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Google Butt posted:theo von is the funniest story teller alive atm. its weird though, he's way funnier on podcasts than performing standup. I've been going nuts trying to find him on various podcasts. He really has a endearing and kind of bizarre cadence when he tells stories. If you haven't listened to it yet, Joey Diaz had him on his podcast recently (another guy who is better as an off-the-cuff storyteller) and they both went off. It was classic and of course they were both ridiculously high.
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Prickly Pete posted:I've been going nuts trying to find him on various podcasts. He really has a endearing and kind of bizarre cadence when he tells stories. Check out his episodes on punch drunk sports and the international bad boys hour
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Here are some fun things to read: http://longform.org/posts/the-longform-guide-to-standup-comedy I'd like to read more stuff like that. Or see more videos like Talking Funny. Anybody have some good links?
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Fukken home run Jeselnik. https://twitter.com/anthonyjeselnik/status/742137230374764544
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Tig Notaro has a new book out!  quote:Welp,
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I liked the new Jim Jefferies special, but I like Jim Jefferies in general.
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XIII posted:I liked the new Jim Jefferies special, but I like Jim Jefferies in general. Yeah, it was good as usual.
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Megazver posted:Yeah, it was good as usual. Holy poo poo thanks for letting me know there's a new Jeffries special. I loved the last two. edit: Watched and, drat, Jeffries is good. Hands down my favorite modern comedian. The Cosby bit he opened with was hilarious. There was about a 10 minute segment there towards the end that almost got too serious though and was almost too on the mark to be funny. I worry about him a bit because, like a lot of really good comics, you can really see uses the funny to offset his depression and his demons. He seems like another in a long line that I could picture crashing and burning with an OD or suicide. BiggerBoat fucked around with this message at 17:06 on Jul 5, 2016 |
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I saw the Freedumb Tour live and talked to him after the show. He's definitely a drinker, and he said he hated Bill Hicks which made me sad. 
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BiggerBoat posted:edit: Watched and, drat, Jeffries is good. Hands down my favorite modern comedian. He's on the top of my list right now. quote:There was about a 10 minute segment there towards the end that almost got too serious though and was almost too on the mark to be funny. I thought that one was the best bit. The rest of the special was a little slack, just a little more obvious than he usually is, but this was as good as anything he ever put on his other specials. I re-watched it like five times. quote:I worry about him a bit because, like a lot of really good comics, you can really see uses the funny to offset his depression and his demons. He seems like another in a long line that I could picture crashing and burning with an OD or suicide. I think he'll live into his eighties.
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If Stanhope is still doing his thing, I'm not worried about Jim. Though, did he elaborate on Hicks?
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"George Carlin was the one for me who was a really big influence – a lot of people throw Bill Hicks around, but I was never really into Bill Hicks, I thought he was overrated. There we go, there’s another 500 people who hate me now,” he smiles. “I just didn’t like it when people talked as if he was a God or something. He is good, he’s alright, but I think once you watched Carlin it’s very hard to watch Hicks."
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Lots of comedians are pretty critical of Hicks. I think it's just a matter of perspective and time. I'll probably always have a special place for him since he took me from watching Comedy Central all the time (back when it was comedy specials and Kids in the Hall reruns) to being actually interested in stand-up comedy. He's probably 'overrated' in the sense that people revere him to a silly degree, but I love his work.
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It might be too a case of "Guy gets canonized because he died too soon" so people talk about them more and the current artists get sick of hearing it or being asked about them. (Lenny Bruce, Kinnison, Freddie Prinze, Mitch Hedburg, Richard Jeni). Even Robin Williams. You can see it happening now a bit with Prince and Bowie. Also, holy poo poo. Jeffries drinks? fake edit: There's something inherently honest about Jeffries that I think translates so well to the point that even when he's being sarcastic or REALLY REALLY dark it still works. He touched on this with the "you can't joke about 'x' bit" and I've seen that debate come up from time to time on these forums (in the Right Wing Media Thread of all places). I think Jeffries is a good case study on how you can joke about any subject matter if you do it right and how context is everything. He touched on that last point too in "Freedumb". If you just read the transcript, it sounds abominable but if you allow context , give it room to breathe and deliver it with great timing, just about anything can be funny. Lastly, JJ really has mastered the art of the callback and his impressions are underrated. We're so used to him "speaking Australian" that when he imitates someone without the accent it's jarringly funny. This special is worth watching to see him decimate Cosby as lead off. BiggerBoat fucked around with this message at 23:34 on Jul 5, 2016 |
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Legit is a pretty decent show to check out if you haven't already. It's essentially his act turned into a FX series, but I found it pretty enjoyable.
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Something minor, but if you enjoy Jim Jefferies, look up his appearances on Opie & Anthony on the YouTubes. It's pretty good. He, at one point, gets totally plastered and ends up loving up two relationships he has going at the same time by hitting on terrible porno actress Justine Joli. I can't agree more about his call-back artwork, though. The fact that he drags his mum through each special without restating the Gunter story is fantastic.
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Megazver posted:"George Carlin was the one for me who was a really big influence – a lot of people throw Bill Hicks around, but I was never really into Bill Hicks, I thought he was overrated. There we go, there’s another 500 people who hate me now,” he smiles. “I just didn’t like it when people talked as if he was a God or something. He is good, he’s alright, but I think once you watched Carlin it’s very hard to watch Hicks." "Hated Bill Hicks," lmfao. This is perfectly reasonable. Carlin had more experience. And if anyone's a Hicks fanatic and they aren't familiar with Carlin, they're doing it wrong.
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I don't know if I'd say Hicks is overrated although he is certainly revered among most comics i like as being one of the greats at his level. He was also really influential during his time. I've heard a few comics talking about how they realized they were ripping him off in their early days. I can't remember which comic said it or what club they were referring to, but i remember someone talking about some legendary greenroom at a club with a bunch of old headshots, etc. On the wall someone had written "stop trying to be Hicks"
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I haven't seen much of Hicks, but what I have seen never impressed me much. I know he was obsessed with discredited conspiracy theories about the JFK assassination; some people think he never died, just took on the identity of conspiracy nut Alex Jones (I'm not saying I believe this, it just amuses me). Also I remember a really long gross out bit about Rush Limbaugh having sex with Barbara Bush, and the whole thing was just nauseating without being funny.
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https://www.facebook.com/SarahSilverman/posts/1160269914023100quote:Hi. This is me telling everyone in my life at once why I haven't been around. This will not interest everyone so feel free to disregard.
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Jesus I was just thinking 'you know who I haven't seen doing anything a bit, Sarah Silverman, you'd think she'd have some fun takes on recent events' but holy crap that's wild.
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Just got back from seeing Tom Segura crush it in Ohio. His fans are still shouting "Hey Hitler" to him when he walks on-stage. A year ago, I thought it would be clever to yell "'Sup, Tom!!" at him, referencing the "'Sup, Kane!!" bit from his first Netflix special, but now his podcast has generated so many catch-phrases and in-jokes to shout out that it's crazy. Dude must get poo poo yelled at him 24-7. Also, just before the lights went down at the start of the show, there was a scruffy, bearded, biker-looking dude who was kind of milling around by the wall and I thought that either some rough guy got really lost or that the club had hired bikers as security to make sure nobody was filming on their smart phones. It turned out that guy was the opening act and that he was Geoff Tate.
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Hahaha, holy poo poo, as I read your post I was thinking, "sounds like Geoff Tate." I'd love to catch him, since he's a loving killer story teller, but I don't think he's come through Denver since I've lived here. Edit: I've managed to catch Tom Segura twice in the last two years and it was really cool to see him working through what would become his latest hour. It was a little disappointing seeing him the second time, since the hour had just released, because a lot of the jokes were the same, but that's kinda understandable when you're between hours and still expected to fill the time. XIII fucked around with this message at 10:10 on Jul 10, 2016 |
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What lens do you watch Kinison with? Some of his poo poo is so dumb but his stage presence is loving massive. Like I'm watching Family Entertainment Hour and the only reason his bit about hating rap music is even half funny is because Ice T is there.
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Kinnison is defined solely by his first stand-up special. Immediately after that, he started with the drugs and thinking he was too good to actually do the work required to make good stand-up anymore. He turned into a D-grade comedian overnight once he got successful.
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I think he died like a year after this came out. It is not good.
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Thanks to this thread I discovered Doug Stanhope, so thanks. Dude is really funny. edit: I think I'm in the minority here in thinking that Kinison was great. Like a lot of comedians at the time, the stupid AIDS jokes and "ha ha fags" stuff has aged terribly, but his bits on relationships, marriage, drugs and especially religion are really great. To say "he had one funny TV special and sucked after that" is being unfairly dismissive to his talent. Societal context ages a lot of comedian's material (Bruce, Murphy, Pryor and Cheech and Chong spring to mind). Sam Kinison really is a legend and a lot of comics working now cite him as one of the best and as a major influence. Even on a technical level, his timing, his pace and his stage presence are exemplary - or at least they were for a while. Once he became "Famous Rock Star Selling Out Madison Square Garden Sam", banging Jessica Hahn, being on Stern all the time and once he got too much into his own persona, the material certainly suffered. But it wasn't always "AAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!! Arrrgghhhh!", punching down and screaming about fags. His stuff about Jesus and religion was actually ahead of its time. I love Kinison. BiggerBoat fucked around with this message at 18:46 on Jul 11, 2016 |
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My favorite Kinison joke was, regarding Whoopi Goldberg, "It's like the whole world got together and decided not to hurt her feelings."
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DangerDummy! posted:My favorite Kinison joke was, regarding Whoopi Goldberg, "It's like the whole world got together and decided not to hurt her feelings." I love the stuff about Jesus and televangalists especially. How Jesus was never married and the bit about how everyone gathered around crying watching him suffer. "Well I wouldn't have to have to if one of you fuckers could grab a loving LADDER!" The last supper bit. I think he was at his best just tearing down walls of hypocrisy and translating the stuff he learned as a preacher to the comedic stage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXGA8j-aLes A lot of working professionals absolutely love the guy.
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Stanhope has tour dates http://www.dougstanhope.com/tour-dates/
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El Gallinero Gros posted:https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/755091636548472832 :5:
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Alex Jones was the one who invited him on stage. Because he thought Eric was Trevor Noah.
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Mordecai Sanchez posted:Alex Jones was the one who invited him on stage. Because he thought Eric was Trevor Noah. lmao
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If Eric Andre is given enough time, he will inevitably pull out his dick.
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I saw Louie CK working on his new material in Boston a few weeks back. He wears a suit now!
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Saw Stanhope last night. He was good. Roseanne Barr did a guest set. She was pretty good too.
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