Someone bump another comedy thread so we don’t have to talk about goodhearted comedians who have done no sex crimes in this thread― faculty w1fe (silby), Wednesday, August 29, 2018 9:06 PM
― faculty w1fe (silby), Wednesday, August 29, 2018 9:06 PM
Done.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 30 August 2018 04:08 (five years ago) link
If you weren’t already listening to the podcast Put Your Hands Together, it’s not too late to start.
― faculty w1fe (silby), Thursday, 30 August 2018 04:10 (five years ago) link
It makes up most of my standup consumption these days, so many cool-seeming folks going on that show.
― faculty w1fe (silby), Thursday, 30 August 2018 04:12 (five years ago) link
i found the comics on netflix "comedy lineup" to be almost uniformly disappointing
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 30 August 2018 04:13 (five years ago) link
I saw Joe Mande perform tonight and he was very good. Even adjusting for the fact that (in my limited experience) stand-up comes across better live, I think his set tonight was funnier than his (also funny) Netflix special.
― JRN, Thursday, 30 August 2018 04:40 (five years ago) link
Been talked about in the Netflix thread, and barely qualifies as stand up comedy, but if you haven't seen Nanette you probably should
― Nhex, Thursday, 30 August 2018 05:07 (five years ago) link
Following stand-up in 2018 really requires one to sign up for Netflix, huh? I'm a holdout, and honestly, this is the only thing tempting me towards a subscription.
I did manage to see the new John Mulaney and Chris Rock specials--the former excellent, the latter solid. Interested in the Hannah Gadsby one that seemingly everyone is talking about (though I don't know anything about her).
― Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Thursday, 30 August 2018 05:24 (five years ago) link
What is it you need to know?
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 30 August 2018 07:51 (five years ago) link
On netflix, I liked Mulaney and then pretty much anyone not white.
― Yerac, Thursday, 30 August 2018 11:16 (five years ago) link
Interested in the Hannah Gadsby one that seemingly everyone is talking about (though I don't know anything about her).
Not a lot of people did. 'Nanette' is the rare thing in 2018 that truly broke a performer big virtually overnight.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 30 August 2018 12:25 (five years ago) link
lazy contention: the only good stand-ups are Stewart Lee, Maria Bamford and Neil Hamburger
please disprove this contention, bearing in mind that your disproofs have to be at least as good as the three named
― imago, Thursday, 30 August 2018 13:31 (five years ago) link
Found a lot of current favorites through the 2 Dope Queens podcast (Naomi Ekperigin and Aparna Nancherla are both just delightful). The HBO version is pretty good too.
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 30 August 2018 14:57 (five years ago) link
Moshe Kasher has become really great too (his Netflix special w/Natasha Leggero is good, wish their sets were longer though)
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 30 August 2018 14:59 (five years ago) link
Mulaney is at some sort of a peak right now, hope he can sustain. Like someone else mentioned on the other thread, I was really into, for a minute, Rory Gallagher, who felt truly subversive, but then I tried watching again and was already off his wavelength. (Wasn't he the love interest in some rom-com recently?) Lately I've been going back to Mitch Hedberg a lot. That guy was so good and so funny. I like like how he went from this cult guy to universally revered as a genius without the interim career reassessment/introduction to the mainstream bit. People just seemed to gradually get him, grassroots-like, and now he's shorthand.
Hannibal Buress is a really funny dude, I've seen him be hilarious. Was considering grabbing a ticket to an upcoming charity gig. Incredible that he almost single-handedly, and almost incidentally, revved the Bill Cosby stuff up from idle to active.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 30 August 2018 15:05 (five years ago) link
Rory Gallagher
Rory Scovel?
― guardians of the gums: i am tooth (voodoo chili), Thursday, 30 August 2018 15:19 (five years ago) link
Kyle Kinane is a personal favorite. His episode and Aparna's are the best of the recent batch of The Standups.
― guardians of the gums: i am tooth (voodoo chili), Thursday, 30 August 2018 15:20 (five years ago) link
Hannibal is the best, clearly
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 30 August 2018 15:28 (five years ago) link
Rory GallagherRory Scovel?
Ha! Yeah. See, I could be a standup, I am so funny.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 30 August 2018 15:40 (five years ago) link
I've seen Kinane be really funny, too, yeah.
kinane just has an amazing voice for comedy, somehow more seth rogen than seth rogen, and he's great at mining every angle of an absurd situation for laughs. his latest netflix stand-ups episode was more topical than his usual style (the first line was something like "ok, let's talk about mass shootings"), but i think it suits him well.
― guardians of the gums: i am tooth (voodoo chili), Thursday, 30 August 2018 17:10 (five years ago) link
oh yeah Mulaney was decent, very watchable. an exception
― imago, Thursday, 30 August 2018 22:04 (five years ago) link
re: Lee
I thought Content Provider was the weakest set he's done, as masterly as the opening Leave voters gag (and its reprise) is. I know it's his trademark now, and the repetitive nature of it is an acknowledged part of the joke, but the meta audience material has really run its course
― Number None, Friday, 31 August 2018 08:41 (five years ago) link
Yeah agreed. I saw it live and the Turkish psych music at the break was the highlight.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 31 August 2018 14:34 (five years ago) link
I wanna rep the virtually unknown Joe Zimmerman again. He's in my top 5. If you like kinda benign absurdist comedy plz check it outhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th63IZpujbc&list=PLD2jQHI6_1Wk2O3NG3kE_k6JfxoTY7DaA
― rip van wanko, Saturday, 1 September 2018 23:18 (five years ago) link
erghhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EmQqz0UVwkfrom the excellent album "smiling at wolves"
― rip van wanko, Saturday, 1 September 2018 23:23 (five years ago) link
Possibly offensive to some palates, but I thought Burt Kreischer's special was funny.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Sunday, 2 September 2018 01:03 (five years ago) link
is it good poly
netflix is so shit with stand up, the 15 min specials are cack - dude who is good these days
all fucking blaise
― dig me out requiem (Ross), Friday, 7 September 2018 16:14 (five years ago) link
Really because the preview made it look like the absolute most unappealing comedy special I've ever seen
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 7 September 2018 16:19 (five years ago) link
any natasha leggero fans
read an interview with her and she is funny as fuck, show on comedy central - stand up special-netflix as well
― ritual showdown (Ross), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 16:52 (five years ago) link
heard her first two albums, seen her a couple of times, and caught one of the last "warm-up" shows of onstage relationship advice that she and Moshe did before taping the same as part of their 3-episode Netflix special. It went way better than the taped version.
― Betting Eighty Hams (sic), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 17:25 (five years ago) link
her story on Maron of going to australia is fascinating
― self (alomar lines), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 17:33 (five years ago) link
hated the netflix special of hers that I watched 15 minutes of, flubbed deliveries etc.
if yr act doesn't make me laugh within the first few minutes then it's game over imo
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 26 September 2018 17:43 (five years ago) link
She is delightful (as is Moshe)
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 18:03 (five years ago) link
One time I saw Moshe at a comedy club and got sat at a table with some druuunk hicks, who were saying some foul anti-Semitic and homophobic shit. My great regret is that he didn't hear them.
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 18:04 (five years ago) link
generally like her in the stuff I've seen her in (Another Period, Let's Be Cops, that Netflix special) though none of her stuff has knocked it out of the park for me
― Nhex, Wednesday, 26 September 2018 18:26 (five years ago) link
^xp also saw Moshe last year at an all-Jewish variety show at Canter's Deli (with a giant buffet table piled w/ free nosh for audience)
onstage relationship advice ... went way better than the taped version.
btw for those who haven't seen it, they brought ppl out of the crowd to interrogate and solve issues for, it wasn't a rehearsed piece. watching the released version, I thought a Netflix version would have done better to make a series out of the best examples from the tour, rather than rely on one night's sample being the finale to a special.
― Betting Eighty Hams (sic), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 18:40 (five years ago) link
Is this where we talk about Brody Stevens, cause fuck that news hit me hard. His whole schtick was relentless positivity and for him to go out the way he did is tragic
― we're far from the challops now (voodoo chili), Sunday, 24 February 2019 01:05 (five years ago) link
obituary thread toobut Brody’s relentless positivity was always, always obviously self-medicating for mental health issues(and apparently his meds ran out after an insurance hiccup, 😔😣😖 America)
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Sunday, 24 February 2019 02:06 (five years ago) link
alwaysie no less tragic, just fractionally less surprising
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Sunday, 24 February 2019 02:08 (five years ago) link
Yeah, that was clear and was a major undercurrent of his HBO show. But it felt like he’d figured something out
― we're far from the challops now (voodoo chili), Sunday, 24 February 2019 14:51 (five years ago) link
Man, ppl really don't like landlords huh
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 22:17 (four years ago) link