Re: The Stand-up Comedian Thread
Posted: Sat April 22, 2023 9:37 pm
Jorge didn't care for it.
cool, ill watch ittree_ wrote:Yeah it’s really good. Laughed quite a bit, alone in my office at work
his latest two were good
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The Stand-up Comedian Thread
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Re: The Stand-up Comedian Thread
Posted: Sun April 23, 2023 1:07 pm
his latest two were good
Re: The Stand-up Comedian Thread
Posted: Thu May 04, 2023 12:35 am
John Mulaney Netflix special Baby J is good. A lot at stake, very personal and sincere but still funny and structured around laughs, my favorite kind of comedy these days
Re: The Stand-up Comedian Thread
Posted: Thu May 04, 2023 12:47 am
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.
Re: The Stand-up Comedian Thread
Posted: Thu May 04, 2023 12:48 am
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.
Re: The Stand-up Comedian Thread
Posted: Thu May 04, 2023 12:50 am
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.
Re: The Stand-up Comedian Thread
Posted: Thu May 04, 2023 8:44 pm
I watched Louis at the Dolby. It's funny, because Louis is just a master of his craft. But it no longer feels essential the way it once did. I'm not sure if this is my fault or Louis's. I'm old now, I'm 35, I've more or less come across and made my mind up about most things in American society, generally. I don't get as much out of someone like Louis framing things for me as I once did. I see through the weakness of the framing (which is where the joke can grow). Or maybe Louis isn't as good as pulling it off as he once was.
But no, the jokes aren't as good. They're cheaper. He treads ground he's tread before, which is fine of course, but he doesn't have any original things to say about divorce, etc. He relies too much on what I recognize as something I borrowed from him in my twenties, a pre-2017-argo style of humor where every situation is made ridiculous, turned to 11, and punctuated with a crude over the top joke. Louis told the greatest pedophilia joke, which is a weird thing to type but it's true, in the SNL monologue. The jokes about the same here are just played for "can you believe he's saying this, how absurd".
Maybe it's me, but I think it's mostly Louis. But the guy is still funny, even if I'm not going to remember anything from this special. It's kind of insane how often in my twenties I'd say "Louis has a joke about that", the guy framed the world in a way he doesn't seem to be trying to do anymore.
But it's funny! He's funny. The best bit was the complaining about the Jews in the Old Testament
But no, the jokes aren't as good. They're cheaper. He treads ground he's tread before, which is fine of course, but he doesn't have any original things to say about divorce, etc. He relies too much on what I recognize as something I borrowed from him in my twenties, a pre-2017-argo style of humor where every situation is made ridiculous, turned to 11, and punctuated with a crude over the top joke. Louis told the greatest pedophilia joke, which is a weird thing to type but it's true, in the SNL monologue. The jokes about the same here are just played for "can you believe he's saying this, how absurd".
Maybe it's me, but I think it's mostly Louis. But the guy is still funny, even if I'm not going to remember anything from this special. It's kind of insane how often in my twenties I'd say "Louis has a joke about that", the guy framed the world in a way he doesn't seem to be trying to do anymore.
But it's funny! He's funny. The best bit was the complaining about the Jews in the Old Testament
Re: The Stand-up Comedian Thread
Posted: Fri May 05, 2023 12:06 am
It's because I woke you up to the fact that standup comedy objectively sucks
Re: The Stand-up Comedian Thread
Posted: Fri May 05, 2023 12:09 am
You are Jorgepilled now and there is no going back
Re: The Stand-up Comedian Thread
Posted: Fri May 05, 2023 12:15 am
Standup died when Norm died.
Re: The Stand-up Comedian Thread
Posted: Fri May 05, 2023 1:01 am
I'm still lol'ing at "I'm old now, I'm 35".
Standup comedy is alive and well.
Standup comedy is alive and well.
Re: The Stand-up Comedian Thread
Posted: Fri May 05, 2023 1:18 am
sad but truewease wrote:Standup died when Norm died.
Re: The Stand-up Comedian Thread
Posted: Fri May 05, 2023 1:25 am
given2trade wrote:I'm still lol'ing at "I'm old now, I'm 35".
Standup comedy is alive and well.
Stand-up is fine. I have not been jorge-pilled. The tl;dr of my last two posts in this thread is really just that Louis is past his prime and these days I'm more interested in personal stories than social commentaries.
Norm dying might very well have something to do with this, it's true
Re: The Stand-up Comedian Thread
Posted: Fri May 05, 2023 1:36 am
I didn't really like the last Louis one I saw either. It was kinda gross.
I dunno, he has always had that before, but it seemed like he was being vulgar for the sake of it here. Didn't really fit.
I dunno, he has always had that before, but it seemed like he was being vulgar for the sake of it here. Didn't really fit.
Re: The Stand-up Comedian Thread
Posted: Fri May 05, 2023 1:37 am
What’s worse: standup comedy or blooper reels?
Re: The Stand-up Comedian Thread
Posted: Fri May 05, 2023 1:46 am
I remember those.
Re: The Stand-up Comedian Thread
Posted: Fri May 05, 2023 1:48 am
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.
Re: The Stand-up Comedian Thread
Posted: Fri May 05, 2023 1:52 am
he used to be witty
earlier days
standard arc of jabba-the-hut-ization of these celebrities
they get wealthy and lazy
need new blood
he should go perv out and die under a rock somewhere with other trash like him
earlier days
standard arc of jabba-the-hut-ization of these celebrities
they get wealthy and lazy
need new blood
he should go perv out and die under a rock somewhere with other trash like him
Re: The Stand-up Comedian Thread
Posted: Fri May 05, 2023 2:04 am
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.
Re: The Stand-up Comedian Thread
Posted: Fri May 05, 2023 4:02 am