Stand up comedy
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The fact that Artie Lange is still alive is nothing short of a miracle.
That’s the funniest thing you’ve posted in the thread. Maybe you would like to join the rest of us and talk about actual comedians.
There haven't been many if any more naturally funny human beings than Carlin, Pryor, Don Rickles and Robin Williams.
It was amazing to watch Rickles charm others into enjoying his insult.
Stand-up it's Bill Burr in a class of his own. His opening acts were actually really damn funny, Paul Verzi was one and I forget the other. The other guy kind of looked like Q from Impractical Jokers.
Haha he’s said in the past that he had worked on that material for 7+ years. It definitely seems like it. Entire thing is so airtight, funny but borderline uncomfortable because he’s so dead on.
That is probably the best thing about all of the new streaming services. It’s giving a lot of great acts a lot of exposure that would have never had a shot on network TV.
Exactly. back in the day the only uncensored platform was HBO, and albums/cassettes. When they did get on some others, the punch lines were interrupted by *beep*. *beeping autocorrect", I meant to say they were interrupted by *beep*. Oh, for *beeps* sake. *beep* let the guys tell the joke without others monitoring.
Mulvaney is terrific. Saw him on Broadway ("Oh, Hello") with Nick Kroll and he knocked it out of the park. His family is entirely brilliant lawyers (big law partner dad, Northwestern professor mom, ADA brother) and he's probably making the most money out of all of them, which had to have been about +1500 odds.
I tried to get into Jesselnik's (sp?) new Netflix special and it just wasn't working for me. I loved his Comedy Central show (his evisceration of a clearly intoxicated TJ Miller was both spot on and needed), and his Twitter is pretty great b/c he's just smart enough to get away with being edgy. But his stand up was just very slowly delivered shock humor, which was clever but not really funny.
I appreciate Carlin's humor and especially his contribution to the genre (he is on the Mount Rushmore of stand up), but he's an auto-skip if I'm listening to a comedy radio station. Besides having heard everything several times already, a lot of his stand up is not even comedy but just observational stuff that teeters between conspiracy theory and "we're all fvcked" revelations. Pass.
I'll add one more thing about Burr. He plays a lot at one of the clubs near me so my buddy and I saw him half a dozen times over a couple month span. He did completely new sets every time. His ability to create new material on topical subjects is without peer.
The new guy I really like is Sam Morrill. He's a younger comic out of New York. Dark sarcastic stuff like Burr.
The new guy I really like is Sam Morrill. He's a younger comic out of New York. Dark sarcastic stuff like Burr.
I did standup comedy once about 7 years ago. It actually went pretty well but I have no interest in doing it again. It was a bucket list type thing. It's amazing how much prep went into a 5 minute set.
Last night my wife and i were talking about phalanges. She said the thumb wasn't a finger so I gave her the middle one.
Jewish women are like pennies. Only Jewish men would actually spend time trying to pick one up.
My ex-girlfriend is like my bike. Yeah, some black guy stole her from me too.
Well it's not, and just the middle one?
Rough Night for Mrs. Lurk..
She loved it. I set her up for that. Also, I shouldn't talk about all the things Mrs. Lurker
Dude.... you obviously haven’t given Bill Burr a chance. Saw an hour long set of his and I don’t think he told a single rehearsed joke. He just rants about shit. Spent 20 minutes telling a story about the puddle jumper flight he took to get to Milwaukee that had me in tears. It’s not like he’s up there telling knock knock jokes.
I constantly flip back and forth between octane and the comedy stations on XM radio....
G. Carlin
A. Jeselnik
J. Gaffigan
R. Dangerfield
M. Birbiglia
Lewis Black
Dimitri Martin
Jim Jefferies
Daniel Tosh
are some of my favorite ones.
G. Carlin
A. Jeselnik
J. Gaffigan
R. Dangerfield
M. Birbiglia
Lewis Black
Dimitri Martin
Jim Jefferies
Daniel Tosh
are some of my favorite ones.
Damn, I forgot about Tosh. I saw him in Vegas a few years ago and he was hilarious!
I'm also a fan of Mark Ellis ........ but he's too busy doing Schmoes know and and collider on youtube than his stand up.
Chapelle gave Burr his start
Murphy gave Chapelle his start
Pryor gave Murphy his start.
My personal favorites
Rock
Chapelle
Louis CK
Carlin
Pryor
Seinfeld
@Hank_ I just watched both of Daniel Sloss's sets on Netflix. They were awesome. Jigsaw was incredible. One of the best sets I've seen. Dude might be my spirit animal
I’ve been watching a lot of Drew Lynch videos on Facebook here lately. He has a stutter and he’s funny as hell. I watched one of his videos recently and he completely went off on one woman in the audience because she kept texting the entire time he was on stage. He didn’t say anything to her until the end of his routine then he completely ripped into her.
Speaking of being funny for sucking so bad this takes the cake. If you have never seen the situation on the roast of trump. Watch this shit immediately
Honest to God, I almost feel bad for the guy having to follow that one up. I don't know how you can.
I wondered how much he would stay stateside after getting those two released. Luckily, I think Conan is in love with him. He has him on like once a month now.
