Rolling Stand-Up Comedy 2012

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A Special Thing

turns out Secretly Canadian did Good One actually

their website says it's exclusive from Louis though - who's doing the CD, gbx?

...and the pdf booklet in the download says

[Secretly Canadian logo]
© & ℗ SECRETLY CANADIAN. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
WWW.SECRETLYCANADIAN.COM

To interrupt the Louis CK debates,

Reggie Watts did a brilliantly meta Ted Talk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdHK_r9RXTc

As you were.

that's really great, fukkin love reggie watts

I kinda wanted to hate Reggie Watts but the motherfucker keeps making me laugh and seems like a nice guy, so...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvDHOW9gp3c

Man, this Tig Notaro set is BRUTAL. I mean, I knew all the info about her terrible few months, but hearing her make it public for the first time—the night everyone learned about it—is fucking rough.

i'm watching this "mash up" show on comedy central, and hannibal burress is funny but why do these things keep finding it appropriate to stick in either animations or live action scenes depicting the story the standup is telling? does anyone like that? it makes everything notably less funny

the internet loves videos like that. there's some comedians where a video like that is their no. 1 YouTube hit. i personally think they're fucking terrible and distracting

They are terrible, but they do seem to be popular.

i think your attention span has to be total dogshit if you like those

Comedy Central has done SO MANY shows animating standup routines over the years, can't believe they just started another in 2012 and it's called Mash Up. can't be as bad as Shorties Watchin' Shorties i guess. that stuff could be fun on Dr. Katz, at least.

i think the elevator pitch for Shorties Watchin' Shorties ended with dude putting a gun in his mouth and the network executive promising to put the show on the air if he just calms down and promises not to kill himself

it's pretty amazing how well patrice o'neal's rep as a standup recovered from his 'foulmouthed animated baby' phase by the time he died

i saw myq kaplan recently (only live standup i've ever seen, funny enough) and he was really really good.

definitely on the nerd humor tip but way better than that sounds. very very fast, dense, punny wordplay stuff.

yeah, he's pretty good

i think your attention span has to be total dogshit if you like those

― Mary Ty$ Band (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, October 9, 2012 8:48 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

see, this shit fucks with my attention span! it's totally jarring to switch back and forth between oral storytelling and visual storytelling and whenever they cut to a scene i lose track of what the comedian is saying

and the scenes are never funny. i kept thinking "that would've been a funny joke but not anymore"

ya i cant really imagine any standup that would be improved by pictures of what they're joking about

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20090205/ap-on-tv-demetri-martin/images/1e48f0ab-3866-46f4-a8dd-aae0579c7a37.jpg

ha

Here's a quick set my friend April did while she was in South Africa last week: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10100612670410607

This Tig Notaro set is devastating yet amazing. Forget about who gets how much money and just listen to the damn thing.

best standup w/ visuals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNDFeUaCBOs&t=64s

Go Tig!!

http://www.avclub.com/articles/people-still-buy-comedy-records-tig-notaro-sells-7,86870/

yay

That Tig Notaro record was just...too much. Incredible.

It made me want to be her BFF you know.

yeah it's pretty amazing

I bought it and am happy I did, but it's definitely a weird document that made me uncomfortable on so many levels. Especially all the times she feels the need to comfort people clearly upset after she drops her tragic bomb on them, combined with the alternative, namely ripping on people for laughing inappropriately. It's almost as gentle as confrontational gets. Gotta admit I was on the fence almost the entire time until the last few seconds, when she gets shoots off one proper joke and, after all that came before it, immediately gets a traditional laugh. It sort of underscore the nature of standup for me in a way few acts ever have, this weird balance between performance and confession.

Apropos of nothing, I just got a whole bunch of classic Bill Cosby albums (which I grew up listening to from my dad's LP collection) and am looking forward to hearing what my kids think.

i can't believe Louis C.K. made $75,000 off of cancer, that bastard

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man, schumer's comedy central special is kind of amazing

yeah, we liked it. lots of good lolz.

Yeah she is a killer joke writer.

well alright the part where she starts talking about black people is a bit "i'm trying to get a pass on racism by acknowledging i'm being racist" which is a bit ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

imo her whole self-deprecating stage persona is about admitting negative things about herself, whether true or not -- which sometimes gets into sketchy territory but for better or worse is not about trying to justify it or get a pass on it

Rory on the tv!

http://www.deadline.com/2012/11/abc-develops-family-comedy-starring-comedian-rory-scovel/

The network has bought Big Children, written/executive produced by Scott Marder (It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia) and starring actor-comedian Rory Scovel (The Life And Times Of Tim). Produced by ABC Studios, it centers on a thirtysomething “only child” (Scovel) who must move home and parent his parents after they retire and revert to acting like children with too much time on their hands.

maria bamford recorded her new special in front of an audience consisting solely of her parents
http://chill.com/MariaBamfoo/the-special-special-special

ha

Oh my god. I might pay for that.

omg WANT

Tig Notaro on Pitchfork.tv

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR7aRzu7-o8

this eugene mirman comedy central special is sort of disappointing

he doesn't work as well in a stand-up storytelling context than on those old youtube vids

the best part of the maria bamford special is definitely hearing her mother speak and knowing that maria's impression of her is perfect

i just now saw louis ck's response to the tosh thing that he did on the daily show last july, i thought it was p good

http://entertainment.time.com/2012/07/17/louis-ck-talks-daniel-tosh-rape-joke-furor-on-daily-show-gives-classically-louis-ck-ian-response/

not sure where to put this, but has rob delaney's majestically shit standup performance on jimmy kimmel been posted anywhere on ilx yet? if not, grab a brew and sit back and enjoy the worst thing you'll see all year:

http://m.metatube.com/en/videos/172571/Jimmy-Kimmel-show-Rob-Delaney-Performs/

bonus fact: he's so ashamed of it he's tried to delete all mention of it from the internet!

http://www.brobible.com/entertainment/article/stand-up-set-comedian-rob-delaney-removing-set
http://scottlong.wordpress.com/2013/03/20/the-most-interesting-tv-standup-set-of-all-time/

thanks for top 100 worst people on twitter for pointing this out http://100worstpeopleontwitter.tumblr.com/post/53513091419/13-rob-delaney (ran by dom passantino, ex of this parish)