This is good English comedy.
[quote]Goodfellow wrote:
In other words - Boring fucker.[/quote]
Run along and buy a Michael McIntyre DVD, you juvenile, thick cunt. Wait, I think I hear someone arguing with X in another thread, you’d better get hurry over there and sort them out.
louis ck is the funniest person alive. i dont know how he keeps thinking of the funniest jokes year after year
[quote]RSGZ wrote:
This is good English comedy.[/quote]
Ricky is hilarious. His HBO special had me rolling for the whole hour.
Bill Burr is funny. This is home responding to getting heckled:
Some of the related videos are good to.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Fucka please. If you want to see real genius in comedy, watch Richard Pryor’s delivery, early Bill Cosby or Eddie Murphy in the 80’s. Real genius in comedy draws you in. You don’t have to go FIND it.[/quote]
It’s rather sad that you think that. If you apply this argument to any other art form, then essentially what you’re saying is that you can only enjoy what is immediate, obvious, and shallow. If you walk into an art gallery (assuming you ever felt the need to do that), would you expect the best painting to be the one that was painted in the brightest colours, or the biggest canvas?
I love standup, mine in no particular order
Louie CK
Jim Norton
Kevin Hart
Dov Davidoff
Bret Ernst
Russell Peters
Damon Wayans (great when he did stand up)
Aziz Ansari
Jo Koy
John Capurulo
Sinbad
Richard Jeni (RIP)
American stand-up is better than English stand-up, and this is coming from an English guy.
I like Stewart Lee, and I love that kind of dry humour a lot. However, stand-up comedy should be loud to the point of audacious and bawdy. Think Eddie Murphy, Pryor, Kinison, Andrew Dice Clay, etc. A lot those comedians use physical comedy, or have physical attributes, to get a roaring laugh, although they’re not known to be physcial comedians per se. None of which you see with Stewart Lee - although he’s funny in a dry ironic sense.
But there’s far more sophistication to be found in the likes of Pryor, Carlin, and to throw in a random name, even Jim Carrey, than Stewart Lee, Ross Noble, and others. Namely because they know that punchlines just won’t get that laugh alone, that you need to throw in body language to reel the audience in. As far as stand-up comedy is concerned, you need to get that howling primitive laugh from the audience to be great, to be funny.
It’s the reason why I can’t stand people who rag on physical comedy. Don’t they know human communication relies on 93% body language, while 7% of communication consists of words?
[quote]Goodfellow wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]Rational Gaze wrote:
Stewart Lee is a genius. [/quote]
Is he really?
I watched that for 3 whole minutes and didn’t even crack a smile once.
Either English humor is way different than American humor, or your taste is just bad.[/quote]
That guy is just a boring fucker.[/quote]
I didn’t finish it all, but I must say that the sound effects at 1:26 were great.
I agree with X in that some comedy is great that only makes you smile on the inside.
One of my all-time favorite Simpson’s moments is in the episode where Homer goes back to college and he asks one football player in a letterman jacket if he got a load of the nerd and the football player has a befuddled look and asks “Pardon me?” It’s very subtle and I love it as the finniest moment for that show but I don’t laugh out loud.
Wait, lemme find it on youtube:
I’m glad that my post hasn’t induced a derail here. I appreciate the thoughtful comments made, I should point out that I was being deliberately contentious. I do enjoy some American comedy: Doug Stanhope, Rich Hall, Reginald D Hunter, Paul Mooney and Dave Chappelle, for example.
[quote]MattyXL wrote:
Kevin Hart
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I watched Kevin Hart’s last stand-up special a few weeks ago and it was the funniest fucking thing I have seen in a LONG time. Dude is hilarious.
I saw Rich Hall on “Q.I” when I was in Glasgow back in July…does he live in the UK now?
[quote]Rational Gaze wrote:
blah blah blah Dave Chappelle[/quote]
Agree with you there.
[quote]Rational Gaze wrote:
I’m glad that my post hasn’t induced a derail here. I appreciate the thoughtful comments made, I should point out that I was being deliberately contentious. I do enjoy some American comedy: Doug Stanhope, Rich Hall, Reginald D Hunter, Paul Mooney and Dave Chappelle, for example. [/quote]
When You said Paul Mooney it hit me. I know he has written for Pryor and others. I also have read some of his stuff and on paper some of it is funny. But with Stand Up it must be a combination of Delivery, Observation and well Funny. Some people can and do say some damn witty things but if the delivery is off then ehh. And that is how I view Mooney ehh.
[quote]Nards wrote:
I saw Rich Hall on “Q.I” when I was in Glasgow back in July…does he live in the UK now?[/quote]
He lives in London. I think Reginald D Hunter does too.
Mr. Steve Martin.
[quote]jjackkrash wrote:
Mr. Steve Martin.[/quote]
Aw fuck man don’t do this.
[quote]four60 wrote:
When You said Paul Mooney it hit me. I know he has written for Pryor and others. I also have read some of his stuff and on paper some of it is funny. But with Stand Up it must be a combination of Delivery, Observation and well Funny. Some people can and do say some damn witty things but if the delivery is off then ehh. And that is how I view Mooney ehh.[/quote]
That’s how I view Emo Phillips. I can read his jokes and they will sound funny in my head, but I can’t stand watching him peform his work.
[quote]Nards wrote:
[quote]jjackkrash wrote:
Mr. Steve Martin.[/quote]
Aw fuck man don’t do this.
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He was a better version of Jim Carrey in his stand up days. He could make you laugh with a facial expression.
[quote]four60 wrote:
[quote]Rational Gaze wrote:
I’m glad that my post hasn’t induced a derail here. I appreciate the thoughtful comments made, I should point out that I was being deliberately contentious. I do enjoy some American comedy: Doug Stanhope, Rich Hall, Reginald D Hunter, Paul Mooney and Dave Chappelle, for example. [/quote]
When You said Paul Mooney it hit me. I know he has written for Pryor and others. I also have read some of his stuff and on paper some of it is funny. But with Stand Up it must be a combination of Delivery, Observation and well Funny. Some people can and do say some damn witty things but if the delivery is off then ehh. And that is how I view Mooney ehh.[/quote]
I don’t like Mooney either. Same tired shit from him all the time.