stand up komedy

Recommend your graetest standup performances here - audio recordings especially welcome

Vaguely remembered maniacal monologue from years ago, googled the words I could remember, and eventually found: Charles Fleischer. Wish there was more by him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyy-rijXDHw

I want more good stand up recommendations (audio, video, whatev). In kind of a shitty mood today and want something funny.

Actually not even just standup...ANYTHING funny!

Youtubes of Steven Wright are good for some one-liners.

besides FatNick of course!!

feels like stand-up comedy's high-profile highpoint was the early cable days, when there were lots of channels without enough programs to fill airtime. this led to a lot of on-air stand-up comedy, which was cheap and plentiful (also: lots of 20-minute workouts on hbo, which i miss). i feel like stand-up comedy has been pretty stagnant since, and the boom in seinfeld-style "observational humor" didn't help.

guy in sweater in front of brick wall etc.

exactly. hey, i vagely remember reading on ilx somewhere that you were in stand-up comedy, at one point. what's your impression of the state of things, then and now?

(must have been something you said (or maybe i was on dope and imagined it; anything's possible)).

I started doing it because I thought I could easily top the if-ET-landed-in-my-neighborhood crowd, but I didn't have the strength or persistence to keep at it.

I pay it virtually no heed now. I'm sure there are good ones (of the few I've seen in the last ten years, Patton Oswalt and Jim Gaffigan), but I have no time or inclination to hear a lot of it.

http://traffic.libsyn.com/wtfpod/WTF_-_EPISODE_89_ANDY_RICHTER.mp3

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neither of those are actually stand-up, but stand-ups doing other things

Marc Maron is fucking killing me lately. I saw him a few months ago, and I don't know if he even did any jokes, he just talked about how he drives the people he loves away and how miserable life is. It was mindblowing.

There have always been comics like that (since L Bruce anyway), and I tend to prefer em to joketellers.

yeah, yeah, there's even some of that in early Bob Newhart.
I wouldn't say I prefer one type over another, same as I wouldn't say that I empirically prefer, I dunno, Lou Reed over Ke$ha.
Jim Gaffigan, for example, is all jokes, jokes on super-superficialities (tho they still reveal a lot about the human soul, etc), with very light narrative (tho there def. is one).
When I saw him he did 10 minutes on cake.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o-u4IwXkbE