Rolling Stand-Up Comedy 2013

Jeselnik's Caligula airs this weekend on Comedy Central.

Y'all will have to tell me how it was, because I hate that dude too much to watch it.

You would extra hate it, JF. The whole set is built around rape jokes. It's like Patrick Bateman's standup.

I really admire his craft but I wish he had a second or third joke type. All his stuff is very samey.

Saw Jeselnik last year and he announced how many rape jokes would be in the set at the beginning. They were well-spaced out.

I don;t think I've ever heard one. Except for Sarah Silverman's bit about them..

oh man this jeselnik album is good

Just listened. Pretty funny. I do wish he'd spend a little less time congratulating himself of how offensive his jokes are, though.

so i might check out this jeselnik premiere tnite feat. aziz ansari + amy schumer

was totally into the Tom Segura set I saw the other night until he got to the racist material

:(

i caught like 10 minutes of the Jeselnik show and it was alright but he comes off as such a terrible host. that dead-eyed, lifeless staredown brand of comedy doesn't really translate into a hosting gig. its like Comedy Central crafted him out of cold steel in a bid to grab more Tosh/Jeff Ross/Carlos Mencia type personalities

yeah, he's actively repulsive

jeselnik is so much funnier than tosh.0

jeselnik's show is better than his standup because for some strange reason he comes off more natural reading a script off a prompter than when he's just out there with a mic delivering jokes as slowly as humanly possible

^^^ you're both right. And I'm as surprised at enjoying his show as anyone.

I just saw a Euegene Mirman routine for the first time, and I like him!

Rolling "behind the times" comedy 2013

i find abby elliot totally charming esp when she talks to jeselnik about the amount of weed she smokes

I like his stand up but his show is pretty terrible so far. That said, Abby Elliot made last night's watchable.

http://splitsider.com/2013/04/gallagher-said-racist-stuff-on-a-podcast-again/

smdh

can someone just tranquilize this prick already

gave Amy Schumer a few minutes of my attention and was promptly rewarded with a much shittier, more (actually very) racist version of Sarah Silverman's schtick... why does Comedy Central encourage these people

Outside of Stewart and Colbert (and South Park in small doses), I find Comedy Central actively repulsive.

Workaholics roolz

I keep hoping they will give a show to someone as good as Chappelle or Silverman but it just isn't happening

I've given it a few chances, but it's too stupid even for me (and I've got a pretty low threshold).

Nathan For You and Key and Peele are both pretty great shows

Yup

yeah those two are great and it's kind of a wasteland otherwise (is Kroll Show any good? I've never liked Nick Kroll for some reason)

I liked Kroll Show at first but my enthusiasm has waned.

Oh right, I forgot Key and Peele! Love that for sure.

Nathan for You is okay.

Nick Kroll is a pimple on tv's ass.

Kroll Show was chockful of lols, and oddly formally audacious for a sketch programme, in that the accretion of more and more scripted reality show parodies paid off best for those who kept watching for eight weeks, rather than frontloading better sketches into the early episodes.

It was interesting to note that despite it looking flash and well-set-dressed, the budget obviously didn’t allow for very much scheduling of other comedians (aside from Jon Daly and Jenny Slate): Chelsea Peretti only appearing on Skype, Andy Daly being on greenscreen with no other actors, Mulaney only playing George St Geegland and all but two of his appearances clearly being shot in one afternoon – worth watching to see if the insta-renewal may mean that Comedy Central will give them more money and time for the second series, enabling more non-Kroll characters.

well said, kroll show did get better as it went on

Caught five shows last week in the Sydney Comedy Festival (prob only getting to a couple this week, but will squeeze in more in the final week). Best were:

Daniel Kitson at the shaggiest mid-point of a month of work-in-progress shows, which meant he was sitting at a table with a panoply of 5 or 10-minute chunks, worked up in Melbourne, that would have the theatre erupting and gasping, before he would get lost and flip through an A4 notebook going “um fhfhfhfhfh did I forget to say that bit? Was this meant to go first?” or writing down something he’d freestyled and liked. With pauses, riffing at the start, and occasional audience chiding it went an hour and 3/4, so value for money;

and Greg Fleet, with a show called The Boy Who Cried Sober, about how nearly every night he’d performed his hugely successful post-heroin confessional show Ten Years In A Long Sleeved Shirt in 1996 and 1997 he’d actually been on smack, and hilarious tales of how addiction generally fucked up his life and career in the subsequent 15 years, and how he could only do this show now that he’s finally gotten off heroin, delivered while plainly pinned.

Sorry to get off-topic here on the Rolling Stand-Up Comedy Thread 2013 thread obv

Wow, jealous! Love Fleet, would probably pay to see him read the phone book tbh.

Veg have u listened to (the podcast archives of) Tony Martin's radio show Get This?

...

no

but that is all about to change, apparently

!!!

new question: where is the best place to listen to these archives? I found one but it only goes back to 2007 ---I found a full archive but they don't seem to work. :(

hm. The show only ran in 2006 and 2007, before getting axed by Triple M for - no joke - being more popular than anything else on the station. There's a fan website with full episode recordings, but the podcast is great because it's Tone painstakingly editing 2 or 3 "best-of" albums a week out of the 5-10 hours. It used to be all up on iTunes - is it not now? - but that was essentially bootlegged by a fan after Triple M took down the archives, as Tony doesn't know how to do iTunes himself.

(If you can't find it somewhere I can send you a thumb drive or something with everything. Plus subsequent years' TM stints/appearances on podcasts and community radio and /\B< evening shows.) (Fleet was a semi-regular, in the vein of something like Paul Hester on Martin/Molloy.)

The Itunes location's a bust, doesn't work anymore :( But I found a youtube location for the podcasts that I was listening to today, very funny stuff!
I'll check out that fan website, that might be the ticket. Thanks Sic!!

Is there a discussion of the Lindy West/Jim Norton rape joke debate/aftermath on ILX anywhere?

Don't think so, but nothing anonymous assholes say to a woman on the internet anymore suprises me. People are gross.

I'm watching it now and it's not a bad discussion, although I don't agree with Norton's priveleging of the comedian's intentions.

I just posted something on This Is Sexist thread, which Mordy immediate decided to hijack to talk about fucking jihadists.

Par for the course.

Actually he's decided to be even stupider about it. I'm not going to bother beyond what I've already said there, but if anyone else wants to get involved be my guest,

I'm off!

Also, I wish people would remember that Flag Post is a.thing. I'm not sure engaging with him accomplishes much.

don't make me get turangalila, nicole

So he can rape me?

what a poorly-formed rape joek, nicole

Not really a joke, but carry on.

Kurt Metzger has been going absolutely crazy on his Facebook talking shit about Lindy. It's so bizarre. How the women on the writing staff at Inside Amy Schumer can work with this clown is beyond me.

Also someone made a parody Facebook page of "Lindy", and both that page and Lindy's actual Facebook page have been flagged and suspended.

Fuck that dude.

Good thread

^^

I saw Jen Kirkman last weekend. Damn funny but her traumatic marriage/divorce gave her a shitload of issues to work thru

hey i'm seeing maria bamford next weekend, part of the "just for laughs" fest here in chicago

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2013/06/patton_oswalt_on_rape_jokes_joke_stealing_and_heckling.html

Amy Schumer show is mostly hilarious.

I don't really dig her persona, but there have been some great skits.

Haha I feel the opposite! Her standup and interview bits are generally the best, the skits are reaaallly hit and miss.

she looks exactly like a girl i used to date, it trips me out

"nathan for you" is the best thing comedy central's done this year

Nathan For You was so funny I'll be surprised if they even consider giving it a second season.

already renewed a couple months ago

I'm surprised!

a man of his word

It's never a bad time for some fresh Ron Funches stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6LEGNyz1p8

i love him

A guy I work with is his opener when he comes to Atlanta in a couple months. Definitely going.

the champs podcast did a good interview with him a while back, he's such a sweet dude

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can confirm the new jimmy pardo standing up comedy album is good; is exactly like pompous clown, 15 or w/e yrs later

razor scooter

jimmy's kinda timeless

saw Sam Simmons, Andy Kindler, Marc Maron, Maria Bamford, John Mulaney, Sean Patton, Nikki Payne, Hannibal Buress, K. Trevor Wilson, Graham Chittenden, Kyle Kinane, Aziz Ansari, half a dozen other Canadians, and 20+ Boston stand-ups this week

Listening to Al Madrigal's album on spotify right now. The story about the housekeeper tripping on shrooms is fucking great.

i am not the hugest comedy fan but i loved the kumail nanjiani album from earlier this year (its on spotify)

any good playlists of new comedy albums on spotify?

got my wife Kathleen Madigan's new album for her birthday, haven't heard it myself yet but she says it's funny and we've always enjoyed her tv specials

Wow you are married to Kathleen Madigan, congrats.

lol that was a pretty syntactically tortured post, yes, sorry

I love the image of you being married to Kathleen Madigan and buying her album because she tells you it's funny and then making you watch her tv specials with her.

shhh that's my pitch for the next pilot season

i would totally buy an Al Madrigal comedy album, dude tells the best stories.

am not the hugest comedy fan but i loved the kumail nanjiani album from earlier this year (its on spotify)

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This was good. Starts off a little slow, but the middle stretch is great.

Oh, and he's also the voice of Prismo from Adventure Time!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kCOznIlKt8

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/10001087/connor-barwin-philadelphia-eagles-linebacker-nfl-hipster

http://nymag.com/news/features/patrice-oneal-2012-5/

i don't know why i posted that eagles hipster link here. i think i meant to post a different link

new sarah silverman on hbo is not very funny and i'm pretty sure i heard some of those jokes almost a decade ago

aw shit, recorded this and was looking forward to watching.

The Onion AV Club seemed to think it was really good, if you need a counter opinion.

Yo, the Cosby special is #realer than like a season of Louie

srsly?

it's running again tmmrw on comedy central at 4:20pm

it's like a 90 minute special with four bits total, it's phenomenal.

I love how long Cosby's pieces are. I didn't think it was a showcase of him at his best, but it's a showcase of him now and him now is still nice.

I liked the sarah silverman special a lot

yeah i'm not a big silverman fan most of the time but i was impressed by that one

AV Club's Best Comedy Albums and Specials of 2013

and Specials