The Stand-up Comedian Thread

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Summarize it for me. I don’t want to watch.

a bunch of comedians like bill burr and co. are bombing for this PETA event, none of the crowd is into it at all, and when Bill Burr is bombing patrice is laughing at him in the back the whole time, and burr can hear it and thinks "ha, you're going to bomb too when it's your turn, asshole!" .. when it is patrice's turn he just talks real quiet and casual about cooking a puppy in a skillet for dinner until the crowd gets upset and threatens to kick him off stage and he doesn't budge. even when they cut his mic he just starts playing piano, and he doesn't know how to play piano

[Stickman]

[Bammer]

Summarize it for me. I don’t want to watch.

a bunch of comedians like bill burr and co. are bombing for this PETA event, none of the crowd is into it at all, and when Bill Burr is bombing patrice is laughing at him in the back the whole time, and burr can hear it and thinks "ha, you're going to bomb too when it's your turn, asshole!" .. when it is patrice's turn he just talks real quiet and casual about cooking a puppy in a skillet for dinner until the crowd gets upset and threatens to kick him off stage and he doesn't budge. even when they cut his mic he just starts playing piano, and he doesn't know how to play piano

This sounds made up

[Ello Sailor]

Nick Mullen's latest special, Year of the Dragon, is hilarious. Very dark and edgy, as is to be expected. But he goes after everyone -- like a more unhinged Shane Gillis.

[Ello Sailor]

[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.

[Vitalogist]

I know I’m late to this, but add me to the Matt Rife haters list. Awful.

[Strat]

I know I’m late to this, but add me to the Matt Rife haters list. Awful.

Im so curious to watch just to see how bad it is.

Death to Social Media fame. Fuck that guy. He looks like a twat.

[tommy]

He's certainly got a terrible face

[Ello Sailor]

I saw a clip of his stand-up. He had a bit that was like "man I realized how unfair it is to be this handsome ha ha"

That was it. No punchline.

[given2trade]

I know I’m late to this, but add me to the Matt Rife haters list. Awful.

He is not meant for any of us. No idea why any of you would watch. There is so much good comedy out there.

Joe List is fantastic by the way. Watch all of his last 3 specials on YouTube.

[spike]

Went down a Jay Mohr YouTube wormhole last night. God he’s funny.

[dad]

Went down a Jay Mohr YouTube wormhole last night. God he’s funny.

his story about him and his dog meeting Christopher Walken is hilarious.

[wease]

Went down a Jay Mohr YouTube wormhole last night. God he’s funny.

Any more Tracy Morgan impersonations?

[Stickman]

He got shook.

[The Argonaut]

That's literally not stand-up comedy.

Why is "crowd work" (most of it isn't even really crowd work, tbh) so prevalent on social media clips? I do not get it

[Ello Sailor]

Comedians usually do crowd work when they're out of material, or their prepared material is bombing. It's a big, lazy fad.

[given2trade]

I also hate crowd work. If your name is not Dave Attell don't do it.

[kreng]

That's literally not stand-up comedy.

Why is "crowd work" (most of it isn't even really crowd work, tbh) so prevalent on social media clips? I do not get it

Because it’s new “material” that’s not part of the main show. They don’t want to give away the scripted stuff as that goes into a special down the line.

[Ms Harmless]

There is no good stand-up comedy. It just does not exist.

you're right, more people should be doing it sitting down