Re: The Stand-up Comedian Thread
Posted: Thu April 06, 2023 4:55 pm
seeing anthony jeselnik in september. it'll be our third time seeing him. i really enjoy him.

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.
hey guys, trag doesn't like anthony jeselnik, so he's making up things that other people didn't say.tragabigzanda wrote:this is your argument that he's actually funny?Chris_H_2 wrote:on the day of the boston marathon bombing (this got him fired from comedy central):
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.
that i just posted a tweet that got anthony jeselnik fired from comedy central?tragabigzanda wrote:Chris_H_2 wrote:hey guys, trag doesn't like anthony jeselnik, so he's making up things that other people didn't say.tragabigzanda wrote:this is your argument that he's actually funny?Chris_H_2 wrote:on the day of the boston marathon bombing (this got him fired from comedy central):
Explain what I'm missingChris_H_2 wrote:seeing anthony jeselnik in september. it'll be our third time seeing him. i really enjoy him.
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.
who am i to say what is or isn't funny in comedy/satire? it's not an objective, binary standard.tragabigzanda wrote:will you commit right here and now to the premise that this joke wasn't funny?Chris_H_2 wrote:that i just posted a tweet that got anthony jeselnik fired from comedy central?tragabigzanda wrote:Chris_H_2 wrote:hey guys, trag doesn't like anthony jeselnik, so he's making up things that other people didn't say.tragabigzanda wrote:this is your argument that he's actually funny?Chris_H_2 wrote:on the day of the boston marathon bombing (this got him fired from comedy central):
Explain what I'm missingChris_H_2 wrote:seeing anthony jeselnik in september. it'll be our third time seeing him. i really enjoy him.
Chris made my rebuttal for me immediately after this postlennytheweedwhacker wrote:Jorge: your rebuttal?
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.
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.
So true.Jorge wrote:Chris made my rebuttal for me immediately after this postlennytheweedwhacker wrote:Jorge: your rebuttal?