently un-selfconsciously) relating an anecdote, he COULD have chosen to rip her to shreds. You know he could. Undercutting other people's jokes with far less provocation is his specialty. But he didn't.
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.
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.
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.
I've got a good story. You're going to love this. My Uncle Alton only had three fingers on his right hand; his thumb, little finger, and ring finger. I asked him how he lost his fingers. He told me he bet $20 he could hold back a 5 HP motor by the belt and it pulled his index finger through the pulley! I then asked about his middle finger. He said "Well I had to go double or nothing!" True story!
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...
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.
I went up to a complete stranger on a hot summers day in 2017 He was watering his flowers in his small front garden and asked him to hose me down. As he was doing this the water, mysteriously, went off and his wife turned it off mid-street shower ! Luckily he persuaded her to turn it back on, This was in Greenwich in South East London having been on a London Boat Trip along The Thames and making my way back to the train station. It's an anecdote....
i love bill bailey but ive 3 dvds of his seperate shows where he has basically the same performance of jokes with a little ad lib thrown in. so i get Richard there.
That thumb anecdote actually reminded me of when I was also working in a saw mill, also in NZ, and a chap sawed all the fingers of his right hand off. Must be what people travel here for I guess.
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
Although Richard did accuse jimmy Carr of looking like Roger Fedderer, this was after Jimmy had suggested He was a ‘downs’ Roger Fedderer in his live show! Repeated anecdote......I rest my case m’lord.
Anyone ever have a friend try and tell either yourself, or others, one of your anecdotes and get it wrong and miss details?? Happened to me once years ago in a bar with my drunk friend who used to love repeating his stories. And i cant even remember the story now as i forget most of mine
When you tell someone a fun fact and they say it right back to you a few weeks later. My mum tells me about the liver being able to repair itself up to about 80%. She tells me that and makes an excuse for her being able to drink a lot of alcohol and I’m thinking in my head “what have I done”
Or has was once said to me when I said 'Here's something interesting'. And they said 'Interesting to who'. Of course I could have said 'Don't you mean to whom' but I was too busy laughing.
I've actually got one of the funniest anecdotes known to man, but I can't type it out here, because I don''t want anyone, e.g. a comedy writer, to steal it and claim it as their own. Speaking of which, I remember Peter Kay once re-telling a short anecdote that a contestant on 'Family fortunes' once told, in one of his stand up shows.
It all just code thought Richard is telling him this type of show will go on with out him being on it he's showing this is all for the host not the panellist
my husband has the habit of telling stories about weird things that happened to me as if they had happened to him and I often think he has no idea they didn't.
I was hoping Richard or Frank would cut Gabby off at the exact moment she mentioned getting cut off... that would have been class. Nvm lol Also, I thought it was funny how there was a link between her not liking getting cut off and the theme of her favourite anecdote being things getting cut off.
However the thumb story is not an anecdote, hence why it is told with gusto, it is a joke that I must have first heard a variation of 40 years ago and it was old then. Gaby,did you not realise this?
The problem with my anecdotes, are that I often suddenly realise towards the end that nothing remotely interesting happened to tie up the story and have the listener amazed or amused. I'll try to make something of it by putting gusto into the way I conclude "...So, yeah, he and some toast.", but it really does nothing to disguise the fact that I've just told a story about a man who ran out of cereal one morning, so had something else to eat instead. I'll sometimes try to lie my way out of an awkward bum ending, but my pathetic imagination will more than likely let me down with a line as humdrum as "But he didn't have a butter, so he had some jam.". I'm so jealous of people who can spontaneously hold court with something interesting or funny. Bugger it. :-(
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!
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.
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)
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.
He says the husband often wrestles the anecdote away from his wife like he is stealing the glory. It's not really him disrespecting his wife so much as saving their friends from horrible story telling. Most women don't know how to stay on point with their stories or request too much feed back like "we were at Waterworld. Oh wait, Seaworld. Have you been there? It's so amazing. You have? Did you see the penguins? Well anyway, we were at Seaworld and ..."
'Im counter suggestable'. poetry.
What does it mean
Do you sell kitchens?
@@zid-ziddy-zid6821 That hes a sucker for reverse psychology
I love how Ayoade turns the show into a sensible, civilised discussion while still being funny.
"I've been asked to leave rooms of comedians." Somehow that's an incredibly funny, odd sentence.
Even worse is someone telling you an anecdote or joke you told them.
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.
"I don't need this to exist in real-time."
Richard Ayoade is amazing
Laughed so hard at it!
This reminds me the time Richard appeared on a quiz show and responded to the topic of anecdotes by relating how he hated people retelling anecdotes that they knew he had previously heard.
B. Hagedash I heard that story already.
This taught me more about social etiquette than anything in my life so far
Agreed
The beauty of this section is that as a comedian he makes his life off anecdotes and he also prompts the while panel to tell an anecdote
"I've been asked to leave rooms of comedians" that's an anecdote right there
What Richard describes so well is exactly how I've felt my entire life, only weren't able to put it into coherent words.
I wish I could find the anecdote to the poison I just drank...
got a funny story about being poisoned to death...
"Never let the truth get in the way of a good anecdote." (Family saying) i.e. "Don't correct me when I'm storytelling."
"I'm not lying, I'm writing fiction with my mouth." - Homer Simpson
I would love to have Richard Ayoade as my friend. Such a funny guy!
Cristian Villavicencio he wouldn't
Same🙂
Richard Ayoade begins an anecdote at 2:37.
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.
Would love to see Richard on Taskmaster
miranda panda i need that to happen
He actually would have made a great host for Taskmaster
PLEASE that would be hilarious
Those things next to them make it look like this is an interview with TV personalities on dialysis.
I live on the top floor of Anecdote Towers, but that's just another storey.
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.
This is where you see how gentlemanly Ayoade is. When she starts (apparently un-selfconsciously) relating an anecdote, he COULD have chosen to rip her to shreds. You know he could. Undercutting other people's jokes with far less provocation is his specialty. But he didn't.
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.
Richard Ayode : totally brilliant!
So Skinner did dine out on his anecdotes in the end!
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.
That was an anecdote about her husband telling an anecdote about a man telling an anecdote while chopping his thumb off. Triple anecdote inception. :o
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.
Love Frank Skinner. Everything he does is funny and decent
Gabby is a beautiful as always... and Richard... he is an amazing creature!
I just love them!!!
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?
I love the set !
A lovely bit, of a very good show.
Appropriate, as some Room 101 content is stuff recycled from people's stand-up acts.
Oddly enough this isn't the first time I've watched this clip.
So in a way, Frank did dine out on an anecdote.
He dined out in* one. ;)
I've got a good story. You're going to love this. My Uncle Alton only had three fingers on his right hand; his thumb, little finger, and ring finger. I asked him how he lost his fingers. He told me he bet $20 he could hold back a 5 HP motor by the belt and it pulled his index finger through the pulley! I then asked about his middle finger. He said "Well I had to go double or nothing!"
True story!
Boom boom!
The only person who should be allowed to repeat anecdotes is Brian Blessed
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
I went up to a complete stranger on a hot summers day in 2017 He was watering his flowers in his small front garden and asked him to hose me down. As he was doing this the water, mysteriously, went off and his wife turned it off mid-street shower ! Luckily he persuaded her to turn it back on, This was in Greenwich in South East London having been on a London Boat Trip along The Thames and making my way back to the train station. It's an anecdote....
beyond relatable, I love Richard
I love watching Richard Ayode but anything with Gabby in it is a bonus. The sexiest funniest lady on tv
Love him
For some reason I just cannot stop thinking about Moss relating that very funny Amsterdam story.
i love bill bailey but ive 3 dvds of his seperate shows where he has basically the same performance of jokes with a little ad lib thrown in. so i get Richard there.
"I don't need this to exist in real time"
hard to believe he's friends with Noel "has used the same bit about spiders in every interview and show since he wrote it" Fielding
That thumb anecdote actually reminded me of when I was also working in a saw mill, also in NZ, and a chap sawed all the fingers of his right hand off. Must be what people travel here for I guess.
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.
Although Richard did accuse jimmy Carr of looking like Roger Fedderer, this was after Jimmy had suggested He was a ‘downs’ Roger Fedderer in his live show! Repeated anecdote......I rest my case m’lord.
This dude is insane funny
Anyone ever have a friend try and tell either yourself, or others, one of your anecdotes and get it wrong and miss details?? Happened to me once years ago in a bar with my drunk friend who used to love repeating his stories. And i cant even remember the story now as i forget most of mine
"Richard, It's a bonus choice, it's going into Room 101" Classic!
The woman was brave to tell an anecdote
That sawmill story: two thumbs up!
Didn't expect to click on a Richard Ayoade video and up feeling bad for Kenny Logan
The worst is when they tell an anecdote you told them or were even there for!!
I would love if he started with “allow me to explain this with a short story”
When you tell someone a fun fact and they say it right back to you a few weeks later. My mum tells me about the liver being able to repair itself up to about 80%. She tells me that and makes an excuse for her being able to drink a lot of alcohol and I’m thinking in my head “what have I done”
Richard was brilliant on "The IT Crowd".
Have Richard Ayoade and Stephen Fry already met? Just imagine the possibilities.
Or has was once said to me when I said 'Here's something interesting'. And they said 'Interesting to who'. Of course I could have said 'Don't you mean to whom' but I was too busy laughing.
Frank Skinner sounds like Henning Wehn
Can't unhear it
It is kind of impossible to bash anecdotes without telling one in the process.
No one mentioning Frank's brilliant joke at the end.
I have already seen this video.
That was an Aussie accent Gabby did for the kiwi! haha from NZ.
It's just like TH-cam comments that type out jokes from the video you've just watched.
Except it's not even their anecdote to tell.
I've actually got one of the funniest anecdotes known to man, but I can't type it out here, because I don''t want anyone, e.g. a comedy writer, to steal it and claim it as their own. Speaking of which, I remember Peter Kay once re-telling a short anecdote that a contestant on 'Family fortunes' once told, in one of his stand up shows.
Oh I miss Frank and the Cockrel, so good together.
I lost all 10 of my fingers telling that one 9 more times.
"There once was a joke in Birmingham.. and I have reworked it in every concivable way"
Anecdote
a short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person.
It all just code thought Richard is telling him this type of show will go on with out him being on it he's showing this is all for the host not the panellist
my husband has the habit of telling stories about weird things that happened to me as if they had happened to him and I often think he has no idea they didn't.
jungefrau 😂
Well he does have anecdotes because he is telling one
Uh oh ...spot 'the single handclap of ultimate witticism' (2.46).
The premise of putting things into Room 101 has become very sinister after reading 1984 and learning what the purpose of that room really is..
He's never dined on an anecdote he says then proceeds to tell an anecdote where he scores a bacon sarnie and a coke for an anecdote
... by being the subject of an anecdote, actually.
@@interestedbystander196 fair enough
is that Peter Crouch?
why did he just wonder into someones home in the morning anyway? why not knock? why even do this anyway? i'm so confused
2:28 Omg Half-Life 3 confirmed!
so if I tell someone about his video, am I telling an anecdote about an anecdote about an anecdote?
Only if you make the telling of it into a story. If you simply tell them, you're just telling them.
Who has 2 thumbs and loves a good anecdote?
I was hoping Richard or Frank would cut Gabby off at the exact moment she mentioned getting cut off... that would have been class. Nvm lol
Also, I thought it was funny how there was a link between her not liking getting cut off and the theme of her favourite anecdote being things getting cut off.
whos that dude in da middle ? asking for a friend
I think of this when a comedian recycles a bit from their standup while on a panel show.
However the thumb story is not an anecdote, hence why it is told with gusto, it is a joke that I must have first heard a variation of 40 years ago and it was old then. Gaby,did you not realise this?
The problem with my anecdotes, are that I often suddenly realise towards the end that nothing remotely interesting happened to tie up the story and have the listener amazed or amused. I'll try to make something of it by putting gusto into the way I conclude "...So, yeah, he and some toast.", but it really does nothing to disguise the fact that I've just told a story about a man who ran out of cereal one morning, so had something else to eat instead. I'll sometimes try to lie my way out of an awkward bum ending, but my pathetic imagination will more than likely let me down with a line as humdrum as "But he didn't have a butter, so he had some jam.". I'm so jealous of people who can spontaneously hold court with something interesting or funny.
Bugger it. :-(
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!
What show is this, and why does Richard look so young?
I give Gabby's anecdote 2 thumbs up and 2 thumbs down at the same time.
This guy and that Cleveland cartoon have to be the whitest black guys that ever existed
This isn't Paul Merton. When did Room 101 get a new host?
quite a long time ago
Paul Merton stopped in 2007. The show came back with Frank Skinner in 2012.
Showsni 1942 ish
Gabby is quite nice.
Bryon Lape nah. Too much work done.
Bryon Lape Oh yes, I love a bit of Gabby Logan.
Which program is this?
Room 101
Why is Jemaine calling himself Richard now?
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.
Was that a game show or a talk show?
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
What show is this from?
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
He's very funny but such an egomaniac.
The lady there basically stealing a bit of Lee Evans stand up
Get the fuck out of my house frank, use some of that room 101 money to buy a drink
Dont think he will stick with crystal maze
I'd be surprised, he looked like he was genuinely having fun doing it, in Richard's withdrawn kind of manner.
Third?
Challenge accepted
Frank Skinner believes God is real.
Wth is this show?
asd
He says the husband often wrestles the anecdote away from his wife like he is stealing the glory. It's not really him disrespecting his wife so much as saving their friends from horrible story telling. Most women don't know how to stay on point with their stories or request too much feed back like "we were at Waterworld. Oh wait, Seaworld. Have you been there? It's so amazing. You have? Did you see the penguins? Well anyway, we were at Seaworld and ..."
Worst phrase I ever hear. From my wife. Yes you told me this already.or we talked about this slready.