Is John Mayer really funnier than David Cross?

However last night i saw Ryan Adams, and he felt compelled to tell everyone that David Cross is his neighbor.

John Mayer is as of now hereby right up there with Dave Matthews and Les Claypool in the "wow, what a personable guy -- I could totally see getting a few beers with him if his music didn't suck" category.

I love that Anthony said "disappointingly rockist."

(and yes, cross is a douche)

{Or Yancey or whoever, for that matter}

Bill Hicks - Needlessly over-angry. I prefer Lewis Black, because he at least makes it funny.

Jimmy Fallon - C'mon, someone's pulling your leg!

david cross needs to be shot into the sun.

< /alex in nyc>

Cross = Tobias Funke!!!

Jimmy Fallon does have talent (he was great in "Almost Famous") but having Lorne Michaels tongue stuck up his ass isn't helping him improve (I haven't watched SNL in years but some of the last ones I saw had him frequently being "Jimmy Fallon" rather than actually playing a part). Plus he laughs at his own shit and settles for cuteness FAR too often. But he can do a decent impersonation and "Idiot Boyfriend" was amusing.

Maybe true, but I didn't even think he was all that funny when he was alive.

I'm not kidding around.

He's not even the best thing about that show, either.

Bill Hicks was never funny. His attempts at topical/political humor were so far behind the times it's untrue. In short, he was not that bright. Ryko's efforts to portray him as a misunderstood genius toiling against an ignorant, conservative society are revisionism at its worst. Detestable.

yo, cinniblount where's Richard Pryor?! don't tell me I'm gonna have to explain why I like HIM here.

how will he masturbate his way out of this one

― Wrinkles, I'll see you on the other side (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, February 10, 2010 6:29 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

doesn't this question answer itself?

i want nabisco to do the next interview with him

i would dig john mayer a lot more if he just did interviews and twitter and comedy sketches and no music ever

I wouldn't! then he would basically just be a dick

Funny you should say that.

dicks that don't make tiresome music >>> dicks that do

^^

i don't even know what his comment means

im basically only aware of john mayer as a punchline in US comedy show but this interview is solid gold.

a platinum record really ISN'T going to wash your ass.

seriously man, just buy the bidet already.

http://gawker.com/5469637/john-mayer-quits-the-media-game

So you're saying that he got off the Internet because of us.

how will he masturbate his way out of this one

― Wrinkles, I'll see you on the other side (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, February 10, 2010 6:29 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

doesn't this question answer itself?

fwiw I was just quoting from his Rolling Stone interview, which is basically more of the same as the Playboy interview, except without the "N" word. lots of talk about his masturbatory/porn habits tho

Why does John Mayer get a free hood pass from blipsters? [

^^^ no

can someone explain what he was trying to say? seriously, i really have no clue.

If you're talking about the "hood pass" controversy, what he was saying is that, while a bunch of black people like him, he's not confused about thinking he's black and neither are they; furthermore, if that type of equivalency existed, you wouldn't need a coded, propriety-toeing wink-wink term like "hood pass" to describe it because you could go whole-hog and use offensive verbiage without people taking offense.

Unsurprisingly, people took offense to this, kind of proving his point.

he's saying you;re saying that like it's something cool, but actually being oppressed isn't that cool when you're living it

take yr pick lol

http://stereogum.com/img/mayer_mouth.jpg

If you're talking about the "hood pass" controversy, what he was saying is that, while a bunch of black people like him, he's not confused about thinking he's black and neither are they; furthermore, if that type of equivalency existed, you wouldn't need a coded, propriety-toeing wink-wink term like "hood pass" to describe it because you could go whole-hog and use offensive verbiage without people taking offense.

Unsurprisingly, people took offense to this, kind of proving his point.

― Michael Steele, the first black Superman (HI DERE), Thursday, February 11, 2010 2:26 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this is a really good way of summing up what happened. the part after it was really what made me shake my head and kind of get mad at him, though:

What is being black? It’s making the most of your life, not taking a single moment for granted. Taking something that’s seen as a struggle and making it work for you, or you’ll die inside. Not to say that my struggle is like the collective struggle of black America. But maybe my struggle is similar to one black dude’s.

so glad a white guy has cleared up what its like to be black for us all

If you're talking about the "hood pass" controversy, what he was saying is that, while a bunch of black people like him, he's not confused about thinking he's black and neither are they; furthermore, if that type of equivalency existed, you wouldn't need a coded, propriety-toeing wink-wink term like "hood pass" to describe it because you could go whole-hog and use offensive verbiage without people taking offense.

Unsurprisingly, people took offense to this, kind of proving his point.

this is what i thought, too, fwiw.

The followup to the "hood pass/nigger pass" sectoion feels edited/out of context, seeing as there's no direct correlation between the first 3 sentences and the last 2 that makes a lot of direct sense; mapping things back to his own life would be more understandable of he meant "'being black'" in scare-quotes, meaning that he was still talking about the characteristics about himself that led to him being embraced by black people.

However I am also perfectly willing to believe that he was just quoting verbatim something some of his black friends told him about their experiences and he was thinking more about how that paralleled some of the struggles in his life than he was about how terrifyingly patrician his proclaiming what it is to Be Black would come across.

What is being black? It’s making the most of your life, not taking a single moment for granted

Who asked John Mayer to do Black History Month blurbs?

Can I get a work safe version of that interview, too? Sounds a-mazing.

YOUR BODY IS A WONDERLAND... I'M TELLING EVERYBODY!!!

hahaha

I wonder if John Mayer and James Franco get their weed from the same guy.

BLACK PEOPLE TO WHITE AMERICA:

ENJOY EVERY SANDWICH

that interview reads like the dude from Ray Gun but ten years and millions of dollars in the bank later.

There are so many great lines in this interview that it's hard to pinpoint just a few:

"If you say I’m not adult and stable, it sounds as though I’m someone who’s watching football and playing Xbox. I have this bond with infinite possibility—when I go out to dinner, I bring another shirt, a flashlight, a knife, a hard drive, a camera. It’s not like I wanted to be with somebody else. I want to be with myself, still, and lie in bed only with the infinite unknown. That’s 32, man."

"At this point, before I can have sex I need to know somebody. Unless she’s a 14 out of 10."

"If I have a conversation with a really hot girl that lasts all night and she says, “Wow, I had no idea I was going to like you this much,” that is the equivalent, for me, of getting laid."

"If Jennifer Aniston knows how to use BitTorrent I’ll eat my fucking shoe."

"I want to dance. I want to get on an airplane and be like a ninja. I want to be an explorer. I want to be like The Bourne Identity."

"If I have a conversation with a really hot girl that lasts all night and she says, “Wow, I had no idea I was going to like you this much,” that is the equivalent, for me, of getting laid."

pretty sure ive known ppl who say stuff like this

"If Jennifer Aniston knows how to use BitTorrent I’ll eat my fucking shoe."

lmao

"I want to dance. I want to get on an airplane and be like a ninja. I want to be an explorer. I want to be like The Bourne Identity."

ive also thought this one personally

Young and Innocent Days

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_z-shZL1KU

hood pass revoked

http://i48.tinypic.com/28cn59c.gif

lol farsighted

This is amazing.

omfghahahahaha I just got mesmerized focusing only on Kanye's right hand slicing at his chest abt 150 times

two of the most awkward human beings alive, being awkward

Also his use of the word 'fag' was pretty offensive as was his general shitty attitude towards women and how he kept making sure everybody knew Jennifer Aniston was old and he was a young sprightly chicken at 32 who just needed to be ~free~. There was some good points as much as I hate to admit it in his 'hood pass' quote it was just poorly executed. Like his music career and entire existance.

this guy is on a nother level

black man comes at him with a wicked karate chop and he disarms!
plays it off like white and nerdy

disaster averted + gif meme created

Hahahaha I fucking love that.

What's with this scene of mini-Mayer singer-songwriters that that are kind of big and famous but I have never even heard of?

I'm talking Matt Nathanson, Matt Wertz, Dave Barnes. A quick glance at their wikipedia pages shows all sorts of appearances on tv and soundtracks, but who are they and what's their deal? The scene seems to be some weird DMB/country/Christian rock/folk rock pool party.

i think TV soundtracks is a big tipoff there -- there's a whole world of musicians who exist for no other reason than to score contemplative moments in Grey's Anatomy and Scrubs

fratboys

I remember when my fratbro RA and I were talking music for the first time, he talked about all these different singer-songwriters, and not only did they all sound the same to me but they all seem to look and act the same, too. Wouldn't be surpised if it's all the same guy producing these contemplative music moments for Grey's Anatomy tbh.

xpost yeah

Oh CW network (and the WB before you), so much to answer for.

i wonder if this entire cottage industry sprang up just because Coldplay set their licensing fees prohibitively high or something

even the kind of critics who can appreciate horrible pop and defend really uncool music take the http://i45.tinypic.com/20z7o9k.jpg

attitude to this kind of thing.

xpost the Coldplay-John Mayer-the Fray music licensing cartel