Stand-up Comedian Lolcows

[RoonMoonlight]

Who's that skinny blackhaired woke lefty faggot who does standup and YouTube videos where he pretends to be the government and personifications of different states in the US? That dude's a lolcow for sure.

Oh and the ginger guy, I forget his name. Dudes also a woke lefty.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

Oh and Matt Rife's surgeon was dragging him. Thats how disliked he is

 

[Get the rope Macaulay!]

, but if you show the blue hairs his specials they’d be after him with burning torches.

WHAT THE FUCK WOULD THEY BE OFFENDED BY?

Just admit you agree with his stance on trannies and TERFS and Kiwifarms

 

[DDR Yoga]

Perhaps a controversial opinion but I think stand-up is the worst vehicle possible for comedy. Lots of stuff can give me a belly laugh but stand-up comedy rarely even makes me smile.

The only stand-up I enjoy is one-liners and wordplay and even that doesn't make me laugh. I just appreciate the art of linguistic misdirection.

 

[FedPostalService]

Perhaps a controversial opinion but I think stand-up is the worst vehicle possible for comedy. Lots of stuff can give me a belly laugh but stand-up comedy rarely even makes me smile.

The only stand-up I enjoy is one-liners and wordplay and even that doesn't make me laugh. I just appreciate the art of linguistic misdirection.

It could just be that stand up has crawled up its own arse and thinks of itself as a valued and important art form and has forgotten its roots in the musical hall and its whole point was to make poor people laugh.

There are a small number of truly intelligent and important artist, but when they’re all walking around thinking that they are philosopher-kings who are truly intellectually superior to the “civilians” in the audience then we have an entertainment form in decline.

Burt Kreischer thinks he’s better than you and that explains everything.

 

[Evil Sean Connery]

It could just be that stand up has crawled up its own arse and thinks of itself as a valued and important art form and has forgotten its roots in the musical hall and its whole point was to make poor people laugh.

There are a small number of truly intelligent and important artist, but when they’re all walking around thinking that they are philosopher-kings who are truly intellectually superior to the “civilians” in the audience then we have an entertainment form in decline.

It's not easy spending hours and hours perfecting the wording and pacing and delivery of some silly shit to elicit the same reaction from a captive crowd of people as a video of a cat hiccuping and farting. It's easier to just be gay. But some people can't accept that, so they become big fat faggot comedy snobs and/or shitty yet also snobby standups, or worse, they end up in this thread. And they just keep trying because if they crack it they get the entire fuckin world, man. I mean I can only think of two people who ever lived who I don't personally know AND refer to on a first-name basis: Jesus and Norm.

 

[Tootsie Bear]

Perhaps a controversial opinion but I think stand-up is the worst vehicle possible for comedy. Lots of stuff can give me a belly laugh but stand-up comedy rarely even makes me smile.

The only stand-up I enjoy is one-liners and wordplay and even that doesn't make me laugh. I just appreciate the art of linguistic misdirection.

We're in the same boat. I watched a lot of BET in the 2000's and stand-up was very common on that channel. Some comedians were good but others were carbon copies of each other. After awhile I didn't understand why people love someone like Dave Chappelle but dislike Carlos Mencia.

It wasn't until years later I heard people praising stand-up as some art form or SNL as the pinnacle of comedy. No thanks, I like the classic SNL but even then when comedy is forced it loses the purpose of why someone like myself would watch it in the first place, to unwind and laugh.

 

[Get the rope Macaulay!]

but I think stand-up is the worst vehicle possible for comedy.

stand-up was just analog tiktok especially way back in the day. you literally would see "characters" and they'd announce them like "don't you hate working retail and a customer's like:" or "here's how i be when i tell my boss some bullshit" or "if i were in the holocaust i'd be all like" the problem with stand up is its too outdated and the rhythm means a lot of set up and ranting to get to a punchline, takes them minutes to say something you could do in 6 seconds. If you want to see some fool with an arrow through their head, you don't watch some stand up. you watch tiktok and see some disney employee act like a real wild and crazy guy.

Like most of us have been corrupted by this weird little app that is 15 seconds long and gives you the premise, and punchline in that entire amount of time, at most maybe 60 seconds. Stand up was pretty much replaced by the internet, where people could just tweet out their shitty jokes or make a youtube video. Its also why if you notice stand up comedians getting huge quickly stopped being a thing and it was more comedians (who happened to do stand up) but were more famous for their social media. Dane Cook is famous for being an early example of this, but most of Joe Rogan's circle is literally that. Same with most of the ones from radio shows like O&A, look up how people talk about comedy great Patrice O'neal, 99% of the time its what he did off stage.

Its also why stand up you see now, is either playing to the app with bullshit crowd work (here's a hint, its all staged. they come up with the lines and just point at random people usually) or very short clips from their actually shows. Its also pathetically deified, especially when tiktok proves most people can as a hobby create something entertaining for a minute very easily the fact that you were considered incredibly fast stand up performer to knock out an hour in two years.

Stand up has just been up its ass the past decade or two and its dying because what you might have only been able to see in a club 20 years ago you can see at any time from a device in your pocket. Tiktok has really sped up our entertainment standards, all of us have laughed more from a clip under a minute long than from stand up.

Stand up is going the way of the band. You used to have multiple people in a band and they'd all be known and famous and youd need all of them to make a good album. But most music on the top 40 is just a singer. all the backing music is done by session musicans and created by a team of writers. Getting famous for your guitar playing is as absurd to most people under 40 as getting famous for being an excellent tap dancer. You used to have well known trumpet players and sax players and now standing on a stage being funny will be as niche of a career path as that/

Hell look at the people we've been whining about. Rife is more well known for Wild'n'out or his social media vs any stand up he may have done. Its like manual transmissions a lot of work for barely more of an output vs a comedian doing their jokes exclusively on the internet. Why the fuck do you need people that have 2 beers in them to be a laugh track for your shitty jokes anyways. its sort of off putting how we all just allowed that for so long.

 

[DDR Yoga]

@Get the rope Macaulay!

Old stand-up comedy, at least in Britain, was pretty rapid fire. The old entertainers were all gag men. The story telling and 'have you noticed' stuff came much later, probably in the 80s. I've never liked listening to people take 5 minutes to get to a punchline.

I did a bit stand-up myself a few years ago and I made it my art to get to the punchline in as few words as possible. I was usually the most well-received performer on any given night, if for no other reason than very few people do rapid fire gags in comedy clubs. It was always a welcome change of pace for the audience. Ultimately though, once you exceed 10 minutes, one-liners tend to get a bit tedious. Stand-up wasn't meant for 90 minute specials; it was meant for filling in 3 minutes at a time between acts at the variety show.

And one final thought. In the English speaking world, one-liner comedy (actual jokes) is almost exclusively a White/Jew man's game. In my opinion, it's a much more difficult craft than observational, angry-at-the-world or woman-talks-about-dating comedy.

I mean, observational comedy... what's all that about?

 

[FedPostalService]

@Get the rope Macaulay!

Old stand-up comedy, at least in Britain, was pretty rapid fire. The old entertainers were all gag men. The story telling and 'have you noticed' stuff came much later, probably in the 80s. I've never liked listening to people take 5 minutes to get to a punchline.

I did a bit stand-up myself a few years ago and I made it my art to get to the punchline in as few words as possible. I was usually the most well-received performer on any given night, if for no other reason than very few people do rapid fire gags in comedy clubs. It was always a welcome change of pace for the audience. Ultimately though, once you exceed 10 minutes, one-liners tend to get a bit tedious. Stand-up wasn't meant for 90 minute specials; it was meant for filling in 3 minutes at a time between acts at the variety show.

And one final thought. In the English speaking world, one-liner comedy (actual jokes) is almost exclusively a White/Jew man's game. In my opinion, it's a much more difficult craft than observational, angry-at-the-world or woman-talks-about-dating comedy.

I mean, observational comedy... what's all that about?

The guys that came from the music hall tradition and the working man’s club comics were hilarious.

I often wonder what the the yank comedians would think if Ken Dodd was still alive and doing five hour sets were the theatre would have to practically turn the lights out to get him off the stage without him ever repeating a joke.

Bernard Manning would have been a great pre 2016 guest in Joe Rogan if he’d been alive. It would have had the cancel mob go full retard even harder.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

Maybe I’m missing something, but I’ve noticed as of late on social media, there’s a lot of Bill Hicks slander. Internet netizens are treating him the same way as George Carlin, which is kind of surprising to me.

 

[Rick The Stick]

treating him the same way as George Carlin

Sounds about right. Both are more well known for being up their ass, soap box preachers than actual joke tellers and funny men at this point in time.

 

[Fabio Socialist]

Sounds about right. Both are more well known for being up their ass, soap box preachers than actual joke tellers and funny men at this point in time.

Hicks had his nihilism and self-loathing, but it's hard to imagine him unironically stating, as George Carlin once did, "I root for the demise of my culture and my species." I hate myself for ever spending one moment of my life absorbing a single word from that pathetic, miserable faggot.

 

[FedPostalService]

Hicks had his nihilism and self-loathing, but it's hard to imagine him unironically stating, as George Carlin once did, "I root for the demise of my culture and my species." I hate myself for ever spending one moment of my life absorbing a single word from that pathetic, miserable faggot.

Prior to 2016 humans could say that and not really mean it. Then we entered hyper-autism clown world were every mental illness was a heckin’ valid world view and jokes were seen as statements of fact.

 

[Fabio Socialist]

Prior to 2016 humans could say that and not really mean it. Then we entered hyper-autism clown world were every mental illness was a heckin’ valid world view and jokes were seen as statements of fact.

Fair cop. I think in Carlin's case it was truthier than he may have realized at the time, as his journey into crabby old manhood seemed to reveal his true self rather than significantly changing it. Also the quote is from an appearance on CSPAN rather than his standup routine (for what it's worth - Norm Macdonald was infamous for hardly ever not being 'on' to some extent). I'm betting Carlin is one of the handful of human beans canonized by the terminally online at some point during the last thirty years of September.

 

[RollerGator]

Matt Rife photoshops dickpics to make it look bigger. What a goon.

 

[ChampFantana]

Carlin and Hicks are both highly overrated. That hasn't stopped them from being Sainted by the "I heckin' LOVE Science!" Reddit crowd though.

I'm not really surprised, their styles were perfect for the kind of reddit bugmen that crawled their way out of the sewers in the last decade+..

 

[Get the rope Macaulay!]

Old stand-up comedy, at least in Britain, was pretty rapid fire.

up until the 80s in the US as well, those "make you think" style comedians were not very successful. Bill Hicks mainly was able to be a professional in the US in that era because of a scheme him and a dozen other Texas comedians did where they basically unionized and forced clubs to pay them $100 a night.

Thats one of the good parts of watching older stand up, its all very basic but could still make you laugh. Freddie Prinze sounds like jokes a plucky middle schooler might think up, but he was considered one of the best comedians. Mitch Hedberg was bring back that one liner style and everyone knew if he didn't die he would have been a-list because of how easily his jokes fit the twitter style, but thats sort of the point. these jokes will work better in better mediums.

Matt Rife photoshops dickpics to make it look bigger.

Mike David's cock hasn't worked ever since he was raped as a kid, which is why every girlfriend he had cheated on him. There's an episode from the 2010s where mike is begging his fans to ship him viagra because he needs to fuck his girlfriend (and even then it doesnt work) And before a Dick Masterson, Nick Rekieta, & Vito fanboy like yourself goes "he's playing a character dude!" Let me correct you because this is 2010s Mike David when he didn't understand shit like comic personas. Now put on the Balldo faggot

 

[pozilei]

What's the take on Rosie Jones? I've watched Big Fat Quiz of the Year recently and she was on it. She was terrible. Hard (almost impossible) to understand, what I could understand was terrible and/or I had figured out the punchline about 10 minutes before she finally got to it.
I get it, she's disabled. Boxes need to be ticked. But if one of the key job requirements is to be able to speak you just hire people not being able to speak?

 

[RollerGator]

up until the 80s in the US as well, those "make you think" style comedians were not very successful. Bill Hicks mainly was able to be a professional in the US in that era because of a scheme him and a dozen other Texas comedians did where they basically unionized and forced clubs to pay them $100 a night.

Thats one of the good parts of watching older stand up, its all very basic but could still make you laugh. Freddie Prinze sounds like jokes a plucky middle schooler might think up, but he was considered one of the best comedians. Mitch Hedberg was bring back that one liner style and everyone knew if he didn't die he would have been a-list because of how easily his jokes fit the twitter style, but thats sort of the point. these jokes will work better in better mediums.


Mike David's cock hasn't worked ever since he was raped as a kid, which is why every girlfriend he had cheated on him. There's an episode from the 2010s where mike is begging his fans to ship him viagra because he needs to fuck his girlfriend (and even then it doesnt work) And before a Dick Masterson, Nick Rekieta, & Vito fanboy like yourself goes "he's playing a character dude!" Let me correct you because this is 2010s Mike David when he didn't understand shit like comic personas. Now put on the Balldo faggot

I take it you're a scorned former fan