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do you dudes like Tosh.O? like talk soup for the youtube generation, dude!

i know, you nerdz are just waiting for the premiere of Michael & Michael.

i was thinking bob saget, but i guess talk soup works too.

he did a joke where he wore a bob saget mask and made "punny" jokes about footage of a kitten.

I am a nerd and I am psyched about Michael and Michael. Hoping for some involvement from David Wain.

where does one find a Bob Saget mask xpost?

xpost you missed it, it was called Stella

stella was pretty weak.

it would be scary if he came out in a bob saget mask and then he took it off and it was actually bob saget.

^haha

I loved stella the show though, hence wanting Wain to be a part of it.

do you think the Michaels and David privately talk shit about Thomas Lennon living in his LA mansion writing the script for Herbie Fully Loaded and doing fart and butt and Asian jokes on Reno 911?

Yeah, I'm sure the director of Role Models and the cornerstone of "I Love The 80s" resent their friend for going all Hollywood and lowbrow.

Reno 911 is generally funnier then "The Ten"

if writing 'herbie fully loaded' gets you a mansion then I'm sure they would trade places with him in a hot minute

wow, Lennon also wrote:

Taxi, Let's Go to Prison, Balls of Fury and the new Night at the Museum movie.

I'd say these guys are pretty inconsistent.

Stella was weak, but Stella Shorts was fantastic.

first michael & michael i saw was pretty good. workplace thing is sooooooooooooooooo, um, i don't know, just kinda tired of it. the "making of a show" thing, you know. but those dudes are just funny, so, whatever.

a) fuck tosh.o and any shows that add "content" to viral memes that already work in a self-contained environment

b) stella was amazing and what i've seen of this show is dawgshit

Wain was honestly the power-player in Stella.

You dirty dog, you just hypnotized me into taking my clothes off

Stella was awesome, but I saw it before the shorts, so...

Not familiar with Tash.O. What's a Tash.O.

am i the only person who actually laughs at jim gaffigan's stand-up? i probably am.

they had some young guy on last night who was actually pretty funny. can't remember his name. i forgot that comedy central can get away with lots of four letter words late at night.

My brother is a fan, to the point where every time he says something vaguely stand-uppy, I can assume it's a Gaffigan quote. (He's especially fond of the "Hot Pockets" bit.) Can't say I've seen much of his stuff though.

hahaha, i like the hot pockets bit!

I like mine boiling lava hot.

"My back hurts". hahahaha!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9c9lAfXQHs

"dead pockets"

hahaha, oh god, i can't help myself it cracks me up.

cooked in a dirty microwave

man, tosh.o

i have to watch this right now to check for any "stolen content"

terrible

am i the only person who actually laughs at jim gaffigan's stand-up? i probably am.

Saw this guy, basically new to me, at Eugene Mirman's comedy night in Prospect Park. Doesn't reinvent the wheel, but very funny. Esp bit on whales' body image ("I only eat plankton").

does anyone watch workaholics?
ive only watched 2 eps but im really surprised how much i like it

pretty good show imo

its so good
loser or at least quirky-type dudes w/ just energy & bravado is delightful

new patton / pft hours 2night

barely care abt oswalt anymore
tompkins is a++ tho

i thought only the pft was new?

oh i think ur right

Please stop having roasts, Comedy Central.

Anyone watching Nathan For You? I'm digging it. I liked the guy on Jon Benjamin Has A Van, too, which was overall a better show.

Definitely feels like a one-season series though, I can't see them renewing it.

Alright, how about Review? Anyone? The line "Forrest, someone sent you a scroll, a mask and a cockring" made my night tonight.

i only saw the first episode but i loved: "Cocaine. A MILLION STARS!"

i loved that cocaine bit: "OK hotshot, do you remember our son's name?"

This is really great so far

Seeing Andy Daly on stage tomorrow night. Should be great.

The turn in the Space review was so good

lol at the pancakes --> divorce --> eating even more pancakes sequence in the one episode. this reminds me of a less ott and much funnier version of porkin' across america

Pancakes/Divorce/Pancakes was one of the funniest things I've seen in ages, and every ep since has been at least good

I love that show. Daly's self-described Richie Cunningham-esque exterior has some really dark shit lurking underneath.

In other words, he's an Andy Daly character?

The whole season of Review, minus the finale obv, is streaming on CC's YouTube channel right now, for anyone interested.

lol at the pancakes --> divorce --> eating even more pancakes sequence in the one episode. this reminds me of a less ott and much funnier version of porkin' across america

― hug niceman (psychgawsple), Friday, 11 April 2014 18:31 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

OTM w/ the recent Onion webseries (porkin', sex house).

show deserves its own thread at this point. pancakes/divorce/pancakes is easily one of the best pieces of television i've seen.

i'm on my second run-through of it and this time around i cannot stop laughing at the faces A.J. makes.

Review is great.

Amy Schumer otoh is so terrible and racist and ugh stop encouraging her people!

i love andy daly so much, review + his recent podcast run have been so great.

i originally thought a.j. was going to be kind of superfluous, but now she's one of my favorite parts of the show.

xp amy schumer is p funny imo. do you have somewhere where i can eat this muffin? killed me

amy schumer owns

idc if shakey wants her dead that just makes me love her more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5bD32prbwg

yay comedy central!

Comedy Central renews Inside Amy Schumer, Review, and TripTank, orders two new shows

TripTank seemed pretty worthless the one time i saw it but glad to hear about the other ones

Season premiere of Inside Amy Schumer was brilliant. "You know who Sally Field was Tom Hanks's love interest in Punchline and then like 20 minutes later she was his mom in Forrest Gump?" Ha!

Yeah!

I was happy to see Kyle Dunnigan on last night's episode doing his "ra-ah-pping fro-om my bo-oo-dy" beatboxing thing. Happy to see him on anything really, dude's funny.

Yeah, Dunnigan rocks, and this skit was very obviously designed as an excuse to get his "body rapping" bit onto the show. Not that I'm complaining.

i dont liek how every comedy central sketch show has to have relatable candid bits in between the sketches chappelles stand up, kroll awkwardly talking about the show with the writers, but amy schumer interviewing ppl might be the worst (jk obvs kroll awkwardly talking about the show with the writers is the worst), i dont remember what key n peele do

They used to talk to an audience like Chappelle did, but last season they were just talking to each other while driving through a barren desert in a car.

I like Amy talking to people on the street! Reminds me of my old fave Real Sex!

ya that part is funny

i meant like the sit down interviews

it's pretty bad on Kroll Show, I can't imagine anyone being interested in some writer smoking weed when he was 17 or whatever, and seeing Kroll as a normal dude kind of takes you out of the show a bit. sucks because the show is so good otherwise.

kroll show is good but it failed cause its was gross and nihilistic, u have to pick one or go on adult swim, too dark 4 mainstream

yeah it definitely feels like something that only could've worked in a post-Tim and Eric world. I don't think it was a failure

ugh Amy Schumer. really guys?

i just meant failure as in ppl didnt watch it and it got canceled

xp amy shouldn't have to pay for the sins of other schumers, shakey

I watched a couple of episodes and it felt like real fish-in-a-barrell stuff that was 20 years too late. reality tv shows are populated by awful brain-damaged narcissists? you don't say...

xp amy shouldn't have to pay for the sins of other schumers, shakey

idk if Chuckie's as shamefacedly racist as she is but ok

kroll just decided to end it, i think cc wanted more eps

whoah I had no idea the two Schumers were actually related!

xxp

first cousins!

Nick Kroll is one of my least favorite persons of some regard. I'd love for him to fade away, but he's probably only just getting started.

Amy Schumer is great. Feel like she's finally found her voice with this season of the show.

anyway let's all enjoy this "charming" horrifying shit from a white woman:

http://www.cc.com/video-clips/p87njw/stand-up-amy-schumer--can-t-win
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRp3DJqDfOw
http://www.cc.com/jokes/1otgis/stand-up-amy-schumer--amy-schumer--hispanic-ex-boyfriend

so much of this garbage in her material

feel like Sarah Silverman already does a way better job of mining this "omg did a white girl just say that" schtick without actually being horribly racist. With Sarah the joke is always on her, with Schumer the joke is always on the minority.

I generally like schumer but already this season of the show feels like she may have run out of good ideas for sketches imo

“I used to date Hispanic guys, but now I prefer consensual!” ]

haha get it latino guys are rapists! HILARIOUS

xp

ppl hated sarah silverman's racial humor (remember the whole asian controversy?) but i think the longer she was on the scene the more ppl got used to her and now she's such a fixture a lot of that stuff is overlooked. there are no comedians that only say inoffensive things. well, there are. my synagogue sometimes hires 'clean comedians.' they are not funny.

this is the season where basically everything schumer does is getting picked apart post mortem in a gazillion thought pieces

I'm not a Patton Oswalt level bad joke apologist by any means, but I've come around to the idea that looking at some fairly gnarly jokes in the larger body of a comedian's entire work is key. Like, I don't actually believe Amy Schumer is a racist, but she'll dabble in stereotypes for a laugh. Daniel Tosh, otoh, is probably a straight up racist bro and all his racial/gender/class shit is just him speaking from his id.

i just meant failure as in ppl didnt watch it and it got canceled

Kroll decided to end it on his own, his reasoning was that most shows started to suck after season 3 so he'd wrap it up then

and yeah Schumer is awful, not that I mind comedians that are offensive but there has to be some kind of cleverness behind it. which Silverman definitely had.

I don't think you can point to any specific bit in Sarah's racial material where the joke is not on her and her racism. at least, I've never come across one.

xxp

she'll dabble in stereotypes for a laugh

reinforcing the idea that racial stereotypes are in and of themselves funny is racist, is the thing

and not that they're funny because they're stupid or innacurate, but funny *because they're somehow true* is fucked up

not really buying the separation between Schumer and Tosh here

and I'm fine w Patton Oswalt's "all jokes are ok" approach - she has the right to make those jokes, go right ahead. And it's my right to say those jokes are horrible and not funny and they make me hate her.

xp

Sometimes Amy's delivery sounds like she's trying shock in the same style Louis CK does, where she'll "go there", and when the you'd think she's going to back pedal she instead goes even further to screw with the audience. Louie does this when he talks about his daughters usually.

And it's my right to say those jokes are horrible and not funny and they make me hate her.

with all due respect, the "make me hate her" part is where i start rolling my eyes. idk i guess re comedians i feel like the biggest insult you can pay them is being too bored to listen/watch. who has the energy/motivation to 'hate' someone who tells jokes for a living?

"i'm so offended by this joke - i hate you!" < kinda silly ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I cringe too when I get a whiff of a comic just trying to shock for the sake of it, and I don't like any of Schumer's winky winky racial shit, but you get a broader picture of her moral compass when you listen to other parts of her act or read/listen to interviews with her. Plenty of comics who go that route have no redemptive qualities at all.

who has the energy/motivation to 'hate' someone who tells jokes for a living?

I'm a dynamo

I think saying "this person is probably not racist but just goes there for the jokes, this other person is definitely a racist bro" really boils down to "I think one is funny and the other not"

i thought we had moved off the "this person is racist" thing onto "this thing you said was racist," in which case you can like amy despite the 10% of bigoted jokes in her repertoire and dislike tosh despite the 10% of not-bigoted jokes in his.

reinforcing the idea that racial stereotypes are in and of themselves funny is racist, is the thing

i think these jokes work on two levels: first the straight up racist level ("it's really true!"), and then in a way that only works with a nominally "liberal" audience with only latent racism in which blurting out the very thing everyone is working very hard on not thinking causes the laugh. not defending it in either case, though, since it's sorta hacky either way.

kroll just decided to end it, i think cc wanted more eps

― johnny crunch, Thursday, April 30, 2015 12:38 PM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

stand corrected just assumed no one liked that show even tho i do tbh lol

we may have to face the possibility that amy schumer is funny and racist, ill let u political experts untangle that one ;)

I think the biggest insult you can pay comedians is in denying that their pseudo edgy bs are "jokes" in the first place. Don't see what is wrong w publicly denouncing hateful speech disguised as comedy.

what if the speech is both hateful and a joke oh no!

If you consider it humor then go ahead and enjoy it. I won't stop you.

/checks internet racism expert position matrix/

well when bruneau + shakey agree on something u know it's probably right

lol consider it humor what cld this even mean i have no idea

It's hateful if it's hacky, if you frame it correctly it becomes commentary.

hey! same car!

bigoted ppl cannot be funny i have the ruling right here to prove it

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTQ5MDcyODU0Nl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMTgxNjA0MQ@@._V1_SX640_SY720_.jpg

i think these jokes work on two levels: first the straight up racist level ("it's really true!"), and then in a way that only works with a nominally "liberal" audience with only latent racism in which blurting out the very thing everyone is working very hard on not thinking causes the laugh. not defending it in either case, though, since it's sorta hacky either way.

yeah this is accurate I think

schumer is not even a little bit funny and weirdly it turns out her show is terrible too

otoh was ready to write off kroll show unseen as his stand up is so lame but it was actually a really great show.

Kroll show is carried by how perfectly it parodies reality and drama television genres.

her show is good

not like every sketch but there are a lot of funny ones

has anyone itt considered that maybe they just dont know how to laugh?

https://uproxx.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/cesaro-tyson-kidd-fact-clap.gif?w=650

ha... ho?

laughter, you know
https://hushcomics.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/gus-and-walt.jpg

I've found one or two of Schumer's sketches funny, but man, that racist shit (in addition to being racist shit) is basically 1985 Morning Zoo material.

Is it even possible to be funny without being bigoted & hateful idk

feel like probably not

need some of that good clean humor, none of those racy jokes

Yeah but it requires effort and wit.

dying of laughter rn
https://billysteele60.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/brad-pitt-se7en.jpg

fwiw Brian Regan is still funny and one of my favorite routines in a standup special is the one where Kevin James is shopping for a greeting card (albeit as a woman). But yeah, most boastfully "clean" routines/comics are a snooze.

self-loathing always works in a pinch as a comic device
http://splitsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/rodney-dangerfield-e1308841440991.jpg

the worst thing i saw on the schumer show was a non sketch segment where she was hanging around some of her comedian friends and they were blatantly awful people tbh

like ppl u just instinctively do not want to be around

racists, gotcha

h8 racists

and they had other bad qualities too!

women

(jokes)

they had a certain... schumerness

schumerity

schumarm

women

― Mordy, Thursday, April 30, 2015 1:48 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

she was the only woman in the group fwiw iirc

what if a comedian were to don a raffish air? would that be acceptable?

what is that, some kind of funny hat

You guys are the real comedy experts.

http://www.laverdadyotrasmentiras.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/dr.groucho.jpg

well he looks down in the dumps

Groucho truce. Love comedy love you guys.

that guy's mustache is so fake you guys are idiots

Kroll show is carried by how perfectly it parodies reality and drama television genres.

definitely, I'm not really sold on any of the actors really (Jon Daly is pretty great usually), but the editing and effects are top-notch, also between this and Key & Peele it's nice to see a resurgence of really well-produced and tightly controlled sketch comedy

Kroll decided to end it on his own, his reasoning was that most shows started to suck after season 3 so he'd wrap it up then

No, his reasoning was that most of the characters who'd been recurring since S1 and 2 had more or less come to the end of character or story arcs, so it would be a good idea to stop there rather than try and force more in an S4 immediately.

The 12 Angry Men Inside Amy Schumer ep was awesome, to the point where they used the same lighting and camerawork.

It was pretty great.

I feel like even if you hate her standup you should give this show a chance. I don't know that it's saying anything, really, but her first season had lots of the Opie & Anthony crowd of comedians as guests, this season Tina Fey, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Patricia Arquette, Paul Giamatti, etc, etc. have turned up, maybe it's not, you know, a terrible racist hatefest.

She definitely has a better class of professional friends now.

I'm super late to this but I just realized that I sort of love Amy. Initially I found her to be too abrasive and one of those female comics who relies solely on the gross out factor or their bawdiness but she's really smart and there's a lot more to her esp considering what she's focusing on this season. IDK. I'm into it even though I think she recycles content a lot. When she's good, she's really good. The 12 angry men ep was fantastic though I don't know that it actually needed to be an entire episode long. I don't know that I'll ever get over Goldblum saying "I have a donkey dick".

Also, all of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nhBKbmpGi4

oh ffs the comments

"The two most popular male comedians out right now, Bill Burr and Louis C.K. They have never really made sex or dick jokes. At least it's not the majority of their special.. Unlike Amy fatface Schumer, Making the same period and ex-boyfriend jokes she's had since she started out. What's worse then "hypocrisy". Is pretending a bitch has talent just because she's a bitch."

Uh, has this dude ever hear either Burr or C.K.? I love both of them and there's a fair fucking amount of sex/dick talk in there. Maybe with C.K. more than Burr but most of Burr's shtick is the male equivalent to what he's faulting her for. Also, "fatface". Amazing. Jesus fucking christ I hate everyone.

youtube comments? You should know what you're getting yourself into there...

Or, y'know, pretty much any internet commentary involving a public figure who's also a woman.

True, but... youtube comments

I know. Of course I know and I usually avoid them! I don't even know why I looked but I did and it was worse than I thought. ugh.

Anybody watching Another Period? I'm enjoying it.

Tried the pilot, found it to be a one-joke deal. Might check in on it again later.

Why? With Hannibal Buress premieres tonight.

Heard some piece on the radio this morning, and the guy talking kept implying that Buress getting a show on Comedy Central somehow ... ratified his views on Cosby? Tapped into the zeitgeist re: Cosby? Regardless, did not acknowledge that Hannibal has massively been on the rise for years, or co-starred on a CC show already, and has appeared in tons of other stuff, released comedy specials, etc. I mean, there was a reason someone was filming that Cosby bit last fall, and that reason is that people come out to see him and like him and find him funny enough to record/document, let alone prominent enough to have jumpstarted the Cosby discussion in the first place. If he was a nobody no one would have taken notice of his joke.

Also rubbed me the wrong way how they kept referring to him as a young black comedian. As if he's operating in/occupying some specific niche of "black comedian."

hannibal is seriously funny both as a writer and as a performer; his timing is amaaaaaaazing. he can say very simple stuff and the flat delivery gives it great punch. he's been performing standup nonstop for like, what, ten years? and he's been on (ymmv but it's true) two of the best comedies on television for the past two years? i'm very psyched about the new show.

Totally. Like Aziz, for a minute there were serious shades of Mitch Hedberg, but Hannibal (and Aziz) have really moved well beyond that angle. Last time I saw Hannibal was opening as a surprise guest for Louis CK, and Hannibal's set was probably stronger/funnier. But I saw him the first time maybe three or four years ago, and he killed it, then, too.

saw his stand-up last week. he was basically reading the american ilx world cup posts for part of the set (e.g. "add a second ball"), but it was hilarious because his delivery is just so good.

really dug the pilot of Another Period

Tried the pilot, found it to be a one-joke deal

there's at least two jokes! Reality TV parody and Masterpiece Theater/Downton Abbey/Upstairs Downstairs parody. But yeah it could get tiresome.

That's sort of like Drunk History was for me. I watched a few eps, but didn't find it funny at all. The concept did not bear fruit.

It worked for me but the cast is loaded with ringers so I'm a little predisposed to like it.

Review with Forrest MacNeil's coming back soon. I'm excited.

Another Period's casting def doing a lot of lifting

Review is incredible, excited for S2 of that

Review is sooo dark. Waiting for more Nathan for You.

Hannibal is obv great but the first ep of why? was garb imo

yeah, it was...really rough.

i was disheartened

Yeah that was not good

;_;

there was some good material in there but the delivery/execution was awkward + what's with all the guest stars

Comedy Central is so hit and miss about building shows around popular comedians and it feels like they just wound up at some default format after eliminating every other option...can't see him wanting to star in a sketch show or do a Soup/Tosh style green screen commentary show, a meta talk show would be redundant with the Eric Andre gig, he probably wouldn't work as well as the star of a sitcom as he does in a supporting role on Broad City...if he just keeps it loose and throw in whatever current events material or weird ideas he has every week it could turn out pretty cool though.

feel like some stand-ups should just be stand-ups

def a point worth considering

the idea that standup always has to be a vehicle to something else is sorta weird when you think about it

why keep throwing the camera to the audience? why telegraph the joke? why combine sketch and stand up in the first place?
i luv u hannibal don't do this to us

a show where a guy just does standup once a week would be sorta nuts, someone should do it

a show where a guy just does standup once a week would be sorta nuts, someone should do it

It actually happens nightly on three of the four major broadcast networks.

late night shows have guests and shit though

or are you referring to something else? I meant a show w one comic, just doing standup for 30 minutes every week

Has that ever been done before?

I would think the main problem/reason is material but yeah I can't think of anyone that's done it

Nah, I was talking about late night shows. If you add up all the monologues, though, you get at least 30 mins per week.

I get what you're saying. 30 strong minutes is a lot of work for a standup, though, and pumping out a new 30 minutes every week would be insane unless you're working with writers. And once you're working with writers, you may as well try some other things beyond just doing a standup set, and then you're planning weird conceptual sketches and whatever and you've ruined the original idea for the show.

haha yes

It doesn't seem THAT difficult, if you have writers. Just have them write a 5 minute bit rather than a 5 minute sketch/skit.

jon oliver is getting close to it.

which of the current late night hosts started off doing standup?

There are a couple people I can think of who could probably pull this off:

Aziz Ansari, whose routines basically just seem to be freestyle anyway. I know they aren't, but he seems to be able to talk for extended periods of time at the drop of a hat.

Patton Oswalt, whose routines are basically stories about his own life or opinions about pop culture, and always feature references about a) fast food b) comic books/etc. c) in recent years, his wife and kid and d) one obscure song to let you know how with it he is.

which of the current late night hosts started off doing standup?

Fallon did standup before SNL, but he wasn't a star or anything. Kimmel probably did too, but I barely know anything about that guy. Seth and Conan have always been writers afaik. WGAF about James Corden. Colbert was always a sketch player/writer.

which of the current late night hosts started off doing standup?

they all come from TV now. that era of late night hosts is over

jon oliver is getting close to it.

yeah, good point.

Jimmy Fallon did apparently. Here's a recap of his kind of LOL-worthy big break:

At the "notoriously difficult audition," he was told by multiple individuals that creator Lorne Michaels almost never emitted laughter during auditions. Although he initially feared the comic before him, armed with an arsenal of props, would outshine him, Fallon went onstage and did well. He showcased his impressions with a celebrity walk-a-thon, including impressions of Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock, Bill Cosby, and Adam Sandler, an SNL alumnus who had recently left the show. The latter received laughter from the room, including Michaels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Fallon#Comedy_beginnings

So his big talents were being able to impersonate an idiot and doing what Weird Al does but without any jokes.

i've seen Fallon's audition on youtube, he does 8 impressions in a row that are all either SNL cast members or stars of NBC shows, he was really born to be the network's favorite company man

LOL

Todd Barry could probably manage 30 minutes of solid material a week. He did an entire tour that was nothing but crowdwork.

During their time at SNL, Fallon and fellow cast member Horatio Sanz often partied. These experiences were an extension of their desires to emulate the SNL stars before them, including John Belushi, Adam Sandler, and Chris Farley. Sanz has described he and Fallon as "super-functioning alcoholics," often spotted at Siberia, an underground dive bar in the 50th Street subway station, or Niagara in the East Village. For example, on one occasion, they spent a Friday night watching the Strokes perform a midnight show, staying up until the early morning drinking, despite having to do SNL that night.

Dang, that is crazy! Staying up until the early morning when you have to be at work for dress rehearsal at 8pm! Party animals.

my ideal Hannibal show would probably just be him talking shit with Eric Andre as sidekick, no guests or sketches, lots of negative space.

They do have a really good chemistry together, his deadpan delivery is perfect when put next to Andre's manic insanity.

which of the current late night hosts started off doing standup?

Fallon did standup before SNL, but he wasn't a star or anything. Kimmel probably did too, but I barely know anything about that guy. Seth and Conan have always been writers afaik. WGAF about James Corden. Colbert was always a sketch player/writer.

― Johnny Fever, Friday, July 10, 2015 9:46 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

which of the current late night hosts started off doing standup?

they all come from TV now. that era of late night hosts is over

― Οὖτις, Friday, July 10, 2015 9:48 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

or ongoing per JF's post

"started off" tho

none of those guys did time in comedy clubs

tbf, late night hosts with a background in standup was more a diversion than anything. Steve Allen, Jack Paar and Johnny Carson weren't standups. They all either came from radio, tv or Vaudeville.

that's true - Leno or Letterman or Joan Rivers or Shandling etc running late night shows was it's own era, one that's over now

I'm not sure it means much either way. Does it?

Hannibal would make a great travel show host. Like, every episode could start with some standup, then he leaves the club and you realize, hey, he's in Philly! Then he can go places, riff, meet people, go on adventures, etc. And then they edit it down to 22 minutes or whatever.

Like this BS:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MZl-_46LJo

Hannibal would make a great travel show host. Like, every episode could start with some standup, then he leaves the club and you realize, hey, he's in Philly! Then he can go places, riff, meet people, go on adventures, etc. And then they edit it down to 22 minutes or whatever.

What you just described is Insomniac with Dave Attell.

(which was a very good show and I'd be totally down with it being revived for a newer comedian)

yes, yes and yes

Totes, especially since Hannibal is so different from Attell.

Hannibal's show is just the worst way to showcase his talents
on the plus side, his dj is flying lotus and he had open mike eagle and thundercat on last night so that's something

I've been afraid to watch anything beyond the first episode

when is Nathan For You coming back???

xp it's not getting better unfortunately
nathan for you is back in september

I haven't caught up with the Nightly Show either lately, but that one seemed more promising than Why? despite it's similar sorta newbie structural issues

Nathan For You back on October 15th

your pretty little face is back and is pretty much exactly the same show
review will be back shortly.

Anyone watching The Idiotsitter? I'm enjoying it. Jillian Bell is always worth watching.

Bell was so great in 22 Jump Street that i was looking forward to Idiotsitter but i'm a little let down so far, feels like a rehash of everything about Workaholics that i got tired of 3 seasons ago.

insomniac was awesome and genuinely surprising as the night went on and attell kept meeting stranger, drunker and more desperate characters

Gave Big Time in Hollywood, FL and made it maybe three episodes. So obnoxious, not funny enough to justify it.

still no renewal for Review :(

What? I thought that was a done deal, a renewal?

I give that news one star

Man, I hope it comes back. Show is perfect/horrible/can't avert my eyes.

Man, @Midnight has suuuucked for a while now. Hardwick is insufferable and needs to fill up every pause with either hacky shit (dude cannot stop talking about dicks) or jokes that one of the panelists were probably going to make, and the guests have been shit too. Feels like most of the comedians in LA are boycotting it or something.

Jeff And Some Aliens?! A show about a regular dude who lives with some aliens who are, get this, just regular dudes too.

I think aliens/zombies/monsters/whatever-are-just-normal-dudes is a premise that can be retired.

hey, 3rd Rock From the Sun was funny (20 years ago)

People of Earth is doing good things with a kinda-similar premise.

I watched the first episode of PoE and... it's okay. I wanted to like it more. I like Wyatt Cenac and a lot of the cast, though, so I'll probably watch the whole season.

Man, This Is Not Happening. Ari Shaffir. Absolutely dire shit.

V little exposure to the dude but I just remember my one listen to an ep of Ari's podcast was dire enough I never wanted to pay attention to anything else he did

Ari blows

This Is Not Happening is a great premise and a good show. Shaffir, for someone as dumb as he is, is open to learning and is an excellent stand-up. He's like the anti-Rogan.

It's a good premise, I'd probably like it if they had a better host and guests. I guess I'm glad he's "open to learning" but he's just not funny to me, has that kind of bro-ish vibe that I'm not into at all.

I thought this was funny:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNpRMfiwwlM

Well, sure. Actually funny dudes are funny on that show.

Uh...

https://latenighter.com/news/paramount-axes-comedy-central-website-show-clips-library/

Fuck. The web really is dead to these people huh?

the market rejoices at all this wiping of free content

They can't just fire 5-10 executives?