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do you dudes like Tosh.O? like talk soup for the youtube generation, dude!

i know, you nerdz are just waiting for the premiere of Michael & Michael.

i was thinking bob saget, but i guess talk soup works too.

he did a joke where he wore a bob saget mask and made "punny" jokes about footage of a kitten.

I am a nerd and I am psyched about Michael and Michael. Hoping for some involvement from David Wain.

where does one find a Bob Saget mask xpost?

xpost you missed it, it was called Stella

stella was pretty weak.

it would be scary if he came out in a bob saget mask and then he took it off and it was actually bob saget.

^haha

I loved stella the show though, hence wanting Wain to be a part of it.

do you think the Michaels and David privately talk shit about Thomas Lennon living in his LA mansion writing the script for Herbie Fully Loaded and doing fart and butt and Asian jokes on Reno 911?

Yeah, I'm sure the director of Role Models and the cornerstone of "I Love The 80s" resent their friend for going all Hollywood and lowbrow.

Reno 911 is generally funnier then "The Ten"

if writing 'herbie fully loaded' gets you a mansion then I'm sure they would trade places with him in a hot minute

wow, Lennon also wrote:

Taxi, Let's Go to Prison, Balls of Fury and the new Night at the Museum movie.

I'd say these guys are pretty inconsistent.

Stella was weak, but Stella Shorts was fantastic.

first michael & michael i saw was pretty good. workplace thing is sooooooooooooooooo, um, i don't know, just kinda tired of it. the "making of a show" thing, you know. but those dudes are just funny, so, whatever.

a) fuck tosh.o and any shows that add "content" to viral memes that already work in a self-contained environment

b) stella was amazing and what i've seen of this show is dawgshit

Wain was honestly the power-player in Stella.

You dirty dog, you just hypnotized me into taking my clothes off

Stella was awesome, but I saw it before the shorts, so...

Not familiar with Tash.O. What's a Tash.O.

am i the only person who actually laughs at jim gaffigan's stand-up? i probably am.

they had some young guy on last night who was actually pretty funny. can't remember his name. i forgot that comedy central can get away with lots of four letter words late at night.

My brother is a fan, to the point where every time he says something vaguely stand-uppy, I can assume it's a Gaffigan quote. (He's especially fond of the "Hot Pockets" bit.) Can't say I've seen much of his stuff though.

hahaha, i like the hot pockets bit!

I like mine boiling lava hot.

"My back hurts". hahahaha!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9c9lAfXQHs

"dead pockets"

hahaha, oh god, i can't help myself it cracks me up.

cooked in a dirty microwave

man, tosh.o

i have to watch this right now to check for any "stolen content"

terrible

am i the only person who actually laughs at jim gaffigan's stand-up? i probably am.

Saw this guy, basically new to me, at Eugene Mirman's comedy night in Prospect Park. Doesn't reinvent the wheel, but very funny. Esp bit on whales' body image ("I only eat plankton").

does anyone watch workaholics?
ive only watched 2 eps but im really surprised how much i like it

pretty good show imo

its so good
loser or at least quirky-type dudes w/ just energy & bravado is delightful

new patton / pft hours 2night

barely care abt oswalt anymore
tompkins is a++ tho

i thought only the pft was new?

oh i think ur right

Please stop having roasts, Comedy Central.

Anyone watching Nathan For You? I'm digging it. I liked the guy on Jon Benjamin Has A Van, too, which was overall a better show.

Definitely feels like a one-season series though, I can't see them renewing it.

Alright, how about Review? Anyone? The line "Forrest, someone sent you a scroll, a mask and a cockring" made my night tonight.

i only saw the first episode but i loved: "Cocaine. A MILLION STARS!"

i loved that cocaine bit: "OK hotshot, do you remember our son's name?"

This is really great so far

Seeing Andy Daly on stage tomorrow night. Should be great.

The turn in the Space review was so good

lol at the pancakes --> divorce --> eating even more pancakes sequence in the one episode. this reminds me of a less ott and much funnier version of porkin' across america

Pancakes/Divorce/Pancakes was one of the funniest things I've seen in ages, and every ep since has been at least good

I love that show. Daly's self-described Richie Cunningham-esque exterior has some really dark shit lurking underneath.

In other words, he's an Andy Daly character?

There are a couple people I can think of who could probably pull this off:

Aziz Ansari, whose routines basically just seem to be freestyle anyway. I know they aren't, but he seems to be able to talk for extended periods of time at the drop of a hat.

Patton Oswalt, whose routines are basically stories about his own life or opinions about pop culture, and always feature references about a) fast food b) comic books/etc. c) in recent years, his wife and kid and d) one obscure song to let you know how with it he is.

which of the current late night hosts started off doing standup?

Fallon did standup before SNL, but he wasn't a star or anything. Kimmel probably did too, but I barely know anything about that guy. Seth and Conan have always been writers afaik. WGAF about James Corden. Colbert was always a sketch player/writer.

which of the current late night hosts started off doing standup?

they all come from TV now. that era of late night hosts is over

jon oliver is getting close to it.

yeah, good point.

Jimmy Fallon did apparently. Here's a recap of his kind of LOL-worthy big break:

At the "notoriously difficult audition," he was told by multiple individuals that creator Lorne Michaels almost never emitted laughter during auditions. Although he initially feared the comic before him, armed with an arsenal of props, would outshine him, Fallon went onstage and did well. He showcased his impressions with a celebrity walk-a-thon, including impressions of Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock, Bill Cosby, and Adam Sandler, an SNL alumnus who had recently left the show. The latter received laughter from the room, including Michaels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Fallon#Comedy_beginnings

So his big talents were being able to impersonate an idiot and doing what Weird Al does but without any jokes.

i've seen Fallon's audition on youtube, he does 8 impressions in a row that are all either SNL cast members or stars of NBC shows, he was really born to be the network's favorite company man

LOL

Todd Barry could probably manage 30 minutes of solid material a week. He did an entire tour that was nothing but crowdwork.

During their time at SNL, Fallon and fellow cast member Horatio Sanz often partied. These experiences were an extension of their desires to emulate the SNL stars before them, including John Belushi, Adam Sandler, and Chris Farley. Sanz has described he and Fallon as "super-functioning alcoholics," often spotted at Siberia, an underground dive bar in the 50th Street subway station, or Niagara in the East Village. For example, on one occasion, they spent a Friday night watching the Strokes perform a midnight show, staying up until the early morning drinking, despite having to do SNL that night.

Dang, that is crazy! Staying up until the early morning when you have to be at work for dress rehearsal at 8pm! Party animals.

my ideal Hannibal show would probably just be him talking shit with Eric Andre as sidekick, no guests or sketches, lots of negative space.

They do have a really good chemistry together, his deadpan delivery is perfect when put next to Andre's manic insanity.

which of the current late night hosts started off doing standup?

Fallon did standup before SNL, but he wasn't a star or anything. Kimmel probably did too, but I barely know anything about that guy. Seth and Conan have always been writers afaik. WGAF about James Corden. Colbert was always a sketch player/writer.

― Johnny Fever, Friday, July 10, 2015 9:46 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

which of the current late night hosts started off doing standup?

they all come from TV now. that era of late night hosts is over

― Οὖτις, Friday, July 10, 2015 9:48 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

or ongoing per JF's post

"started off" tho

none of those guys did time in comedy clubs

tbf, late night hosts with a background in standup was more a diversion than anything. Steve Allen, Jack Paar and Johnny Carson weren't standups. They all either came from radio, tv or Vaudeville.

that's true - Leno or Letterman or Joan Rivers or Shandling etc running late night shows was it's own era, one that's over now

I'm not sure it means much either way. Does it?

Hannibal would make a great travel show host. Like, every episode could start with some standup, then he leaves the club and you realize, hey, he's in Philly! Then he can go places, riff, meet people, go on adventures, etc. And then they edit it down to 22 minutes or whatever.

Like this BS:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MZl-_46LJo

Hannibal would make a great travel show host. Like, every episode could start with some standup, then he leaves the club and you realize, hey, he's in Philly! Then he can go places, riff, meet people, go on adventures, etc. And then they edit it down to 22 minutes or whatever.

What you just described is Insomniac with Dave Attell.

(which was a very good show and I'd be totally down with it being revived for a newer comedian)

yes, yes and yes

Totes, especially since Hannibal is so different from Attell.

Hannibal's show is just the worst way to showcase his talents
on the plus side, his dj is flying lotus and he had open mike eagle and thundercat on last night so that's something

I've been afraid to watch anything beyond the first episode

when is Nathan For You coming back???

xp it's not getting better unfortunately
nathan for you is back in september

I haven't caught up with the Nightly Show either lately, but that one seemed more promising than Why? despite it's similar sorta newbie structural issues

Nathan For You back on October 15th

your pretty little face is back and is pretty much exactly the same show
review will be back shortly.

Anyone watching The Idiotsitter? I'm enjoying it. Jillian Bell is always worth watching.

Bell was so great in 22 Jump Street that i was looking forward to Idiotsitter but i'm a little let down so far, feels like a rehash of everything about Workaholics that i got tired of 3 seasons ago.

insomniac was awesome and genuinely surprising as the night went on and attell kept meeting stranger, drunker and more desperate characters

Gave Big Time in Hollywood, FL and made it maybe three episodes. So obnoxious, not funny enough to justify it.

still no renewal for Review :(

What? I thought that was a done deal, a renewal?

I give that news one star

Man, I hope it comes back. Show is perfect/horrible/can't avert my eyes.

Man, @Midnight has suuuucked for a while now. Hardwick is insufferable and needs to fill up every pause with either hacky shit (dude cannot stop talking about dicks) or jokes that one of the panelists were probably going to make, and the guests have been shit too. Feels like most of the comedians in LA are boycotting it or something.

Jeff And Some Aliens?! A show about a regular dude who lives with some aliens who are, get this, just regular dudes too.

I think aliens/zombies/monsters/whatever-are-just-normal-dudes is a premise that can be retired.

hey, 3rd Rock From the Sun was funny (20 years ago)

People of Earth is doing good things with a kinda-similar premise.

I watched the first episode of PoE and... it's okay. I wanted to like it more. I like Wyatt Cenac and a lot of the cast, though, so I'll probably watch the whole season.

Man, This Is Not Happening. Ari Shaffir. Absolutely dire shit.

V little exposure to the dude but I just remember my one listen to an ep of Ari's podcast was dire enough I never wanted to pay attention to anything else he did

Ari blows

This Is Not Happening is a great premise and a good show. Shaffir, for someone as dumb as he is, is open to learning and is an excellent stand-up. He's like the anti-Rogan.

It's a good premise, I'd probably like it if they had a better host and guests. I guess I'm glad he's "open to learning" but he's just not funny to me, has that kind of bro-ish vibe that I'm not into at all.

I thought this was funny:

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

Well, sure. Actually funny dudes are funny on that show.