Rolling Stand-Up Comedy 2012

big difference: that was a conversation + thread she was participating in

just wanted to say i appreciate laurel's contributions to this thread very much. this whole brouhaha bummed me out for most of yesterday and has left me feeling sensitive to things i would normally blow off. like i don't normally stan for jezebel at all, but hearing a women-focused publication dismissed for not being funny upthread made me feel shitty. frogbs' continued glibness after that "ugh everyone shut UP about PRIVILEGE" post yesterday made me feel shitty. folks using this as an excuse to go after WCC made me feel shitty.

― the bibles fake lol don't trust a book (reddening), Thursday, July 12, 2012 4:34 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

If so much stuff posted on a goddamn internet message board, especially one about stand up comedy, makes you feel so "shitty", you may want to suck it up a little bit.

can everyone itt who's come here to beef with mordy or cheer on laurel just...I dunno...go start a mordy beef thread. go start a board where you all shout at each other and no one talks and it'll be awesome.

seriously there's no discussion being had here, everyone's just rehashing old beefs and it's fucking boring.

since this is a thread where ppl are getting their "here's a thing you do that sucks" on -- Whiney? This? Kinda thing?

itt a Workaholics fan schools people on what is funny

is grade school shit. I know it passes for hilarious on some ILM threads but you are too old for it now. I like a lot of music I'm sure you hate, but "you can't take what this guy says seriously - he likes Braid!" or w/e is something that it's time for you to outgrow. Also, clean your room, also, your mother and I have been talking and we think you should trim the beard, it may be the fashion but clean looks will never go out of style, love, Dad.

At this point I no longer care that I cannot verify the accuracy of the Rodney quotes I found on about.com, they may be our only hope.

workaholics is pretty unfunny tbh. not that liking it should invalidate anyone's opinions but it's terrible and if i ever said a kind word about it i regret it thoroughly

Outside of a very few things, Comedy Central has totally turned into BROTOWN USA.

reddening, I am truly sorry if I ruined your day, but if someone saying they don't find Jezebel to be funny makes you feel attacked, maybe you need to take a step back and look at some puppy pictures

braid slays

btw i didn't post what i did with the intention of beefing; to me, WCC represents someone who is able to articulate feminist concerns thoroughly and forcefully in a way that i can't, and that's why i'm sensitive to people bringing up beefs with her while she was in the middle of a good series of posts about feminist argument. but i understand the whole thing is fraught and complicated, fair enough.

A DOZEN ROSES IN THE CAR / AND I DON'T KNOW WHERE YOU AREEEEEE

I'm not discussing ilx posters in this thread who are not participating in this thread, even though I would love to.

I saw two episodes of Workaholics last year and they made me laugh. I haven't watched it at all this season. I only threw it in my list of CC shows because it was better than Ugly Americans and Tosh.0 and regretted it as soon as I hit submit since I don't really watch it.

signed, a "Workaholics fan"

Can we talk now about why the hell Dave Chappelle doesn't just put together a new hour and set the standard again? I get that he doesn't want any spotlight, but he's not locked away in some remote cabin either. He's out there doing sets that, by all accounts, are as funny as he's ever done. CHAPPELLE 2012!!!

Neal Brennan said on his podcast that Chappelle said to him recently that he's found that he doesn't 'need' standup the way he used to. He still likes it, but the laughs and adoration doesn't feed him the way it did before. Something's definitely changed in him, I think?

I sure hope he gets his stuff fleshed out and tours properly, regardless. He was supposed to do a warmup show in Sac and cancelled, I was super bummed.

someone check the gearscor of Chappelle's WoW toon; then we'll know exactly how much we should hate Blizzard

i love workaholics. and yeah you guys should start a beef thread for each other if you feel like beefing.

I'm not gonna fault a guy for not needing to do what once drove him mad, but it's a shame his new material only shows up in clips and blips every now and then instead of a proper full-length set. I just miss him is all.

Me too.

There was a whole blowup at one of his Austin shows, everyone's all handwringing over whether he's still 'got it'...I'm all, I DON'T CARE JUST BRING ME MY DAMN CHAPELLE

http://www.theonion.com/articles/daniel-tosh-chuckles-through-own-violent-rape,28769/

Man I hope to one day reach the stellar quality of a Bill Magill post so I can drop the mic and mouth PEACE OUT on my way out the room.

if you guys dont cut it out i am going to email iatee and tell him that i am talking about how awesome the interstate highway system is in this thread

suggest van

That isn't a slam on iatee at all btw, I am just saying that I will use my power to annoy people to drag this thread down and I will take you all with me.

wouldn't it be funny if like, five guys bought houses in the suburbs right now? i mean, like, right now?

http://www.buddytv.com/articles/seinfeld/image/jerry-2.jpg

"What's the deal with interstate highways?"

are you saying jjj

that u would

drive

them away

http://www.theonion.com/articles/daniel-tosh-chuckles-through-own-violent-rape,28769/

― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Thursday, July 12, 2012 3:03 PM (1 hour ago)

I would never deign to make some dichotomous tree of acceptable rape humor (because for me thinking about rape OR about 'how humor works' – both exhausting, and kind of awful) but THIS IS FUCKING KILLING ME OH MAN

You know what guys I get very cross with insensitive rape humor but *I* love making rape jokes, myself, like a lot. And then if someone complains or is clearly uncomfortable (discomfort also funny to me), I can say, "I worked really hard with my therapist to be able to make jokes like that," which to me is the ultimate punchline. Maybe it's in the delivery. The delivery that makes other people more uncomfortable! This is part of a long series: "why I am hard to get close to."

This is part of a long series: "why I was expelled from the officeplace motivational seminar"

Of course I'm just doing this in small conversations at parties, bars, etc, with people who already know me – there's a context, and that context is I'm making an ass of myself and everyone else, privately.
ha xp

<3 Abbbbbs <3

^

I was thinking today of the very first time I went to a business conference (where my employer flew me there and everything) – I was 22, and I had stupider ideas about boundaries/professionalism/etc, meaning I had basically no ideas about those things. They had us start out with '2 truths and a lie,' with everyone sharing to everyone in the room (~30 older and less inane people) and I said:
• My parents had an ostrich farm
• I wasn't born with a sense of smell
and because I knew those are outrageous I chose an obvious lie
• I have touched a unicorn
But when they were asked to guess the lie NO ONE guessed the unicorn one. When I had to reveal the lie I said, "The lie was that I touched a unicorn. [pause] Only a virgin can touch a unicorn." And the reaction was some of the worst, most palpably awkward silence...god. I have learned my lesson about being more bland with strangers but I still feel like I could never be put in front of a business conference.

you are wasted on a business conference audience ffs

I was thinking 'virgins only' was common knowledge about unicorns but I guess it isn't.

hahaha

<3 abbs

[pause]

irl lol

thank u for making me love ilx again abbbottt

Hahaha. Love it. Some humorless coworkers!

Well not coworkers but colleagues in a sense...

that Onion piece is so fucking savage. fuckin' A.

"What's the deal with interstate highways?"

Hitler invented them. Lock thread.

I was thinking today of the very first time I went to a business conference (where my employer flew me there and everything) – I was 22, and I had stupider ideas about boundaries/professionalism/etc, meaning I had basically no ideas about those things. They had us start out with '2 truths and a lie,' with everyone sharing to everyone in the room (~30 older and less inane people) and I said:
• My parents had an ostrich farm
• I wasn't born with a sense of smell
and because I knew those are outrageous I chose an obvious lie
• I have touched a unicorn
But when they were asked to guess the lie NO ONE guessed the unicorn one. When I had to reveal the lie I said, "The lie was that I touched a unicorn. [pause] Only a virgin can touch a unicorn." And the reaction was some of the worst, most palpably awkward silence...god. I have learned my lesson about being more bland with strangers but I still feel like I could never be put in front of a business conference.

― Team Safeword (Abbbottt), Thursday, July 12, 2012 4:21 PM (1 hour ago)

In a recent-ish Nerdist podcast, Ana Gasteyer tells a great story about her husband who said something similarly outrageous ("I haven't washed my hair in 11 years") during the "introduce yourself" session of a business retreat. The joke went over about as well as Abbbottt's unicorn, but Gasteyer pointed out that this is the sort of perspective that differentiates a comedy-optimized brain from a business square.

since this is a thread where ppl are getting their "here's a thing you do that sucks" on -- Whiney? This? Kinda thing?

itt a Workaholics fan schools people on what is funny

is grade school shit. I know it passes for hilarious on some ILM threads but you are too old for it now. I like a lot of music I'm sure you hate, but "you can't take what this guy says seriously - he likes Braid!" or w/e is something that it's time for you to outgrow. Also, clean your room, also, your mother and I have been talking and we think you should trim the beard, it may be the fashion but clean looks will never go out of style, love, Dad.

― perry en concrète (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, July 12, 2012 4:45 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

thanks for the advice but imma keep doing this thx

that Onion piece is so fucking savage. fuckin' A.

― perry en concrète (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, July 12, 2012 8:35 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i didnt find it all that funny, even if dude does deserve to be savagely mocked. also is there a huge difference between say him saying "if u don't find rape funny, U SHOULD BE RAPED" and "if u find rape funny, U SHOULD BE RAPED"?

ehh maybe there is. but i guess i dont like the underlying vibe

it is enormously mean and dark, and it hit me right, idk

"I worked really hard with my therapist to be able to make jokes like that,"

loooool abbs you do best

(except for hating on CCR)

ya

i usually like it when the onion goes dark

and im not offended by it or anything

but i didnt find it that funny is all