show filmed is probably from a later part of the tour then
― akm, Friday, 12 July 2019 19:21 (four years ago) link
Comedians usually film specials once the material is developed, not often while they are still writing it. If the NYT critic didn’t go to, say, three shows at different stages of the tour, it’s idiotic to assume they know what they’re talking about if they claim to have knowledge of “the tour.”
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Friday, 12 July 2019 19:49 (four years ago) link
ok so we've established that at some point earlier in the tour he did not include that particular section. got it. can we move on lol
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Friday, 12 July 2019 19:53 (four years ago) link
the special was filmed at the BAM this year in May.
― Yerac, Friday, 12 July 2019 19:55 (four years ago) link
I can share my password to google.
― Yerac, Friday, 12 July 2019 19:56 (four years ago) link
tour started in February 2019
― Οὖτις, Friday, 12 July 2019 20:02 (four years ago) link
The part about the alternate universe where Osama Bin Laden made an incredible jazz album pre 9/11 was great.
― MaresNest, Friday, 12 July 2019 20:02 (four years ago) link
this is from 2/12/19 - NYT:
Aziz Ansari has spent much of his recent stand-up comedy tour only peripherally referencing the accusation of sexual misconduct early last year that took him out of the public eye.
That changed on Monday night, when he took the stage in New York City at the Village Underground, an offshoot of the Comedy Cellar. It was one of a string of small “pop-up shows” where Ansari has been testing out material for an upcoming tour that will take him around the United States and Europe this spring.
According to Vulture’s Jesse David Fox, who was in the audience for the set, Ansari said he had delayed discussing the accusation because “it’s a terrifying thing to talk about” and he wanted to take time to process what he wanted to say. He added, according to Fox: “There were times I felt really upset and humiliated and embarrassed, and ultimately I just felt terrible this person felt this way.”
Ansari continued: “But you know, after a year, how I feel about it is, I hope it was a step forward. It made me think about a lot, and I hope I’ve become a better person.”
― Οὖτις, Friday, 12 July 2019 20:03 (four years ago) link
so Jason Zinoman's review today was not inaccurate
idgaf cuz i saw AA's shit early on and it wasnt funny (like 99.5% of standups)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 12 July 2019 20:05 (four years ago) link
NYT's most recent review subhead: When our critic saw his show in December, the comic didn’t bring up the scandal. In his Netflix special, he rectifies that mistake with his finest work yet.
― Οὖτις, Friday, 12 July 2019 20:05 (four years ago) link
basically the NYT is trying to make it look like he didn't address it fast enough...? I guess?
― Οὖτις, Friday, 12 July 2019 20:06 (four years ago) link
(like 99.5% of standups)
generous of you to set aside 0.5% for yourself
― Οὖτις, Friday, 12 July 2019 20:07 (four years ago) link
I laughed out loud at it but that asking your mom if she fucked a black guy joke...that joke likely will expire very soon.
― Yerac, Friday, 12 July 2019 20:14 (four years ago) link
(I absolutely was not a funny standup, except for fleeting moments)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 12 July 2019 20:17 (four years ago) link
what was your best joke/bit?
― Yerac, Friday, 12 July 2019 20:20 (four years ago) link
i've had it erased from my mind Eternal Sunshine-style
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 12 July 2019 21:05 (four years ago) link
Wait, Morbs had a spell as a stand-up comedian?
― thewufs, Friday, 12 July 2019 21:34 (four years ago) link
approx '88-91. I passed the audition and performed for awhile at the Original Improv, whose owner was in the process of running into the ground.
Brett Butler, later of the sitcom "Grace Under Fire" and one of the very best comics I ever saw, was very nice to me.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 12 July 2019 21:37 (four years ago) link
*running the club into the ground
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 12 July 2019 21:38 (four years ago) link
can we have a morbz late-80s NYC standup scene reminiscence thread
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 13 July 2019 20:59 (four years ago) link
also remember Louis had just premiered a new feature film at the time he finally got briefly shamed off the stage, about how hot teenage girls want to fuck old bald auteurs and we shouldn't suppress that healthy growth and curiosity by spreading bad gossip about the old bald auteurs being creeps, but it's much better if the old bald auteurs want to fuck women half their age instead of 1/3
thought the "1/3" was a twitter thread parody joke at first
― Screamin' Jay Gould (The Yellow Kid), Saturday, 13 July 2019 21:36 (four years ago) link
In an alternate world, Morbs took over as season 3 host of Remote Control.
― ... (Eazy), Saturday, 13 July 2019 22:21 (four years ago) link
new aziz special is transformative pic.twitter.com/nfOOa1fLKF— melissa lozada-oliva (@ellomelissa) July 12, 2019
― Jeff Bathos (symsymsym), Saturday, 13 July 2019 22:25 (four years ago) link
some of the most interesting threads are the ones you stumble upon
― Dan S, Saturday, 13 July 2019 22:26 (four years ago) link
lol at that twitter vid. tried the new special (as much for spike as anything) and made it in ten minutes or so. he is not good.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 14 July 2019 15:27 (four years ago) link
yeah, finding the praise here fairly baffling
― Number None, Sunday, 14 July 2019 19:56 (four years ago) link
think I made it 15
― Number None, Sunday, 14 July 2019 19:57 (four years ago) link
I made it all the way through halfway paying attention... the last bit (dying grandma is so thankful, as we should all be blah blah blah) was enraging.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Sunday, 14 July 2019 20:00 (four years ago) link
Enraging? Ok
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 14 July 2019 20:18 (four years ago) link
Facebook motivational memes are not good comedy.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Sunday, 14 July 2019 20:22 (four years ago) link
I wouldnt know
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 14 July 2019 20:23 (four years ago) link
all of the sentimental family stuff just came off as a hedge against the other stuff he doesn't want to really talk about.
― Yerac, Sunday, 14 July 2019 20:24 (four years ago) link
Finding these reactions bizarre (esp the rage) but whatever. Cant argue ppl into finding things funny or moving
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 14 July 2019 20:26 (four years ago) link
yeah, I did definitely say aloud "oh, 60 more times of seeing my parents is waaaaaay too much."
― Yerac, Sunday, 14 July 2019 20:28 (four years ago) link
Lol
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 14 July 2019 20:30 (four years ago) link
I don’t think you paid attention to the grandma part of that was your takeaway
― akm, Monday, 15 July 2019 01:14 (four years ago) link
My actual takeaway (and the part that was annoying) was that it was a shield to cover his primary sentiment of "I'm so thankful my cancellation for being a creep was only temporary."
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Monday, 15 July 2019 01:16 (four years ago) link
Should he not be thankful about that?
Full disclosure - i found the “accusations” against him p weak sauce, publicized by a questionable outlet
― Οὖτις, Monday, 15 July 2019 01:21 (four years ago) link
Essentially if u think he shouldnt be onstage at all because of his “crimes” then i would think there’s nothing he could say onstage that will alter that
― Οὖτις, Monday, 15 July 2019 01:23 (four years ago) link
looooool
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Monday, 15 July 2019 01:26 (four years ago) link
I don't particularly care about him being onstage - cool scare quotes around crimes though.
All the #blessed shit just felt like the worst of self-serving Louis CK "comedy but real talk" as discussed earlier in the thread. Preachy comedy sucks.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Monday, 15 July 2019 02:07 (four years ago) link
He was not charged w a crime, thats why the scarequotes
― Οὖτις, Monday, 15 July 2019 02:34 (four years ago) link
There shouldn't even be scare quotes around "crimes" because his actions weren't criminal. His behaviour wasn't even tortious. I am surprised that this is even still an issue, I thought that consensus was clearly on Aziz's side? Juliana Escabedo Shepherd wrote that Jezebel piece? I myself went so far as to agree with Caitlin Flanagan's take (i.e. that it was actually racist?) https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/01/the-humiliation-of-aziz-ansari/550541/
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 15 July 2019 02:43 (four years ago) link
Exactly
― Οὖτις, Monday, 15 July 2019 02:43 (four years ago) link
Literally no one had referred to him as doing anything remotely heinous or criminal - which is why bringing them up in scare quotes as if someone had was weird.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Monday, 15 July 2019 02:48 (four years ago) link
“being a creep”
― Οὖτις, Monday, 15 July 2019 02:53 (four years ago) link
should've named the special "Aziz Ansari: Too Horny for TV"
― frogbs, Monday, 15 July 2019 02:54 (four years ago) link
i don't doubt that he was being a creep in ways that are basically at the micro aggression level and ones that women are probably sick of dealing with, but i think if this piece was less a piece which seemed centered on him being a creepy celeb that needed to be called out but rather a story about a date with someone unnamed (maybe going as far as an "unnamed celebrity") and what a woman might deal with on a date with men, things that the guy might think are cool but women are kind of bothered and pressured by, it might be better. i say this though based on my memory of the piece from just a single read and i'm not a woman let alone this particular woman so idk...
― omar little, Monday, 15 July 2019 03:18 (four years ago) link
master of shit
― buzza, Monday, 15 July 2019 03:45 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQqh6yZaRNI
― piscesx, Thursday, 29 April 2021 20:29 (two years ago) link