My answer:
Craig Shoemaker (born November 15, 1958) is an American comedian, writer, and voice actor.[1] He is best known for his baritone-voiced character, The Lovemaster, which he routinely portrays in his comedy act. In 1997 he was named Funniest Male Stand-Up Comic at the American Comedy Awards.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieIisdMdIOg
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 19:09 (six years ago) link
xpost he clocked a heckler with a guitar, and the audience roared in anger and he was asking like "wasn't I in the right?" and one audience member said "YOU WENT TOO FAR" and dude just walked off stage after that
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 19:10 (six years ago) link
I love the fake audience on that Walt G Love clip.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 19:18 (six years ago) link
There a whole Rudy Ray Moore movie like that from the 70s
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 19:55 (six years ago) link
no way is this Craig Shoemaker guy real
https://cont-2.p-cdn.com/images/public/gracenote/albumart/7/5/0/8/800028057_500W_500H.jpg
― soref, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 20:00 (six years ago) link
I was reminded of him when I was reading wiki about The Magic Johnson Show. He was the "comedy relief" sidekick. I can't believe he consistently wins comedy awards.
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 20:04 (six years ago) link
http://youtu.be/gKkAPzXReT0
no guitar but classic heckler takedown.
― XxxxxxxXxxxxxxxxXxxxx (dylannn), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 20:07 (six years ago) link
that's i believe greg giraldo.
― XxxxxxxXxxxxxxxxXxxxx (dylannn), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 20:11 (six years ago) link
have we posted about dan naian yet
https://youtu.be/FDVkLDElFok?t=99
― global tetrahedron, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 20:12 (six years ago) link
http://youtube/FDVkLDElFok?t=99
Dude at an improv show walked offstage and swiped my phone mid-text (nb, this was years before doing so became the ubiquitous source of annoyance it now is, and I was trying to be discreet about it) and wrote something like 'I am an asshole' and hit send. Closest I've come in my adult life to decking someone.
― Ripped Taylor (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 20:17 (six years ago) link
Not that many comedians I have a strong dislike for. Even when they're not good I still kind of want them to succeed and think most of the ones I see on television have a basic level of likeability that makes their failures very uncomfortable.
For years I felt very awkward watching comedy on tv because I'd have a strained smile as if they were in the room with me. It was exhausting and depressing because very little comedy succeeds at a comfortable level.
I'm scared I'll make friends with comedians someday and be asked to watch them or give feedback. They'd have to be in the tiny elite for that to be a comfortable relationship.
Given how difficult stand-up comedy is, it seems insane to me how long the sets are and how many people want to do it.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 20:17 (six years ago) link
a young man with face tattoos stole my phone and typed boonk gang whole lotta gang shit xp
― XxxxxxxXxxxxxxxxXxxxx (dylannn), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 20:20 (six years ago) link
http://youtu.be/IyE78eyFRa8
say what you will about the man's politics
― XxxxxxxXxxxxxxxxXxxxx (dylannn), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 20:22 (six years ago) link
I assume this thread's heyday did not overlap with Carlos Mencia's and that is why this post is the first invocation of his name.
― Embalming is a flirty business (DJP), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 22:32 (six years ago) link
This, in every respect, is the opposite of what I think.
― Action of Boyle Man Prompts Visitor to Stay (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 22:35 (six years ago) link
Colin Quinn is the unfunniest comedian
― louise ck (milo z), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 22:37 (six years ago) link
I can probably count the number of times Colin Quinn has made me laugh because of a joke and not because of how viciously he was bombing on one hand.
― Embalming is a flirty business (DJP), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 22:41 (six years ago) link
the saga of dan nainan, hungry millennial comedian is funnier than anything he's ever said in a comedy routine, by far
― mh, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 22:43 (six years ago) link
have we posted about dan naian yethttps://youtu.be/FDVkLDElFok?t=99
bahahaha at the comments in this video
even Neil Hamburger's early CDs don't have him bombing this hard. I'm 15 minutes in and he hasn't gotten a single laugh
― frogbs, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 22:43 (six years ago) link
btw my entire Twitter feed has an obsession with this guy. I saw him get quoted in a dumb newspaper article and it blew my mind
― frogbs, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 22:45 (six years ago) link
neil hamburger is a treasure and i'm amazed audiences didn't cotton onto this more quickly
― imago, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 22:54 (six years ago) link
I've met Nanian. He is a true sociopath irl.
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 22:57 (six years ago) link
Ouuuuuuuuuch @ that Nanian video. I couldn't get even five minutes into it. I kept thinking he seemed like some middle manager who fixated way too much on that one time an employee laughed at one of his dad jokes and then decided to just ditch the day job and go for it. And then he told an anecdote which basically confirmed that exact impression.
― Ripped Taylor (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 22:58 (six years ago) link
how does he have anything of a career, is it all russian money
― imago, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 22:59 (six years ago) link
fake amuse
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:03 (six years ago) link
holy shit craig shoemaker is unbearable
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:03 (six years ago) link
― Action of Boyle Man Prompts Visitor to Stay (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 22:35
You hate most comedians and want them to fail, most tv comedians are unlikable, which makes their successes make very comfortable for you?
I just can't hate a comedian for being unfunny, they need to come off like a prick.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:03 (six years ago) link
I'm more on the side of hate until proven good tbh and regard this approach as healthy
― imago, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:05 (six years ago) link
it's like the opposite of music
I don't want them to fail necessarily, I wouldn't care either way, but I hate most of them and they come across as deeply unlikeable.
― Action of Boyle Man Prompts Visitor to Stay (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:06 (six years ago) link
... and, more importantly, not funny.
There's also far too many of them, especially on TV on those fucking panel shows that are blight on our nation.
― Action of Boyle Man Prompts Visitor to Stay (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:08 (six years ago) link
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, December 6, 2017 2:57 PM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
any further info you can give us. I'm a big nainan "fan"
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:09 (six years ago) link
a question with rich pickings btw: who is the unfunniest British comedian
― imago, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:10 (six years ago) link
all of the bastards tbh
― calzino, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:11 (six years ago) link
Cast of thousands there.
― Action of Boyle Man Prompts Visitor to Stay (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:12 (six years ago) link
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:03 (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I hate anyone earning a living from doing useless work badly tbh
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:14 (six years ago) link
also even the funny comedians usually come off like pricks tbh
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:15 (six years ago) link
(xp) OTM. Ireland produces the most unfunny comedians per capita in the world, of course. Australia not far behind.
― Action of Boyle Man Prompts Visitor to Stay (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:17 (six years ago) link
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Wednesday, December 6, 2017 5:14 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
What did the USA ever do to u
― Ripped Taylor (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:18 (six years ago) link
The way some of our British ilx guys focus their hatred on comedians and celebrities is disturbing.
I generally like Sarah Milican despite finding most of her material weak.
I haven't really liked any Pete Holmes stand-up I've seen yet I can't help but like his big floppy goofiness and the way he claps and laughs in front of his guests on his chat show.
There's loads like this.
The thing I like least about stand-up comedians is how most of them (even the good ones) tell jokes less intelligent than they are to stay afloat. I've seen some of them say they'll compromise and tell a shitty joke just to bring the audience into the next bit.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:23 (six years ago) link
xp Assumed for ten years and more on ilx that anything true in the US was somehow normal and thats just for starters
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:23 (six years ago) link
Tom otm btw we somehow generate dozens of professional standups that eat and everything despite being only marginally funnier than Sean Hughes for example.
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:25 (six years ago) link
I think you'll find that it's not just British ilx guys who think this way, though our comedians are notably terrible.
― Action of Boyle Man Prompts Visitor to Stay (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:25 (six years ago) link
building a rapport with an audience by hooking them with some easy jokes, how terrible!
― mh, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:26 (six years ago) link
British ilx guys also use the word cunt a lot maybe that's throwing u
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:26 (six years ago) link
No, there's something different about the British hatred.
The worst comedians I've ever seen is usually on those American celebrity gossip clip shows. They just act in an over-the-top manner as if that's enough. Can't think of any British standups who are that bad.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:28 (six years ago) link
Are you British, American or bearable
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:29 (six years ago) link
― mh, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:26
If they're bad and stupid jokes, it is terrible.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:29 (six years ago) link