Rolling Stand-Up Comedy 2011

bring your patton vs. louie arguments in here imo

i think the real diff between Patton and Louie is that Patton sets himself up as the outsider—sci-fi, too-smart-for-suburbia, anti-monoculture, english major, living embodiment of the Onion A/V Club. His comedy presumes a self-righteous feeling of alienation in his audience--whether that comes from being a comic geek, or a film snob, or an indie type, or a hipster, or a message board poster. It's kind a cuddly Sub Pop version of Bill Hicks or late-90s David Cross. Which, as far as I'm concerned, is a totally great thing. But...

Louie shoots way higher, going for a general Homer Simpson everyman vibe. His bits are all about how thinks he's stupid, fat, awkward, frazzled, weirded out by people, uncomfortable around women. It's a stark humanity rendered with hyperbolic tools and gallows humor. And you don't have to have listened to Stooges records or read The Watchmen to relate to that shit.

― Dan Watagatapitusperry (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, January 20, 2011 9:11 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

sweet thread

i want more thoughts on daniel tosh and his college campus race humor. is he big with the kids?

umm not really? more like the 20-35 demo prob

and tosh has been around for 10 years or more? i just knew the clip show thing.

i'm hoping people post great stand-up youtubes itt

He made the news on July 13, 2010, for beating both Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert in ratings to have the highest rated non-animated show on the network. Tosh.0 is averaging 2.2 million viewers beating The Daily Show by 0.2 million viewers and is beating The Colbert Report by 0.8 million viewers

that's a bit of a misnomer cuz his show is only on once a week -- if either stewart or colbert was on his schedule they'd be doing like triple that tosh number

i like tosh.0 a lot as a show but he definitely crosses the line b/w making race jokes & using comedy as an excuse to be a racist

― hard as a markers (J0rdan S.), Thursday, January 20, 2011 9:23 PM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

This is OTM. i think Family Guy does this a lot too.

family guy is okay but overall i get the vibe that seth macfarlane is a sociopath

jesus christ I didn't know people actually watched/liked that tosh.0 shit

another thread to discuss family guy! we're off to a stellar start

I have to put it on mute when I'm waiting for the ds xp

nyc'ers i think we need to go see Daniel Kitson's one man show, right?

jesus christ I didn't know people actually watched/liked that tosh.0 shit

― iatee, Thursday, January 20, 2011 8:48 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

tosh.0 is good! like it's entertaining & it deals w/ internet memes in a better & funnier fashion than the whole internet & most other pop culture mediums -- i think it has a great balance b/w 'the soup'-style playing a video and saying zingy one liners & field pieces (one of the best ones is w/ the guy from the nyer article that was stuck in an elevator) -- his field pieces are almost always amazing

i like his stuff like "Web Redemption" but seriously loathe anyone who shows funny YouTube clips on TV and then comments on them. Like they're YouTube clips, they stand alone!

Like some Vh1 show or something was like

Patrice O'Neal: This lady's about to fall down some stairs
[plays clip]
Patrice O'Neal: That lady totally fell down some stairs!!!

web soup > tosh.o

that said, like i said earlier, i can't fully defend the show because he does say a lot of racist shit that isn't funny -- like you can't try & pass off received racist wisdom ("lol black people steal things!") as comedy, because it's not comedy, it's racism, and the context of the remark doesn't make it less offensive or funny at all -- AND on top of that his audience probably contains a large portion of people that think that telling jokes about black people stealing bikes is just innocent humor

Kitson playin till the 30th, yall

http://www.stannswarehouse.org/current_season.php?show_id=54

Patrice O'Neal: This lady's about to fall down some stairs
[plays clip]
Patrice O'Neal: That lady totally fell down some stairs!!!

― Dan Watagatapitusperry (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, January 20, 2011 8:57 PM (28 seconds ago) Bookmark

rofl

xpost, that's like all i know about Chelsea Handler is she is on some "Black people steal things" equals a punchline

Tosh.0 may go over the line sometimes, whatever...who cares. I just think that guy's a horrible douchebag in a way that Joel McHale never is, even if they're doing roughly the same thing.

right, plus an extra scoop of "lol i fuck black guys, isn't that hilarious?" humor for good measure

xp

well, hold on -- the soup is like 20x as good as tosh.0 -- but tosh.0 is still good

I have a friend who just recently got a job as a writer for Chelsea Lately, but she's only had a couple jokes get used. She's honestly doing everything she can to make that show more cool, but it may take a while.

Tosh.0 is huge with a bunch of my coworkers...I've watched it a few times, but there's something a little bit too ironic about him. He makes me feel old bc I can't always tell where the joke ends, or if he knows...but he is kinda cute and the web redemptions are p great.
Soup for all time though.

j0rdan is otm about tosh and imo his show is the one exception to the vh1 show-type shit whiney is describing.

i've thought about starting a thread like this for a while but i was gonna say we keep it just about standups who are known as standups and not people who've already moved onto successful movies/tv shows...i feel like there are a lot of good middle ground comics out these days (and improbably a lot of them were on Last Comic Standing)

I guess this is as good a place as any to mention that Maron is going to be a guest on Conan tonight. I think it's the first time he's done the show since it was Late Night, which is where I first saw him a zillion times in the 90s.

Got to see Dan St Germain middle for Marc Maron a couple of weeks back. He is really fucking funny imo.

Want to see Moshe Kasher or Kyle Kinane if/when they roll through town...the clips I've seen and interviews have been great.

Kind of excited for Maron to be on Conan, hope it goes well. Though it is good podcast material if it doesnt I guess, so win win maybe? Lol.

Saw him on Ferguson a couple months ago and it kind of made me cringe. Jokes were decent, but he seemed so eager/ingratiating.

That's the only time I've ever seen him do stand-up, mind you. I know him pretty much exclusively from the podcast.

He and Conan go way back. I'm only slightly exaggerating when I say he was on Late Night a zillion times.

It's like 40-something.

Yeah, that seems more right.

Anyway, are we all glad that Demetri Martin has sort of vanished from existence?

Fuck yes

i think Demetri's Comedy Central show was his big shot and he blew it. by that measure, you guys should be happy it was Tosh that thrived instead.

Maron's always had a hyper nervous vibe, that's part of his appeal imo

yeah i wasn't a fan of martin at all

just watched the opening of Conan...it's really weird to see a talk show announcer trumpet one of their guests as "from the so-and-so PODCAST!"

I've seen Maron twice now in the past 6 months. He has a nervousness in his stories and delivery a little but then again, he is so comfortable on stage it's like you're visiting him in his living room. Just really loose and conversational and he doesnt grind gears between stories/bits the way younger comedians sometimes do. And he makes a lot of eye contact with the first couple of rows so it instantly makes the room seem smaller. Just fun watching the subtle little tricks.

Though i will say no wonder he pulls crazy sex crazed stalker girls. Dude is like a walking embodiment of the handsome college professor archetype as far as the way he dresses and behaves on stage. I saw him and was like "ohhh yeah I totally get why 25 yr olds screw your brains out."

apparently podcasts really are the new smart career move for comedians:

When [Comedy/Podcasting] Worlds Collide: Greg Fitzsimmons, who recorded us on his podcast last weekend, did an amazingly killer set on "Lopez Tonight" last night - check it out here [must-watch]. Fitzsimmons was on Marc Maron's WTF podcast just last week (listen here) and tonight Marc Maron will be on "Conan." Greg Proops, whose (excellent) live podcast I attended last week (listen here) was counted by The Hollywood Reporter TV critic (and friend) Tim Goodman as a forerunner for replacing Regis Philben on "Live! With Regis And Kelly" pending his retirement - a move that would finally make that show worth watching. And, in summary, it should be noted that Greg Fitzsimmons, Marc Maron, and Bill Burr (a frequent interview subject whose podcast we've often highlighted here) all have TV shows that are actively in development and/or have even shot a pilot. 2011 could be a great year for all of these great producers of comedy and for us viewers. - http://laist.com/2011/01/20/tv_junkie_516.php

Proops in place of Regis! God if that happened I would be happy. love that guy.

I basically only know Proops as someone who people think looks like Kenan. I think I thought he was British until like a couple weeks ago.

I like comedy, but I'm probably not a comedy nerd. Wondering how much that has to do with the fact that I've never in my life had cable and so have never seen any HBO or Comedy Central specials.

ha, bill burr is gonna have a TV show?? his stand up special on comedy central recently was pretty great i thought & he was always welcome on the chappelle show

Burr can be funny but i don't particularly like his standup

that's the kinda stand up i usually go for tbh, like ppl ranting about their lives as opposed to, like, carefully constructed jokes (& never anything w/ any ironic distance -- this is why i can't listen to comics telling jokes about reality tv) -- he's not amazing cuz his rant to joke ratio isn't as high as someone like louis ck, but i dig

I used to always confuse Greg Proops and Tom Kenny...until Proops got sorta fat.

Proops did a lot of work in Australia for some reason...he was at the Melbourne Comedy Festival a lot if memory serves

he was one of the only American regulars on the original Whose Line and lived in the UK for a few years while that was on, i think maybe from that he started touring internationally a lot more than most comedians at his level do

lol Maron actually just referred to his look as "cool professor" on Conan

and now he's talking about groupies! i feel like Conan was reading VegemiteGrrrl's posts on this thread immediately before interviewing Maron.

i hope he talks about his time machine eventually

(i'm talking about conan. and yes i realize that maron made a time machine joke earlier.)

Is he on the couch?

first guest

i seriously can't even imagine downloading a comedy podcast, uploading it to my iphone, and then quietly staring off into space listening to it.

I can't imagine listening to anything on my phone other than the other half of a conversation, but I've downloaded a couple of Maron's podcasts to my laptop. The only one I've listened to so far was the Robin Williams one, which was occasionally interesting but generally way too much listening to two aging dudes sharing stories you weren't there for.

These days I listen to WTF at the gym.

I do work while I'm listening. Or drive. No time for space.

Comedians talking about creating comedy is as fascinating to me as musicians talking about making records, so I was more drawn to WTF when it finally decided what kind of path it was going to take.

Me too.

Comedians talking about creating comedy is as fascinating to me as musicians talking about making records

Totally agree with this. The next issue of Burning Ambulance (a quarterly zine I edit) is (assuming the writer gets it to me) gonna have a feature on Brian McConnachie, who's not a standup but who wrote for National Lampoon, SCTV and Saturday Night Live (and Shining Time Station, apparently, but never mind that).

I really love Kyle Kinane:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6rsp6phb5U

lol i'd rather castrate myself than watch george lopez interview bill engvall right now

I used to always confuse Greg Proops and Tom Kenny...until Proops got sorta fat.

haha is tom kenny still rocking that look? haven't seen him in like 20 yrs.

is he still a stand up for that matter

Not sure. Spongebob (and other voice work) probably keeps him really busy.

spongebob is a most worthy calling, i did like his standup work at the time

spongebob is the funniest thing basically ever

^

I only knew him from his amazing work in Shakes the Clown.

He was in some great Mr. Show bits too.

Joel McHale's stand-up is surprisingly staid. Funny-ish, but he does a ton of dad humor.

i hope they're bringing it back this year, but last year Showtime had a great show called The Green Room With Paul Provenza that was just panel discussions with comedians that were totally goofy and profane and off-topic with occasional serious insight into comedy. that being on last summer around the same time as Last Comic Standing and Louie felt like a buffet of entertaining TV about standup comedy.

but i'm in the same boat as Whiney where i just can't imagine taking the time to listen to a comedian's podcast, no matter how much i might like them or how funny it might be. i wish all these great comics with podcasts just got hired to do morning shows on every radio station across the country and replaced the hacks that usually do that job.

Yeah I heard the Green Room was pretty good, haven't seen it. Got Satiristas for xmas, great reading there. Some cool interviews,

i can't imagine taking the time to enjoy an enjoyable thing

i saw stephen merchant do some standup the other week, he was much more good looking and tall than i'd previously imagined. some people in the front row were finishing some food they'd ordered and he ragged on them for like five minutes before starting any of his material. "eat before you go out. ok?"

Louie CK's bit about hitting the deer and telling it he was glad it's dead was hilar.

though it was a little unsettling how he freely threw around the n-word in that set.

i feel like a lot of comedy these days is very.. how can i say this. AGGRESSIVE. fast-paced, angry at everything, convinced of their own righteousness, ranting.. who are the comedians that are doing something different?

neil hamburger

lol.

"are you here for business or pleasure?"
(audience member mentions visiting a sick relative)
"Oh, I see. PLEASURE then!"

i did enjoy how maron got the commitment from conan to do the podcast at the end

lol at some dude and whiney not listening to podcasts; podcasts are for people who commute

i just finally got around to listening to the hannibal buress album, it is good

i feel like a lot of comedy these days is very.. how can i say this. AGGRESSIVE. fast-paced, angry at everything, convinced of their own righteousness, ranting.. who are the comedians that are doing something different?

― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Friday, January 21, 2011 6:53 AM (54 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

the hannibal buress album is pretty much the opposite of this, he's very laid back, but i do think pretty much all stand-up comedy is based on the concept of the comedian being "convinced of their own righteousness"

i wish all these great comics with podcasts just got hired to do morning shows on every radio station across the country and replaced the hacks that usually do that job.

And then I would never hear them.

Yeah, the Hannibal record is easily the best Stand-Up Record of 2010.

Tracer, have you checked out Maria Bamford, or Paul F Tompkins? Both pretty pleasant & v funny.

yeah pft definitely, never heard of maria bamford! thanks!

also never heard of this hannibal dude!

I don't know what it is but Maria Bamford really really annoys me. She pretty much ruined Comedians of Comedy for me.

And she has a pug and does good pug impressions! I feel like I should love her but I definitely do not.

Saw Tompkins live in November btw - he was amazing.

No one post itt until you cop that Hannibal. Essential listening imo.

High school friend of mine is a professional standup, she's done Leno once and some other TV stuff (VH1, etc.), has a show premiering on WE next week: http://www.wetv.com/a-stand-up-mother

ENBB i didnt get her til the Maron podcast interview... before that I had the same reaction as you.

I like Bamford in small doses. I liked Kristen Schaal better when she was giggin around NYC. Tompkins's Impersonal CD from 07 is kind of a snooze, but that bit about peanut brittle is one of the funniest fucking things I've ever heard.

Yep. I've pretty much been on the lookout for peanut brittle in a can since then but I've found that, sadly, it mostly comes in boxes these days.

I haven't heard the Bamford Maron interview. I'm still sort of traumatized from last weekend when I listened to that one he did with the little bald guy who likes hookers. I'll give them Bamford one a shot.

Here, I uploaded Paul F. Tompkins' "Peanut Brittle" routine for y'all. Pretty much his best 5 minutes.

http://www.mediafire.com/?l28no9wma8hya79

always makes me rofl

lol it is great

I also really like his whole house bear thing. I like him just fine recorded but he was really awesome live.

im a fan of patton but im really burnt out on his promotion of this book

i mean, it's clearly my own fault -- had an itunes gift card so i bought the audiobook, listened to him on O&A and the BS report (this was srsly awful, more cuz of simmons) and corolla

the whole zombie, spaceship, wasteland theory just is boring imo

i guess this is a cautionary post

my favorite non-famous stand-up is robert buscemi:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig2FM1g13js&feature=related

feel like his style is different from a lot of modern stand-ups, very absurdist

haven't heard hannibal buress' album. my fave two comedy albums from last year were Myq Kaplan's Vegan Mind Meld (Love At Comix!) and Aziz Ansari's Intimate Moments for a Sensual Evening.

think whiney might be overselling the buress album a little tbh. it's a good solid comedy album but nothing earth-shattering. still a recommended listen though.

I got a little excited that someone else on ILX had heard of Buscemi until I saw it was you, n/a. He absolutely deserves the attention, though.

saw burress when he lived in chicago, def a funny understated style

kinda lol nerdy

METAL ARMS

hannibal is great -- that's a sort of hedberg style that i actually dig

Tompkins is brilliant imo -- up there with Patton Oswalt as one of the few comics working today who just seems like a wordsmith who could've done something interesting in any number of formats if he hadn't gone into standup

the whole zombie, spaceship, wasteland theory just is boring imo

i thought it was clever and otm

not that im gonna read that shit or anything

Loved his Comedy Central special last year.. that he made talking about his Mom's death somehow funny but really touching as well. I don't love his podcast but definitley like his standup.

Yeah, I wasn't expecting that turn in his last album where he goes into the thing about his mom. He made it funny, but you could tell that a millimeter under the surface he was still a complete mess about it.

xxp the part abt the 1st thing a creative teenager or w/e makes has to wipe out civilization in some way cuz they dont know shit abt paying taxes, etc is otm. the part, esp in the bill simmons podcast where he tries to classify any movie character or person as a zombie, spaceship, or wasteland is not clever or intriguing at all

I need to check out more Kyle Kinane:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLs9ozsGFi0

Me too. That was great!

So I guess this Patton thing I'm going to tomorrow is a reading from the book. I kind of wish I hadn't told my friend to get me a ticket but how bad can it be? He was hysterical when I saw him on tour a couple years ago but somehow a book/reading signing just sounds kind of dreadful.

He'll probably still be kind of funny when he's not actually reading.

Yeah and, tbh, it's not like I have anything better going on tomorrow afternoon. Also, $5 iirc and I'm still hoping to find out that he brings Grumpus along to these sorts of things.

Love Kinane.
His racist stoner on Lopez was pretty lol

http://www.lopeztonight.com/episode_recaps_and_highlights/chad_the_racist_stoner_from_arizona.php#content

i really dont like the youtubes that animate a comic's bit. they kind of take a lot of the imagination and open-endedness out of the bits for me.

I liked Dr. Katz tho for some reason, iirc?

Yeah, don't let these threads ruin it for you. Hell, I'm still planning on getting his book regardless.

x-post

Ha ha - is Kinane a regular on Lopez?

Agreed about animated stand up. I searched forever to find a normal video of that bit.

I don't think he's a regular, pretty sure it was just a one off bit he did on Lopez. First and only time I ever willingly tuned in, lol

Kinane, I mean. xpost.

oh thank god

I wasn't going to bring it up but I was wondering why you were watching it tbh.

;)

lol I realized after I posted it that it would make me look like a Lopez stan and I would like to clear my name of any such accusations

You'll have to report back to us on Oswalt, ENBB! I'm sure he'll be good...I mean he's still great no matter what, it's just when you sit around and talk about all this kinda stuff gripes usually boil to the top a lot faster.

i was just about to say patton suffering from some overcorrection here, he's a funny dude get psyched and go see him, no big whoop

I still find Patton to be incredibly funny, but he definitely has a safe zone he goes to where he'll throw together various versions of the same joke essentially. "Oh, I talked about zombies and tacos a minute ago? Well now I'll talk about klingons and twinkies."

x-post - No, I mean I am I'd just be more excited if it were an actual show. The book singing thing just seems sorta forced/weird but I'm sure it'll be good and will report back.

Off topic, another one of my faves: Maz Jobrani. Mad love for that guy.

Saw him years ago on the Axis of Evil comedy tour and he was the best by far. Was excited that he got the Maron interview too. He's a cool guy. I really like his 'cultural education' angle, where you come away actually learning some stuff as well as laughing your ass off.

xpost now an Oswalt book singing I would see ;)

oh g dammit but yeah, that would probably be something to behold

my job last year involved me watching a shitload of episodes of tosh.0, i thought it was pretty funny when it wasn't going for the racist humor.

i realize that "my job" sounds like unemployment but it was for legal dept purposes.

lol

haha

wow i never even caught this racist tosh humor, way insufferable already tho, i think it's his delivery more than anything

the dude on comedy central presents right now is just being a straight up racist

dear tom segura,

i hope you have a google alert set up for your name. not only is your stand up not funny, but you're being an asshole racist that isn't even telling jokes. oh, and doing a speedy gonzalez accent is not comedy.

anyway, you sucked

peace

today I watched a movie called Heckler, which I thought might be one of those entertaining documentaries where comedians tell stories about their job, but it turned out to be Jamie Kennedy's insane passion project about the bad reviews his movies have gotten and how he basically considers hecklers and critics to be the same thing, it was really gross and depressing.

if you had told me to list adjectives to describe a new jamie kennedy movie, "gross" and "depressing" would've been so far down! at the top of the list

now i want to see it! i've had the dvd in my store for like two bucks forever. hope its still there.

so is the "edgy" race shit all over the place or what? with white comedians. and who do you blame for it.

younger comedians must feel pressured to up the ante all the time. its hard to be shocking in a post-southpark/familyguy/chappelle/mr.show world.

and race is a really easy button to push.

i haven't gotten any sense that shocking/edgy/politically incorrect comedy is any more in vogue in standup right now than it has been at any other point in the last 20 years?

i really think after the Chappelle thing, race comedy really took off again

Like after Chappelle quit, we had everyone trying to fill this void, so we get Mencia and Family Guy and Jeff Dunham and Chelsea Handler which was all the race jokes with none of the insight or humanity.

Lisa Lampanelli is clearly from the Rickles school so I fuck w/ her tho

lisa lampanelli is the best & she's also 100x more self-depreciating than any of those ppl you named

Mencia was definitely a deliberate attempt on Comedy Central's part to mold a new Chappelle. all those people have been around for a while doing that humor at varying levels of success though.

Lampanelli is ehhhh. been meaning to do a poll of comedy central roast regulars.

When I saw Jeff Dunham on TV in like 1993, I don't rrmember him having racist puppets. He had that Woozle

ha i would <3 that poll xp

Jeff Ross is obv the best, i'll save yo the trouble

i think Dunham blew a gasket after 9/11 and started with the dead terrorist stuff, he's like someone's goofy harmless-seeming uncle who one day starts spewing bigotry as soon as conversation turns to current events

xpost true Ross is the shit

i would probably vote for silverman or maybe giraldo (RIP)

best set ever tho is norm's next-next level bit on the saget roast

& then probably silverman during the pam roast

Giraldo was definitely one of the best

best set ever tho is norm's next-next level bit on the saget roast

― wee-based god (J0rdan S.), Saturday, January 22, 2011 12:09 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i was like punching the couch in hysterics when I saw that

there are lots of choice moments on those roasts.

i can watch them more than once too. can't say that about everything.

we should have an ilx roast for LJ

that won't end well.

colin quinn is the best roaster imo. not sure if he's done any of the CC roasts tho.

altho my favorite part of any roast was when carrot top was on the dais and he started getting increasingly butthurt at people's zings of him & then the other comedians started going increasingly hard, god that was so funny

Carrot def held his own that night.

there's a great bit in the Heckler movie where Jamie Kennedy and Carrot Top read reviews of each other's movies and have a butthurt therapy session

but old school and faux old school roast stuff is different. watching that tosh stand-up thing it defintely felt like he was tring to keep up in a post-silverman universe. and some people obviously are better suited for this kind of material. its just a style. lots of women wanted to be rita rudner once upon a time. you gotta keep up with the joneses.

oh rita rudner...

yeah i can see that. Tosh has always had a mean streak, though, for better or worse that's part of his appeal.

Silverman and Lampenelli have a serious bit of ironic distance to their race jokes; whereas like Mencia and Dunham and Tosh are so damn stupid that you think they kind of believe most stereotypes are actually real

DEE DEE DEE

Like when Silverman says "Black people steal" the subtext is that "its awful that people think this is true so it's shocking that I say this ." When Mencia says it, it's like, "I think it's really funny that stealing is a character trait we associate with black people"

otm post

yeah, the intelligence factor...

there was a young nerdy weirdo comic on letterman tonight. doing the pathologically uncomfortable bit. and he was from indiana so letterman probably liked him. and he mentioned that he was from indiana cuz he was no dummy. really tame stuff. "quirky".

Like when Silverman says "Black people steal" the subtext is that "its awful that people think this is true so it's shocking that I say this ." When Mencia says it, it's like, "I think it's really funny that stealing is a character trait we associate with black people"

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Saturday, January 22, 2011 12:23 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

framing it like this makes me dislike Silverman more, because of the way she sells those kinds of jokes tbh

So Patton read three chapters which, to be totally honest, were sort of boring. The banter surrounding the actual reading and during the Q&A was pretty great. Overall he was really funny and came off as a really nice guy which is exactly what I would have expected. Also, watching the people lining up and in the audience was almost as entertaining as the event itself.

so do guys have any fave trad dad comics? you know normal people who aren't pushing the envelope or whatever but who you find funny. i will admit to watching jim gaffigan's hot pockets thing on youtube more than once. and i always laugh! especially when he says "dead pockets..."

so do YOU guys...

i like Gaffigan, saw him live once and had a great time

Gaffigan is a genius. His subject matters certainly do break any taboos, but his character and delivery and the amount of time he spends on these typical subjects. I saw him live and he spent a half hour on bowling, a half hour on camping.

so this is the closest place for me to go and see comedy. in chicopee. also has extreme fighting, U2 tribute bands, and Sinbad:

http://www.hukelau.com/comedy.html

Norm Macdonald in march. I definitely want to go sometime. Big hawaiian tiki drinks!

Would love to see Norm.

Cash Cab guy is there tonight. Don't think I've ever seen his stand-up.

ugh, john valby. can't believe he's still alive. sinbad actually highest ticket price. 32 bucks!

Would love to see Norm.

Also extreme fighting, big hawaiian tiki drinks, U2 tribute bands, and Sinbad! That place sounds awesome.

great exterior too:

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_Kh-B3slJVmc/RtVitKJONHI/AAAAAAAAAJE/BHVa19XoSMc/p8240007.jpg

YESSS! That looks like it could be Kowloon's (rte 1 in Saugus you'll know what I mean if you've ever driven past it) sister joint.

and they do a big hawaii extravanganza show on the weekends. war dances. fire. much pu pu platter.

Cash Cab guy is a decent standup from what little i remember of the one time i saw him on Comedy Central

I like Brian Reagan is my favorite silly dad comic.

I can't form sentences today.

feel like people are STILL stealing jokes from the old school observational dads like wayne cotter. who now, apparently, is known as a corporate comedian. hey, its a living. and he never got a big sitcom deal. i'm sure jerry and ray took bits from him. or what do i know. maybe he stole from them too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e7Fud-cX3s

wow wayne cotter he was pretty reliable back in the day. brian regan is sillier these days and probably better for it, that last standup CC thing was a good way to pass the time

Ron White is probably the least dad comic of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour guys, or at least he's more avuncular than fatherly, but he probably counts, I like him.

Yeah, Ron White is fine. Even Foxworthy and Engvall are okay when they don't get into slogan comedy. Dan Whitney should really consider retiring "Larry the Cable Guy" though.

ron white frightens me.

http://www.platinum-celebs.com/messageboard/xmlnews/164-868.jpg

he looks like a motherfucker who would have some dark secrets if he didn't stand onstage talking about his hard drinking lifestyle for an hour every night

Ron White creeps me out. He has that sorta predatory look of a man who has been drinking since noon.

imo he's like someone's really funny drunk uncle who'd be a bit less funny if he was your drunk uncle

^ this

yeah that's a pretty good descrption!

Kathleen Madigan's recent Showtime special was really funny and kinda made me think of her as the female Ron White, since half her set's about alcoholism and she seemed to be slurring her words drunkenly a lot of the time

Southern accents reminded me of Henry Cho. He used to be around a lot more than he is now, but I've always found him funny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxF9APQnAt8

yeah he's not great imo but his one CC special has some good laughs

I love Ron White; he's got a real mean edge to some of his stuff. He was on the Comedy Central roast of Jeff Foxworthy and his routine wasn't that great, but one of the other comedians said (I'm paraphrasing) "Ron White drinks so much that when he eats peanuts you can hear them splash into his stomach" and that cracked me up.

The Cash Cab guy has some decent material, but he also has a weird speech impediment which doesn't really become obvious until he's talking for a few minutes straight (that is, it's way more noticeable during a stand-up set than on Cash Cab).

had never heard of cash cab til this month or so. he had some decent adlibs. what is the state of the art of game show emceeing? ray combs is still tugging at it from deep

Stand-ups do a lot of cable hosting I've noticed. Suzanne Whang used to host House Hunters (I've only seen her stand-up once, and it was a long time ago, but from what I remember she's probably better off as a tv host).

Whang. Hur hur

Alright, now Suzanne Whang is on my shitlist. According to this (very long) story, she's responsible for turning on Oprah (and, by extension, the rest of the country) to The Secret.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjMxszOyI08

but, y'know, wkiw still

HOLD UP SUZANNE WHANG IS A STAND UP???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

I don't know who that is.

she hosts house hunters on hgtv

oh

one of my fave shows. but we don't get hgtv anymore thank god. addicted to that channel.

I don't think I get it either otherwise I'd prob have seen it.

a girl I knew in college, Amy Schumer, is a standup now and she's co-hosting a show on Fuse with one of the guys from Blink 182. she's pretty funny, too, was a finalist on Last Comic Standing and had a good CC special recently.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110128/ap_on_en_tv/us_obit_charlie_callas

i must have seen some of his appearances but i have no recollection of his act. anyway r.i.p.

charlie callas was silly. old school clown. hung with all the big boys for decades.

ouch, forgot about this:

Johnny Carson was also impressed by Mr. Callas, inviting him to appear on the “Tonight” show nearly 50 times. Then came the night of Sept. 21, 1982.

With Mr. Callas bombing, Mr. Carson made a whistling-buzzing sound — as if tracing a bomb’s trajectory. In comic desperation, Mr. Callas leaned over and shoved Mr. Carson. Mr. Carson, almost always amiable on the air, was so annoyed that on the spot, in front of his television audience, he told Mr. Callas that he’d never appear on the show again. Mr. Carson kept his word.

ouch is right! wow

cold

Dont mess with Johnny.

Stories like that make me think Carson was a king prick. The way he had Joan Rivers blackballed from NBC over her talk show in the 80's was pretty terrible.

He seemed like it was more of being rigidly principled. Like "these are my rules and woe if you cross them". I mean, the Rivers blackballing was pretty bad, but from where he stood she betrayed him by trying to go out on her own. Dude seemed very, very black and white, friendship or no.

I don't think he was a prick. Maybe just hard to get close to.

Not like I know, or anything. Just kind of the feeling I get from him, and what I've read.

today Comedy Central is doing their 'standup showdown' thing where they show specials by comics voted for in an online poll. it's about halfway through but here are the winners:

20. Mo Mandel
19. Pete Holmes
18. Jeff Dye
17. Greg Warren
16. Myq Kaplan
15. Tommy Johnagin
14. Chris Porter
13. Amy Schumer
12. Tom Rhodes
11. Josh Blue
10. Ryan Stout
9. Donald Glover
8. Red Grant
7. Pete Lee
6. Iliza Shlesinger
5. Bret Ernst
4. Jon Lajoie
3. Doug Benson
2. Eliot Chang
1. Bo Burnham

big lols @ #1 but hey my old acquaintance Amy that i just plugged got in

never saw Mo Mandel before and he was pretty funny. Tom Rhodes sounded like he was straight-up imitating Mitch Hedberg with his delivery sometimes.

Louis C.K. at Caroline's next month, two shows a night for like four nights

these CC ads for Nick Kroll's new special are so irritating. he's like this totally decent average snarky bespectacled comic but then he does all these awful characters where he wears sunglasses and 'talks black'

kroll is hilarious

love Kroll.

Not a big Kroll fan. Also, as much I like football/fantasy football, you'd think I would be a sucker for The League. I'm not. I almost hate it tbh.

do you guys just like Kroll or do you like "Fabrice Fabrice" too?

El Chupacabra for all time

The League is not enjoyable.

i like all of his characters. i think he is excellent live and on cdr. i think i've seen him do stand up as himself once or twice but i don't recall much of that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOfPT48giJw

That's pretty classic.

that...was fantastic. Kinane is great. dying over "Southside Ewok"

lol im pretty sure ive heard "put some rims on ur optometrist" before but didnt know where it was from

I love El Chupacabra but dislike all his other stuff.

i think kroll is hilarious -- fabrice fabrice is whatever but bobby bottleservice is hilarious

it's too bad he's on 'the league' tho -- what a piece of shit that it is

Yeah it really is pretty u_u

Another Kroll hater over here.

dunno much Kroll but Bobby Bottleservice is lol

ugh "Bobby Bottleservice" -- are you guys secretly Jamie Kennedy fans too?

Jon Lajoie is still the worst guy on The League, though, that guy is straight out of YouTube rap parody hell

I enjoyed El Chupacabra on a live multi-performer CDR but the character is a bit too me-no-rikey for me to totally relax into; BB stays just this side of the line - the pleasure comes from hearing him stay in pace, not merely improvving and reacting and feeding the scene in character, but managing to keep making discretely funny malaprops of what "BB" means to be saying at the same time

I saw a little bit of that countdown yesterday. Ryan Stout made me laugh pretty hard.

Nick Kroll's hour was not bas at all, especially when he wasn't in character.

yeah i don't have much of a problem w/ him in normal standup mode

"not bad" is what I was trying to type there, of course.

Here's my friend April, who's still kind of a n00b at stand-up, but is getting better.

I wish she had a dedicated youtube channel instead of having bits and pieces scattered all over, but whatever.

tbh too many standups are way too slick with online stuff now, if she's just starting out it's probably better that she let people who like her stuff upload it than just plaster youtube with dozens of her own videos.

how long has she been performing? i feel like she had been performing for a while but maybe it's just because i see her around a lot

I think she did her first open mic right at the end of 2008.

So, just a smidge over two years.

Watching Patrice O'Neal's thing on Comedy Central right now. A+

^^wish i'd seen this

eddie griffin's special is on right now & he's... not a very good stand up

he also has really awful opinions about everything

Saw some of an old Daniel Tosh standup special on CC about 2-3 months ago and was surprised how funny I found it ("No, I don't want to smoke a bowl; I'm not 17, I have things to do. Grow up and do coke"). Didn't really catch any racist stuff there or on the clip show, but I don't see it much. He just seems to be doing for gay-seeming, fuckable blond dudes what Sarah Silverman did for JAPs.

I saw Eugene Mirman twice last year; much funnier than he was 5-10 years ago, I think.

Yeah, Eugene has finally stumbled across what he does best. Not sure what that is, but he's funnier now.

Eugene was on Colbert Monday night as a medical clown.

It is not 2011, but Paul F. Tompkins' "Impersonal" album is killing me lately.

ok listening to "impersonal" now and it is pretty fuckin good

"elegant balloons"

Ha! I also like the picking cherries one and the peanut brittle one; both painfully drawn out, really, but I dig it.

I kinda like Todd Glass

He goes too fast though

Kyle Kinane?

<3 kumail nanjiani <3

http://video.teamcoco.com/video/conan.jsp?oid=233887

RIP Mike DeStefano, dude was totally the funniest on the last season of Last Comic Standing and shoulda won

Some mention of it earlier in the day on the podcast thread. I'd never heard him before (recognized the name only), but his interview with Maron was solid.

he had a very familiar tough guy New York comic exterior but his actual material was pretty dry and clever

how do wee feel about doug stanhope?

Used to be I couldn't stand him. Now I don't even think about him anymore (like the rest of all people everywhere).

i saw destefano on a thing comedy central was showing that was like a comedy show for addicts? i think. i thought he was aight. RIP anyway, sounds like a fucked up story

never been impressed what little of stanhope's comedy i've seen but i enjoyed his online rant about people who teach standup comedy, seems like a good writer

has nothing to do w/ 2011 but i dl'ed jimmy pardo's pompous clown off itunes after patton raved abt it on a podcast & it's hysterical. is more or less entirely crowd work in pardo's kinda rickles-lite style

I love Doug Stanhope. Kind of a poor man's Hicks I guess.

Not a Hicks fan either, so my Stanhope dislike makes sense in that respect.

http://www.deadline.com/2011/03/comedy-central-developing-evil-genius-comedy-starring-paul-f-tompkins/

omedy Central has put in development Evil Genius, a high-concept scripted comedy starring actor-comedian Paul F. Tompkins. The show, which Tompkins will write with Tom Scharpling (Monk), stars Tompkins as Professor Tiberius Lynch, an evil genius who has successfully taken over the world, achieving global domination. The only problem is -- what should he do next? Being a genius doesn't make it easier to navigate the everyday situations of office life, especially when that office is responsible for running absolutely everything on Earth. Lynch must contend with the quirks and foibles of his cohorts as well as the demands of the entire population of the planet, trying to pull off the ultimate balancing act.

Tompkins and Scharpling are executive producing Evil Genius with Avalon Television's David Martin, John Thoday and Richard Allen Turner. Tompkins, repped by CAA and Avalon Management, hosted VH1's Best Week Ever. Scharpling is with Rothman Brecher.

Doug Stanhope was horrible when he and Joe Rogan took over the Man Show, but I don't think anybody could have saved that.

His appearances on Newswipe last year were quite good, tho.

Tompkins is brilliant imo -- up there with Patton Oswalt as one of the few comics working today who just seems like a wordsmith who could've done something interesting in any number of formats if he hadn't gone into standup

― gosamosapodin simgibmelreel (some dude), Friday, January 21, 2011 6:02 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark

needless to say v excited about this new PFT series

http://aspecialthing.com/forum/f42/tonight-comedy-central-mash-up-19931/

This sounds awesome.

i seriously fucking hate when ppl add visuals to stand-up bits. makes it immediately less funny

Just found out that they posted pre-sale tix and a rough line-up for next month's Bridgetown Comedy Fest here in Portland:

http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1337180543/efblike

Kristen Schaal, Andy Dick, Margaret Cho, Doug Benson, etc

If you go, throw a rotten egg at Andy Dick.

New John Oliver standup thing on Comedy Central with Kyle Kinane and some other dudes. Kinane was pretty good.

i seriously fucking hate when ppl add visuals to stand-up bits. makes it immediately less funny

― gawka flocka flamewar (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, March 11, 2011 3:23 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark

it's all in the execution imo -- Dr. Katz was good, Shorties Watchin Shorties not so much

New John Oliver standup thing on Comedy Central with Kyle Kinane and some other dudes.

Pete Holmes and Rory Scovel were pretty great.

I kinda like Todd Glass

His Comedy Central standup from like 10 years ago was incredible. Like, nearly a perfect blend of great jokes and dry meta-humor. He mocked other comics in a Neil Hamburger type way but really was funny besides. I got his two stand up discs and they're pretty terrible. The first one has bits of that routine as well as a bunch of fake songs and bits that don't even try to be funny. On his second one he basically just loses his edge entirely and talks about some pretty awkward subjects. But I have to listen to that one again. Weird guy and I hope he finds work.

ah crap I was going to tivo the Kinane/Oliver thing..

Saw some of an old Daniel Tosh standup special on CC about 2-3 months ago and was surprised how funny I found it ("No, I don't want to smoke a bowl; I'm not 17, I have things to do. Grow up and do coke"). Didn't really catch any racist stuff there or on the clip show, but I don't see it much. He just seems to be doing for gay-seeming, fuckable blond dudes what Sarah Silverman did for JAPs.

His new stand up is pretty good but he really gets off on the wrong foot. One of his first jokes was about how illegal immigrants should be able to serve on jury duty so that criminals can truly be judged by "a jury of their peers"...I can see finding that funny, but my wife is Mexican and needless to say she really DID NOT like that at all. You really have to be on board with his persona to not get pissed at his shtick. That said, he seems to understand the way comedy works better than 90% of the comedians working today.

saw stanhope the other night and absolutely loved it. i haven't laughed so much in a long time. probably my favourite working stand-up.

^ consecutive posts about comedians I hate. Hooray!

i'm watching this show on comedy central called "mash-up" & i guess the deal is that the stand up is intercut w/ visual representations of the story that the guy is telling -- i'm not exactly sure if it's a one off thing or what idk -- anyway it's hannibal burress stand up so i'm not complaining

this guy is so fucking funny btw

i really enjoyed norm macdonald's recent stand-up special. i'd forgotten how funny just his cadence alone is.

norm's one of those guys who was instrumental in convincing me that like 50% of being a good standup is having a funny voice.

One of his first jokes was about how illegal immigrants should be able to serve on jury duty so that criminals can truly be judged by "a jury of their peers

This earns him an "ignore forever" from me. Not that he gives a shit, but it's nice to have such clear-cut reasons to whittle down the list of things in the world one wants to pay attention to.

Had tickets to see Norm live last Friday. Got all the way to the venue only to find a note posted on the door saying that it had been rescheduled. Why didn't Ticketmaster send an email. So angry making. grrr. It's not all bad though - he's coming back in July.

i really enjoyed norm macdonald's recent stand-up special. i'd forgotten how funny just his cadence alone is.

Totally...I don't know of anyone else who could have pulled what he did at the Bob Saget roast. I mean even the whole "bombing on purpose" angle is really overstating it because everyone seemed to love it. "How do you not get that?" Such a classic..

I mean even the whole "bombing on purpose" angle is really overstating it because everyone seemed to love it.

well, the other comics were dying, but the actual audience was kinda like :|

well, the other comics were dying, but the actual audience was kinda like :|

that was the best part!

Norm's Saget roast was one of the funniest things I've ever seen. I think if i was there live, i would have died

Agreed.

His stand-up special was pretty great as well. "Do you know how often men REALLY think about sex? Every once in a while. That's a phrase scientists don't like".

Maybe it wasn't "every once in a while" but you get the point.

you know, when you withhold pleasure from the audience, that's more performance art than comedy (see Andy Kaufman).

We had a name circa 1990 for trying to get laughs from other comics, it was OPEN MIKE NIGHT.

well, the other comics were dying, but the actual audience was kinda like :|
that was the best part!

Yeah, I just watched this for the first time recently and was dying precisely because of that.

gilbert gottfriend used to do a bit sort of like that, a long time ago.

"so i just flew in from fort worth and boy... was the food bad on that plane. it was TERRIBLE! then i got into my rental car it TALKED to me! what's that about? I LOVE YA NEW YORK"

Gilbert was one of the comics on stage who was in stitches throughout.

my favorite reaction is greg giraldo just being like 'jesus dude'

i can't believe i just typed "gottfriend".

ok i just watched that and it is brilliant. lovitz is about to have a hernia over there.

Yeah Lovitz! GG reaction PTT mentioned good too. All of them really.

well, the other comics were dying, but the actual audience was kinda like :|

yeah it was clear that some of them didn't get it but they seemed to be laughing regardless...its not like they went dead like during the situation's thing

He was on Dan Patrick recently and completely threw Dan for a loop because everytime Norm paused in telling his story, Dan would try to do a station ID or reintroduce Norm...and Norm would whir to life again in the middle and continue telling his story. It was awesome. I like to think he was doing it on purpose...who knows.

Also Norm on twitter is pretty gold. Him, Steve Martin, and Albert Brooks...killing it

loving Joey Kola's performance on Fallon right now

Joey Kola used to be on tv a lot more. That has to be the first time I've seen him in at least ten years.

want to see Moshe Kasher or Kyle Kinane if/when they roll through town...the clips I've seen and interviews have been great.
Man... I have a really hard time with Moshe kasher. I have never felt like a comedian is so edgy/dangerous/narcissistic/impossible to listen to as he. Is this how getting old feels?
He really makes me not feel good abt life. Maybe this makes him good at his job. I am fully not down tho

Saw Kasher on John Oliver's show, just kind of annoying.

We had a name circa 1990 for trying to get laughs from other comics, it was OPEN MIKE NIGHT.

― your generation appalls me (Dr Morbius)

wish I could remember who the audience for comedians' roasts were traditionally :(

so netflix on demand has like 240 episodes of comedy central presents...

that's a whoooooooooooooooooole lot of wacky observational humor. might need to buy a new bag of weed and have a marathon.

haha been watching all week - some good stuff in there!

i don't recognize half the names and i'll click and go "oh right that guy..."

having a slow motion sarah silverman program marathon right now. 2 or 3 eps a night.

so which one of these presents episodes is funny? cause random selection has not really been panning out.

you have to watch them ALL to find out.

Comcast on demand used to have a ton of CC Presents episodes available, then last time i looked there were only like the 5 most recent, which was a bummer. you should probably just look for specials by people who've been spoken of enthusiastically on this thread.

also when in doubt go w/ a woman -- for some reason most of the best CC specials i've seen lately have been lady comics

"It’s a very odd thing with Hollywood, where you do stand-up, you’re good at it, then they go, “How would you like to be a horrible actor?” Then you say, “All right, that sounds good. I’ll do that.” So I’m fucking excited about not having to pretend to know what I’m doing with acting, because it really is nerve-racking. It really is so humiliating. If it wasn’t so pointless and ridiculous, it would be more humiliating, you know? Also, if there weren’t so many people as bad as myself—equally untalented people—it would be even more humiliating."

http://www.avclub.com/articles/norm-macdonald,54380/

sounds like he and louis ck are kindred spirits in that respect. which is sad because i really liked louis ck's acting in parks and rec!

Louis CK's riffing on acting in that episode of his show with Matthew Broderick, where he plays the cop who has to tell Broderick that his grandfather's dead, and he tries all these different deliveries, including one where he shrugs his shoulders and places his palms up and asks inquisitively "I'm sorry you're grandfather's dead?" or something was one of the funniest things I've ever seen on TV.

Norm just seems like he is incredibly uncomfortable with fame and the expectations of it, like he's been doing a lot of radio and podcasts for the show and there's certain interviews where you just know "he fucking hates this" and so he does the non-sequitur Norm stuff to make the host as uncomfortable as he is. I like that about him. He's just a guy who is good at being funny who would rather not deal with any of the other bullshit...let him be funny, and that's it. I find him really intriguing.

Him and Louis...it's funny that they're both these old school guys who work hard at their craft, who are so loved and are finally maybe making their careers out of "Hi. I have no artifice." it's kinda cool,

Going to see Hannibal Buress perform at a bar on Friday. Should be interesting!

Really enjoyed Norm's hour special on Comedy Central. His first fifteen minutes is about his relative dying of cancer! Who leads with that? Haha

Never saw it...is it re-airing anytime soon?

Loved the first episode of Norm's new Sports Show...it already seems to be a lot better than "Sportsdome", which was kinda funny but really unlikeable

someone on youtube uploaded the whole special in four parts

it certainly had its high points, but was nowhere near as sharp as his HBO special from the '90s imho

i'm trying to soldier through Jeffrey Ross's special and it's soooo hit or miss. There's these complete knock-em-out-of-the-park lolz ("The Newark Airport is like the Newark of airports") totally pressed up against groanworthy rmde duds ("I know 50 Cent's cousin, two for a quarter")

Also, after seeing the Trump Roast I'm interested in learning more about this Anthony Jeselnik guy

he wrote for a few of the previous roasts

He's a jackass who tried to drunk-rape my friend when they were at Tulane together. In addition to that, he's not terribly funny.

hmmm well, at least he's practicing truth in advertising

the ilx roast of anthony jeselnik

I'd love to see Norm's new stand up unedited. I remember thinking while watching it on Comedy Central, "good god, he's done 10 minutes on what he'd do with a body if he killed a woman".

I like Jeselnik's comedy. Never heard of the rape thing. I think Morgan Murphy is his flatmate? Not that it means anything, but he's got a pretty good reputation in the community I think.

I'd love to see Norm's new stand up unedited. I remember thinking while watching it on Comedy Central, "good god, he's done 10 minutes on what he'd do with a body if he killed a woman".

― Darin, Monday, April 18, 2011 3:21 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

The show that was cancelled a few weeks ago is rescheduled for July so I'm hoping to do just that.

The Jeselnik thing:

I was on the phone with her one night and I had Comedy Central on in the background and his Presents special was on. She asked me what I was watching, and I told her. She said WHAT? So she flipped over to Comedy Central, saw it was the same Anthony Jeselnik and then told me the story. She didn't seem too phased by it, so I guess he wasn't some wild animal or anything. Just that she had to say no about 20 times before he finally got the message.

Anyway, enough gossip.

He's like the Isaac Brock of comedy!

OK seriously No one post itt until you cop that Hannibal. Essential listening imo.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, January 21, 2011 9:41 AM (3 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

OK seriously. Saw guy last night and I honestly don't think I've ever laughed that hard at a comedian before. I could hardly breathe during parts. He was fantastic. Listen. Go. Whatever. He's so good.

The opening act was a guy named Lamont Price who also killed it.

http://www.hbo.com/comedy/talking-funny/index.html#/comedy/talking-funny/synopsis.html

this was p cool

louie: "you know what tho jerry all of a sudden having a ni**er bit would be amazing"

hannibal really is next level

i would like a screenshot of how red louies face is when hes laughing at the end of their 'sittin on the cock cuz im gay' riffing

x-post He really is. We ended up hanging out with him afterwards for a while (it was at a p small bar) and my friend was asking him about working on 30 Rock and stuff. He was really nice and funny and apparently T F@y is a "beast" to work with.

Talking Funny finally wound up on the webz and I just got done watching. Agree that the way they all lost it at the end of the "Sittin' on a cock cos I'm gay" riffing was the highlight. Ricky Gervais is a terrible panel host/moderator, though, and I typically like him in other situations. And poor Chris Rock kept getting ignored.

Looking forward to the next one, which will at least feature Jon Stewart if the promise made on The Daily Show is kept.

Yeah, Jerry's re-telling of a Louie joke was pretty entertaining as well. Would totally kick it w/Rock & Louie.

^otm. his explaining rock's white v black porn joke killed me

im glad to hear theyre gonna do more of these w/ other comedians. who does/did jon stewart pal around with? the ny crew ppl like colin quinn? idk if i need him on there

there needs to be more hannibal footage on youtube! i think i watched everything there was on youtube last night. then i watched more norm. so into norm these days. that vanishing lady thing is genius.

If he goes with a late night theme, Stewart + Ferguson + Kimmel has some lol potential.

I dont love Leary much as a standup these days but I'd love Leary & Stewart together.

heading to the last day of the Bridgetown Comedy Fest tonight: http://bridgetowncomedyfestival.com/sunday-schedule/

shoot, might go down for buress and kinane

apparently passes are like $20 for the day, which seems worth it.

yep, was gonna pony 15 for the bagdad. may as well jump on the rest

that lineup does look sweet

oh yeah and Hannibal Buress will be there tonight

check out my man rob buscemi too

Okay, here at the Bagdad for the first event. Plan on hitting this, This American Wife, and the Iron comic show after, and then over to the Eagles Lodge for their gig. Four shows for twenny bucks a wristband, not too bad.

Late to party but finally watched Talking Funny. The thing that stood out to me most was how Gervais' perceptions of comedy, of audiences, of his own material really set him apart as the "newbie" from the other three. It was very telling, how new to standup he was, even though he has been around comedy writing for a long time. It was interesting. Reminded me of conversations between say, acting students and say a seasoned actor....the actor has a hard time conveying to the student about feeling, and instinct, and trusting yourself and the student is so caught up in the mental mechanics. It was interesting to watch.

Yeah and them all collectively losing it over the sitting on a cock cos I'm gay bit was priceless. Liked that Rock goes to the theaters himself "what if they kidnap me" lol

^all otm posts re: Talking Funny + I'll add that it shoulda been longer. Why only 45 mins?

i think carl baron would have to be the best this year so far

is there anyway to watch the full hbo thing online

check out my man rob buscemi too

^^

(Guess that's too late, but whatev.)

Uh oh: apparently Andy Dick is still loose in Portland, having not been spotted since Sunday. People are reporting as he's been kicked out of various locales, including the barcade Ground Kontrol(which takes some doing).

http://blogtown.portlandmercury.com/BlogtownPDX/archives/2011/04/26/bridgetown-comedy-fest-the-hunt-for-the-great-white-andy-dick

why did i think putting on a Denis Leary special for even a couple minutes would be an okay way to kill some time? ugh at this dude still having a career.

yeah he's almost getting to a catskills stage with his jokes. It's not good. The only time I like him lately is when he shows up on the Daily Show and him and Stewart make fun of each other for 10 minutes.

yeah they have an amusing rapport

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Dqsd-v5v-c&feature=relmfu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCkTzqIW-qw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YGITlxfT6s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9mzJhvC-8E

gervais was so fucking annoying on "talking funny" that i almost didn't make it to the end. how many times was seinfeld, louis or chris on the verge of saying something or making a point when gervais cuts them off to expound on some very half-baked idea of his? or do his weird fake laugh? you're there to LISTEN, ricky. jesus i wanted to strange the shit out of him. maybe that's just how he is. but like, no matter how famous he is or whatever, if he were acting like that at a party and i was sitting at his table i would just need to leave. shit is just intolerable.

haha "strange the shit" out of him

Talking Funny just made me miss The Green Room With Paul Provenza, which is a much more entertaining execution of the same basic idea

Haven't read this whole thread so apologies if this has been covered, but do any of you actually perform stand-up? My friend is going for it as a serious hobby. She's a freelance journalist with three kids, but managed to get in 30+ gigs over the last two years or so. She has some interesting theories about the prerequisites for success.

This was the year when I was gonna try out for Last Comic Standing but I guess it's not coming back on... I don't know.

I have no experience whatsoever but I save halfbaked stand up jokes on my phone in case of a sudden tv opportunity.

Best of luck to your friend

She's trying to develop a 'cariacture of herself' and so far it is 'middle class loon' (her description).

She has some interesting theories about the prerequisites for success.

What are these theories?

Lorax you should start a thread where you try out your material on us.

Theories (possibly much more interesting to someone who knows her in person):

- a really *credible*self-caricature is the most difficult thing. Ideally you need to establish that very quickly, let people believe in it, then move on to talk about other things.

You have to "own" what you put out there -- you have the chance to say absolutely anything you want and it's your responsibility. But you can't think about that too much as you need to be able to experiment and do stuff that is potentially rubbish to find out what works. She thinks this is kind of the opposite of her day job, journalism: in journalism you put something out there that is quite controlled, that is not really your creation, that is a collaboration, i.e. has been commissioned and sub-edited.

That's interesting! I like hearing anyone talk about their crafts but I think standups are esp. interesting, amateur or pro. That is what I liked best about "Talking Funny." Also, on a less virtuoso level, watching "I Am Comic" on Netflix watch instant was interesting – that one has a good depiction of just the daily grind of the standup world.

Yeah, I didn't really know about the whole condo thing til I watched "I Am Comic"

The craziest thing in that movie was the routine rating software (http://comedyevaluatorpro.com/)

Here's a defensive defense of the software c/o its creator.

yeah that was wild re: the laff software

some of the reasons i most like hearing podcasts is kinda the behind the scenes stuff of comedians talking abt what works or how they try stuff out...idk...i absolutely love doug bensons joke abt bank of america around the time of the "economic collapse" where he sez their slogan should be "B of A, be very of aye" and they he sez i dont even know if thats funny or w/e

listened to some last yr i guess albums in the car this wkend:

kyle kinane - death of the party & hannibal burress - my name is hannibal = both really good

anthony jeslnick - shakespeare - hes been funny from what i remember hearing on podcasts and shit but i did not dig this much...think just like dry one-liners are boring as hell and/or h8 his delivery

hannibal buress, been digging him, kinda. i think podcasts, guys fucking around with online stuff... i've sort of started digging standup but am still put off by the overall lameness of a lot of stuff. it just seems like these guys are funny as hell but completely unenjoyable when they're into their routines. either because the routines suck or the writing is solid but the delivery sucks.... this is my problem.

sorry, were you talking?

i said that i liked hannibal buress and that i enjoy hearing comedians talking informally on podcasts.

I haven't heard that Jeslnick album but I love his one-liners and his delivery. I like one-liner comedians just as much as the people who deconstruct or do long monologue bits. He is a little abrasive though.

i've been watching rick shapiro all day on youtube. jeez louise...

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

very addictive to me.

i wish people would stay out of my fucking store so i could watch more. wait, do i have headphones somewhere...

I liked that a lot even though Rick sometimes reminds me of Robin Williams' "id" character.

i started watching all his stuff on youtube after watching him in this scene.

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

Johnny crunch - Hannibal was at Great Scott a couple months ago at this comedy thing they do on Fridays. He was hysterical. I haven't laughed that hard in a while. The guy opening for him was called L@mont Price and was also v v funny.

He needs some new material tho because everything I've found is just stuff off the cd.

lol @ ur g00gleproofing

im sure i read it here prob but he writes on 30 rock, right?

i might go see tig notaro in a few wks near me - dont really love her but w/e

re googleproofing - I'm friends with that dude now on fb and he keeps IMing me about going to more shows and stuff and I don't want him discovering my ilx persona if he googles himself or something. Probably totally weird and paranoid but that's why I did it. Anyway - he's really funny. He just won some kind of award for best new comic in the country or something.

Hannibal does write for 30 rock. He also makes guest appearances in it. After that show a friend of mine bought him a drink and we wound up talking to him for a while during which time he was p forthcoming with some info on 30 rock ppl. It was p funny.

I don't actually know Tig Notaro but you're not making her sound v appealing.

i put that rick shapiro up on facebook and here and it went up from 140-something views to 200 in a day. yer on yer way now, rick!

man i watched a LOT of shapiro yesterday.

i love tig notaro! she is sort of a slow burner, though.

new season of The Green Room With Paul Provenza about to start on Showtime -- probably my favorite of all the 'comedians talking comedy' things out there these days, tonight they've Ray Romano, Gary Shandling, Judd Apatow, Marc Maron (and uh Bo Burnham)

Wow- great group for first ep. Can't wait to watch

oh god they're letting bo burnham sing

that does look like a great bunch, glad its on my dvr

ive only seen 2 other eps of that (saw this one - [Jim Jefferies, Paul Mooney, Rain Pryor, Bobby Slayton] and couldnt even watch all of it) but imo its trying way too hard to hit "controversial" topics, be edgy, play 2 the audience, moreso than just talking abt themselves, their work, the biz, etc

I like this guy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfZKH7geRy0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQi4iPhx-gg

Seeing Paul F. Tompkins tonight. Excited

wear your finest suit

WAX UR MUSTACHE

i <3 pft, this is from his dvd

http://i54.tinypic.com/2ryfqmo.jpg

Was great! I was in a horrible mood beforehand and almost determined not to enjoy myself, but I lolled like a fool. Tompkins 1-0 RL

this guy Sean O'Connor doing standup on Conan right now is pretty good

i'm watching a lil bit of Wyatt Cenac and Michael Ian Black's specials on Comedy Central.

I talked to Stanhope earlier this year and he was bitching about how fake all CC stuff seems and it's really hitting home with these specials. Cenac and Black are two dudes with off-beat, conversational styles that play like Union Hall, which holds like 150 ppl max ; and here they are on TV playing to THE GIANT GUFFAWING CROWD of philly's 1,200-seat trocadero or whatever.

CC is really trying to elevate these indie-ish cats to the level of rock stars and it doesnt hold weight. Like these kind of OK, low-energy jokes just getting buckets of laughter. I really think these shows would be much funnier in a smaller room where they can vibe with the audience. RIP Carolines Comedy Hour/A&E's Evening At The Improv/MTV's Half-Hour Comedy Hour type ish...

I hate to agree with Stanhope on anything, but his point is valid.

stanhope is actually a really funny and smart guy.

and no working american stand-ups can compete with him.

huh

yeah ok louis ck or whatever i'm sure is astounding, doesn't have the profile over here.

just don't like the "hate to agree with stanhope" comment as if the cunt was hitler.

Stanhope was tainted by the USA stupid program 'the man show' but he is funny

nick kroll's cc special was cringesome and ilhim on CDR

couldn't even get halfway through Norm's

Stanhope isn't really that funny, but perhaps he's a smart guy. I really don't know. And I never compared him to Hitler ffs. He's just not my cup of tea 99% of the time.

Too bad Louis CK has a low profile abroad, because he's right in that sliver of time only some comedians ever arrive at where he can virtually do no wrong and no one is better at the craft than he is right now. That time will pass—probably soon—but I'm enjoying being a witness to it.

Stanhope is hilarious imo

I just don't like his whole decadance thing onstage ("watch me drink all this beer and smoke all these cigarettes while pretend to get fucked up before your eyes" and whatever). It distracts me from the half of his bits that I might find funny or, at the least, amusing.

Stanhope's shrill libertarian vibe flys in the face of the reigning indie comic aesthetic of Mirman/Schall/Showalter/Tig/Hodgman/Galifoniakis etc which is basically friendly indie rock cuddlefun. since comedy is so OMG PERSONAL, the more urbane/iPad-owning 'Mericans who support indie comedy are terrified at the prospect of supporting someone who isn't EXACTLY LIKE THEM. (cf. the backflips ppl do to listen to Tyler The Creator). I don't agree/relate with half of what Stanhope says, but i still think he's funny as fuck and a really great comic.

yeah otm; i find him, more and more, 'difficult', & beyond feeling obliged to feel awkward about some of the bits feel genuinely unsure + uncomfortable about them, but that he's at least trying to make his point is pretty evident, & he has good arguments even if they're mired in a lot of bad territory. the decadence onstage thing is probably a thing sure but the transformation he goes through from being the weariest guy alive at the start to the most animated, drenched & exasperated objector at the end is pretty compelling, is more than 'watch me get fucked up', i think.

hey whiney, were you interviewing him or just shooting the shit?

this thread makes me hate comedy

Is This Comedy Monologue A Rape Confession?

http://jezebel.com/5834712/is-this-comedy-monologue-a-rape-confession

Is This Comedy Monologue A Rape Confession?

couldn't watch that full video, but based on what that guy looks like, i'm gonna go with "yes"

My favorite part is the comments section is multiple people claiming every part of the story that wasn't rapey is fabricated, but insisting the rapey parts are true

this guy is "next level" as fuck

btw regarding Stanhope; I always felt like he was a lot smarter than guys like David Cross or Patton, but maybe not as funny overall. He does give me a Bill Hicks vibe but he hasn't had the benefit of the revisionist "misunderstood genius" label

I always felt like pretty much every decent comic is smarter than David Cross

I know I've said it before (maybe even in this thread?), but David Cross is an ace sketch/tv guy and a horrible, terrible stand-up.

Aw, I like Cross.

i've always found him rather annoying in general but he gets a pass for life for tobias fünke

xxp - that's really OTM, I actually did kinda like his first stand-up disc for a while until I realized that basically all his targets were low-hanging fruit. A lot of comedians do the "asshole" shtick but Cross goes after a lot of people who are ultimately well-meaning and haven't done anything wrong, which always left me with a bad taste in my mouth. There's a part in his second disc where an audience member calls him out on one of his jokes and he responds something like "yes, it's true, I don't actually believe that, it's what's called a joke, I'll be telling lots of them tonight", which is kind of funny but also undermines his entire show in a way and gives him a huge "I am above the audience and everyone else" vibe which is appalling. That said his storytelling is generally fairly funny and yeah his Mr. Show and Arrested Development stuff was always top notch. Really a frustrating comedian because I can't give him the Dane Cook/Carlos Mencia/Jeff Dunham label of "I really hate this guy", and I'll always be interested in whatever he does, but I just kinda fundamentally dislike him.

I dig his stand-up, and think about particular bits all the time. He isn't a great craftsman but he's still funny.

That video is pretty horrible. Thanks WGW! :/

david cross is like the worst ever standup people think is good. but he is a pretty awesome comic actor.

i don't necessarily think he's a great comic actor but he's definitely funnier when he's not himself

also, the comments on that splitsider article are surprisingly not bad coming from the Internet Alternative Comedy Community which is pretty much aspies who latched onto kids in the hall instead of discworld

by "pretty awesome" i mean i lol looking at the animated gif of him crashing through the second-floor decorative fencing as mrs. featherbottom. if i were a little kid i bet i would have good memories of him as whatever he does in alvin and the cmunks.

Honestly I haven't really heard him referred to as a great stand-up since like 2004 so maybe the backlash is catching up to him

his last cd was p dire imo

yeah I'm not even interested in hearing it, so I guess I'm over him.
could pretty much say the same about Patton Oswalt too at this point

Now that Patton has a baby to talk about, I could tune him out easily.

But basically, anyone can write a Patton Oswalt joke. Just include a fatty food, a sci-fi reference and a sound effect in some order along with a few other words and VOILA!

(That sounds like I don't like Patton, but I do...or did).

The bit about the standup named "Dr. Pepper" is amazing but otherwise I can't think of too much else he does that makes me laugh.

I've heard a lot of people going nuts about his KFC bit about the "failure bowl" but IMO this is kind of the crux of why I don't really find him that funny

oswalt at least has the wit and vocabulary to pull off the angry aging alt thing, unlike cross

yeah but he uses so many 80's references as a crutch, nearly approaching Seth MacFarlane territory.

now that I think about it, Seth MacFarlane may be the anti-David Cross, I can't really stand any of the stuff he's done for TV, but I would imagine he'd do really well as a stand-up

I realize hosting a roast on Comedy Central isn't exactly the same as doing stand-up, but MacFarlane was a stiff as a host.

I can see that but I actually thought he did pretty well and definitely has the personality and delivery to pull it off.

yeah macfarlane has decent stage presence, he just looks totally creepy and beady-eyed, especially when he sings

my favorite part of the roast was the Situation telling him, "actually, you're lookin' good, bro!"
he definitely looks a little too "colored in", you know, like weirdly bronzed with blindingly white teeth

yeah it can look weird when people get absurdly rich and famous for reasons that have nothing to do with their looks and they start getting really tan and fit but still fundamentally not very good looking and now kind of fake and tacky to boot

good for frogbs for using the world "colored" in a post in a non-offensive manner!

low-hanging fruit

alternatively: good for frogbs for using the phrase "failure bowl" to refer to something besides the vagina of an unattractive, desperate lesbian

i'm laughing a little too hard at that right now

couldn't watch that full video, but based on what that guy looks like, i'm gonna go with "yes"

i'm amazed this wasn't someone i went to emerson with

a shockingly likable larry the cable guy: http://www.avclub.com/articles/dan-whitney-aka-larry-the-cable-guy,61071/

DW: I was always a fan of the old-style comics. I loved vaudeville. I loved Milton Berle, Dick Shawn, Phyllis Diller, Don Rickles, Charlie Callas, all those guys. Hilarious. I love the Bing Crosby and Bob Hope movies, and Abbott & Costello. My television influences were Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Benny Hill, and Hee Haw. When I was a kid, the first album I bought was A Wild And Crazy Guy by Steve Martin. Either A Wild And Crazy Guy or Let’s Get Small. Whichever one came out in 1977. Always loved Steve Martin, because that’s my type of humor. Very goofy and stupid jokes, but a lot of cleverness as well. That’s a good mix.

Cross has been funny when I've seen him open for bands, but I'm a sucker for a guy with a taped-on rabbi beard talking about Middle East carnage

i think cross is a legitimately great comic performer with a great comic sensibility, but somehow his stand-up always feels like it doesn't live up to his talent. it feels kinda low-effort. i think he's still above average though and has done some really funny bits. when it came to mr show i always thought of him as 'the actor' and bob as 'the writer' though they're both strong in both areas.

Dan Whitney/Larry the Cable Guy has always been likeable imo.

Saw this guy open for Hannibal Burress last winter and he was awesome. I added him on FB and he IMd me like - You're the girl who thought I was going to suck! I had inadvertently said as much after his show when I told him he was great and far exceeded any expectations I'd had for the opener. lol. Anyway, this made me LOL. It's not his greatest bit but it's still good and really I just want ppl to like him because he's great.

http://www.rooftopcomedy.com/watch/AngryFacebookers

He's good! I would've given him the benefit of the doubt just based on the glasses.

<3 <3 Maria Bamford

We are neighbors I guess...awesum...

bamford is so great

I don't like her. I've tried because I want to like more female comedians but she annoys the hell out of me. I thought she was the weakest part on the Comedians of Comedy. That said, I did watch something of hers recently which I thought was sort of good but I've just never found her that funny.

"Dirty monkey not okay...but dirty monkey DANCE?"

She makes me tear up, tbh

http://comedians.jokes.com/maria-bamford/videos/maria-bamford---making-a-difference/

:(

http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2011/10/26/14203/patrice_oneal_suffers_stroke

American comedian Patrice O’Neal has suffered a stroke at the age of 41.

The news was broken by comedian Jim Norton on digital radio’s Opie and Anthony Show – a comedy show on which O’Neal was a regular.

Norton told listeners: ‘We wanted it to come from us. We don’t know how he is. We don’t know how he’s going to be. I didn’t want to do this by myself. I wish we had more news for you.'

wow....get well soon - always loved this guy on stuff like Tough Crowd

patrice is funny as shit, RIP

oh man, that's terrible

RIP? He's not actually dead is he?

not as far as I can tell.

Yeah, nothing I've read indicates he died. But he's probably not in great shape at this point. :(

so people really hate the League, eh? i avoided it like the plague because (1) Nick Kroll's stand up is terrible (LOVE him on the show though!) (2) the commercials for it looked irritating (but so did the ones for Workaholics. and I was dead wrong on that) (3) fantasy football. but the gf and I have been watching over the last week and i've been laughing my face off.

I've only watched 5 minutes here and there but it seemed really unremarkable to me.

it took me a minute to get into it but i've been getting lots of lols per/ ep. much more than the latest season or so of Sunny (which is still v much must see tv for me)

maybe there's too many principal characters? idk

Yeah, even given my willingness to enjoy totally lowbrow humor and a love of fantasy football, The League is really rather bad.

Self-promo:

http://www.spin.com/articles/spins-40-greatest-comedy-albums-all-time

is the date wrong on the Dick Gregory entry? Reads like it was recorded/released after 65 but says 61. Talks about voting and how Kennedy should be referenced in the past tense. fyi. Wikipedia lists it as 61 as well.

I feel like that list is kind of safe and predictable, way too white and/or male, and almost nullified by having David Cross at #12. As my coworker pointed out just now, no Moms Mabley?!

Also, Marc Maron spells his name with a "c" and not a "k".

Also, as much as I love the early Cosby records, not making Himself the Cosby pick (and, therefore, #1) seems like some contrary shit.

Honestly shocked that no pre-burn Pryor made the list, particularly Wanted.

was gonna reply on twitter to troll about only 1.5 of the albums featuring comediennes but i couldn't think of any awesome female-helmed comedy albums that should have made the list instead. also maybe it's preconception bias because i know whiney on ilx but it seems overly focused on the "angry" comedians.

Yeah, the Pryor choice surprised me too. I get that it's the most personal of his albums, and comedy isn't always funny, but I think the meat of Pryor's legacy is his early material...character creation, voicework, etc. The Sunset Strip album is the work of a funny celebrity and less of a comedian.

Weird Al but no Allan Sherman. ¯\(º o)/¯

xp OTM. Pryor himself said that after the accident, he felt like someone doing an impression of Richard Pryor. Wanted, Craps, and That N*gger's Crazy are in my top 5 of things that ever happened anywhere ever.

no Moms Mabley?!

was in serious contention tbh

was gonna reply on twitter to troll about only 1.5 of the albums featuring comediennes but i couldn't think of any awesome female-helmed comedy albums that should have made the list instead. also maybe it's preconception bias because i know whiney on ilx but it seems overly focused on the "angry" comedians.

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The lack of seriously funny women in comedy is something that bothers the hell out of me. There should be a whole thread dedicated to good comediennes because I need some recommendations! I hate even admitting this but my I really don't find that many comediennes funny. It's obviously not that I don't think women can be funny. I think it's something about stand-up not being the best medium for women to exhibit their talent as funny ppl. I'm sure it's deeper than that. Maybe I should start a thread. Of course you could always give me recs here. Don't say Bamford or Silverman pls.

Silverman can be extremely funny though, when she's not being extremely irritating.

Oh and I didn't mean that n/a would agree with me on that. For all I know there are tons of comediennes you like just none that have released albums. You just made me think about how much it bothers me that none of my favorite funny people are women. :(

x-part - I agree but more often than not I find it really tough to get past the irritating part.

The new Tig Notaro album is GREAT, ENBB

Saw Wanda Sykes a couple of weeks ago. She killed like I've never seen anyone kill before.

Oh I like Wanda in movies and shows a lot but I don't think I've ever seen any of her stand-up. I will check it out. Also Tig Notaro. IIRC Johnny Crunch has mentioned her itt before.

Don't say Bamford

Bamf... oh.

Yes, Tig is almost genius level funny imo.

I actually find Sykes a lot better doing her stand-up than doing like watered-down versions of it for animated movies.

Oh I don't think I've ever seen her in an animated movie. I was thinking specifically of Curb Your Enthusiasm. She and Larry crack me up.

She seems to be the go-to comedienne to voice a female "funny" character when Whoopi isn't available.

A good third of what makes Wanda Sykes funny to me is just her speaking voice. The jokes are definitely there, but there's inherent humor in just listening to her.

I thought maybe I was exaggerating her voice work in my head, but no:

The Adventures of Brer Rabbit (voice)
Over the Hedge (voice)
Barnyard (voice)
Brother Bear 2 (voice)
Rio (voice)
Ice Age: Continental Drift (voice)

Her voice/deliver is great. Also it might have been you and not J Crunch that has mentioned Tig itt. Keeping the Johnnys (Johnnies?) around these parts straight is a complicated business. Sometimes.

Joan fucking Rivers

x-post - Yeah, I haven't seen any of those.

I haven't heard this in a long time but I remember it as being terrific.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_B5-1oeewfB8/S35mXOEtbiI/AAAAAAAAKGI/B5F9EUE6vzk/s400/cover.jpg

Xxp

x-post - Yeah, I haven't seen any of those.

Ha, I was about to say that it says a lot about me that those movies are my Sykes reference point.

x-post - Admittedly I know her more as the crazy lady with a plastic face and annoying daughter than I do as a comedienne. I will check out some old stuff. I should also probably watch that documentary about her. I've been meaning to do so for months.

Tig's album: http://open.spotify.com/album/241vOzFt7YZIJahW3xd2cY

Wanda Sykes in Pootietang is ALL TIME.

I have a huge soft spot for Judy Tenuta.

Oh sweet, thanks!

Incredible props for picking out the correct Weird Al album.

Yeah, the Joan Rivers doc is fantastic. I need to hear some of her older live material for sure.

Kinda love Janeane's stand-up too. She is so lazy though.

Janeane's stand up is more like bullshitting with your funny friend over drinks than actual stand up.

re: the Spin list

Andrew Dice Clay ranked way, way too low

also kinda dumb to put "Great Phone Calls" as the Neil Hamburger album, both "America's Funnyman" and "Raw Hamburger" are a lot better

plus having Patton at #5 is so wtf

Janeane's stand up is more like bullshitting with your funny friend over drinks than actual stand up.

That is often my favorite kind of stand-up.

Oh I loved Jeneane a lot when I was younger but I feel like I haven't seen anything new from her in a long time.

She had a new thing on Watch Instantly recently. It was fun, if unspectacular.

ENBB, I really love Jackie Kashian. She's very down-homey but has kind of a sharp edge that I love.

Joan Rivers doc is outstanding. Totally turned me around on her.

Loved Janeane on the Ben Stiller Show, which in and of itself is so sadly underrated. I mean, I know Stiller hasn't been funny in ages, but that show had some all-time moments. His fantastic cast helped.

Update: it's still there. Janeane Garofalo: Live in Seattle (2010). Nothing special, but feels like an old friend coming to visit.

"very down-homey"

?!

i like chelsea peretti, who writes for parks & rec now

I have no idea what that means? I will check her out.

That list is sort of interesting though. Lots of stuff I should have seen but haven't and am excited to seek out. Like the Murphy album at #3 is funnier than Delirious? I don't know if I can handle that. Also, this has nothing to do with anything really but he was on the list and I love him - Mel B. used to eat at my parents' old restaurant in the 70s/80s with A. Bancroft and according to my mom he is one of the funniest and nicest ppl she's ever met. Not that that's surprising but I always found it interesting and sort of neat.

oh - x-post

Anyway - TY all. I am looking forward to checking out all these womens. Keep them coming if you think of any more recs.

Comedian is the audio version of the Delirious movie/video. xps

Also, Kristen Schaal is fantastic fwiw.

Oh yeah, Schaal is great. Also, speaking of Parks & Rec, I really like Aubrey Plaza.

lol - Oh! I didn't realize that (re: Comedian/Delirious). Is that Mel from FotC?

Yes it is.

oh jen kirkman duh.

Jen Kirkman is great, yeah!

Stewart Lee, Paul F Tompkins, Kyle Kinane, and Hannibal Burress would have made appearances in my top 40.

Lol sorry, I meant sorta cute & Midwesterny, yknow, "down home"...fail. She's orig from Wisconsin, sounds & looks like a lovely favorite aunt. But she's kinda wacky. I love her to bits.

Also, as much as I love the early Cosby records, not making Himself the Cosby pick (and, therefore, #1) seems like some contrary shit.

just chiming in to say, that Bill Cosby album is amazing; I cracked up just looking at the cover due to childhood memories

http://open.spotify.com/album/5YYm44WdWrAFaB6Rftcwll

I'd have a difficult time picking a Cosby album, they're all incredible

Oh yeah, I love almost every Bill Cosby album, but maybe Himself was just a right-time-right-place thing for me or maybe it really is his most fully formed routine/album. Whatever the reason, I can almost recite it front to back.

I'd probably pick Very Funny Fellow, maybe? Himself is fantastic too though

ENBB - check out Karen Kilgariff too, she's really funny.

I've probably only heard 15 of the 40 on the SPIN list in their entirety -- and none after McCulloch's in '95 -- but yeah, Live on the Sunset Strip is not EVEN CLOSE to Pryor's best. Haven't listened to the Cosbys in forever but Brother Russell is a splendid #1, as 2000 Year Old Man or Nichols & May would be.

Dennis Miller and Dice, gtfo. Murphy too.

I think funny women thrive in formats other than standup, who knows why -- Tomlin did a sort one one-woman revue rather than standup for nearly all her live gigs far as I know. Brett Butler was a really ace standup before she made her bucks as a sitmom.

The life of the road comic does not seem particularly inviting to women, for one.

and I'm sure you guys noticed, about 10 of those 40 are not standup albums, but studio ones.

well, the list was "comedy albums", not "standup albums"

So glad the Dick Gregory album is on Spotify. I've been meaning to listen to a whole album of his for 20 years, but never got around to it.

i've heard some firesign theater stuff at work (they came to our radio station a bunch back in the '70s) and man, idgi

so happy to see Bruce McCulloch on that list, Shame-Based Man is like my all-time favorite comedy LP. have we ever had a thread for that on ILM or anything? maybe i should start one.

There was a "100 great comedy albums" thread or something, but it's never been polled.

i don't think a poll would be any fun tbh.

last comic standing has been pretty good the last few years with finding funny female comics: rachel feinstein, iliza shlesinger, amy schumer (full disclosure, i knew amy briefly in college, but i really am impressed at how good a comic she's become)

i think some kind of comedy poll would be cool. maybe not albums but actual comedians?

eh i dunno, maybe? i kind of like how this thread is very casual and subjective and not at all about listmaking or canon-building. also every 'greatest comic' list ever seems really confused about whether to judge comics purely by their standup or also include their movie/sitcom/sketch/etc. work.

Yeah, I'm not really into a poll on this subject. Hard to believe, I know, because I'm down for polling almost anything.

Amy Schumer writes such well-crafted jokes. Very few wasted words.

I like Jen Kirkland (who I know mainly through Tompkins) but I think she's pretty hit or miss. I think all the women who have been mentioned (the ones I know, at least) have moments but none of them have blown me away. I think Morbs might be on to something about the format which is was what I was sort of getting at in my original post. Anyway, don't know Schumer either but will investigate.

i haven't seen jen kirkman's standup but i love drunk history so much

it's definitely true that even as women have gotten more and more respect in tv/film comedy standup is still as much a man's game as it ever was. i think part of that might be a lifestyle thing if i may be a little broadly stereotypical, that whole months on the road thing seems to appeal more to guys as far as musicians go too.

Self-promo:

http://www.spin.com/articles/spins-40-greatest-comedy-albums-all-time

FYI an 8-page clickthrough and no single-page or print option is a great way to not get your listicle read

saw Claudia O'Doherty's "What Is Soil Erosion?" stand-up show on Saturday and lolled consistently, for anyone who lives in a country she takes it to

that link isn't exactly a slideshow but i'd like to use this opportunity to express my total hatred of websites w/ slideshows (ahemslate)

YES. Just give me the damn list and let me gooooooooooooo from your website

http://open.spotify.com/track/2aKkac20GQegGlDA9u06jW

I love this bit a lot, too

(sorry for being all "COSBY squeee!" ITT)

i've heard some firesign theater stuff at work (they came to our radio station a bunch back in the '70s) and man, idgi

Me neither, I don't think I ever made it through an entire album side. But they were big faves of the student council stoner contingent in 1978.

Firesign's records are really spotty, but I think when they're at their best it's kind of a different thing than simply "jokes." It's absurdist theater, filled with cutural and literary allusions, puns and wordplay.

Yeah, exactly. I love Firesign myself (and Dwarf was exactly the right choice here) but man, sometimes you really have to work at the albums to pull full enjoyment out of them - they were the prog rock of comedy, really not the best choice for someone looking for quick hits of funny.

Glad the Cos is at #1 here because at his peak he was hilarious - got into a huge discussion with a coworker who just hated him because all he knew was the Cosby-Show-era mug-o-rama, and could not possibly conceive of a world where THAT GUY was one of the funniest guys on the planet. I have to admit that by the time Himself came around (and yeah, I enjoyed it too), it was really hard to reconcile that with the same guy who put out 200MPH.

lol 200 MPH actually the first album that came to mind as an alternate #1 but I was thinking maybe I was overrating it due to nostalgia

btw as far as I can tall all of the major Cosby albums are on Spotify

Listening to 200 MPH right now.

Haha, I don't necessarily think 200MPH is his best, but possibly one of his edgiest from the early days. I'm not even sure which of the earlier ones I'd pick as my fave because they're all wonderful(ness).

Whiney - was Tom Lehrer even in contention here? He definitely would have been in my top 40.

Also E=MO^2

firesign records work best with good headphones. its theatre of the mind, man!

i think i have all their records. and even solo and duo firesign records.

prog comedy! as Mort Sahl (ABSENT!) said, the kind that wasn't funny.

w/out clicking again, I'm guessing the Spin list was limited to one per artist? cuz otherwise there should be four Pryors, three Cosbys, two Nichols & Mays, two NatLamps (Lemmings?), etc.

i actually find firesign stuff funny. and i don't even listen to them high. but i liked them when i was a kid and i guess its a nostalgia thing. i love the radio play thing.

For sure, they can be really funny even if you're not into the whole drug culture thing they mined throughout. I find it hard to imagine people listening to the Nick Danger bit that took up the entire side of Two Places at Once and saying "where are the jokes?"

I don't get CC (or any other cable or TV) anymore, but I saw Kyle Kinane last summer in LA and he was exceptional. Not exactly what I think of as standup (thank God).

I love him. I accidentally got to hang out with him after a gig last year and he's really a cool guy. He was incredibly drunk at the time, so the fact that I still left with the impression that he was lovely seemed like something of an achievement.

But the way he makes his storytelling seem so effortless, when it's really obviously crafted pretty meticulously...however he does it, I hope he keeps doing it for a long time.

Pandora does standup now! But I'm not sure the format works because listening to single bits by a variety of comics somehow doesn't work. i.e. Louis CK, Mitch Hedberg, David Cross, Patton Oswalt, not very funny. Anybody have a good way of using this effectively?

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People say that I'm biting Mitch Hedberg's style but this whole time I've been channeling Ma$e.

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Use Spotify and listen to the whole albums?

classic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2Dusb6XCA8

EASILY the greatest of all time. i went to the comedy cellar for the first time a couple months ago and it was actually touching to see ppl had written "GOAT" all over every photo of patrice, and only patrice. his death affected me the most out of anyone 'famous' who ever died during my lifetime, even more than gandolfini.

if he had lived through these last cpl years i 100% think we'd be seeing campaigns to disappear him from public accessibility and erase his legacy, and the sad thing is they'd probably succeed.