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Posted: August 11 2010 at 22:12

Atavachron wrote:

have you guys watched Louie? It's pretty good

It's really good

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Posted: August 11 2010 at 22:09

Henry Rollins is hilarious.

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Posted: August 11 2010 at 22:03

Henry Rollins was actually a surprisingly funny stand up

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Posted: August 11 2010 at 21:57

have you guys watched Louie? It's pretty good

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Posted: August 11 2010 at 21:54

Noak wrote:

I recently got into Mitch Hedberg, I was reluctant to him at first but he grew on me. Louis C.K is another guy I find really funny. I don't know very many stand-ups.

I love Louis CK. He puts me in tears every time. Best one out there today IMO.

Sadly Mitch Hedberg is the late great Mitch Hedberg

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Posted: August 11 2010 at 20:04

I always loved Bruce's line about how his act died in front of British audiences: "It was like trying to get laughs out of Mount Rushmore."

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Posted: August 11 2010 at 19:18

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Atavachron wrote:

that Herring tirade reminds me of Lenny Bruce fighting his censors in the early 60s

Yeah, it's not him at his funniest but he's trying to convey a message which isn't getting through the mainstream media, which was always Bruce's thing - in many ways I see Bruce more as a polemicist than a comedian (not that it isn't possible to be both, of course).

during his last days that's partly true due to the combination of harassment, legal problems and drug addiction-- but up till then, Bruce was a master stand-up comic that revolutionized how humor is conveyed to an audience; not politics, but humor. Before Lenny [in the U.S.], stylistically, stand-up was mostly Milton Berle and Mort Sahl

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Posted: August 11 2010 at 18:17

Tommy Tiernan: Looking at the title I anticipated a lot of silly noises and not much else and that's what I got.

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Posted: August 11 2010 at 17:40

Oh I can't find it but I remember the Irish comedian Ed Byrne doing a lengthy segment on the lyrics to Alanis Morissette's hit song Ironic that had me in stitches. I remember seeing it and almost crying with laughter and marvelling at how he got so much material out of what you would think was a very limited topic.

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Posted: August 11 2010 at 17:38

Yeah Andy Kaufman was more a humorous performance artist than a comedian but it's still humorous. There's also the show where he'd attempt to go to sleep and the entertainment/show was all in the audience's reaction it and attempts to keep him awake and interacting with them.

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Posted: August 11 2010 at 17:28

Textbook wrote:

And that's Sean Lock done- bit plain but the "samba button" line was quite funny.

A bit plain? oh well good job we're all different

Flag Hippo, Flag Hippo, Flag Hippo...... That;s gonna really irritate me now!

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Posted: August 11 2010 at 17:24

Textbook wrote:

Andy Kaufman:

"On some occasions, audiences would show up to one of Kaufman's stage performances expecting to see him perform as his character Latka from the TV show Taxi where he had first become famous, and heckling him with demands when he did not. Kaufman would punish these audiences with the announcement that he was going to read The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald to them. The audience would laugh at this, not realizing that he was serious, and Kaufman would proceed to read the book to them, continuing despite audience members' departure. At a certain point, he would ask the audience if they wanted him to keep reading, or play a record. When the audience chose to hear the record, the record he cued up was a recording of him continuing to read The Great Gatsby from where he had left off."

Genius.

But Andy Kaufman, in his own words, was not a comedian. He was more of an ironic humorist. He found humor in more unconventional things, and enjoyed pushing himself to the limit, and other people's buttons. I realize he is widely regarded as a comedian, but I think he wanted us to consider him as something different, and out of respect, I think we should.

But yes, that bit, much like everything he did, was absolute genius. Clap

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Posted: August 11 2010 at 17:19

And that's Sean Lock done- bit plain but the "samba button" line was quite funny.

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Posted: August 11 2010 at 17:16

Just watched Dave Mitchell and Rhod Gilbert, they were both good. Rhod's material isn't that great but he delivers it well, obviously a Connolly disciple. Mitchell reminds me of a less well-mannered Stephen Fry.

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Posted: August 11 2010 at 16:50

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Posted: August 11 2010 at 16:44

Mild very British (With one exception) humour.

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Posted: August 11 2010 at 16:43

Andy Kaufman:

Genius.

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Posted: August 11 2010 at 16:25

I've been working my way through the clips here (last one I saw was Vine, will try to get to the newer ones later) and I'm pretty disappointed. Hicks is easily the best so far (though he's not so much funny as he is awesome) and the Flag Hippo thing was amusing, though concluded poorly but the others... Lee's "not someone who works as a c**t" finish was hysterical but the wait wasn't really worth it, very slow and sedate. The chiselling thing is quite bold and Kaufmanesque but it's more funny in concept than practice. But I also liked "I remember you used to be able to put your whole family in the mincer and now they've banned Christmas!"

But yeah, the moon on a stick fell flat to me, Shappi was just poor generally and Maria's persona would be amusing as a character in a sketch but is insufferable in isolation.

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Posted: August 11 2010 at 15:41