The Stand-up Comedian Thread

[Peeps]

i rememer seeing drew carey as a stand up comedian years and years ago before his show and WLIIA. thought he was great so i started to watch his show.

very under rated IMO

[Simple Torture]

Roseanne and Frasier are two shows that I skipped when I was younger, but then my wife had me watch them and I'm so much better for it. Golden Girls, too.

We DVR'd a bunch of seasons of Roseanne to watch, and for some inane reason the channel skipped the episode where Fisher beats up Jackie. I think it was on Logo, too, which seems like a channel that would be fine with airing controversial episodes.

Just caught that one the other day. Fuck, what a great piece of television.

Where do you stand on how the final season went down?

[LoathedVermin72]

Roseanne and Frasier are two shows that I skipped when I was younger, but then my wife had me watch them and I'm so much better for it. Golden Girls, too.

We DVR'd a bunch of seasons of Roseanne to watch, and for some inane reason the channel skipped the episode where Fisher beats up Jackie. I think it was on Logo, too, which seems like a channel that would be fine with airing controversial episodes.

Just caught that one the other day. Fuck, what a great piece of television.

Where do you stand on how the final season went down?

I've never been into it. There might be some kind of meta brilliance in there but I just don't enjoy it.

[Simple Torture]

Roseanne and Frasier are two shows that I skipped when I was younger, but then my wife had me watch them and I'm so much better for it. Golden Girls, too.

We DVR'd a bunch of seasons of Roseanne to watch, and for some inane reason the channel skipped the episode where Fisher beats up Jackie. I think it was on Logo, too, which seems like a channel that would be fine with airing controversial episodes.

Just caught that one the other day. Fuck, what a great piece of television.

Where do you stand on how the final season went down?

I've never been into it. There might be some kind of meta brilliance in there but I just don't enjoy it.

Yeah, even if someone wanted to make an argument about the show's form, it just wasn't that funny.

[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.

[Biff Pocoroba]

Roseanne had a fantastic run in the middle seasons. As popular as it was I think it was underappreciated.
Frasier was wonderful until about season 8 then dipped before ending strong. Those weak seasons though water down its legacy and its look has become dated now. You can argue it was the last great multi-cam sitcom. (If I wasn't lazy I'd Google an Emmy search). But I would compare the Top 10 episodes of Frasier more favorably to the Top 10 episodes of Friends or even Seinfeld among its contemporaries.

[BurtReynolds]

Man, I never got the love for Frasier.

[Jorge]

David Cross's "Making America Great Again" Netflix special is scary unfunny. Just beyond lame.

[LoathedVermin72]

David Cross's "Making America Great Again" Netflix special is scary unfunny. Just beyond lame.

Jesus Christ am I tired of stand-up about gun control.

[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.

[bart]

Man, I never got the love for Frasier.

Dumb show.

[epilogue]

David Cross's "Making America Great Again" Netflix special is scary unfunny. Just beyond lame.

Jesus Christ am I tired of stand-up about gun control.

Me too, friend.

[BurtReynolds]

Everybody thinks they are Louis CK now, but they don't have the wit, intelligence or empathy to pull it off.

[epilogue]

Everybody thinks they are Louis CK now, but they don't have the wit, intelligence or empathy to pull it off.

Even Louis CK's stand up didn't get interesting until 2011.

Stand up died with George Carlin. God bless Louis for trying to keep it a thing, though. I appreciate his massive efforts.

[bart]

Nowadays everybody wanna talk like they got something to say.

[epilogue]

That reference shouldn't make me feel old. Why does it make me feel so old?!

[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.

[epilogue]

Everybody thinks they are Louis CK now, but they don't have the wit, intelligence or empathy to pull it off.

Even Louis CK's stand up didn't get interesting until 2011.

Stand up died with George Carlin. God bless Louis for trying to keep it a thing, though. I appreciate his massive efforts.

Huh? If you haven't already, you should spend a night at the Comedy Cellar. There's terrific stuff happening that, like theater, needs to be seen in person to really appreciate.

No, thank you.

[BurtReynolds]

what did stand up comedians do to durds?

[epilogue]

They quit being funny, Burt.