Re: The Stand-up Comedian Thread
Posted: Sun February 23, 2020 9:58 pm
niceLoathedVermin72 wrote:Just got tickets to see Emo Philips this weekend.
niceLoathedVermin72 wrote:Just got tickets to see Emo Philips this weekend.
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.
My wife LOVES him. I’ve only heard/seen bits and pieces of his stuff but I always find it very funnytragabigzanda wrote:I saw him Olympia, WA in 2001. It was interesting.durdencommatyler wrote:niceLoathedVermin72 wrote:Just got tickets to see Emo Philips this weekend.
There should be a "like" counter on there.LoathedVermin72 wrote:I found Pete Davidson’s Netflix special scatterbrained and formless. Outside of the opening about Louis CK, I don’t think I laughed at all.
By the way, we all know CK is an asshole for obvious reasons, but Jesus Christ what an asshole that guy is.
Holy shiiiiiiiiit this was goodLoathedVermin72 wrote:Just got tickets to see Emo Philips this weekend.
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.
I will. He did nothing wrong.tragabigzanda wrote:Louis CK just released a new special on his site, $7.99. Anyone gonna do this?
Notragabigzanda wrote:Louis CK just released a new special on his site, $7.99. Anyone gonna do this?
ill look for the torrent.tragabigzanda wrote:Louis CK just released a new special on his site, $7.99. Anyone gonna do this?
I was supposed to see Pearl Jam in St. Louis tonight. Instead, for $8 I had a fun hour watching a master past his prime yet still able to hit the high notes here and there. I download a lot of torrents so I’m not high and mighty, but Louis putting this out now was a gift, and I was happy to legitimately support it.VinylGuy wrote:ill look for the torrent.tragabigzanda wrote:Louis CK just released a new special on his site, $7.99. Anyone gonna do this?
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.
Oh i saw this one. The worst. He is just awful.LoathedVermin72 wrote:I found Pete Davidson’s Netflix special scatterbrained and formless. Outside of the opening about Louis CK, I don’t think I laughed at all.
By the way, we all know CK is an asshole for obvious reasons, but Jesus Christ what an asshole that guy is.