The Stand-up Comedian Thread

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Jorge didn't care for it.

[VinylGuy]

Yeah it’s really good. Laughed quite a bit, alone in my office at work

cool, ill watch it

his latest two were good

[The Argonaut]

John Mulaney Netflix special Baby J is good. A lot at stake, very personal and sincere but still funny and structured around laughs, my favorite kind of comedy these days

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[The Argonaut]

I watched Louis at the Dolby. It's funny, because Louis is just a master of his craft. But it no longer feels essential the way it once did. I'm not sure if this is my fault or Louis's. I'm old now, I'm 35, I've more or less come across and made my mind up about most things in American society, generally. I don't get as much out of someone like Louis framing things for me as I once did. I see through the weakness of the framing (which is where the joke can grow). Or maybe Louis isn't as good as pulling it off as he once was.

But no, the jokes aren't as good. They're cheaper. He treads ground he's tread before, which is fine of course, but he doesn't have any original things to say about divorce, etc. He relies too much on what I recognize as something I borrowed from him in my twenties, a pre-2017-argo style of humor where every situation is made ridiculous, turned to 11, and punctuated with a crude over the top joke. Louis told the greatest pedophilia joke, which is a weird thing to type but it's true, in the SNL monologue. The jokes about the same here are just played for "can you believe he's saying this, how absurd".

Maybe it's me, but I think it's mostly Louis. But the guy is still funny, even if I'm not going to remember anything from this special. It's kind of insane how often in my twenties I'd say "Louis has a joke about that", the guy framed the world in a way he doesn't seem to be trying to do anymore.

But it's funny! He's funny. The best bit was the complaining about the Jews in the Old Testament

[Jorge]

It's because I woke you up to the fact that standup comedy objectively sucks

[Jorge]

You are Jorgepilled now and there is no going back

[wease]

Standup died when Norm died.

[given2trade]

I'm still lol'ing at "I'm old now, I'm 35".

Standup comedy is alive and well.

[BurtReynolds]

Standup died when Norm died.

sad but true

[The Argonaut]

I'm still lol'ing at "I'm old now, I'm 35".

Standup comedy is alive and well.

Stand-up is fine. I have not been jorge-pilled. The tl;dr of my last two posts in this thread is really just that Louis is past his prime and these days I'm more interested in personal stories than social commentaries.

Norm dying might very well have something to do with this, it's true

[BurtReynolds]

I didn't really like the last Louis one I saw either. It was kinda gross.

I dunno, he has always had that before, but it seemed like he was being vulgar for the sake of it here. Didn't really fit.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

What’s worse: standup comedy or blooper reels?

[BurtReynolds]

I remember those.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[96583UP]

he used to be witty

earlier days

standard arc of jabba-the-hut-ization of these celebrities

they get wealthy and lazy

need new blood

he should go perv out and die under a rock somewhere with other trash like him

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[Stickman]