The Stand-up Comedian Thread

[LoathedVermin72]

Going to see Craig Ferguson in a couple weeks

I'm seeing him tonight

I want to see him again already

[Ello Sailor]

How long was his set? Did you catch the openers?

[LoathedVermin72]

I think about 80 minutes. There was one local opener who wasn’t great.

[Ello Sailor]

80 is solid! Good shit.

[The Argonaut]

It was fun. No opener here, just him. Eighty to ninety minutes, yeah. It's kind of a fun stage where you can see him still deciding between different versions of different elements of a story, working it out for a special

[Stickman]

I miss Ralphy

[daft twat]

Got my Shane Gillis tickets for Target Center in February. It’s crazy he’s playing basketball arenas already.

[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.

[Strat]

Got my Shane Gillis tickets for Target Center in February. It’s crazy he’s playing basketball arenas already.

Thought about jumping on this. Loved his standups but that TV show he put out was fucking atrocious.

[Ello Sailor]

Yeah, Tires was a misfire. Which is weird because Gilly & Keeves was great. Maybe he should stick to skits.

His specials are very funny. I'm sure you'll have a great time, DT.

[daft twat]

I love both of his specials. I stumbled upon him just a little too late. He hadn’t blown up yet, but he’d just come through the Twin Cities at a smaller venue. My wife will be sitting on one side of me and my best friend from work will be on the other. He and I have seen Louis CK, Burr, Chappelle, Bargatze, Chad Daniels, and Steven Wright together over the past 15 years. It’s going to be a fun Saturday.

[Ello Sailor]

I've been telling you guys to check him out for years. You should listen to me. I know things.

[daft twat]

I've been telling you guys to check him out for years. You should listen to me. I know things.

Before the Austin YouTube special? If so, I’m very sorry I didn’t listen. You were ahead of your time. Seeing him in a club at least once would have been nice. I was ground floor for Louis and Chappelle and Bargatze and enjoyed those club shows where they sold cds afterwards. Stand up has exploded.

[Ello Sailor]

I've been telling you guys to check him out for years. You should listen to me. I know things.

Before the Austin YouTube special?

Yes. His podcast used to be really funny! It's still pretty good, but now he's too big so they can't really get away with the unhinged shit like they used to. Matt McCusker is also fucking hilarious.

[Stickman]

[E.H. Ruddock]

Ugh

[Ello Sailor]

Yeah, he kinda sucks. Refers to himself as "the edgiest comedian", which is bad enough, but he then tried to throw Gillis under the bus for being too edgy? Make up your mind, fella.

[E.H. Ruddock]

The way he sets up his jokes makes them predictable and less funny somehow

[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.

[LoathedVermin72]

Strat and I saw him live once