Milking the audience is very difficult to do well, but looks easy. And for each one that does it well, entitles a hundred that do it badly.
Even with the good ones, you can laugh for an hour-and-a-half but when you think back you realise there was nothing to take away.
― Mark G, Thursday, 7 December 2017 07:34 (six years ago) link
I lived in Australia, not Ireland, update mh.xls
― shackling the masses with plastic-wrapped snack picks (sic), Thursday, 7 December 2017 09:27 (six years ago) link
appreciate the blandishments though
as far as accurately telling me that I've completely squandered my life and career potential counts as praise, that is
― shackling the masses with plastic-wrapped snack picks (sic), Thursday, 7 December 2017 09:30 (six years ago) link
So are you an Irish comedian or an Australian one?
― Action of Boyle Man Prompts Visitor to Stay (Tom D.), Thursday, 7 December 2017 09:49 (six years ago) link
come FP with me
― mark s, Thursday, 7 December 2017 12:52 (six years ago) link
how were all 200 new posts here not about Dan Nainan
― frogbs, Thursday, 7 December 2017 13:01 (six years ago) link
I don't know but I think I need more videos of stand-ups who take regular laugh breaks only to be met with stony silence and the occasional muffled cough.
― Ripped Taylor (Old Lunch), Thursday, 7 December 2017 13:20 (six years ago) link
if brit ilx turned off their TVs and got out more this could be all of them
― mark s, Thursday, 7 December 2017 13:21 (six years ago) link
Have all the greatest ilx humourists been british
― infinity (∞), Thursday, 7 December 2017 13:25 (six years ago) link
no
― sonnet by a wite kid, "On Æolian Grief" (wins), Thursday, 7 December 2017 13:26 (six years ago) link
our two most celebrated humourists are antipodean
― imago, Thursday, 7 December 2017 13:27 (six years ago) link
*counts to 'one' several times, looks confused*
― after "after cease to exist" (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 7 December 2017 13:29 (six years ago) link
the mighty esteban
― imago, Thursday, 7 December 2017 13:31 (six years ago) link
greatest lack-of-humourists is what's at issue here surely
― mark s, Thursday, 7 December 2017 13:31 (six years ago) link
best part of that Nainan video is the slideshow where he shows bizarre street signs and just asks, "what do you think happened there?", effectively asking the audience to think of a funny punchline. I bet Gregg Turkington is kicking himself for not thinking of that as a Neil Hamburger bit
― frogbs, Thursday, 7 December 2017 13:33 (six years ago) link
Did you count estela?
― Mark G, Thursday, 7 December 2017 13:45 (six years ago) link
nah the other one's brodie
― imago, Thursday, 7 December 2017 13:50 (six years ago) link
Brodie jeez that was a shit effort
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Thursday, 7 December 2017 14:00 (six years ago) link
"I still find it kind of hilarious that my local american public broadcasting station had some british comedy"
that stuff was NOT cheap. but it has always had hardcore fans in the US, in those days when it was much more difficult to ever see any british shows over here.
― akm, Thursday, 7 December 2017 14:25 (six years ago) link
was a little too abrasive in an attempt to be authentically australian
― mh, Thursday, 7 December 2017 15:54 (six years ago) link
imo if you love comedy then attend as many events as you feel enjoyable, I'm off my projecting this morning
― mh, Thursday, 7 December 2017 15:55 (six years ago) link
this is the liveliest discussion ilx has had in a while
― infinity (∞), Thursday, 7 December 2017 16:49 (six years ago) link
Ireland produces the most unfunny comedians per capita in the world, of course. Australia not far behind.
why Tom, I've never seen you at Cafe Lounge or Waywards or Camelot or the Union or Staves or Papa Gedes or the Factory or Fox or the Enmore or any of the other venues 5-60 minutes walk from my old house. surely you're not basing this assessment on seeing three terrible fuckwits do five minutes each on British TV shows, surely
xp Assumed for ten years and more on ilx that anything true in the US was somehow normal and thats just for starters
darragh otm, case in point:
fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal
uh
― shackling the masses with plastic-wrapped snack picks (sic), Wednesday, December 6, 2017 8:17 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ending myself at this post
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 7 December 2017 17:49 (six years ago) link
http://answers-in-reason.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/you-werent-there-man.jpg
I'd still ravish Andy Samberg for a night, but goddamn the 20 minutes of the Golden Globes I saw reignited my loathing for his tepid, inoffensive post-Fallon comedy. Fuck him and the culture that bred him.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 18:29 (five years ago) link
A funny criticism given the Black Panthers bit (the only one I saw)
― resident hack (Simon H.), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 18:51 (five years ago) link
all comedians are unfunny
― twitter is bad not good (||||||||), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 18:52 (five years ago) link
this desperate looking guy walked up to me when i was leaving a diner the other day and said 'hey buddy, can you help me out? i haven't had a bite in days'... so i jerked off on him
― (ADVANCE) (320k vbr) (--V2) (aps) (diVX) (2CD) OST - SB (2019) (esby), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 19:03 (five years ago) link
Ricky Gervais is to comedy what Imagine Dragons are to rock music
― frogbs, Wednesday, 9 January 2019 19:07 (five years ago) link
Shows up in car commercials?
― Evan, Wednesday, 9 January 2019 19:09 (five years ago) link
i did hear the Black Panthers bit, but he kinda botched the delivery imho
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 19:31 (five years ago) link
i can't name a good comedian working rn. please help
― rip van wanko, Wednesday, 9 January 2019 19:49 (five years ago) link
pewdiepie
― (ADVANCE) (320k vbr) (--V2) (aps) (diVX) (2CD) OST - SB (2019) (esby), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 19:51 (five years ago) link
Mullaney was pretty good up until that last special. Now? Idk
― resident hack (Simon H.), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 19:51 (five years ago) link
yeah I've turned on him completely
― rip van wanko, Wednesday, 9 January 2019 19:58 (five years ago) link
Ron Funches is pretty good
― frogbs, Wednesday, 9 January 2019 20:16 (five years ago) link
Judah Friedlander, Rory Scovel, Pete Holmes all had funny specials w in the last couple years
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 9 January 2019 20:19 (five years ago) link
xp - i like ron funches too! i also like stewart lee which prob makes british ilxors hate me but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
geez honestly i can probably think of more comedians i like, right? this isn't so much a "i hate comedians" as it is "my brains tired cant think of things right now"
― suggest boban (Will M.), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 20:19 (five years ago) link
I liked Emily Heller's album
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 20:24 (five years ago) link
xp. many british ilxors like stewart lee
most stand-up is bad. saw a recent mullaney special, if you are charitable you would say that it hits "mildly amusing" at best a few times.
saw a harry kondabolu one a while back: absolute garbage. like, this man is not a performer, how did he get past just doing open mics kind of bad.
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 20:27 (five years ago) link
Hannibal Buress is still good
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 20:30 (five years ago) link
I saw a Bo Burnham thing on netflix recently. I guess I can kind of see the appeal but it seemed way too youtube. And then I see that he was a youtube kid.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 9 January 2019 20:35 (five years ago) link
W. Kamau Bell's last special was one of the best I've seen in a really long time.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 20:35 (five years ago) link
you have to be really careful on YouTube, you click on one Bill Burr video and your entire recommendations get stuffed with Joe Rogan garbage
― frogbs, Wednesday, 9 January 2019 20:38 (five years ago) link
urrrrgh Bill Burr. ugh Bert Kreischer. blurgh Doug Stanhope. I liked them all to a degree at some point but they're embarrassing now
― rip van wanko, Wednesday, 9 January 2019 20:41 (five years ago) link
Oh yeah ^^^ I enjoyed that (w. Kamau Bell) and the Ali Wong ones. Mullaney specials are kind of catnip. His ~transatlantic delivery is so soothing.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 9 January 2019 20:41 (five years ago) link
his first 2 were great. the third was kinds eh.
― constitutional crises they fly at u face (will), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 20:46 (five years ago) link
kinda*
― constitutional crises they fly at u face (will), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 20:47 (five years ago) link
Oh yeah the Ali Wong ones are great
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 21:13 (five years ago) link