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You know, I've been wishing for ages for Cook to have a horrific meltdown. This is everything I wanted, except it had to involve funny people being bumped from their time.
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Peter North posted:I see the guy in a different light after hearing various interviews about what he's gone through and the Louie appearance, so I am sort of tempted to attempt a defense of Dane Cook. The best argument I've heard on this is that if Louis CK said "chainsaw-loving a dirty whore's oval office," which he would, those same people would think it was genius. Or what they thought when Chappelle was doing the exact same thing at the exact same place. It sucks that people got bumped, but TJ Miller's overreaction for Dane being too offensive is horrible/hypocritical. What if we think CK is an unfunny douchebag who hides behind 'irony', and ALSO think storming into a club for your crazy misogynist rant is unacceptable? But do go on how funny 'chainsaw gently caress her dirty oval office' is because it's not for those dumb college bimbos 
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Jan 21, 2012 21:03
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Another gay guy who can't stand Cho and Lampanelli et all. It feels exactly like pandering, she's not really making any jokes she's just kinda going "HEY! GAY STUFF! YEEEEEEEEEA!" and like, yea ok I'm down with that but there's nothing actually funny or entertaining in that. If I remember right she's rather active in the gay rights fight and all, so gotta give her respect for that, but I don't think since the early 90's I can think of a special/set of hers that I found funny rather than just going 'yep, I agree with her statement, good for her'.
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Feb 13, 2012 08:56
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Aziz rules so hard, everything he types and says sounds like a little kid who just discovered what he's talking about, he's got such a unique raw glee to everything it rules, downloading his new thing now!
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Mar 21, 2012 00:09
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"Fake nerds" is the dumbest, most privileged, thing ever. I have no idea how Munn and Hardwick aren't nerds by any metric other than bitter people desperately clinging to their persecution complex declaring them not meeting a random benchmark of social reject. It's fitting the only comparison you can make is that 'I like football' thing because it's also an insane 'HEH a GIRL liking my insular hobby?! Yea right, attention whore!' thing.
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Mar 30, 2012 08:30
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indigi posted:That's what happens sometimes with Marc. Part of the fun of seeing him multiple nights while he's in your town. I'll never get how 'well you're supposed to just buy a bunch of tickets for his shows to really get it' is a selling point but you're like the fifth person I've heard say something like 'yea he's super hostile and awkward about his audience but if you just seem him a few times he gets good'.
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Apr 24, 2012 08:55
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BobTheCow posted:I won't pretend to speak for the rest of the planet, but I liked Dane Cook as of those two albums as well. It was only after 2005 or so, when he tended to begin relying more on physical LOOK HOW WILD AND CRAZY I AM bits than actual jokes, not to mention stealing material, that I soured on him. Yep, same experience here. Those exact two albums are still pretty drat funny, it's after them when he decided to try to be Jim Carrey and base all his jokes in "WATCH ME SPAZ OUT" and then shamelessly stealing bits and generally going from a kinda spazzy goofball to a weird dick that made me go 'welp, I'm done'.
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Jun 24, 2012 05:08
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DerbyTime!!! posted:I like Kathy Griffin. There, I said it. She's pretty funny!
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Jul 6, 2012 00:27
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DannoMack posted:Yeah there's no reason to hate Kevin Hart. He obviously connects with people and has never been accused of plagiarism so more power to him, it's always good for comedy as a whole to have big money draws at the top. It's mystifying though, that's for sure. Yea he's just kinda...there. I can't see any reason to dislike him but I also can't see any reason to spend money going to listen to him. I guess he has his fans, though, so rock on tiny angry dude.
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Aug 30, 2012 17:52
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You tellin me these people in a very niche entertainment venue with only a very small amount of 'big name' venues to play in fuckin know eachother? Nice try, buddy.
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Oct 7, 2012 23:41
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Al! posted:Jesus, man, were you mugged by a balding pasty redhead this week? To be fair wouldn't you be pretty pissed if you somehow got mugged by a guy like that? Seriously though I'm hard on CK and all at times but goddamn, man's taking a dollar to recoup bandwidth and all, and of course she must have said this was ok, so why do you feel you need to fight it? On that, I bought it the other day and it's totally worth it, I'm a fan of Tig's to begin with but man that was amazing.
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Oct 8, 2012 21:12
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It's a Jersey thing you won't get it.
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Oct 9, 2012 08:40
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Yea Black went from 'oh, ok I can enjoy a guy getting angry about minor things, that's funny' to him just confused about things he doesn't understand and being super loud about it, and I'm pretty sure most of us have grandpas to get that kind of conversation out of.
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Oct 12, 2012 00:06
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DangerDummy! posted:Demitri's weird for me just because I really didn't do much more than chuckle when I saw him live, but I still thought his set was a lot of fun. I felt very British. I get the same thing, I don't laugh super hard at him but I buy his stuff and enjoy his shows and all. He's just one of those kinds of comedians I guess.
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Oct 12, 2012 07:25
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I personally like Kroll's characters more than his straight comedy, but I think he also has a lot of talent there too. I'm really glad his show is getting better, the first episode wouldn't have hooked me if it hadn't been Nick Kroll doing it, but it's really jumped up in quality since. That and other great comics like Schumer, are really good omens for CC's coming lineups.
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Feb 6, 2013 00:31
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Yea I'm not a huge fan of him but the dude is original and has a talent that shows in places, it's unfair to compare him to a dude who's bit is YELLING REALLY LOUD and stealing jokes.
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Mar 31, 2013 02:37
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I know it's the oldest joke in the book but I can't take anyone in tight bright leather calling me a 'human being' seriously. But yea it is really gross remembering that a decent hunk of his old stuff was just "THOSE FUCKIN GAYS SURE ARE GROSS YEA?!"
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Jun 2, 2013 20:09
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escape artist posted:Serious chat, incoming. There are plenty of people who already dislike CK and Tosh's jokes in that field. Like already said I guess I fall on the Chris Rock scale, there are some funny jokes about really taboo things, but they have to actually be jokes. Like you can't just be like CK and say 'man I like saying friend of the family, it's just fun to say, like AIDS' there's no joke there he's just saying friend of the family and knowing that his audience will go 'oh man that's a naughty word'. Same with the Carlin 'Porky Pig' rape joke already mentioned, but on the other side of the scale. That's a joke because he's taking the concept of a rape joke to the most absurd, completely out of reality, extreme. I think, at the end of the day, comics really need to stop hiding behind 'I'm just a comic'. Like, we're not talking about ancient jesters who were the only people in the court allowed to mock the king, you don't really get to hide behind 'hey it's just a joke' when someone says 'that was a lovely thing to say'. It doesn't make the thing you said not lovely to them, all it does is attempt to summon the Internet Free Speech Brigade. It needs to be accepted if you're going to do taboo stuff people aren't going to like it, and you just kinda have to eat that. You have the free speech to say whatever oval office and rape jokes you like, but people also have the free speech to say you're an rear end in a top hat, the two aren't in competition.
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Jun 3, 2013 07:39
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He may have some self awareness but he's also a big manbaby, so I guess he's basically the comedy Two-Face.
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Jun 25, 2013 05:59
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poo poo totally missed it, it drops next week though right?
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Jul 22, 2013 19:36
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I thought Dice died like...years ago...
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Aug 26, 2013 23:49
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Animal-Mother posted:Audiences shouldn't heckle. Performers shouldn't act unprofessional, especially when they have many years of experience. I don't feel bad for the guy. How did he act unprofessional?
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Aug 30, 2013 23:56
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Unfunny idiot punches C list tabloid journalist, whoever wins we lose.
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Sep 26, 2013 06:34
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Beef Jerky Robot posted:Everyone who hates lovely comedians owes it to themselves to read Dan Nainan's terrible and hilarious obviously self written Wikipedia page. You know I'm so tired of this, it's really insulting to say that any positive wikipedia page for an amateur, especially in an industry like comedy, just MUST be written by them. It's a downright patronizing attitude to have to people who work hard and put in a lot of ef- quote:With Intel, Nainan traveled with Andy Grove, the company's CEO, demonstrating the latest technology on stage at high-profile events all over the world. Nainan found the technical part of his job to be easy, but as the audiences sometimes numbered in the thousands, he experienced tremendous stage fright. To get over the fear of public speaking, he first joined a Toastmasters group,[4] then took a stand up comedy class.[5] Welp.
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Sep 26, 2013 07:42
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Naiman is just legit sad honestly. I used to make fun of alt comics talking about 'corporate comics' and poo poo like that but here we have a real flesh and blood dude who's only minor notability comes from playing corporate gigs with dumb generic jokes.
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Sep 26, 2013 14:59
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Yea if you like Birbiglia I'd say Mulaney is your best bet. He has two albums (I think?) and they're both really solid. I'm pretty sure they're both around 50 minute each so that'll handle the bulk of your trip at least.
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Nov 23, 2013 17:40
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The Ape of Naples posted:What about Mike Birbiglia on You Made it Weird? That'll eat up 2 and a half hours. This is a mean trick to play on someone.
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The_Rob posted:So I just got back from the Eric Andre show at the echoplex and holy poo poo that was pure chaos. I got hit in the face with a bowl of spagettios. Watched them egg a kid on to yell hateful things about his teacher and call him racial slurs, and saw a grown rear end man drink Kreyshawn's breast milk. Highly recommended if you enjoy to pay people to assault you. Eric Andre is a national treasure.
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Dec 4, 2013 09:23
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Yea when I heard that bit all I could think about was how I talked myself out of suicide by being too much of a pussy about every method I thought of and eventually realizing if I'm able to think about how swallowing a bottle of pills could suck I probably have something to live for.
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Dec 9, 2013 02:03
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Al! posted:Bo Burnham is someone I really like but I really thought I would hate for some reason. I think there's something about his face that reminds me a little too much of YouTube superstars. Literally everything about Bo I should hate, from his speaking voice to his face to him being a 'singing comic' and all, but yea I fuckin love that stupid rear end in a top hat.
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Dec 18, 2013 06:05
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vizanto posted:I think it helps that he's aware that he people should hate him and he doubles down on the self-deprecating in response but he puts so much work into his stuff and it really shows. I think that's it, like the dude accepted long ago 'everything about me is punchable, I better make a very real effort to show I understand and that's ok'. Plus, yea the fact that he puts a ton of work into his stuff, it's really hard to hate it.
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Dec 18, 2013 06:38
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Mulaney is a massively funny stand up but wow was his show bad. You can't just have him walk from set to set doing bits from his shows with a weak thread connecting them.
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Oct 6, 2014 22:13
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Yea I bet it sucks making a show that revolves around your standup these days since you obviously want to use your gold stuff, but at the same time basically anyone who sees your name and goes 'oh I like him, let's see this show' already knows exactly what's going to happen when you're in the waiting room wondering how to get drugs without looking like a junkie. Hell even beyond that, if I remember right (I kinda zoned out) they didn't even have some of the funniest parts like the batman nurse and the part where he says he's sorry because he thinks he's making GBS threads in the doctor's hand and all. It's like hearing your friend tell you a joke he half remembers, after you've already heard the joke for real.
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Oct 6, 2014 23:46
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Urk! posted:I've read so many reviews comparing it to Seinfeld that I'm starting to think they're hoping for the same results as Seinfeld had, i.e. nobody watching/liking the first few seasons then it finding it's stride/audience. The problem is nobody watching the early Sienfeld was a bad thing because those guys were missing out on a really good show. Nobody watching Mulaney, and I say this as a big fan of his standup, is a bad thing because the show sucks and no one is gonna watch that poo poo. Like, Jerry could really easily tell his bosses 'ok look we have a sleeper here' and make a case, what's Mulaney gonna do, say 'nah give it time, people love watching a guy walk from set to set just kinda saying poorly written lines that get him from one standup bit to the next'?
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Megazver posted:That was the best one out of five seen by the critics, apparently. Unfortunate.
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Rob was taken posted:Apparently a cyst burst and she had massive internal bleeding. Here's a message and video from her Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152697312752525 Can we talk about the fuckin forces of hell chasing Tig around, because gently caress man it's just one thing after another for her.
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Nov 16, 2014 20:17
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Beef Jerky Robot posted:I feel like I should just listen to the album, as the only material I've heard was on PYHT and I wasn't a fan. I guess I shouldn't judge her based on that alone. It's, in my opinion, aggressively ok. I think she's a perfectly good comic but she's never really made me lose my poo poo laughing or anything. I kinda use her stuff as more background noise to give occasional chuckles and all than 'alright I need to LAUGH' poo poo.
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Jan 11, 2015 04:12
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Yea if like, I somehow HAD to go to a show of his I wouldn't be upset. He's really bland and not that funny but he's not offensive or bad or anything, just, like said, a dude who's main focus is his brand so every other joke is "I'M NOT FAT I'M FLUFFY HAHAHAHAHAHAHA" and some high pitched shrieking voice because it's legitimately fairly funny when a big fat guy does a Gremlin style high pitched squeal. And like, yea gently caress it standup is a cut throat thing, if I found a niche that pays out the rear end you'd have to do some serious talking to convince me that the life of someone making ok money at best ~staying true to the art~ is better than making lots of money telling ok jokes forever.
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abraham linksys posted:The last ten minutes are a hell of a thing He really is one of the rare remaining examples of self loathing being genuinely funny.
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BigRed0427 posted:I saw Patton Oswald's new special and thought it was great. His bit about his daughter and going to the grocery store were the highlights for me. Yea there's a part of me that wants to be all "Man remember when you said if you ever become a comic who talks about your child all the time you wanted to fuckin die, you lost your edge maaaaan" but no he's still a really fuckin funny guy. His bit about the slow realization that his daughter called a black man a monkey because of The Lion King was amazing for me.
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