I always thought of comedians as degenerates. Like you can't be a good comedian if you never had a serious drug problem before or never fucked a hooker in a bathroom.
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Then you have Bill Burr who walls up on stage to thundering applause and opens with "Settle down people! Let's See if Im good first."
And what's the deal with cab drivers? I'm thinkin' hey!
Airline food, don't get me started...
Jokes about airline food are so plane.
However, cab drivers always go an extra mile.
Fuck comedians like that. I did standup comedy for years. I wasn't a modern day philosopher, I was a guy that (hopefully) made you forget about the shitty week you were having for 5-15 minutes depending on the set (I was never a headliner).
I spent a lot of time crafting my jokes, I did a lot of rewriting and honing and testing of material. I wasn't a philosopher, I was a joke engineer. That's really the best way to look at most standup. It's joke engineering.
Got any good one liners from your old sets?
Sorry, not that I would want to write in text form. Part of the engineering process for me involves things like getting the inflection just right when I tell it. Also, I've forgotten 99% of it and I'd have to go dig up old notebooks in storage. I haven't been on stage and behind a mic in at least 15 years. Also, I did somewhat longer-form stuff than one-liners in general.
I had a good long bit about how dogs are better than kids because they're stupid so you can trick them more easily into doing things to amuse you, but it really is in the way you tell them.
That said, as someone who now has a kid and dogs, I stand by that statement. Fake throwing a ball and having the dog try to find it is one of the funniest things in the world to me.
Well, you could try it with your kids and see how it goes 😁
I already know what would happen. My daughter would ignore me and continue talking about obscure anime most Americans have never heard of or whatever. Teenagers could not give less of a fuck. I forgot about how that was.
Get her to help you make meme templates from that obscure anime, as a bonding exercise. ;)
And then there's Conan O'Brien, who's just generally hilarious.
His appearance on hot ones is one of the greats episodes they've had.
Yes, just complete insanity. I have never seen Sean Evans look so worried for a guest's wellbeing. And in the middle of his skit Conan still found time to compliment Sean's questions.
One of the greatest..
Every dumb hack comedian has mixed themselves up with Lenny Bruce.
Who...?
I only know Lenny Bruce from The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Was he a real figure?
All of these comedians who whine about not being able to say things, and being so brave to go ahead with their bigoted material, all just wish they were Lenny Bruce. Lenny was funny, said the truth, and while some stuff wouldn't fly today, he was very progressive for the 50's, and early 60s. He literally had police camp out his shows to arrest him as soon as he started saying something they didn't like. He was actually getting beat-up by police, expelled from countries, and making land mark civil rights law, because of his routines.
The show actually captured a fair amount of that. Interesting. Thanks!
Nice, haven't seen it myself, glad that came through.
It's a fantastic series. Only draw back is that it is on Amazon.
He was not afraid.
This was my issue with comedians in cars getting coffee. Felt like being talked down to by rich spoiled celebrities.
Really? I felt like a fly on the wall listening to pros talk shop. The things they had in common were fascinating - like being on the road in hotels and sneaking leftover food off room service carts in the hallway. Seinfeld said that was how he first got to try key lime pie.
Maybe they changed things up in later seasons? I don't recall the first season really getting into anything like that (and I think I only made it 1-2 seasons in).
I don't have a sense of when I noticed this about the show, probably right away. I'm always alert to that sort of thing, having done some performing myself (at a much lower level) and I relate to some of the experiences. Things they say hit home because they're so basic. Can't think of anything specific right now besides the key lime pie, but I haven't watched the show in probably a year. I got the same feeling once hearing Jimmy Stewart talk about his thought process while preparing for a role - it was stuff I had thought about myself as a beginner, and that felt really cool.
When it was more about the cars, I liked it. I’m never going to get to drive an old Porsche around, so it was interesting seeing someone who wasn’t an auto journalist talk about the car while they drove it.
Then it turned into two guys jacking each other off, and I lost interest.
I did like that show for background noise tho.
I miss George Carlin
Only thing I don't like about him is that he didn't vote and encouraged people not to vote.
The shitty ones like Joe Rogan say their philosophers. The good ones that should get that credit. Will be the first ones to tell you their not. It's always the rule if you have to tell someone you're deep you are probably not.
"They are"
FriendlyJorides is both an absolute wordsmith and a middle aged man who watches too much Simpsons at the same time
It’s entirely possible.
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