His jokes were so weird, unexpected, often brilliantly dumb that they were in that ultra-exclusive club of ones that made comedy people laugh — and laugh hard.
― lag∞n, Saturday, 21 February 2015 15:55 (nine years ago) link
comedians talking about their craft makes me want to die
― lag∞n, Saturday, 21 February 2015 15:59 (nine years ago) link
"first I look around the room for inspiration. then, when I don't find any, I talk about phallic breakfast foods and people generally like that."
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Saturday, 21 February 2015 16:02 (nine years ago) link
xp try heroin
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 21 February 2015 16:02 (nine years ago) link
“One time I said to a guy that, ‘I loved learning new things. I’m a bit of an infomaniac.’ And he thought I said NYMPHOMANIAC….so he fucked me. And I said ‘No, no no…I said INFO. I’m an INFOmaniac’ And he said ‘Well, here’s some info…you just got fucked. Clean yourself up.’”
― iatee, Saturday, 21 February 2015 16:15 (nine years ago) link
Hmm, maybe he wasn't the comedy genius nobody in this thread claimed he was and it's not sad at all that he died at 30 years old, good point
― raccoon tanuki dye dashiki nefertiti edges kinky (some dude), Saturday, 21 February 2015 16:21 (nine years ago) link
the only time i feel like i really am on the same page as lex is when he talks about comedy
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 21 February 2015 16:22 (nine years ago) link
i like comedy its funny i just dont want to go behind the scenes, i feel that way abt art/entertainment in general tho, but especially comedy
― lag∞n, Saturday, 21 February 2015 16:24 (nine years ago) link
when did ppl start getting really into the elevation of comedic craft? was it the aristocrats?
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 21 February 2015 16:30 (nine years ago) link
imo its part of a wider prosumer entertainment media trend that has made all ilx tv threads unbearable
― lag∞n, Saturday, 21 February 2015 16:32 (nine years ago) link
ppl latch onto craft because its comprehendable not knowing its merely a vehicle in which i transport my genius
― lag∞n, Saturday, 21 February 2015 16:36 (nine years ago) link
showrunner, callback, writersroom
― lag∞n, Saturday, 21 February 2015 16:37 (nine years ago) link
RT and Fav.
― Jeff, Saturday, 21 February 2015 16:42 (nine years ago) link
1 RT = 1 LOL, fav for hearty chuckle
― lag∞n, Saturday, 21 February 2015 16:45 (nine years ago) link
btw i submitted a humblebrag once and he RTed it
humblebrag was a p brilliant observation imo
― lag∞n, Saturday, 21 February 2015 16:46 (nine years ago) link
People who work in comedy are kind of unique in that they enjoy discussing the thing they've chosen as a career, often with people who also do comedy, which I know is difficult to understand since that's not a thing people in other fields ever do.
― Ad Strawmanem (Old Lunch), Saturday, 21 February 2015 16:55 (nine years ago) link
um no mr sarcasm the thing thats hard to understand is why you like hearing them discuss it
― lag∞n, Saturday, 21 February 2015 16:58 (nine years ago) link
correction its not hard to understand i just dont like it
I'm sure there are podcasts of geologists discussing geology with other geologists and geology is cool and all but I'm not really interested in that discussion and I'm able to avoid engaging with it and making a big deal about how I don't like it. Except I guess I just did, mea culpa geology fans.
― Ad Strawmanem (Old Lunch), Saturday, 21 February 2015 17:06 (nine years ago) link
so yr saying i shd just avoid them and not say they are bad, sorry buddy dont u know to always say yes in improv
― lag∞n, Saturday, 21 February 2015 17:08 (nine years ago) link
what a boring thread and topic for all you good posters to be on for so long
― local eire man (darraghmac), Saturday, 21 February 2015 17:18 (nine years ago) link
actually this is a very good thread topic
― lag∞n, Saturday, 21 February 2015 17:19 (nine years ago) link
actually its about ethics in journalism games
― local eire man (darraghmac), Saturday, 21 February 2015 17:29 (nine years ago) link
i read the original beef. why was gawker reporting on which nbc writers' scripts tested poorly with audiences? i would be annoyed too if someone, based on stray bits of information from random sources, decided to publicly investigate my job performance
― Treeship, Saturday, 21 February 2015 17:30 (nine years ago) link
um its called blogging hello
― lag∞n, Saturday, 21 February 2015 17:34 (nine years ago) link
test audience results (as opposed to reviews or ratings) are just kind of a pointless metric, a fair amount of good movies have tested poorly w/ focus groups and shit and plenty of bad movies have tested fairly well
― slothroprhymes, Saturday, 21 February 2015 17:48 (nine years ago) link
so if the original intent of the piece was to zing him & others it's just a weak barometer of quality I guess
― slothroprhymes, Saturday, 21 February 2015 17:49 (nine years ago) link
there is nothing nerdier than comedy
― rip van wanko, Saturday, 21 February 2015 17:52 (nine years ago) link
there are many things much nerdier than comedy
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 21 February 2015 17:57 (nine years ago) link
/checks nerd chart/ no
― lag∞n, Saturday, 21 February 2015 17:58 (nine years ago) link
record reviewing
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 21 February 2015 17:58 (nine years ago) link
baseball stats
the settlers of catan
― slothroprhymes, Saturday, 21 February 2015 18:01 (nine years ago) link
Math
― brosario nawson (m bison), Saturday, 21 February 2015 18:02 (nine years ago) link
prog rock
― slothroprhymes, Saturday, 21 February 2015 18:04 (nine years ago) link
― lag∞n, Saturday, February 21, 2015 12:58 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― lag∞n, Saturday, 21 February 2015 18:06 (nine years ago) link
having a nerd chartusing a nerd chart
― local eire man (darraghmac), Saturday, 21 February 2015 18:08 (nine years ago) link
Pogs
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Saturday, 21 February 2015 18:09 (nine years ago) link
'the custos of the country' - some twitter comedian
― no (Lamp), Saturday, 21 February 2015 18:10 (nine years ago) link
ventriloquismdoing a whole magic act in a special magician costume you sewed yourself
― Aimless, Saturday, 21 February 2015 18:33 (nine years ago) link
amateur clowning
― Aimless, Saturday, 21 February 2015 18:35 (nine years ago) link
miming
― Aimless, Saturday, 21 February 2015 18:36 (nine years ago) link
true confessions: one of my circa 2010 tweets when I was all on my own dick and generally being an arrogant prick and embarrassing myself w/r/t my unearned "success" ended up in the humblebrag book and, five years later, the existence of said book serves as a constant reminder of how not to act as an adult.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Saturday, 21 February 2015 18:49 (nine years ago) link
dang that is kinda some real shit
― lag∞n, Saturday, 21 February 2015 18:50 (nine years ago) link
i mean there's partially a) I was caught in a moment where dude is better at social media "face" (word to cankles) than me and got busted, but b) it caught me at a moment where I was kind of buying my own social media persona and feeling invincible and it was just one of three monumental public faceplants that occurred in one 24 hour period
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Saturday, 21 February 2015 18:53 (nine years ago) link
What were the other two? :=}
― 龜, Saturday, 21 February 2015 18:59 (nine years ago) link
nah
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Saturday, 21 February 2015 19:01 (nine years ago) link
cn u link us to the humblebrag at least
― lag∞n, Saturday, 21 February 2015 19:01 (nine years ago) link
linking to a humblebrag is kind of a humblebrag, no?
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Saturday, 21 February 2015 19:02 (nine years ago) link