hey gawker dudes. what the fuck is wrong with you?

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.

comedians talking about their craft makes me want to die

"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."

xp try heroin

“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.’”

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

the only time i feel like i really am on the same page as lex is when he talks about comedy

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

when did ppl start getting really into the elevation of comedic craft? was it the aristocrats?

imo its part of a wider prosumer entertainment media trend that has made all ilx tv threads unbearable

ppl latch onto craft because its comprehendable not knowing its merely a vehicle in which i transport my genius

showrunner, callback, writersroom

RT and Fav.

1 RT = 1 LOL, fav for hearty chuckle

btw i submitted a humblebrag once and he RTed it

humblebrag was a p brilliant observation imo

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.

um no mr sarcasm the thing thats hard to understand is why you like hearing them discuss it

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.

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

what a boring thread and topic for all you good posters to be on for so long

actually this is a very good thread topic

actually its about ethics in journalism games

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

um its called blogging hello

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

so if the original intent of the piece was to zing him & others it's just a weak barometer of quality I guess

there is nothing nerdier than comedy

there are many things much nerdier than comedy

/checks nerd chart/ no

record reviewing

baseball stats

the settlers of catan

Math

prog rock

/checks nerd chart/ no

― lag∞n, Saturday, February 21, 2015 12:58 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

having a nerd chart
using a nerd chart

Pogs

'the custos of the country' - some twitter comedian

ventriloquism
doing a whole magic act in a special magician costume you sewed yourself

amateur clowning

miming

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.

dang that is kinda some real shit

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

What were the other two? :=}

nah

cn u link us to the humblebrag at least

linking to a humblebrag is kind of a humblebrag, no?