Stand-up Comedian Lolcows

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Billy Bob Dick said:
I can't stand Jim Norton. He was funny on O&A when he would get in fights with callers, or make fun of guests by agreeing with them, but his standup is just pure cringe. When you compare him to guys like Louis and Bob Kelly, he sucks.
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All three guys needed each other.
 
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pozilei said:
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?
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Late on this one, but GOD yes, this. Saw the same show as you and it was intolerable. The jokes themselves were mediocre at best, but the inability to follow her pronunciation for shit combined with her inability to have any kind of comic timing whatsoever was just painful. Every time she interjected I'd groan (:_(

It left me with such a bad taste in my mouth. Some comedians can work their quirks/disabilities into their sets successfully and have it be funny, and I'm all for it. She isn't one of them. Even if her material was genuinely remarkable (which it isn't), she'd still be the wrong person to deliver it. It was excruciatingly obvious she was there to satisfy some producer's woke diversity quota.
 
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MongInTheMirror said:
Late on this one, but GOD yes, this. Saw the same show as you and it was intolerable. The jokes themselves were mediocre at best, but the inability to follow her pronunciation for shit combined with her inability to have any kind of comic timing whatsoever was just painful. Every time she interjected I'd groan (:_(

It left me with such a bad taste in my mouth. Some comedians can work their quirks/disabilities into their sets successfully and have it be funny, and I'm all for it. She isn't one of them. Even if her material was genuinely remarkable (which it isn't), she'd still be the wrong person to deliver it. It was excruciatingly obvious she was there to satisfy some producer's woke diversity quota.
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I have nothing against Rosie Jones but she is definitely shoehorned into everything due to her condition; look no further than her vapid, pro-censorship “Am I a Retard?” documentary. Apparently it was produced to combat a supposed rise of ableism on social media by interviewing people affected by such harassment - which is understandable - until you realise that the documentary proposed nothing except for a call for increased internet monitoring: a major issue when you live in a police state known for its utterly draconian communication laws.

Rosie Jones herself isn’t really a lolcow, however. While I absolutely hate it when mongs get the spotlight over genuine talent because it fills a quota, I do feel quite sorry for her. People are probably too afraid to tell her that she has nothing to offer to the table and is most likely used generate brownie points. Why has nobody told her straight? Is constructive criticism is illegal in the UK?
 
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shane gillis does his monologue, recites some of his jokes from his special, sees the SNL live audience doesn't like his standup

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my thoughts
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I don't follow Nick Swardson's career or know much about him but he had a fucky-wucky recently.

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tl;dr he apparently went on stage at his own headline event and could barely remember how to structure a joke, and then started arguing with people in the audience. The venue cut his mic and pushed him off stage and sent a literal Soyjak out to tell everyone they were canning the show and they could email for refunds. Video is in the link.

ETA: Oh yeah and then Nick later blamed the incident on drinking and taking edibles "at high altitude." (Show was in Colorado)

Edit 2: Goddamn this is painful
 
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So it seems Aamer Rahman (who I’ve profiled before here) is attempting a comeback.

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Pretty bold to be a no-name comic who hasn’t performed in 7 years and go to another country (insert jokes about Islamism going down better in London here) and charge people to see your Work In Progress Show. It’s especially stupid since it doesn’t seem like he plans to charge people for the finished product.

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Anyway, here’s his synopsis of the show. Given he’s spent those last 7 years posting incessantly about Palestine, even before Oct 7th, Lord only know what a barrel of laughs this show will be.

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I guess him twisting about Palestine is better than what he used to do. If you’re not familiar with him he initially got prominence online for skits about Reverse Racism and Punching Nazis that still get shared every now and again by twitter leftists.
 
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Alabaster Disaster said:
I don't follow Nick Swardson's career or know much about him but he had a fucky-wucky recently.
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The only time I found him to be funny was when he was on Norm’s podcast. Otherwise I thought he was one of Adam Sandler’s lamer dingleberries, which is really saying something.
 
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Hadn't seen it mentioned elsewhere, but borderline lolcow comedians Bert Kreischer and Tom Segura have been recently targeted in a diss track by stand-up comedy podcast rapper Crack Amico. The track has gained rapid traction for covering a lot of the complaints of scorned 2 Bears, 1 Cave fans. The track has particularly caught heat for bringing up the comedians' families and their sources of wealth. Both Bert Kreischer and Tom Segura had wealthy fathers that they apparently concealed from even their own families. Finding dirt on your target for a comedic diss has been commonplace in the insult comedy world of Luis Gomez for as long as I've known him. However, some comedians have taken umbrage with this, including Mark Normand and Bert Kreischer himself.

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I'll try to upload local archives.

EDIT: Uploading is having some hiccups, so I used Preservetube.
 
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DDR Yoga said:
@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?
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Hedberg did observational one-liners.
 
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Harm said:
Both Bert Kreischer and Tom Segura had wealthy fathers that they apparently concealed from even their own families.
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Bert’s rich family was a pretty big part of the Rolling Stone article that launched his gay comedy “career.” Bert must assume his fans are as illiterate and retarded as he is. That or the article is so old that he can’t remember it because being retarded and an alcoholic is hell on someone’s long term memory.
 
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TATE MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODE!! said:
Somewhere in the back of my mind I think Bert is playing a character because there is no way someone can be as delusional as he is.
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A big part of playing a character is, if you’re not careful, you become the character.

An example would be Tupac Shakur, started off as poetry loving dancer boy and got addicted to pretending to be gangster. He ended up raped in prison and bled to death from a bullet because of his LARP.

Be careful what you pretend to be.
 
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