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manyak posted:I was there too. he was good which show? I was at the 8pm one. DJ Demers was really great too.
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His album is available through AST -- I highly recommend it if you haven't listened.
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The Berzerker posted:which show? I was at the 8pm one. DJ Demers was really great too. I caught the 1030 one and I was also there friday night at 1030 for the naughtyham Robin hood improv thing. The standup was good, and i think hes coming into his own considering he has only actually been doing standup (rather than improv/sketch/impression stuff) for a couple years now. the Robin hood thing was funny enough but it was the first time they ever performed it, and it seemed kinda cobbled together and not super thought out, which i know is what improv is like but you know what i mean Friday night was the most surreal though because i showed up to the comedy bar early at like 10 to grab a drink, and i walked in and went to the washroom and James adomian is there at the urinal, with a beer in one hand leaning back with his cock out pissing, and as i walk in he looks me up and down and gives me a slight smile and nod and then goes on his way. i was joking with my friends that we should just leave before the set because it couldnt live up to him checking me out in the mens room especially surreal for me since even though ive gone to a lot of live comedy, my only other Star Struck moment was when i was watching some crappy local comic do crowdwork(also at the Comedy bar) around the time of Just for laughs, and marc maron came over and stood beside me in the back, watched for like 2 minutes and then went "yeah? really? thats it huh? well ok" and then left
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manyak posted:especially surreal for me since even though ive gone to a lot of live comedy, my only other Star Struck moment was when i was watching some crappy local comic do crowdwork(also at the Comedy bar) around the time of Just for laughs, and marc maron came over and stood beside me in the back, watched for like 2 minutes and then went "yeah? really? thats it huh? well ok" and then left This is so perfectly Marc Maron
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Asterios posted:I'm nearly though this week's DLM, and it's a really good episode. I'm a big fan of the Leonard Maltin Game, and Jeff Garlin of all people keeps Doug rushing through it to get as many rounds in as possible because he has "dinner plans." An episode where Jeff Garlin plays the game is a failed episode
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If you're in LA, Maria Bamford is doing a weekly residence at The Palace's Thursday show for the immediate future.
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Bubba Smith posted:This is so perfectly Marc Maron I walked by him one time. We locked eyes and I gave him a huge smile and we kept walking right by each other without breaking our gaze or speaking. I was an inch taller than him
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Man, Patton's new special is only on Epix and I can't get at it. :I They loving advertise that they are giving out free 14-day trials, but they apparently don't think to actually send the loving emails out for it, or whatever the goddamn deal there is. It's been 12 hours and I still can't watch it.
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Apoplexy posted:Man, Patton's new special is only on Epix and I can't get at it. :I They loving advertise that they are giving out free 14-day trials, but they apparently don't think to actually send the loving emails out for it, or whatever the goddamn deal there is. It's been 12 hours and I still can't watch it. You don't need the email, just click login with free trial and use the password you entered on sign-up. I just went from clicking the sign-up button to starting the video in like a minute. Make sure to check your Adblock/Ghostery/whatever because I couldn't find the login button with my normal settings. Thank you for reminding me it came out though!
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Ror posted:You don't need the email, just click login with free trial and use the password you entered on sign-up. I just went from clicking the sign-up button to starting the video in like a minute. Make sure to check your Adblock/Ghostery/whatever because I couldn't find the login button with my normal settings. Adblock was loving with me, that's what it was. Thanks!
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So, tonight I went and saw Jerry Sadowitz. I'd heard he was the kind of comic that other comics go and see, and I can see why. He was bafflingly good - utterly tasteless, offensive, racist, and yet delivered with such personality and desperate charm that I couldn't hate a second of it. It helped that he's a fantastic sleight-of-hand magician, too. My friends and I (who knew basically nothing about his act, other than "angry, offensive, also card tricks) were actually lost for words as we came out of the theatre. It was cathartic, challenging, and made my face hurt. All in all a pretty fantastic evening! (Basically yeah if you're interested in comedy at all go and see Jerry Sadowitz because wowsers)
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Apoplexy posted:Man, Patton's new special is only on Epix and I can't get at it. :I They loving advertise that they are giving out free 14-day trials, but they apparently don't think to actually send the loving emails out for it, or whatever the goddamn deal there is. It's been 12 hours and I still can't watch it. So what did everyone think of the special? I loved it (Patton is one of my favorite if not my favorite comedians), but I'm not sure I enjoyed it as much as his other specials. The stories were interesting but somehow seemed lighter on the punchlines. Still a really funny special though. Also, kudos to him for releasing it in a pseudo-free format. I'm not sure he planned the watch-for-free-with-free-trial thing when he signed on to epix, but he definitely tweeted about the trial before the special aired. And thanks to ya'll for the reminder, I almost forgot about that.
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Agreed. Good special, not Patton's best, but any Patton is superior to none. I love the payoff to his daughter's exposure to Wolfman.
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urk the quack posted:Louis CK just sent out an e-mail to announce he's releasing his old indie film tomorrow on his website. I'm hoping someone here buys it and gives a little review to see if it's worth buying. I watched a pile of his old black and white shorts on YouTube years ago and they ranged from mildly boring to mildly amusing. Did his last $5 special go up on Netflix really quickly? I know Aziz's and Gaffigan's both went up right after I bought them and it was kind of annoying.
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Patton's new one is probably the least awesome since Feelin' Kinda Patton in my eyes, but it's still great because he's one of my 3 favorite comics and just him being him on stage for an hour is awesome. And speaking of awesome! Last night I went to one of my usual open mics, and then after about 18 of mostly the usuals, the host announces "And now a REALLY special treat, Mister SEAN PATTON!" He came out and did maybe 15 minutes, was hilarious as you'd expect. And he was complimentary of the comics, stating at one point in his set, "Where are all your lovely open micers? Everyone was actually funny and wrote jokes and actually tried. Where's like the, WOMEN EH? gently caress EM! guy?" He had apparently gotten stranded in Nashville after a show and my friend DJ is giving him a ride to Atlanta, to be rewarded with some choice-rear end stage time. Cool night.
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I think I liked Patton's new one better than Finest Hour, not by much though. That long-rear end "nobody in Germany understood my jokes because NAZIS are a thing that happened!" bit he closed with was pretty dreadful.
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I didn't like his new special. And my least favorite parts were all the dad/kid jokes. Oh well.
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nerve posted:I didn't like his new special. And my least favorite parts were all the dad/kid jokes. Oh well. That's the problem with starting out with so much anger, it's hard to adjust your comedy when you're actually happy.
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I was at the special taping, and saw him in the same theater the year before when much of that material was being worked on. I vastly preferred how he delivered it when he was working on it. It was almost the exact same stuff, but delivered in a way which was more "classic Patton". For example, when talking about committing suicide to Toto in the grocery store, he diverged onto a really funny tangent about how insane the concept of a grocery store in the middle of a day is, for like 5 minutes, but in his final version it was boiled down to his one "shopping like a crazed Roman emperor" joke. His newer style seems to be focusing more on doing long anecdotes with a punchline, and it's not as good as what he's been known for.
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Space_Butler posted:I was at the special taping, and saw him in the same theater the year before when much of that material was being worked on. I vastly preferred how he delivered it when he was working on it. It was almost the exact same stuff, but delivered in a way which was more "classic Patton". For example, when talking about committing suicide to Toto in the grocery store, he diverged onto a really funny tangent about how insane the concept of a grocery store in the middle of a day is, for like 5 minutes, but in his final version it was boiled down to his one "shopping like a crazed Roman emperor" joke. His newer style seems to be focusing more on doing long anecdotes with a punchline, and it's not as good as what he's been known for. Huh, really funny that you brought this up, I had the exact same feeling. The special felt a bit sterile to me even though I loved a lot of the jokes. I saw him in July and if you were making a set list I'd say he did pretty much all of the same bits from the special. That Toto suicide bit was easily the funniest part for me but the whole grocery shopping thing seemed more depressing and less Gaffigan-y when I saw him live. The Germany bit as well seemed more flippant and clearly exaggerated, complete with a more over-the-top German accent. I would almost say that the material feels "overworked" to me, but I really don't know what I'm talking about when it comes to serious comedic criticism. At first I thought I was being too subjective since I saw him in a great little intimate club, but it's interesting to hear that in the exact same venue you noticed such a different delivery. It makes me feel bad about all of the comedians I have formed opinions on based on single sets because I'm sure there are plenty that I would have liked in a better context.
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Ror posted:Huh, really funny that you brought this up, I had the exact same feeling. The special felt a bit sterile to me even though I loved a lot of the jokes. I'm extremely fortunate to have been able to watch some great standup for the last year every Tuesday. It was very interesting to see performers seem to continue to work material and or find their voice. I view standup just as i do improv. It's basically (pardon sports analogy) like a long season. You'll have your good days. You'll go through slumps. But in theory you're going to be wanting to be trending on an upwards trajectory. Whether that means finding your voice, or honing material for a special you want to be generally speaking moving up. Obviously if you're just dropping in on one night you might see a "slump/bad" night and if you don't have the opportunity to see this performer again and again you'll only have that single vertical slice of a long trajectory. That said its not completely unfair to judge a comic that way either. You shouldn't have to be a slave to the craft and know that they're working hard. If you weren't entertained and they bombed, that's still on them.
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I'll echo the posts about liking the bits in Patton's new special better when I saw him working on them live last fall. The grocery store and the #racistbaby bit were a lot funnier when they were rougher, for whatever reason.
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Ariza posted:I'm hoping someone here buys it and gives a little review to see if it's worth buying. I watched a pile of his old black and white shorts on YouTube years ago and they ranged from mildly boring to mildly amusing. Did his last $5 special go up on Netflix really quickly? I know Aziz's and Gaffigan's both went up right after I bought them and it was kind of annoying. Not all that great but it's at least interesting to watch him try to find his voice as a director. I've definitely seen worse shoestring-budget indie movies. There aren't a whole lot of actual jokes but if you're a comedy fan you get a weird little cameo every five minutes to keep you occupied. I guess the mildly boring to mildly amusing opinion you had on his old shorts applies for this too. Illinois Smith fucked around with this message at 19:17 on Feb 3, 2014 |
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Comedy Central Half-Hour lineup for 2014: · Adam Newman · Barry Rothbart · Chris Distefano · Chris Gethard · Damien Lemon · Fortune Feimster · Joe Wengert · Joe Zimmerman · Kurt Braunohler · Mark Normand · Michael Che · Rachel Feinstein · Ron Funches · Tommy Johnagin · Yannis Pappas I'm excited.
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escape artist posted:Comedy Central Half-Hour lineup for 2014: Almost every one of those people has a hilarious name so I am too. I'm hoping Funches' stand up is funny because he seems so nice. Most of those people I only know from podcasts which really doesn't tell you how good their stand up is.
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Ariza posted:Almost every one of those people has a hilarious name so I am too. I'm hoping Funches' stand up is funny because he seems so nice. Most of those people I only know from podcasts which really doesn't tell you how good their stand up is. It's very good. I always liked Michael Che on Bunk, so I'm excited to see his full half hour.
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I can vouch for the hilarity of all but 3 or 4 of them. Funches will be the best. Che and Brauhnohler will be amazing, too. Just Youtube some clips. Rachel Feinstein's album "Thug Tears" is a good one. I just hope it's new material on her Half Hour. Also, a few of those folks did sets on Adam Devine's House Party.
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escape artist posted:I can vouch for the hilarity of all but 3 or 4 of them. Funches will be the best. Che and Brauhnohler will be amazing, too. Just Youtube some clips. Rachel Feinstein's album "Thug Tears" is a good one. I just hope it's new material on her Half Hour. I tried to watch that show because I used to like Workaholics but I turned it off after ten minutes and then forgot that it existed. Are there any particular episodes that are worth watching?
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Ariza posted:I tried to watch that show because I used to like Workaholics but I turned it off after ten minutes and then forgot that it existed. Are there any particular episodes that are worth watching? It was a decent idea to mix sketches about Adam's party with the stand up, but it ends up cutting too much into the comics' time to really see some good sets. You got 22 minutes divided by three, then add in the sketches and you got these truncated sets where everything feels off because of the editing.
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