Rolling Stand-Up Comedy 2011

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.

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

That's pretty classic.

that...was fantastic. Kinane is great. dying over "Southside Ewok"

lol im pretty sure ive heard "put some rims on ur optometrist" before but didnt know where it was from

I love El Chupacabra but dislike all his other stuff.

i think kroll is hilarious -- fabrice fabrice is whatever but bobby bottleservice is hilarious

it's too bad he's on 'the league' tho -- what a piece of shit that it is

Yeah it really is pretty u_u

Another Kroll hater over here.

dunno much Kroll but Bobby Bottleservice is lol

ugh "Bobby Bottleservice" -- are you guys secretly Jamie Kennedy fans too?

Jon Lajoie is still the worst guy on The League, though, that guy is straight out of YouTube rap parody hell

I enjoyed El Chupacabra on a live multi-performer CDR but the character is a bit too me-no-rikey for me to totally relax into; BB stays just this side of the line - the pleasure comes from hearing him stay in pace, not merely improvving and reacting and feeding the scene in character, but managing to keep making discretely funny malaprops of what "BB" means to be saying at the same time

I saw a little bit of that countdown yesterday. Ryan Stout made me laugh pretty hard.

Nick Kroll's hour was not bas at all, especially when he wasn't in character.

yeah i don't have much of a problem w/ him in normal standup mode

"not bad" is what I was trying to type there, of course.

Here's my friend April, who's still kind of a n00b at stand-up, but is getting better.

I wish she had a dedicated youtube channel instead of having bits and pieces scattered all over, but whatever.

tbh too many standups are way too slick with online stuff now, if she's just starting out it's probably better that she let people who like her stuff upload it than just plaster youtube with dozens of her own videos.

how long has she been performing? i feel like she had been performing for a while but maybe it's just because i see her around a lot

I think she did her first open mic right at the end of 2008.

So, just a smidge over two years.

Watching Patrice O'Neal's thing on Comedy Central right now. A+

^^wish i'd seen this

eddie griffin's special is on right now & he's... not a very good stand up

he also has really awful opinions about everything

Saw some of an old Daniel Tosh standup special on CC about 2-3 months ago and was surprised how funny I found it ("No, I don't want to smoke a bowl; I'm not 17, I have things to do. Grow up and do coke"). Didn't really catch any racist stuff there or on the clip show, but I don't see it much. He just seems to be doing for gay-seeming, fuckable blond dudes what Sarah Silverman did for JAPs.

I saw Eugene Mirman twice last year; much funnier than he was 5-10 years ago, I think.

Yeah, Eugene has finally stumbled across what he does best. Not sure what that is, but he's funnier now.

Eugene was on Colbert Monday night as a medical clown.

It is not 2011, but Paul F. Tompkins' "Impersonal" album is killing me lately.

ok listening to "impersonal" now and it is pretty fuckin good

"elegant balloons"

Ha! I also like the picking cherries one and the peanut brittle one; both painfully drawn out, really, but I dig it.

I kinda like Todd Glass

He goes too fast though

Kyle Kinane?

<3 kumail nanjiani <3

http://video.teamcoco.com/video/conan.jsp?oid=233887

RIP Mike DeStefano, dude was totally the funniest on the last season of Last Comic Standing and shoulda won

Some mention of it earlier in the day on the podcast thread. I'd never heard him before (recognized the name only), but his interview with Maron was solid.

he had a very familiar tough guy New York comic exterior but his actual material was pretty dry and clever

how do wee feel about doug stanhope?

Used to be I couldn't stand him. Now I don't even think about him anymore (like the rest of all people everywhere).

i saw destefano on a thing comedy central was showing that was like a comedy show for addicts? i think. i thought he was aight. RIP anyway, sounds like a fucked up story

never been impressed what little of stanhope's comedy i've seen but i enjoyed his online rant about people who teach standup comedy, seems like a good writer