Rolling Stand-Up Comedy 2011

and they do a big hawaii extravanganza show on the weekends. war dances. fire. much pu pu platter.

Cash Cab guy is a decent standup from what little i remember of the one time i saw him on Comedy Central

I like Brian Reagan is my favorite silly dad comic.

I can't form sentences today.

feel like people are STILL stealing jokes from the old school observational dads like wayne cotter. who now, apparently, is known as a corporate comedian. hey, its a living. and he never got a big sitcom deal. i'm sure jerry and ray took bits from him. or what do i know. maybe he stole from them too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e7Fud-cX3s

wow wayne cotter he was pretty reliable back in the day. brian regan is sillier these days and probably better for it, that last standup CC thing was a good way to pass the time

Ron White is probably the least dad comic of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour guys, or at least he's more avuncular than fatherly, but he probably counts, I like him.

Yeah, Ron White is fine. Even Foxworthy and Engvall are okay when they don't get into slogan comedy. Dan Whitney should really consider retiring "Larry the Cable Guy" though.

ron white frightens me.

http://www.platinum-celebs.com/messageboard/xmlnews/164-868.jpg

he looks like a motherfucker who would have some dark secrets if he didn't stand onstage talking about his hard drinking lifestyle for an hour every night

Ron White creeps me out. He has that sorta predatory look of a man who has been drinking since noon.

imo he's like someone's really funny drunk uncle who'd be a bit less funny if he was your drunk uncle

^ this

yeah that's a pretty good descrption!

Kathleen Madigan's recent Showtime special was really funny and kinda made me think of her as the female Ron White, since half her set's about alcoholism and she seemed to be slurring her words drunkenly a lot of the time

Southern accents reminded me of Henry Cho. He used to be around a lot more than he is now, but I've always found him funny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxF9APQnAt8

yeah he's not great imo but his one CC special has some good laughs

I love Ron White; he's got a real mean edge to some of his stuff. He was on the Comedy Central roast of Jeff Foxworthy and his routine wasn't that great, but one of the other comedians said (I'm paraphrasing) "Ron White drinks so much that when he eats peanuts you can hear them splash into his stomach" and that cracked me up.

The Cash Cab guy has some decent material, but he also has a weird speech impediment which doesn't really become obvious until he's talking for a few minutes straight (that is, it's way more noticeable during a stand-up set than on Cash Cab).

had never heard of cash cab til this month or so. he had some decent adlibs. what is the state of the art of game show emceeing? ray combs is still tugging at it from deep

Stand-ups do a lot of cable hosting I've noticed. Suzanne Whang used to host House Hunters (I've only seen her stand-up once, and it was a long time ago, but from what I remember she's probably better off as a tv host).

Whang. Hur hur

Alright, now Suzanne Whang is on my shitlist. According to this (very long) story, she's responsible for turning on Oprah (and, by extension, the rest of the country) to The Secret.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjMxszOyI08

but, y'know, wkiw still

HOLD UP SUZANNE WHANG IS A STAND UP???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

I don't know who that is.

she hosts house hunters on hgtv

oh

one of my fave shows. but we don't get hgtv anymore thank god. addicted to that channel.

I don't think I get it either otherwise I'd prob have seen it.

a girl I knew in college, Amy Schumer, is a standup now and she's co-hosting a show on Fuse with one of the guys from Blink 182. she's pretty funny, too, was a finalist on Last Comic Standing and had a good CC special recently.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110128/ap_on_en_tv/us_obit_charlie_callas

i must have seen some of his appearances but i have no recollection of his act. anyway r.i.p.

charlie callas was silly. old school clown. hung with all the big boys for decades.

ouch, forgot about this:

Johnny Carson was also impressed by Mr. Callas, inviting him to appear on the “Tonight” show nearly 50 times. Then came the night of Sept. 21, 1982.

With Mr. Callas bombing, Mr. Carson made a whistling-buzzing sound — as if tracing a bomb’s trajectory. In comic desperation, Mr. Callas leaned over and shoved Mr. Carson. Mr. Carson, almost always amiable on the air, was so annoyed that on the spot, in front of his television audience, he told Mr. Callas that he’d never appear on the show again. Mr. Carson kept his word.

ouch is right! wow

cold

Dont mess with Johnny.

Stories like that make me think Carson was a king prick. The way he had Joan Rivers blackballed from NBC over her talk show in the 80's was pretty terrible.

He seemed like it was more of being rigidly principled. Like "these are my rules and woe if you cross them". I mean, the Rivers blackballing was pretty bad, but from where he stood she betrayed him by trying to go out on her own. Dude seemed very, very black and white, friendship or no.

I don't think he was a prick. Maybe just hard to get close to.

Not like I know, or anything. Just kind of the feeling I get from him, and what I've read.

today Comedy Central is doing their 'standup showdown' thing where they show specials by comics voted for in an online poll. it's about halfway through but here are the winners:

20. Mo Mandel
19. Pete Holmes
18. Jeff Dye
17. Greg Warren
16. Myq Kaplan
15. Tommy Johnagin
14. Chris Porter
13. Amy Schumer
12. Tom Rhodes
11. Josh Blue
10. Ryan Stout
9. Donald Glover
8. Red Grant
7. Pete Lee
6. Iliza Shlesinger
5. Bret Ernst
4. Jon Lajoie
3. Doug Benson
2. Eliot Chang
1. Bo Burnham

big lols @ #1 but hey my old acquaintance Amy that i just plugged got in

never saw Mo Mandel before and he was pretty funny. Tom Rhodes sounded like he was straight-up imitating Mitch Hedberg with his delivery sometimes.

Louis C.K. at Caroline's next month, two shows a night for like four nights

these CC ads for Nick Kroll's new special are so irritating. he's like this totally decent average snarky bespectacled comic but then he does all these awful characters where he wears sunglasses and 'talks black'

kroll is hilarious

love Kroll.

Not a big Kroll fan. Also, as much I like football/fantasy football, you'd think I would be a sucker for The League. I'm not. I almost hate it tbh.

do you guys just like Kroll or do you like "Fabrice Fabrice" too?

El Chupacabra for all time

The League is not enjoyable.

i like all of his characters. i think he is excellent live and on cdr. i think i've seen him do stand up as himself once or twice but i don't recall much of that.