Rolling Stand-Up Comedy 2012

Hicks and Kinison and Stanhope are some of least favorite comics, so it doesn't surprise me that if you like one you'll probably at least have an ear open for all three.

xp I don't think the Onion thing was intended to be funny at all. "DO U SEE WHY THIS ISNT FUNNY DO U SEE" is otm.

I'm not much of a Kinison fan, not really a Stanhope fan, but I'm a big Hicks fan. There's a little Hicks in Stanhope but I feel like that's almost giving him too much rope.

i was never a kinison fan. kinison just ripped off hicks wholesale. i like hicks but i'm not a superfan and he could definitely be annoying/way too smug for this world. i don't know stanhope at all. until tonight! i mean i might have seen him on t.v. but i don't remember.

or wait hicks and sam were pals before either one of them hit it big, right? maybe they ripped each other off. dennis leary, now he stole everything from hicks, right?

that sounds right

Hicks and Kinison knocked around in the early days in Texas, with that workshop group Kinison was part of, the outlaw something or other.

Kinison is awful. I liked in a Hate comic once when Peter Bagge called him "the male Andrea Dworkin."

Ha!

I can't even get through his stuff because his PRESENTATION is so shrill. Like Hicks is bad enough in that department. I am down with music that tries actively to sonically repel me but not comedy.

Watching the Kinison stuff from the height of his fame is just...the coke sweat, the chicks in bikinis, the flashpots it's just kinda gross.

Kinison's behind-the-curtain evangelical routine was really good - I think if his material/outlook had been decent that shrill style would have been great. But instead yeah basically a meaner Porky's.

i always forget that sam actually died before bill hicks! i just looked that up. weird. i always think its the other way around.

I tried to watch some special of it and the first 7 minutes were iirc
I used to be a preacher but now women are WHIIIIIIIIIIIIINE SCREEECH EE-YAW WW-YAW DING DING DING AWOOGA AYAYAYAYAYAYA

i remember watching Comedy Central, possibly when it was still called Ha! The Comedy Channel, the night Kinison died, and they had someone in the network's office sit in front of a camera and awkwardly explain what happened because clearly they were not anticipating ever having to cut into a broadcast with breaking comedy news

this is my fav guy dealing with hecklers vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S4nSzE4N-o

I remember hearing about it on the news one night, and then the following night Inside Edition or A Current Affair or whatever dedicated a whole episode to his life and death and the whole time I was thinking "what an asshole".

i remember watching Comedy Central, possibly when it was still called Ha! The Comedy Channel, the night Kinison died, and they had someone in the network's office sit in front of a camera and awkwardly explain what happened because clearly they were not anticipating ever having to cut into a broadcast with breaking comedy news

― some dude, Friday, July 13, 2012 12:28 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

thats amazing

I remember the HA! days, though not that specific incident. I do remember they had people working the red carpets at movie premieres though on some kind of nightly?/weekly? round-up show and it was terrible. Get off my screen and bring back my George Carlin HBO special reairings!

i literally just looked up the specifics of the car crash Kinison died in and realized that he was not in a limo when he died and that i was possibly confusing him with Pizza The Hut

i remember watching Comedy Central, possibly when it was still called Ha! The Comedy Channel, the night Kinison died, and they had someone in the network's office sit in front of a camera and awkwardly explain what happened because clearly they were not anticipating ever having to cut into a broadcast with breaking comedy news

― some dude, Friday, July 13, 2012 12:28 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

thats amazing

― Black_vegeta (Hungry4Ass), Friday, July 13, 2012 12:32 AM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

nice.

im with u on that one canks - keep it up.

what is going on

Maron has some good Kinison stories. The podcast with Kinison's brother Bill was pretty eyeopening.
Dude must've been a cokedoutpsychonightmare to be around.

Ha! was not the same as proto-Comedy Centra;? I thought Ha! was some MTV offshoot and CC was some HBO offshoot.

'proto-Comedy Central' obvs. I remember being under the impression that they were competitors. Of course Ha! lost.

holy shit canks, that clip is great

I can't listen to maron anymore. He annoys the shit out of me.

Comedy Central was the result of a merger between Ha! and Comedy Channel apparently

CC is a Viacom property now I'm pretty sure

oh my bad xp

that Bill Burr clip is incredible

I can't listen to maron anymore. He annoys the shit out of me.

That's cool, whatever. I'd argue, though, that he's way less neurotic now than when WTF began its run. And definitely less so than when he was on Air America.

i really have to say, the new Doug Stanhope CD, Before He Turned the Gun On Himself is a bunch of libertarian jibber-jabber i dont agree with for one second; but it's seriously one of the most vicious, passionate comedy CDs I've heard in forever. If you're not one of those dopes that has to believe like everything a comic says SPEAKS DIRECTLY TO ME MAN, you should really check it out asap.

it's a great performance, but it also accurately reflects how I feel about philly, so it's great in multiple ways.

its in salt lake city?

I wasn't talking about Douglas Stanhope

I kind of feel like I should check out STANHOPE but only because he lives in Bisbee – which is not enough to balance out the fact that he generally seems repellant. From interviews.

The stuff on the record is totally repellant, which doesnt mean its not an awesome comedy record, which it is

that is not very persuasive

OTOH I don't expect you to have a lo0t of info on the most persuasive part (Bisbee)
Got to give him props for actually perofrming in AZ post-SB1070; probably helps that he lives in Bisbee

many xposts: canks otm i fucking LOVE that Burr takedown. genius.

I kind of wanted to call it the Sister Ray of stand up or something, but that would go far in betraying my own ignorance in the history of stand up/comedy records

I like this Kyle Kinane takedown too, though it's not anywhere near as fiery

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOfPT48giJw

I love that kinane takedown. It's not as visceral or angry as Burr, but it has that same amazing freeform flow where it almost feels like a worked out bit.

Kinane's awesome live, I would go see him anywhere.

The bit when Burr starts in on the Flyers in that clip is amazing.

his takedown re imaginary rocky vs real joe frazier hits hard

^^^