Seinfeld was great. My kid could not get over being ten feet away from a person he was watching on tv earlier in the day.
As he’s gotten older, he’s started to take on some exaggerative Martin Short qualities. This is an observation, not a complaint. I love Martin Short.
Mario Joyner was the opener. What a treat. He was ubiquitous on comedy shows in the 90s. He never really took off. Sinbad sort of took all of the black comic who works clean attention during Mario’s prime.
Steve Albini wrote: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.
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We saw Christina Pazsitzky last Wednesday in Buffalo after having seen her husband earlier in the year (whose show was an A+). 90% great. She would periodically go into some trans jokes and used the f-word (the other f-word) several times which felt awkward and beneath her relative to the rest of her material. To be clear, I don’t think anything is off limits when it comes to stand-up comedy. I think a comic with enough skill can probably get away with using any topic and any word regardless of how sensitive they are. But there is a line, in my mind, and her toes crossed it a couple times.
Ensign9 wrote:We saw Christina Pazsitzky last Wednesday in Buffalo after having seen her husband earlier in the year (whose show was an A+). 90% great. She would periodically go into some trans jokes and used the f-word (the other f-word) several times which felt awkward and beneath her relative to the rest of her material. To be clear, I don’t think anything is off limits when it comes to stand-up comedy. I think a comic with enough skill can probably get away with using any topic and any word regardless of how sensitive they are. But there is a line, in my mind, and her toes crossed it a couple times.
Love her and Segura. Love their podcast. Never seen either live. I can see your criticisms as being valid. Seems cheap laughs.
Steve Albini wrote: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.
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daft twat wrote:New Shane Gillis Netflix special is out. If you haven’t seen his YouTube special, start there. This guy has made me laugh the hardest since Louis CK’s “Shameless”/“Chewed Up”/“Hilarious” run. He’s going to be huge.
You guys should watch the YouTube special if you haven't. It's even better. And I'm not sure he's a conservative, that's the genius of his comedy. He rails on both parties.
Steve Albini wrote: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.
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