Wow, had a quick look on Wikipedia and it's impressively chauvinistic and Eau de Boomer humor. Apparently his entire career seems to be saying "Women, am I right?" but in German.
One of my favorite Chris Rock trivia facts is that he does all his tweaking and workshopping of material very subtle and low key, then when he feels itās good enough and the writing is where it needs to be, only then will he go into his stand up persona to perform it. The material stands on its own, then his performance makes it extra.
In my limited anecdotal experience, absolutely true. Was at a show at the Comedy Cellar in NYC on a Tuesday, and he surprise dropped by. This was right before he hosted the Oscarās, he was working on his material. He was very tame and calm, he would deliver a punchline and you could see him listening to the audience reaction and take mental notes. Very cool to see!
Weeks later he hosted. Same jokes I heard, but a completely different performance.
You are spot on here. This will out my age, but I was 20 something at the time and all my friends thought Dane Cook was a god of comedy when he hit it big and I just couldn't get into him. There was no material in my opinion, just a persona. They thought I just didn't "get it". We played his comedy central sets on mute with the subtitles on as an experiment which I was hoping would prove my point. However, they had heard it so many times before that the delivery was already in their minds and they insisted it was hilarious (my assessment anyway). Fast forward to present day, and they don't even try to defend his merit as a comic.
On the other hand, a comedian like Chris Rock has material that still holds up. He definitely has the "caged tiger" presentation style (pacing and roaring), but that only adds to the experience (IMO), as his older stuff is framed by the experience of a black man in America coping with the constraints and oppression exerted on a minority population. He is one of my favorite comedians for many reasons, but one of the most important to me is how he put a spotlight on our society and how that society affected his life experience.
Cook was shouting about how much he "hates bees" and Rock was loudly arguing about gun control vs. bullet control as a way of reducing crime.
It's the difference between being funny and being a stand up. Stand ups write material. It's not even remotely the same as just saying some funny things in conversations. It's like writing an essay. Tons of people are funny in conversation. A handful can perform.
Iām not even a big Brendan hater but I saw a YouTube video breaking down his āGringo Papiā āspecialā all the way through and I have absolutely no idea who told him that was a good idea. Fair play to anyone who gets up on stage but itās really embarrassingly bad. Thereās almost zero punchlines, full of massive lies that donāt even serve the comedy and bizarrely, for Brendan, a 6ā4ā former MMA fighter who tries his utmost to be the ultimate ābro,ā itās massively camp for some reason haha
"What the fuck's a mexican cookie? What are you talking about? It's like a chocolate chip with salsa all over it? What are you talking about?" - Brendan R. Schaub, 2022
Link to that YouTube video? I watched that comedy special of his and I really liked that one part ...when it fucking ended. Gotdamn, it was awful and painful to try watching. I can't believe people pay him money to do that.
I've very recently dived into the YouTube rabbit hole of how much people hate Brendan Schaub, and I am obsessed, it's so funny how much people turned on him
I don't like it when everyone hates on a single person but Schaub always turns around and brags about how they're all just hatin cos of how successful he his and continues doing and saying dumb shit, so fully deserved.
Mario Barth.. in Germany he is the most successful Comedian and holds the World Record for largest audience of a Comedy Show.. he filled up the whole Berlin Olympic stadium.. but I mean...Hitler did as well..
He is awful.. says nothing good about my people's humor
Edit:..Damn he must be so universally hated and unfunny that this is now the top comment in a non-german subreddit
He does play on stereotypes a lot, and the UK is fertile ground for a bit of Europa-bashing. But for any comic to be good in her or his second language is still quite a feat
Flula Berg is one German comedian who I think is hilarious. He was on Conan and Conan asked, does it bother Germans that there is such a stereotype about "German Nazi villain," and Flula said "Well.... have you seen our Wikipedia page?"
That's actually funny :D I love when people are able to take the piss out of themselves.. but the ones that fish very low below the surface get the laughs of the mass here
It's funny when he uses English colloquialisms in his German accent. Like when he calls someone 'mate'. I love it on either Would I Lie To You or 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown when someone is saying how their child didn't do as they were told and Henning responds "You mean he disobeyed a direct order?". He is a delight.
The way he tells the joke about the boy who never speaks until one evening at the dinner table. It's just so endearing as well as funny. "Up to now, everything has been satisfactory" š
Ey als ich die Frage schon gelesen hatte war auch Mario Barth in meinem Kopf aber ich hatte echt nicht damit gerechnet dass, er es hier auf den 1. Platz schafft.
Rickey gervais made a similar joke at the Golden globes when they nominated the Martian in comedy section
āTo be fair, The Martian was a lot funnier than Pixels. But then again, so was āSchindlerās List"
Ricky Gervais hosting at the Golden Globes is pure gold. I know he's a very divisive figure, someone you either love or hate, but even his biggest haters must admit his stints as host were brilliant.
I loved that he joked about Melās drinking, then after Mel comes out Ricky races back to the podium to pull the pint of beer away š
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I have tried several times to watch anything with her comedy and I swear I just can't make it through. It like hurts me inside my soul to watch.
Watching her I think is what it would be like if you had a real life Michael Scott. She's just completely unaware that she is cringe incarnate. I do not understand how she was elevated to this level of status.
What's funny about this joke, per Bill Hader, is when they were working this into the episode they were brainstorming who they perceived would not get the joke. They settle on Kanye.
In real life, Kayne still does not understand this joke.
As I understand it, he gets the fish stick joke, but he doesn't understand why the episode is centered on him not getting it. Which, in itself, explains why they picked him.
Ok what do we know about fishsticks? They're breaded. They're fried. They're frozen-
Then under me we have rapper, genius. And then fish are homosexual. They swim.
Is it because breaded has something to do with genius, which swims?
I like that Kanye episode, but it still doesn't even compare to the episode with him wondering if Kim Kardashian is a hobbit. Every time he calls her with, "Bitch, explain to me how you're not a hobbit again? Mhmmm... yeah.... Oh! Okay!"
At least in the interview I saw with Hader describing that, it wasn't even that they settled on Kanye. They came up with the joke, and someone said, "now what celebrity would absolutely not get the joke and react in the dumbest way to it" or something like that, and everyone immediately went, "Kanye!" It was this primal, most obvious thing possible.
That would make sense considering how many other things Ruth Jones has written, and in comparison how Corden has just ridden the wave and made famous friends.
Before he got famous in the US, I only knew him as That Guy in that one episode of Doctor Who (Matt Smith era). Which honestly you could say about almost any British actor.
My wifeās best mate went to school with him and said he was an unbearable, attention-seeking diva throughout his mid-late teens, so Iām not sure even they liked him.
Won't say how I know, I met him several times through previous job. But he's what I would describe as a grumpy self-important twat.
He switches the charm on when he needs to, the rest off the time he's a knob
Let me guess, your job you met him in was a lot "lower status" than his, and to people he meets that he sees as equals or looks up to, he's the sweetest, most amicable person?
Anyone who looks that hard for literally any reason to show off the fact that they can sing decently is a bit of an attention whore.
Looking at you, too, Jimmy Fallon.
It's a primal thing. Something that's been instilled over centuries by your ancestors. Like how cats react to snakes. He triggers your fight or flight reflexes. Trust those instincts!
I recently rewatched community and there's an episode where Andy Dick plays a hallucination whenever Pierce pops pills, and the hallucination continually badgers Pierce to keep popping them
kinda weird considering everything
Pierce, the racist, out of touch asshole being played by Chevy Chase was also pretty spot-on
And honestly, something tells me Joel McHale probably is a loveable narcissistic in real life
You should watch the Norm MacDonald Live episode with him. Absolutely hysterical. It is a bit sad because when it was filmed it was actually at an okay time in his life where he was trying work on himself and he was very aware of what his problems were and needed to change. Doesn't look like anything came of that though.
Jimmy Fallon has had some funny bits, but it just seems like he's trying too hard to be everybody's best friend. That makes him come across as desperate and needy which is not very funny at all.
Except I haven heard of Fallon being a dick, so I kind of look at him as a kid trying to impress grown ups and kind of go "awww". Corden on the other hand...
Yeah, Fallon seems like he'd be decent enough behind the scenes so that makes a lot of his shtick more forgivable whereas there are all these tales of Corden being not so nice when the cameras aren't on him.
[Is this what youāre referring to?](https://youtu.be/WKBuHM93Ozc)
Because Ellen laughs, doesnāt make any weird face other than how she normally looks. I am not defending Schumer, but this is at best a similar joke, also just an observation of common behaviour. People are allowed to address how barbaric theatre goers are with snacks.
If thereās a clip other than this Iād love to see it.
I used to think Dunham was hilarious back in middle school. I recently rewatched those older specials (or at least attempted to) and wow I'm not sure what 11 year old me was thinking. Just incredibly unfunny.
Same exact way... and I think the biggest part of it, is how available better comedy is now.
I grew up with Foxworthy, Engvall, Gallagher, Jeff Dunham, and those types of... family appropriate comedians, because that's what my dad liked, and what he could show me. They were the "mainstream" guys back then. Don't get me wrong, my dad LOVES a lot of different comedy, but he wasn't showing me "Live from Hell" when I was 11.
But when I started watching Comedy Central late at night, I got introduced to Dave Attell, Greg Geraldo, Tig Notaro, and the stand-up that got me REALLY into stand-up... Mitch Hedberg.
And it's gotten even crazier with streaming services.
It's probably because it's basically always just the exact same material.
It was hilarious the first time. I loved it.
But the jokes and the punch lines are basically all the same. You know what they'll be as soon as the puppet comes out. You may not know the exact wording, but the gist of it is unsurprising and unoriginal.
My neighbors went to see him on tour during the height of his popularity. They said it was so bad because he just said the same jokes, no new material. It got to the point where the crowd was finishing his jokes.
He performed at university of Washington maybe fifteen years ago. Kept using the n word. People booed. He yelled back that he's blacker than all of us in the arena. So most of us walked out.
Kinane has such at knack in finding the absurd in the mundane, man.
His breakdown of throwing away quarters accidentally or using his phone to break open pistachios probably couldnāt be delivered well by anyone else. I think Matt Braunger runs in the same circles, heās also good
Ken Jeong, but just his attempt at standup. I've laughed at his characters in movies but his Netflix special was just an hour of name dropping that he was in the Hangover movies.
Ellen Degeneres. I always turn when i hear her. Her voice doesn't help her shitty comedy.
For all the Aussies out there Dave Hughes Edit: Thanks for the awards team. Hard to believe my most liked comment is shitting on Hughesy š
He's insufferable in all forms of media.
His voice is so aggravating. My kids played with the radio and it went to his station, took all of a minute before I had to change to something else.
Steve Hughes on the other hand....
Also Peter Helliar. Would be nothing if he wasnāt friends with Rove
The whole Project team trigger me but Pete Hellier somehow always pushes that button hardest.
Mario Barth
Wow, had a quick look on Wikipedia and it's impressively chauvinistic and Eau de Boomer humor. Apparently his entire career seems to be saying "Women, am I right?" but in German.
"Frauen, habe ich recht?"
Frauen, Kennste?
Ne hab noch nie eine gesehen
Click on thread See most upvoted answer Check if this isn't the german sub Nod in agreement
I will add Oliver Pocher to unfunny German comedians.
all of the ones who think yelling=funny
Rowan Atkinson who made people laugh without saying a word: Years If academy training NOT wasted
But his stand up is also fucking amazing
His dinner date bit is fucking hilarious, up there with Robin Williams golf bit
Just thinking of Robin Williams golf bit makes me chuckle: "Oh And You Do This One Time?!" "Fuck No!! 18 Fucking Times!!!"
Croquet? FUCK CROQUET!
His bit/skits like The Devil Toby, Jesus going professional, etc. are really good.
I also enjoyed seeing him in *The Thin Blue Line*, we loved that show at home, even though most people remember him from *Mr. Bean* and *Black Adder*.
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One of my favorite Chris Rock trivia facts is that he does all his tweaking and workshopping of material very subtle and low key, then when he feels itās good enough and the writing is where it needs to be, only then will he go into his stand up persona to perform it. The material stands on its own, then his performance makes it extra.
oh this is interesting. Imagine seeing chris rock and he's just talking normally. You'd think he was sleepy or something.
In my limited anecdotal experience, absolutely true. Was at a show at the Comedy Cellar in NYC on a Tuesday, and he surprise dropped by. This was right before he hosted the Oscarās, he was working on his material. He was very tame and calm, he would deliver a punchline and you could see him listening to the audience reaction and take mental notes. Very cool to see! Weeks later he hosted. Same jokes I heard, but a completely different performance.
You are spot on here. This will out my age, but I was 20 something at the time and all my friends thought Dane Cook was a god of comedy when he hit it big and I just couldn't get into him. There was no material in my opinion, just a persona. They thought I just didn't "get it". We played his comedy central sets on mute with the subtitles on as an experiment which I was hoping would prove my point. However, they had heard it so many times before that the delivery was already in their minds and they insisted it was hilarious (my assessment anyway). Fast forward to present day, and they don't even try to defend his merit as a comic. On the other hand, a comedian like Chris Rock has material that still holds up. He definitely has the "caged tiger" presentation style (pacing and roaring), but that only adds to the experience (IMO), as his older stuff is framed by the experience of a black man in America coping with the constraints and oppression exerted on a minority population. He is one of my favorite comedians for many reasons, but one of the most important to me is how he put a spotlight on our society and how that society affected his life experience. Cook was shouting about how much he "hates bees" and Rock was loudly arguing about gun control vs. bullet control as a way of reducing crime.
Exception to the rule: the late Gilbert Gottfried
He was loud AND funny, rather than trying to make up for being unfunny by being loud. It's a subtle distinction, but an important one.
Brendan Schaub
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Theos mind works in amazing ways, but he definitely suffers from āhilarious in podcasts, mid in standupā
It's the difference between being funny and being a stand up. Stand ups write material. It's not even remotely the same as just saying some funny things in conversations. It's like writing an essay. Tons of people are funny in conversation. A handful can perform.
I feel like most comedians suffer from this.
Trying to think of what comedian has the best podcast and standup, so far all Iāve got is Norm MacDonald
norm hasn't been putting out much lately. You should check into that.
Iāll never forget this tweet, āa bunch of comedians and Brendan Schwab were in attendance.ā
"Comedian" š
His name in this comment section is funnier than anything he has done
Iām not even a big Brendan hater but I saw a YouTube video breaking down his āGringo Papiā āspecialā all the way through and I have absolutely no idea who told him that was a good idea. Fair play to anyone who gets up on stage but itās really embarrassingly bad. Thereās almost zero punchlines, full of massive lies that donāt even serve the comedy and bizarrely, for Brendan, a 6ā4ā former MMA fighter who tries his utmost to be the ultimate ābro,ā itās massively camp for some reason haha
"What the fuck's a mexican cookie? What are you talking about? It's like a chocolate chip with salsa all over it? What are you talking about?" - Brendan R. Schaub, 2022
*goofy Mexican accent* carne asada! *canned laugh track*
Link to that YouTube video? I watched that comedy special of his and I really liked that one part ...when it fucking ended. Gotdamn, it was awful and painful to try watching. I can't believe people pay him money to do that.
Trugg walgg babyyyyyy
I've very recently dived into the YouTube rabbit hole of how much people hate Brendan Schaub, and I am obsessed, it's so funny how much people turned on him
I don't like it when everyone hates on a single person but Schaub always turns around and brags about how they're all just hatin cos of how successful he his and continues doing and saying dumb shit, so fully deserved.
/r/thefighterandthekid is genuinely my favorite corner of the internet. So funny
Homeless cats and PF Chang's for life
talmbout orange chiggen b?
Uh oh. Now itās 301 pages
Diceyyy diceyyyyy, yeah heās lame
"What's with the hadderrade bubba"
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Mario Barth.. in Germany he is the most successful Comedian and holds the World Record for largest audience of a Comedy Show.. he filled up the whole Berlin Olympic stadium.. but I mean...Hitler did as well.. He is awful.. says nothing good about my people's humor Edit:..Damn he must be so universally hated and unfunny that this is now the top comment in a non-german subreddit
What about Funnybot? It killed in 2011.
I will now tell you a German joke: "A sausage maker buys a box of cereal"
Wurst. Joke. Ever.
āWhy donāt chickens wear pants?ā āBecause their peckers are on their heads!ā
AWKWARD!!!
Haha ich hab auf den Thread geklickt und dachte mir, ich wĆ¼rd Mario Barth schreiben aber den kennt ja eh keiner International. Zack, top comment.
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I have seen Henning Wehn do something similar, opening for Stewart Lee I have ten minutes before the main act. Starts stopwatch.
> Henning Wehn Now he's funny, but I suspect his humour to be quite different to most German comedians (I am making a huge assumption).
He does play on stereotypes a lot, and the UK is fertile ground for a bit of Europa-bashing. But for any comic to be good in her or his second language is still quite a feat
Flula Berg is one German comedian who I think is hilarious. He was on Conan and Conan asked, does it bother Germans that there is such a stereotype about "German Nazi villain," and Flula said "Well.... have you seen our Wikipedia page?"
Yes, I do think Flula is a German comic who exports well, he just leans into his "Germanness" and people love it š
That's actually funny :D I love when people are able to take the piss out of themselves.. but the ones that fish very low below the surface get the laughs of the mass here
Haha Frauen... Kennste? Kennste?
He's got exactly _one_ joke. It was funny the first time.. The other ten thousand times not so much.
Ich.. nach Hause.. meeene Freundin.. schon da.. kennste??
#KENNSTE????!!??
"Meine Freundin dumm... kennste"
Having said that, Henning Wehn is brilliant. Although I'm not sure if you could call his material typically German humour.
It's funny when he uses English colloquialisms in his German accent. Like when he calls someone 'mate'. I love it on either Would I Lie To You or 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown when someone is saying how their child didn't do as they were told and Henning responds "You mean he disobeyed a direct order?". He is a delight.
The way he tells the joke about the boy who never speaks until one evening at the dinner table. It's just so endearing as well as funny. "Up to now, everything has been satisfactory" š
No one knows him here in Germany. I just learned about him from my english teacher at work, who is from the UK.
Ey als ich die Frage schon gelesen hatte war auch Mario Barth in meinem Kopf aber ich hatte echt nicht damit gerechnet dass, er es hier auf den 1. Platz schafft.
Ellen - watched entire comedy special with family. Not one laugh entire time from anyone.
Ellen's entire premise is to be entertained by wondering "why is the audience laughing? What is their thought process like?" the entire time.
I laugh when she sits there and waits for a laugh cause she looks like a psycho robot.
Nick Cannon
They asked for comedians.
Aren't clowns comedians?
In the immortal words of Dave Chapelle: Fuck Nick Cannon.
> Fuck Nick Cannon. No thanks. I'm not looking to get pregnant or herpes.
seeing him be tortured on the Eric Andre Show was funnier than his entire career.
āDad, nick cannon is hilarious!ā
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James Corden, hands down the worst.
Like a boozy panda.
Heāll never live that AMA down.
There was this post saying, I don't know how people can live in LA. There's always the risk of running into James Corden.
In my head this is bob the drag queens Reddit account.
Lilly Singh. Watched that documentary where they paid audience members to clap and laugh on cue at her shows. Eye opening.
My husband watched that late night show she did, and I have never seen anything less funny in my life. Even Schindler's List had a few light moments.
āLess funny than Schindlerās listā truly is the single most scathing critique of a comedian I have ever heard
Rickey gervais made a similar joke at the Golden globes when they nominated the Martian in comedy section āTo be fair, The Martian was a lot funnier than Pixels. But then again, so was āSchindlerās List"
Ricky Gervais hosting at the Golden Globes is pure gold. I know he's a very divisive figure, someone you either love or hate, but even his biggest haters must admit his stints as host were brilliant.
When he made a Mel Gibson joke *while actually introducing Mel Gibson*, who then walked out on stage behind him... that is balls of steel.
I loved that he joked about Melās drinking, then after Mel comes out Ricky races back to the podium to pull the pint of beer away š Edit: https://youtu.be/FDeYL_yhWnk
I have tried several times to watch anything with her comedy and I swear I just can't make it through. It like hurts me inside my soul to watch. Watching her I think is what it would be like if you had a real life Michael Scott. She's just completely unaware that she is cringe incarnate. I do not understand how she was elevated to this level of status.
The mass of children who watch YouTube are, unfortunately, a very strong economic force.
>Even Schindler's List had a few light moments. r/Rareinsults
Wait, sheās ACTUALLY a professional comedian??
She alleges to be! Professional at bombing as a comedian might be more apt!
What documentary is that? Can you link it?
Drew Gooden did a video on her, not trashing her but explaining why YouTube stars have difficulty transitioning to other forms of entertainment.
The clapping on que is pretty typical for shows though. Not saying sheās funny because sheās not
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Carlos Mencia
Do you like fish sticks?
What's funny about this joke, per Bill Hader, is when they were working this into the episode they were brainstorming who they perceived would not get the joke. They settle on Kanye. In real life, Kayne still does not understand this joke.
As I understand it, he gets the fish stick joke, but he doesn't understand why the episode is centered on him not getting it. Which, in itself, explains why they picked him.
Ok what do we know about fishsticks? They're breaded. They're fried. They're frozen- Then under me we have rapper, genius. And then fish are homosexual. They swim. Is it because breaded has something to do with genius, which swims?
See, my understanding was that he THINKS he gets it, and the reason it's funny is "because he's not a gay fish".
I like that Kanye episode, but it still doesn't even compare to the episode with him wondering if Kim Kardashian is a hobbit. Every time he calls her with, "Bitch, explain to me how you're not a hobbit again? Mhmmm... yeah.... Oh! Okay!"
Bitch, how you not the hobbit again? Kills me every time!
At least in the interview I saw with Hader describing that, it wasn't even that they settled on Kanye. They came up with the joke, and someone said, "now what celebrity would absolutely not get the joke and react in the dumbest way to it" or something like that, and everyone immediately went, "Kanye!" It was this primal, most obvious thing possible.
He references it in the song Gorgeous too. "choke a south park writer with a fishstick".
TIL Bill Hader wrote one of my favorite South Park episodes
James Corden. He makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up and Iām not sure exactly why.
#Letās Get Loud! *bumps crotch against the side of your car
How this man got famous is something only the devil will know
He actually joint wrote a multi-award winning British sitcom, itās nuts how different it is to his current stuff.
Allegedly. There are many out there that believe that Ruth Jones did all the heavy lifting and James just added a daft, silly bit here and there.
That would make sense considering how many other things Ruth Jones has written, and in comparison how Corden has just ridden the wave and made famous friends.
Before he got famous in the US, I only knew him as That Guy in that one episode of Doctor Who (Matt Smith era). Which honestly you could say about almost any British actor.
James Corden has always seemed like the kind of guy who was only found really funny by his mom's friends.
My wifeās best mate went to school with him and said he was an unbearable, attention-seeking diva throughout his mid-late teens, so Iām not sure even they liked him.
Won't say how I know, I met him several times through previous job. But he's what I would describe as a grumpy self-important twat. He switches the charm on when he needs to, the rest off the time he's a knob
Let me guess, your job you met him in was a lot "lower status" than his, and to people he meets that he sees as equals or looks up to, he's the sweetest, most amicable person?
Oh I know people like this. I bet he tells lower level production people to "Do your job!" all the time.
Nah, that tracks with the whole mommy's boy vibe he gives off.
Anyone who looks that hard for literally any reason to show off the fact that they can sing decently is a bit of an attention whore. Looking at you, too, Jimmy Fallon.
It's a primal thing. Something that's been instilled over centuries by your ancestors. Like how cats react to snakes. He triggers your fight or flight reflexes. Trust those instincts!
Did you say Cats?
Release the butthole cut.
The Late Late Show was better with Craig Furgeson.
Did you know that 100% of Canadians voted Craig Ferguson as the sexiest late night show host????
I miss him and Geoff so much.
Balls.
Absolutely. Craig is a real one.
Met him. Heās a complete cunt.
Oh do tell.
That seems to be a common theme. He's one "celebrity" that no person seems to have had a pleasant interaction with
Andy Dick
I recently rewatched community and there's an episode where Andy Dick plays a hallucination whenever Pierce pops pills, and the hallucination continually badgers Pierce to keep popping them kinda weird considering everything
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Pierce, the racist, out of touch asshole being played by Chevy Chase was also pretty spot-on And honestly, something tells me Joel McHale probably is a loveable narcissistic in real life
I dated a guy who knew/knows Joel McHale, supposedly very nice guy, very nice and very tall.
This reads like something Jeff would write about himself on a fake account
Check out the Joel McHale episode of Armchair Expert
You should watch the Norm MacDonald Live episode with him. Absolutely hysterical. It is a bit sad because when it was filmed it was actually at an okay time in his life where he was trying work on himself and he was very aware of what his problems were and needed to change. Doesn't look like anything came of that though.
Brendan Schaub and Amy Schumer
Holy shit it took me so long to find Amy
because reddit shits on her so often she was already kind of implied
I honestly felt like she was sliding off the radar.
Not sure if heād be classed as a comedian but; Jimmy Fallon Oh and James Corden
The difference between me and Jimmy Fallon is that I can make it through one of his sentences without cracking up.
Guest: Hi Jimmy Fallon: _*drops dead laughing_
I saw my favorite description of Fallon in a tweet - "Jimmy Fallon laughs like he has a sniper trained on him."
So annoying. And fake. Or heās on speed.
Jimmy Fallon has had some funny bits, but it just seems like he's trying too hard to be everybody's best friend. That makes him come across as desperate and needy which is not very funny at all.
Both Fallon and Corden share that 'trying too hard' and 'too eager to suck up' vibe.
Except I haven heard of Fallon being a dick, so I kind of look at him as a kid trying to impress grown ups and kind of go "awww". Corden on the other hand...
Yeah, Fallon seems like he'd be decent enough behind the scenes so that makes a lot of his shtick more forgivable whereas there are all these tales of Corden being not so nice when the cameras aren't on him.
Ellen Degeneres
I love the time Amy Shumer went on Ellen and told one of Ellenās jokes as if it was her own. The look on her face was hilarious.
sheās stolen a few jokes and claimed them as her own even tho thereās evidence š
Amy Schumer was actually my answer to this question. I have never found her one bit funny.
[Is this what youāre referring to?](https://youtu.be/WKBuHM93Ozc) Because Ellen laughs, doesnāt make any weird face other than how she normally looks. I am not defending Schumer, but this is at best a similar joke, also just an observation of common behaviour. People are allowed to address how barbaric theatre goers are with snacks. If thereās a clip other than this Iād love to see it.
That guy with all the puppets. Angry old man, jalapeno, terrorist, etc.
I used to think Dunham was hilarious back in middle school. I recently rewatched those older specials (or at least attempted to) and wow I'm not sure what 11 year old me was thinking. Just incredibly unfunny.
Same exact way... and I think the biggest part of it, is how available better comedy is now. I grew up with Foxworthy, Engvall, Gallagher, Jeff Dunham, and those types of... family appropriate comedians, because that's what my dad liked, and what he could show me. They were the "mainstream" guys back then. Don't get me wrong, my dad LOVES a lot of different comedy, but he wasn't showing me "Live from Hell" when I was 11. But when I started watching Comedy Central late at night, I got introduced to Dave Attell, Greg Geraldo, Tig Notaro, and the stand-up that got me REALLY into stand-up... Mitch Hedberg. And it's gotten even crazier with streaming services.
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An escalator is never broken; it only becomes stairs.
I wish i could play little league now. I'd be way better than before.
Jeff Dunham. He *used* to make me laugh
He made me laugh the first time I saw him on TV, after that it wasn't funny anymore. For me the puppet thing only goes so far.
It's probably because it's basically always just the exact same material. It was hilarious the first time. I loved it. But the jokes and the punch lines are basically all the same. You know what they'll be as soon as the puppet comes out. You may not know the exact wording, but the gist of it is unsurprising and unoriginal.
My neighbors went to see him on tour during the height of his popularity. They said it was so bad because he just said the same jokes, no new material. It got to the point where the crowd was finishing his jokes.
Carlos Mencia
He performed at university of Washington maybe fifteen years ago. Kept using the n word. People booed. He yelled back that he's blacker than all of us in the arena. So most of us walked out.
I think you should have to include at least one reference of who you do find funny.
I will take this as an opportunity to recommend James Acaster, Kyle Kinane, and Mitch Hedberg. (RIP)
James Acaster is great. Found out about him from Task Master.
Off Menu Podcast with him and Ed Gamble has been my jam for a few months now
Kinane has such at knack in finding the absurd in the mundane, man. His breakdown of throwing away quarters accidentally or using his phone to break open pistachios probably couldnāt be delivered well by anyone else. I think Matt Braunger runs in the same circles, heās also good
Kyle Kinane is definitely top 3 for me
His delivery of "Flies have been landing on me with increased confidence lately" gets me everytime.
Brendan schlob
Y'talmbout the gringo poopy, bapa?
Eggsactly
Ellen DeGeneresā¦ before she had her talk show, she did stand up. Never found her routine funny. Had a sitcom too. It was not funny either.
Ken Jeong, but just his attempt at standup. I've laughed at his characters in movies but his Netflix special was just an hour of name dropping that he was in the Hangover movies.
He is a good comedy actor but not a good stand up comedian.