Rolling Stand-Up Comedy 2018

Someone bump another comedy thread so we don’t have to talk about goodhearted comedians who have done no sex crimes in this thread

― faculty w1fe (silby), Wednesday, August 29, 2018 9:06 PM

Done.

If you weren’t already listening to the podcast Put Your Hands Together, it’s not too late to start.

It makes up most of my standup consumption these days, so many cool-seeming folks going on that show.

i found the comics on netflix "comedy lineup" to be almost uniformly disappointing

I saw Joe Mande perform tonight and he was very good. Even adjusting for the fact that (in my limited experience) stand-up comes across better live, I think his set tonight was funnier than his (also funny) Netflix special.

Been talked about in the Netflix thread, and barely qualifies as stand up comedy, but if you haven't seen Nanette you probably should

Following stand-up in 2018 really requires one to sign up for Netflix, huh? I'm a holdout, and honestly, this is the only thing tempting me towards a subscription.

I did manage to see the new John Mulaney and Chris Rock specials--the former excellent, the latter solid. Interested in the Hannah Gadsby one that seemingly everyone is talking about (though I don't know anything about her).

What is it you need to know?

On netflix, I liked Mulaney and then pretty much anyone not white.

Interested in the Hannah Gadsby one that seemingly everyone is talking about (though I don't know anything about her).

Not a lot of people did. 'Nanette' is the rare thing in 2018 that truly broke a performer big virtually overnight.

lazy contention: the only good stand-ups are Stewart Lee, Maria Bamford and Neil Hamburger

please disprove this contention, bearing in mind that your disproofs have to be at least as good as the three named

Found a lot of current favorites through the 2 Dope Queens podcast (Naomi Ekperigin and Aparna Nancherla are both just delightful). The HBO version is pretty good too.

Moshe Kasher has become really great too (his Netflix special w/Natasha Leggero is good, wish their sets were longer though)

Mulaney is at some sort of a peak right now, hope he can sustain. Like someone else mentioned on the other thread, I was really into, for a minute, Rory Gallagher, who felt truly subversive, but then I tried watching again and was already off his wavelength. (Wasn't he the love interest in some rom-com recently?) Lately I've been going back to Mitch Hedberg a lot. That guy was so good and so funny. I like like how he went from this cult guy to universally revered as a genius without the interim career reassessment/introduction to the mainstream bit. People just seemed to gradually get him, grassroots-like, and now he's shorthand.

Hannibal Buress is a really funny dude, I've seen him be hilarious. Was considering grabbing a ticket to an upcoming charity gig. Incredible that he almost single-handedly, and almost incidentally, revved the Bill Cosby stuff up from idle to active.

Rory Gallagher

Rory Scovel?

Kyle Kinane is a personal favorite. His episode and Aparna's are the best of the recent batch of The Standups.

Hannibal is the best, clearly

Rory Gallagher

Rory Scovel?

Ha! Yeah. See, I could be a standup, I am so funny.

I've seen Kinane be really funny, too, yeah.

kinane just has an amazing voice for comedy, somehow more seth rogen than seth rogen, and he's great at mining every angle of an absurd situation for laughs. his latest netflix stand-ups episode was more topical than his usual style (the first line was something like "ok, let's talk about mass shootings"), but i think it suits him well.

oh yeah Mulaney was decent, very watchable. an exception

re: Lee

I thought Content Provider was the weakest set he's done, as masterly as the opening Leave voters gag (and its reprise) is. I know it's his trademark now, and the repetitive nature of it is an acknowledged part of the joke, but the meta audience material has really run its course

Yeah agreed. I saw it live and the Turkish psych music at the break was the highlight.

I wanna rep the virtually unknown Joe Zimmerman again. He's in my top 5. If you like kinda benign absurdist comedy plz check it out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th63IZpujbc&list=PLD2jQHI6_1Wk2O3NG3kE_k6JfxoTY7DaA

ergh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EmQqz0UVwk
from the excellent album "smiling at wolves"

Possibly offensive to some palates, but I thought Burt Kreischer's special was funny.

is it good poly

netflix is so shit with stand up, the 15 min specials are cack - dude who is good these days

all fucking blaise

Really because the preview made it look like the absolute most unappealing comedy special I've ever seen

any natasha leggero fans

read an interview with her and she is funny as fuck, show on comedy central - stand up special-netflix as well

heard her first two albums, seen her a couple of times, and caught one of the last "warm-up" shows of onstage relationship advice that she and Moshe did before taping the same as part of their 3-episode Netflix special. It went way better than the taped version.

her story on Maron of going to australia is fascinating

hated the netflix special of hers that I watched 15 minutes of, flubbed deliveries etc.

if yr act doesn't make me laugh within the first few minutes then it's game over imo

She is delightful (as is Moshe)

One time I saw Moshe at a comedy club and got sat at a table with some druuunk hicks, who were saying some foul anti-Semitic and homophobic shit. My great regret is that he didn't hear them.

generally like her in the stuff I've seen her in (Another Period, Let's Be Cops, that Netflix special) though none of her stuff has knocked it out of the park for me

^xp also saw Moshe last year at an all-Jewish variety show at Canter's Deli (with a giant buffet table piled w/ free nosh for audience)

onstage relationship advice ... went way better than the taped version.

btw for those who haven't seen it, they brought ppl out of the crowd to interrogate and solve issues for, it wasn't a rehearsed piece. watching the released version, I thought a Netflix version would have done better to make a series out of the best examples from the tour, rather than rely on one night's sample being the finale to a special.

Is this where we talk about Brody Stevens, cause fuck that news hit me hard. His whole schtick was relentless positivity and for him to go out the way he did is tragic

obituary thread too

but Brody’s relentless positivity was always, always obviously self-medicating for mental health issues

(and apparently his meds ran out after an insurance hiccup, 😔😣😖 America)

always

ie no less tragic, just fractionally less surprising

Yeah, that was clear and was a major undercurrent of his HBO show. But it felt like he’d figured something out

Man, ppl really don't like landlords huh