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New kinane special comin' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkDON4lAweI March 8th El Gallinero Gros fucked around with this message at 05:45 on Feb 15, 2024 |
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El Gallinero Gros posted:New kinane special comin' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKlXRfefpdA He also just uploaded the video recording of Trampoline in a Ditch.
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Feb 15, 2024 13:36
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George H.W. oval office posted:I'm going to see Tim Robinson in April and I'm pretty pumped about it. I have no idea how his stand up will be I feel like you're just going for the zipline.
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Feb 16, 2024 00:56
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Medullah posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKlXRfefpdA That's been up for a while, shocks n struts too. I think his older specials are also on youtube either on comedy central's page or his page.
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Feb 16, 2024 06:52
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I think he recently re-uploaded it or something, because it popped up as a "new" video for me too
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Feb 16, 2024 07:16
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George H.W. oval office posted:I'm going to see Tim Robinson in April and I'm pretty pumped about it. I have no idea how his stand up will be Mister Speaker posted:I feel like you're just going for the zipline. don't go if you're just gonna try and make him talk!!!
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Feb 16, 2024 14:48
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New Rory Scovel special on Max is great!
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Feb 25, 2024 07:07
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Lots of Richard Lewis tributes and interviews floating around recently. Was he really a legend? Because I never got it. I never really liked his stand up or found him very funny but I guess he's perceived as a borderline icon. As far as self deprecating comic acts go, I prefer Marc Maron, Jim Jefferies and many others. I think a lot of it for me is Lewis' delivery, rhythm and timing, along with the sense that his entire act never had room to breathe or give any pacing to the style. It's been a while since I listened to his stuff but, from memory, it reminds me of late stage Carlin, where the whole act is just a onenote bitch/whine fest and it became more depressing than funny for me. They're different in content but similar in execution for me. I enjoy dark comedy but Lewis (and old man George) came off as kind of playing one long angry sad song instead of doing a real set list, if that makes sense.
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Mar 2, 2024 22:16
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Say what you will but the man could sell an adult juice box like no other.
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Mar 2, 2024 22:35
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BiggerBoat posted:Lots of Richard Lewis tributes and interviews floating around recently. Was he really a legend? Yep. But we all dig different stuff. I also think he's really good on Curb Your Enthusiasm, and I was listening to his new podcast lately, also always enjoyed him on stuff like Gilbert Gottfried's podcast. I'll say for me, half of what I enjoy about comedy is just an interesting person. I like Richard, he's interesting, he's funny, I think he's a legend for sure.
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Mar 2, 2024 22:41
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Heavy Metal posted:Yep. But we all dig different stuff. I also think he's really good on Curb Your Enthusiasm, and I was listening to his new podcast lately, also always enjoyed him on stuff like Gilbert Gottfried's podcast. I'll say for me, half of what I enjoy about comedy is just an interesting person. I like Richard, he's interesting, he's funny, I think he's a legend for sure. Oh, no doubt. That's the most interesting thing about comedy for me. Also horror. What's funny and/or scary is probably the most subjective thing I can think of and varies SO much from person to person. I never really watched Curb so I can't comment on his performance there and I agree that Lewis was, at a minimum, interesting. NPR aired some interviews with him this week and he definitely comes off as intelligent, honest and coming from a good place. I just never really dug his stand up, at least the specials and stuff that I watched.
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Mar 3, 2024 01:16
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BiggerBoat posted:Lots of Richard Lewis tributes and interviews floating around recently. Was he really a legend? Because I never got it. He's a legend to me, but he's also one of the first stand-up comedians I really liked and connected with. I saw a lot of him as a kid on Comedy Central (Channel?) in the early/mid 90s. He was one of the first comics I saw that actually seemed cool and without that hacky vibe a lot of comics have. I watched a never ending parade of stand-up as a kid and he really stood out and felt like something special. But I also really liked Carlin too so it might just be a different taste thing.
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Mar 3, 2024 01:50
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Tony Phillips posted:The tickets I just bought are for an upcoming theater tour - his first. Here in MN he's playing a theater with just over 1000 seats. So this show was last night and tickets were sold out well in advance. Place was packed and it was great. Just going to assume Siddiq is doing far better than I realized.
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Mar 3, 2024 16:15
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1glitch0 posted:He's a legend to me, but he's also one of the first stand-up comedians I really liked and connected with. I saw a lot of him as a kid on Comedy Central (Channel?) in the early/mid 90s. He was one of the first comics I saw that actually seemed cool and without that hacky vibe a lot of comics have. I watched a never ending parade of stand-up as a kid and he really stood out and felt like something special. But I also really liked Carlin too so it might just be a different taste thing. I adore George Carlin. He's one of my favorite comics of all time. But somewhere I want to say around the mid to late 90's, the stuff he was doing struck me as more of an angry, bitter, old man rant and I recall being let down by an HBO special of his for the very first time. I forget which show it was but it was just...hostile more than funny. I get why people liked Lewis and he seems like a cool enough guy. I just never clicked with him.
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Mar 3, 2024 18:00
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There's bombing and then there's this https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/comedian-nick-swardson-escorted-off-203804886.html
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Mar 5, 2024 14:51
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The new Kyle Kinane special rules
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Mar 5, 2024 20:25
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I get the feeling that Lewis was on the cutting edge of certain material such as being in recovery from alcoholism and bipolar disorder (then called manic depression) only know him from late night shows and Curb Your Enthusiasm and when I was younger I never quite "got it" but now I think he's pretty hilarious, at least for someone who was older than my dad.
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Mar 7, 2024 04:15
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Lewis kvetched so that Gulman could gripe.
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Mar 7, 2024 16:56
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Out: hecklers interrupting a show In: a live break-up(?) in the front row interrupting a show https://twitter.com/atsukocomedy/status/1765430929705631775?s=61&t=p3q_Jh3l7EiiLtw3f9k_8Q https://twitter.com/atsukocomedy/status/1765448461262987524?s=61&t=p3q_Jh3l7EiiLtw3f9k_8Q
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Mar 7, 2024 22:47
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DC Murderverse posted:Out: hecklers interrupting a show What was the joke that set them off? I have to imagine some punchline or something hit a little too close to home for the couple. Also, it sucks that when I see this stuff, I become immediately suspicious that it's all a set up to go viral.
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Mar 8, 2024 02:38
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BiggerBoat posted:What was the joke that set them off? I have to imagine some punchline or something hit a little too close to home for the couple. Not sure how true it is, but found this on Reddit.  Makes sense with him being basically escorted out.
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Mar 8, 2024 16:26
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BiggerBoat posted:I adore George Carlin. He's one of my favorite comics of all time. But somewhere I want to say around the mid to late 90's, the stuff he was doing struck me as more of an angry, bitter, old man rant and I recall being let down by an HBO special of his for the very first time. I forget which show it was but it was just...hostile more than funny. My dad and I are huge Carlin fans, and he always had the same opinion on his later stuff. I was always more forgiving because while my dad became kinder and mellower in his old age, I've gone in the opposite direction.
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Mar 10, 2024 19:02
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About 13 years ago (thanks, gmail history) I saw Dave Attell do standup and that was probably my first live comedy show. Watching his new special Hot Cross Buns on Netflix that just dropped, I feel like I'm a kid again. Dude hasn't lost a step.
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Only George Carlin I know is from Thomas and Friends but that's just because I was a huge fan of that show and someone even become a model for a rideable Thomas the tank toy. Actually, I think I did see his later stuff and thought he was an angry comedian, which was pretty confusing. I should really check out his older stuff one of these days. Or is it pretty dated? Does it still hold up?
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Mar 29, 2024 03:16
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I’m sure some of it is a little dated but the best stuff still hits. The 7 words bit is a particularly outdated since you can say a good portion of these words on network television these days but it’s really one of the high points of his jokes about words and semantics, because it’s obscene but never angry or particularly offensive unless you’re a real fuddy duddy https://youtu.be/8dCIKqkIg1w?si=iVMLbUbODHvlj31K edit1: another of my favorite older Carlin bits, it’s a lot better than his baseball/football bit https://youtu.be/SSe-_SBBjI4?si=Vu6vRNT2fE-9dUfm DC Murderverse fucked around with this message at 03:38 on Mar 29, 2024 |
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Mar 29, 2024 03:25
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I think the first standup special i really sat down and watched all of, turning me on to the genre, was Robin Williams Live on Broadway. Prior to that (and Death to Smoochy the same year) I don't think I was even aware that he was a fantastically vulgar comic and it really opened my eyes to the whole genre. Imagine how much funny poo poo that man would have to say at the state of the world if he were still alive. 
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Mar 29, 2024 03:48
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I think a lot of people around my age have that experience with Robin Williams because as someone who is square in the middle of Millenialhood my first intro to Robin was as Genie and as an actor in in mostly family comedies, and the first time you see him really let loose is an eye opener. Especially because he was my dad’s age and he had very dad vibes as a guy generally. Obviously given how his kids seem to have turned out he was probably a pretty good dad on the whole, even with the whole mental illness and addiction thing.
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XIII posted:The new Kyle Kinane special rules As does his new look https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijTrsOl6ykU
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Cael posted:About 13 years ago (thanks, gmail history) I saw Dave Attell do standup and that was probably my first live comedy show. Watching his new special Hot Cross Buns on Netflix that just dropped, I feel like I'm a kid again. Dude hasn't lost a step. Jesselnick should be ready for a special by now I think, his act was loving solid 2 years ago..
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I don't know Alex Edelman but I guess his new special largely centers around him going to a meeting of White Nationalists in NYC so I'm kind of curious about it. E Also, I guess this is stand up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJYS0IIN7hc I really like Triumph the Insult comic Dog and here he's doing a game show in SF with Adam Savage, Rob Schneider and Weird AL Yankovic, so right away a weird panel. Lots of good counter examples to "you can't say or make jokes about things anymore". I got a kick out of it. BiggerBoat fucked around with this message at 16:11 on Mar 30, 2024 |
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Mar 29, 2024 12:28
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Kinane's newest special is up on YT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czchKlwI85w
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Kinane's newest special is up on YT This might be my favorite of his specials. I laughed hysterically. The whole cat story was magic.
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New Neal Brennan special on Netflix is good, there's an absolute jaw dropping joke that I'll not spoil
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My wife and I enjoyed Kyle Kinane's new special on YouTube, Ramy Youssef's new special on Max (I had never seen his previous special or his Hulu show), and the new special from a comic I had never heard of, Hank Chen, on Prime. Chen actually performs "sit-down" comedy rather than stand-up, since it was shot days after he was in a bad motorcycle accident. We both adore Tig Notaro, but we agreed her new special on Prime wasn't nearly as good as her others.
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I enjoyed the new Demetri Martin special but he's always been one of my favorites. Not as much music in this one but that's fine, it looks like there's going to be a direct sequel to the stand up special, which is already a funny idea on it's own.
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I've lost access to Netflix once again. Can I get some recs for great specials on YouTube? Current, older, it doesn't matter. I've already queued up the Kyle Kinane one and am excited about it 
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there's a new Dave Attell one on Youtube.
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Doc Fission posted:I've lost access to Netflix once again. Can I get some recs for great specials on YouTube? Current, older, it doesn't matter. I've already queued up the Kyle Kinane one and am excited about it I would suggest year of the dragon by nick mullen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBlQBm5pReQ the toad’s morale by Sam tallent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eIUA1jfEk0
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jodai posted:I enjoyed the new Demetri Martin special but he's always been one of my favorites. Not as much music in this one but that's fine, it looks like there's going to be a direct sequel to the stand up special, which is already a funny idea on it's own. I'm going to see him tape the sequel to this special tonight! I'll let the thread know how it was.
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Alright, post-special thoughts time! Going to keep it spoiler-free, but I'm going to tag my thoughts anyway just in case people don't want to know how the sausage is made for something like this. Wow, I really was not expecting that to be as long as it was. I had tickets to the late show which was supposed to start at 8:30, but ended up starting close to 10 PM. From what we heard from the employees when we got in, not only did Demetri start late for the first show but had an incredibly long set. I found my seats in the mezzanine, which, protip for anyone going to a taped show in the future, is where you want to be (or the balcony proper) if you want the ability to go use the restroom midset without blocking the cameras with your dumb head. He had a host come on and explain what the deal was: because of how the specials are edited, Demetri has to take many small breaks in the set to reset the shot for a new prop or whathaveyou. He also mentioned that we shouldn't leave our seats immediately when the show "concluded" because they were going to shoot more footage after. The host then did a small set of comedy that honestly, I was pretty stone-faced to. I don't think he was awful and he didn't bomb or anything, but after an extra 90 minutes of waiting all I wanted to see was Demetri. It was a short set though (not sure if it was even a full 10 minutes), and soon enough Demetri was on. The general flow of his set went like this: No Props -> Sketchpad -> No Props -> Music (not gonna say the instrument!) -> No Props So, he was alternating between doing something with a prop and without throughout. Some things of note that happened that weren't jokes: 1. Demetri screwed up the very beginning lines of his set this time and had to rerecord his entrance to the stage. He used this time to apologize again to us for the delay and said that typically, comedians use the second take for their specials so, with all hope, what we got to see was what Netflix viewers will too. If you hear someone finger whistling, it's probably footage from the late taping! 2. That being said, Demetri seemed nervous in a way I wasn't anticipating. I saw him once before in Boulder on his "Wandering Mind" tour in 2019, which I recalled him being a confident dude then and I'm sad that tour never got turned into a special due to COVID. Not going to speculate too much on the anxiety but it's notable because, since it was being taped, he ended up resetting his jokes a lot because of a small stutter or because he wanted to use different verbiage for the joke. 3. Also, I know I wasn't going to say anything about the jokes but I will mention that there were two jokes at least that were very similar to this set he did on Conan twenty years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1hts5eaXTs. Now, they weren't one-to-one retellings of the same jokes, but they followed the same premise and one of them even had the same punchline too. I guess it's fair game at this point since two decades have passed, but I'm wondering if there were other reused jokes that weren't fresh in my mind since the YouTube algorithm pushed this to me before the show. 4. Between the set changes, Demetri was still miced up and would try to give little funny interjections or thank us for our patience as it dawned on us why this was an "incredibly long set." Getting an instrument or canvas out was a whole ordeal because of the cameras. I remember the energy of the room significantly diminishing on the second "No Prop" section of the set (probably getting the first take from the cutting room floor), but the first music section revitalized the audience for the most part. 5. Not only did this set take forever due to stage resets, but there were a couple of continuity resets as well. Once for a curtain accidentally opening in the background, and once for a hair reset lol. All things considered, I don't think I've ever been more exhausted attending an event that straight-up wasn't a multi-day festival. 6. Demetri "finishes" his set with a strong no-prop section that clearly has the closing joke in it, or at least it should be in the special with how they edit it. Now, remember how the host said earlier that they were going to shoot more footage after the show? He comes back on again and reiterates this, and the way he phrases it kinda makes it sound like it's like, some audience b-roll? The host gets to do a little more comedy before Demetri comes back out. Now, this combined with how tired everyone is causes about thirty people I can see in the upper section (not sure about the lower) to leave the show early. 7. Turns out, the host could only get a half-joke in before Demetri came back out and did an encore with a little bit of audience b-roll lmfao. We got a whole extra No Prop -> Sketchpad -> Music section that a good chunk of people didn't see, albeit I was almost falling asleep by the end. Not because the content is bad, mind you (though what ended up being the final joke we heard was way weaker than the presumed special closer), but because it is fuckign 12:30 AM and I thought I'd be home at least an hour ago. So, I don't blame anybody if they had to tap out early. If you see empty seats, it wasn't because the show had unsold tickets! I think that's all I have to say about the show. I am not sure how I'd rate it, and honestly, I don't think I can until I see the final product. So much of it hinged on how it comes together in the editing room that I'm not sure I can recommend seeing Demetri when he's being taped. My experience with the material was probably a 7/10, but if I were seeing it without the constant interruptions or had it started on time it'd easily go up a point or two. There was something special about getting to take a behind-the-scenes look at it though, and you can't really put a score on that aspect of it.
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