Rolling Stand-Up Comedy 2014

Watch as Kyle Kinane constructs a banging set out of thin air:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffekVdt8YvY

i saw hannibal buress the other night and he killllled. much more dynamic than i expected, and so funny from beginning to end, where the end was his rap song played 4x (once acapella) accompanied by ballerinas. excellent use of his dj too (who i once played a show with in chicago).

Anyone heard/watched the new Patton Oswalt? He was my favourite comedian working about 5 or so years ago, but I haven't found his last couple as repayable as Feelin' Kinda Patton or Werewolves and Lollipops. Wondering if its worth the iTunes purchase...

it's on spotify. i haven't heard it yet tho.

seeing andy daly on saturday night! very excited, he has been on a roll lately

In Portland? I'll be there too

yea, mississippi studios!

Yup, that's the place.

have you seen his stand up before? idk if i should expect a bunch of characters a la the podcast pilot project or something else entirely

I have no idea what he's going to do.

(at least historically) He always / only does characters for stand-up.

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Local dork & girlfriend meet comedy genius

five stars!

Awesome! Did he do a character?

4 different ones! Dalton Wilcox, Chip Gardner, Don Dimello, and Forest MacNeil

Oh cool! I gotta go see him sometime.

characters were great, dalton and chip in particular. there was a bunch of promotional stuff for review worked in there tho, which was kinda tacky but the show is funny so w/e

new Patton album is great
new Hannibal album is great

joe mande "bitchface" quite good

I think the Review bits of the live show were a good way just to have Comedy Central help underwrite the tour in the guise of a promo thing.

^ that's what i figured. a weird push for ratings but if it results in another season then it's ok w/me

new patton is great (stuff about florida) in some places and a bit boring (stuff about buying lean cuisines) in others

I would love to see Hannibal live, the ballerina closer sounds like a gas

Bridgetown Comedy Fest is coming in a month. Going to try to volunteer for it.

saw Hannibal in Toronto last year, he was great

I was watching an old episode of @midnight, from last week or the week before, featuring Jim Jeffries. I knew that I would not like him when I started watching the show, and I continued to not-like him throughout the show. If there was a way to mace someone through the tv, he would be one of my first choices.

but I have found that by and large that show has made me like a lot more comedians that I knew the names of but had never seen before. Like Morgan Murphy! She's awesome...and holy shit is she ever tall

I guess it's a few years old now but Maron's "This Has To Be Funny" is great, much more enjoyable than I expected his standup to be.

You should listen to Not Sold Out. It's from 2002, when he was in a super self-hating place, but it's his funniest album.

I would love to see Hannibal live, the ballerina closer sounds like a gas

He's done runs at the last few Edinburgh Fringe festivals, where he does really well with audiences. He opened his last show there by going "I've noticed a lot of comics here are British people making jokes about Scotland, but I'm not going to play that regional rivalry stuff because I hate both of your countries equally"

lol

@midnight is better most of you might think, the format of 3 comedians trashing on internet stuff kinda feels like The Burn + Tosh.0 but it's a lot less mean-spirited than either of those, a lot of the humor is clever, and the comedians don't often just go for shock value. Plus Ronald Funches is on it which makes it A+ in my book; havent had much time to watch lately but I'll save any episode he's on

plus they'll do things like bring back the cast of the Upright Citizens Brigade or The State for an episode

As much as I enjoy puns, a half hour of hashtag games does not appeal to me at all. Also I don't like Hardwick in host mode.

I tried watching it last week (Doug Benson was on, I remember) and it seemed terrible. Does Hardwick not think he has a microphone? Why does he shout all the time?

he's naturally excitable i guess

yeah the ron funches episodes are my favorite. also kurt braunholer is great on it.

Hardwicke is the worst - one of his standup bits came on Sirius/XM and it was just five minutes of "I'm a nerd, I hate sports!" and "Sports are so confusing, make Star Wars references so that I, a nerd, can understand them!" Is it 1984?

I agree with everyone's Hardwick misgivings, but I do enjoy @Midnight a lot. The State one was great.

idk i enjoy him in host mode, esp on @midnight , I think it's the best use of his skills imo

his standup can be funny, but he's still not comfortable getting too personal so alot of it is still nerdoms which I can take or leave

one of his standup bits came on Sirius/XM and it was just five minutes of "I'm a nerd, I hate sports!" and "Sports are so confusing, make Star Wars references so that I, a nerd, can understand them!"

There was actually a Nerdist episode a few weeks ago where they brought in a guy from Grantland to help Hardwick understand sports, and his angle of entry was nerding out on stats.

I think it's the best use of his skills imo

I like him best in conversation on the podcast, especially with the other dudes. His standup stinks.

I think my main exposure to Hardwick was through the sound blob in the later Best Show on WFMU episodes.

I don't mind Hardwick on his podcast but when I saw him on tv he was yelling so much I thought he was a fill-in host at first, since his voice sounded nothing like it does on the Nerdist.

The only reason America knows Hardwick anyway is because he started out as a host, so he kinda knows what he's doing.

can't follow that logic

I'm saying he parlayed his host gig on Singled Out into another twenty years of fame (and counting), so it's kind of old hat to him at this point. He's nobody's fill-in.

I think Hardwick seems like a deceptively normal guy until he takes a left turn way into nerdland and you realize he's full-on dorky.

By "I thought he was a fill-in host" I meant that having listened to the Nerdist but never seen Hardwick on tv, I turned on his show and heard a dude who sounded nothing like him shouting at me and thought "Oh, maybe Hardwick is off tonight. Who's this guy?"

i saw Hannibal a week or two before his new special came out, he killlled. definitely the best comedy show i've been this year, and for the first time i've actually been going to see a lot of comedy (let's see, al madrigal, maria bamford, bobcat goldthwait, ms pat, etc).

The only reason America knows Hardwick anyway is because he started out as a host, so he kinda knows what he's doing.

There are countless examples of people who started as hosts who I do not enjoy as hosts.

yeah he coulda stayed in a writer's room his whole career imo

saw Kathleen Madigan the other night, she was hilarious, as was her opener, Mike Gaffney

also Beth Stelling is the best standup i've seen on tv for the first time lately, this was great:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zp1qswDd6E

Neal Brennan's kind of creepy and dead-eyed, isn't he?

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the creepiest

I was charmed by a jena Friedman set recently and have been watching YouTube vids. I saw her in a lineup that included Judah Friedlander and Amy Schumer and liked her best fwiw.

Feel kinda ignorant for having had no idea about the Cosby rape thing
http://www.phillymag.com/ticket/2014/10/17/hannibal-buress-bill-cosby-rapist/#ZfGw7D5EsvUTRQ5l.01

Yeah, a lot of people know about it all, but never say a word because Bill Cosby the entertainer is so lovable (unlike, by all accounts, Bill Cosby the person). Hannibal Burress is a fucking badass.

this ... isn't real (is it?)

http://imgur.com/gallery/D3JSg

skeptical. online dating joke is legit either way.

@midnight is in the midst of "Bunches of Funches Week," with Ron on every night, and it's great.

i love ron so much.

Pretty sure I shouted "YESSSSSSSS!" when I put that on Monday and they announced it was Bunches of Funches week.

I saw a couple of those--RF makes the show somewhat less unbearable

the. best.

mario part made me laff...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjotPaUefE4

new album out...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wwn22DF6jIY

i just saw the new jeselnik stand up on netflix and thought it was very funny but i imagine he is not ilx's cup of tea

new john mulaney hilarious too

was surprised at how much I enjoyed Mr. Warmth (hard to resist the cold open w Harry Dean Stanton playing harmonica in a diner).

posting here cuz there is no Don Rickles thread :(

yeah I really enjoyed it too

do we have a more recent one of these threads?

i really liked the mike birbiglia set on netflix

watched like half of the new Lucas Bros special. Something about their schtick doesn't quite work - they don't go all-in on the possibilities of the twin-comedy-duo premise, but then their being twins distracts from the more pedestrian material. I found myself constantly thinking about how they trade lines and switch off, even when it had nothing to do with the content of the jokes, and then wondering if it would be funnier if I were just watching one guy do the same material instead of two guys interrupting each other and making interjections (so many "uh huh", "yup", "right" etc.) It wasn't bad and I did laugh at a bunch of the jokes tho, but it was a weird viewing experience.

I am into this Rory Scovel dude

tried to watch that Hasan Minaj (sp?) special and it was dire, gave up after about 15 minutes. same with the second Chappelle (didn't watch the first one, I thought a fried had told me the second was much better but maybe I got that backwards).

new Sarah Silverman is terrific though.

omg that Minaj thing was *awful* - and the audience was going absolutely insane for him, idgi. all the staging with the projections (including what appeared to be actual people's facebook pages!? wtf), the lazy endless set-ups. ugh

agree that Sarah's new one was great. I did notice that she has, at this point, completely abandoned racial material, which is interesting.

Rory Scovel one was like a strange hybrid of Steve Martin's more conceptual shit and Louie CK, was great to see something where I really wasn't sure where he was gonna go/couldn't predict how the jokes were going to be structured

Beyond the vile dog crucifixion bit, the new Sarah Silverman special is pretty damn funny. The story about her father at camp had me laughing hard enough to risk passing out.

Anyone seen the new Jen Kirkman?

I kinda want to start a thread about Kumail Nanjiani, Aziz Ansari, and Hasan Minhaj to talk about south asian-American comics and their respective differences/similarities. Kumail's my favorite (I just saw the Big Sick and it was v enjoyable) although they all do different things to varying degrees of success

would add Hari Kondabolu

Aperna Nancherla (sp?) too

I've been checking out The Standups on netflix--some good mixed with some bad.

I'd rank the ones I've seen like this:

Dean Cole-- funny enough to make the "I didn't prepare for this special" schtick work

Fortune Feinstein - Hard not to root for her onstage, some really big laughs and an infectious, positive personality

Nate Bargatze-- more smile-inducing than laugh-out-loud funny--but that made the big laughs hit harder in some ways.

Nikki Glaser - very witty, but in predictable ways. I don't want to compare every lady comic who talks about sex to Amy Schumer, but her sex jokes hit the same sorts of beats.

I'm looking forward to watching the Dan Soder half-hour, haven't heard of Beth Stelling

I like that Netflix is jumping into the half-hour space--it's a more flattering format for like 95% of comedians

Sterling's was the only one I've watched. I like her in general but it was only OK.

just chanced across the new Ryan Hamilton thing after a typical 'tt and i give all the stand-ups ten minutes to impress us and they all fail after 90 seconds' session

and hey

it's really good

he's a lovely man too, a complete anachronism in style while also completely aware of the moment. maybe there's something to this 'clean comedy' lark. did i mention that the 90-second dross was all edgy? and then there was a bo burnham thing that was funny enough for 25 minutes but then became gross and unwatchable when it turned out he wasn't actually gay

fwiw i hate 98% of stand-up at a conservative estimate so this is genuinely high praise

Just watched the RH Netflix feature last night. I laughed and smiled through about 90% of it.

Hope everyone's having a great 2014

My gf and I listened to this set (from Joe Zimmerman's recent album "Smiling at Wolves") yesterday and were both laughing to the point of can't-even-talk-, stomach cramps etc. He's done tight fives on a few of the late shows, but these bits have only 200-300 views each.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=joe+zimmerman+smiling+at+wolves

Listening to this on Spotify right now. Pretty funny.

New Judah Friedlander netflix special is fantastic, even tho it's p one note (and long!)

i used to like him but idk if i care anymore

I'd never seen any of his standup before tbh, only knew him from American Splendor and 30 Rock

saw him at the village underground earlier this year, i'm interested to see the special to see if any clips from that show made it

he was funny, but his schtick grated over the course of an hour

everything is from January and May at the Comedy Cellar, I think?

and it's all just him riffing with the audience re: geography and politics

watched the latest Seinfeld thing (the wife wanted to). Really odd how lazy it is, just this kind of nostalgic self-hagiography and a bunch of (mostly?) old jokes. I still laughed a couple times cuz he does know how to work his material but it felt like a really strange thing for him to do, like, why bother.

I thought there had been some discussion of it around here, must've been on some other thread tho?

mods please delete thread and replace with photo of Cold Pockets

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8oDtI_dL3Y

Jaboukie Young-White's TV debut on Fallon. I hope we see more of this guy.

Dennis Perrin on the late Barry Crimmins

https://dennisperrinblog.wordpress.com/2018/03/08/whatever-threatens-us/