it sucks, not just because the show was so great but also because it ran so counter to everything Adult Swim usually did, which I think actually made it a really cool fit for them
― frogbs, Friday, 8 July 2022 17:29 (one year ago) link
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-farewell-screening-with-joe-pera-and-friends-two-day-pass-tickets-383000363397
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 1 September 2022 17:36 (one year ago) link
Still pissed there’s apparently no place for a show like this on the zillion streaming services and channels.
― Chris L, Thursday, 1 September 2022 18:00 (one year ago) link
2 day pass sold out instantly but i am gonna go to s2 and s3
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 1 September 2022 19:08 (one year ago) link
So that new Jeffrey Dahmer series on Netflix. It’s a little uncanny.There’s no regional connection between the two as far as I know and I’ve never seen interview footage of Dahmer, but it’s like they found a guy who looks like Joe Pera and told him to “do Joe Pera”. Or Pera’s thing was quietly “do Jeffrey Dahmer” the whole time.
― circa1916, Saturday, 24 September 2022 17:10 (one year ago) link
https://www.gawker.com/culture/joe-pera-dahmer-netflix-evan-peters
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 27 September 2022 04:50 (one year ago) link
If Netflix reads this — they don’t have to do another serial killer show. I have another idea. You know the women who used to appear in the Big Buck Hunter game? They’re all older now, and I’ve reached out to them, and I’ve got them signed on to do a film interpretation of Hamlet. If Netflix reads this, I hope they know that we could do it at a fraction of the price of Dahmer.
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 27 September 2022 04:54 (one year ago) link
I'm here for whatever this guy's next move is
― Bait Kush (Eric H.), Tuesday, 27 September 2022 13:04 (one year ago) link
recently I had an old friend - someone I've known since middle school - stay over at my house while in the middle of a 12-day hike from Madison to Sturgeon Bay. I put this show on and he absolutely loved it. He won't stop texting me about it. such a shame nobody has picked it up. I mean how much could it possibly cost to make this show?
― frogbs, Tuesday, 27 September 2022 13:55 (one year ago) link
dude knows his Dragonball Z!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJIDjehZm40
― frogbs, Thursday, 6 October 2022 17:08 (one year ago) link
http://www.keweenawreport.com/featured/adult-swim-show-runner-donates-11000-to-clk-schools-music-program/
Good guy Joe Pera, helping out UP music students. Maybe he is more than a larper Yooper after all :)
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Monday, 10 October 2022 14:06 (one year ago) link
What a strange headline, "Adult Swim Show-Runner", not like "Adult Swim Star" or "Joe Pera" or whatever.
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Monday, 10 October 2022 16:29 (one year ago) link
yeah that article is wrong on a number of levels: those weren't "stand-up shows," that was the two day screening of every episode of the show at Bell House. He had the UP teacher onstage with him at the start of S3, seemed like a nice guy.
That was a great experience btw, lots of shop talk and fun being in a crowd of Pera obsessives who clapped at every title card.
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Monday, 10 October 2022 16:54 (one year ago) link
that blog sucks for sure, I am guessing the more legit UP newspapers and TV haven't published the story as fast
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Monday, 10 October 2022 17:34 (one year ago) link
Saw him this past Friday. The music playing over the PA as people were getting seated included the MC5 and the New York Dolls. There were two openers, one of whom was Ryan Dunn who did the music for the show. He was really fun and engaging. The next opener was comedian, and longtime Pera collaborator, Dan Licata (he played the DJ in the "Baba O'Riley" episode) who was decidedly hacky and mediocre. Joe came on, and his entrance music was the Jam's "In The City," which was a pleasant surprise. Joe did a LOT of interacting with the audience, and it wasn't the usual crowd work type of stuff, either. He would ask the audience a question, and then asked people to respond "one at a time" -- which they did. Then he asked us to vote on, for instance, if a squirrel could carry an entire pita chip by itself. The ending of the show was like a slowly deflating balloon, though. I saw Tig Notaro do something similar, where there's a bit sort-of being worked up to, and the performer just kind of riffs hoping they'll hit upon something funny enough to end on. I dunno, maybe Joe was working out half-written material or something -- he brought Ryan and Dan (who was funnier in this bit than in his opening set) back out for the last 10 minutes or so. But overall, a solid and hilarious show. I had never heard Joe swear or talk about sex, so that was weirdly jarring.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 10 October 2022 17:47 (one year ago) link
lots of other fun merch here but:https://shop.merchcentral.com/collections/joe-pera/products/joe-pera-new-looks-for-the-modern-man-poster
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 02:13 (one year ago) link
It does kill me how you can tell which of his jokes are his favorites.
― pplains, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 15:35 (one year ago) link
need to start an accidentally joe pera thread
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd74F_NrsCQ
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Thursday, 8 December 2022 06:09 (one year ago) link
I appreciate his enthusiasm. Learning about the ways the gases can be channelled through the house was educational for me.
I don't want to ruin the mood, but I do have an important point to make. The tile work there is less than aesthetically pleasing.
Perhaps Eric could make another video explaining the reasons why the tile was set like that. There may be a very good engineering or architectural reason, and – though my wife hates to hear it – that's sometimes more important than how something looks.
― pplains, Thursday, 8 December 2022 15:22 (one year ago) link
live shows in london/uk next april
― devvvine, Wednesday, 14 December 2022 16:22 (one year ago) link
https://buffalonews.com/entertainment/josephine-pera-93-unlikely-star-of-grandsons-comedy-videos/article_c042b80a-8f49-552f-b919-649b3a457d54.html
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 24 December 2022 22:03 (one year ago) link
Finally doing a Sleep Podcast. First ep out Sunday: pic.twitter.com/GtSRyToYKE— Joe Pera (@JosephPera) February 1, 2023
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 2 February 2023 21:40 (one year ago) link
lol perfect opening line
― four square ups... no punches thrown (Spottie), Thursday, 2 February 2023 21:44 (one year ago) link
about 50% of the time my girl gets home, i shuffle over slackshouldered and say "Hullo"
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 2 February 2023 21:46 (one year ago) link
lol
― four square ups... no punches thrown (Spottie), Thursday, 2 February 2023 21:49 (one year ago) link
I hadn't realised he's coming to the UK in a few months! The Glasgow evening show is sold out already, but there's a Sunday afternoon matinee, which maybe feels even more appropriate.
― brain (krakow), Saturday, 11 February 2023 14:41 (one year ago) link
I see devvvine mentioned it just a few posts ago in December actually, but I totally missed it.
― brain (krakow), Saturday, 11 February 2023 14:42 (one year ago) link
Yay!
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Saturday, 11 February 2023 17:39 (one year ago) link
in a very random twist of fate i ended up showing him around my workplace while he was in the uk. was extremely lovely!
― devvvine, Thursday, 6 July 2023 19:51 (nine months ago) link
The deep regret where you discover that a favourite/loved band just played nearby without you knowing? Crushing case of this when I saw too late that Joe Pera came to the UK. Managed to get a lovely embroidered t-shirt though.
― ionjusit (P. Flick), Thursday, 6 July 2023 21:52 (nine months ago) link
He even went on NTS
― ionjusit (P. Flick), Thursday, 6 July 2023 21:53 (nine months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pZ449A--kA
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 22 September 2023 22:23 (seven months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_97zE4GRZk
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 7 October 2023 03:13 (six months ago) link
incredible drip
― frogbs, Saturday, 7 October 2023 04:01 (six months ago) link
This is a seven minute routine about a squirrel and a pita chip lmao I’m dying here
― frogbs, Saturday, 7 October 2023 04:48 (six months ago) link
The dating column was great to losing virginity section was awesome. Early section? Ehhhh he brings the audience in on the joke of the bit rather then leaning hard on it, though that lean is definitely essential to allow those moments to shine
― H.P, Saturday, 7 October 2023 14:21 (six months ago) link
Has his posture gotten more extreme lately? It's ironically not very relaxing and even menacing -- after 5 minutes, I had to switch to Pera's old "zero fucks" character video to calm down!
― Philip Nunez, Saturday, 7 October 2023 14:54 (six months ago) link
Surely he’s got something propping up his shirt from the back, otherwise the man needs to calm down for his health!
― H.P, Sunday, 8 October 2023 07:44 (six months ago) link
well how much calmer can this man get? can't imagine another comedian able to close on "if you haven't fallen asleep yet, I wish you good night"
anyway, I loved the whole thing, maybe some parts were awkward or didn't quite work but I also think he's doing something on stage which hasn't really been done before. btw he does break character around 47:50 :)
who was the guy at the top of the balcony they kept cutting to? was that his dad?
― frogbs, Monday, 9 October 2023 14:30 (six months ago) link
Pretty sure that was the doorman who bonked everyone on the head on the way in. And yeah, he totally broke when talking about his female fans freezing their partners to death. Adorable.
Loved this. A little shocking when he went blue for a few minutes there but the impact of the bit was earned by the years of well-maintained sedation.
― Prop Dramedy (Old Lunch), Monday, 9 October 2023 14:36 (six months ago) link
When I saw him live on this tour in DC he ended up talking to a woman in the crowd who worked in the White House and he made several asides about he was now worried about being targeted by Joe Biden.
― Chris L, Monday, 9 October 2023 14:57 (six months ago) link
I'll also point out that he put the special on YouTube ad-free, which is a really nice thing for him to do especially since it's getting a good amount of views!
― frogbs, Monday, 9 October 2023 17:01 (six months ago) link
i saw him in madison on the tour that turned into this special, looking forward to watching
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 9 October 2023 17:35 (six months ago) link
they threw tomato seed packs into the crowd at the end lol
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 9 October 2023 17:36 (six months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZMyFjEWOSs
in case you thought he made it up
― frogbs, Tuesday, 10 October 2023 13:58 (six months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvTPQULS3J8
― frogbs, Wednesday, 1 November 2023 01:16 (five months ago) link