Author Topic: Comedians (Feel free to post faves and recommend.) (Read 27763 times)

B E C K · « **on:** May 26, 2016, 05:38:39 AM »

I need laffs so I've been searching for some through Netflix. I've mainly been searching for women comedians. While I like a funny man, I really hate an unfunny one and there's too many unfunny men that get specials and shit. It just seems to be easier to weed through the women. Unfunny men make me want to beat nuns. I've seen a bunch of the funny men anyway: Carlin. (Don't even know if his stuff's still there but they used to have an assload of it at one time.) Louis CK. Craig Ferguson. So anway...

Ali Wong - Baby Cobra. I didn't think I'd enjoy watching a slutty prego as much as I did her. I'm wary of slutty women comics because their promiscuity becomes their punchline and it can get super old fast. See Lisa Lampaneli, Amy Schumer, etc. It's actually a similar deal with the prudie ones. You can talk about this shit, but if that's all you've got for me, I'm going to lose my patience with you. Ali Wong gets almost uncomfortably TMI. She talks about her HPV. Her miscarriage bike. Stifling her shits. "Pussy" and "snail trail" make it into the same sentence. It works because it borders on educational, I think.

It's nice to hear a woman acknowledge these things. It makes her more like a real person instead of other comics that are just trying to make an image.

Kitty Flanagan. (I actually watched her special on Netflix: Hello Kitty Flanagan.) She's like the older, peppier, Aussie version of me. I'll be your friend, Kitty.

I also saw two other chicks who got a couple of laughs from me. I don't remember their names. I tried looking up who they were but the Netflix site is a bitch and a half. rant// It's made for touchscreens. It doesn't let me sign in anymore. To clarify, Merla owns the account but I could sign in under any profile connected to the account. Doing this only required the user name and password. Now the sign-in screen insists on an email and password. (Or sign in with FB.) Only Merla's email has been connected to our Netflix. I don't know if I can also connect myself to it, but I wasn't gonna do that anyway. If I didn't already have her credentials, I'd be boned right now. Especially since I'm the only profile left with a DVD queue and you can only add DVDs through the website as far as I can tell. I was actually signing in to cancel that. Which is great. Because they're making my life harder anyway. So fuck you, Netflix.

When I signed out, Netflix then proceeded to autoplay an Orange is the New Black trailer. Double fuck you, Netflix. //rant

I did see a bunch of unfunny chick comics, too, but I one-starred their asses and moved on. Didn't get any of those bitches' names. Heather... or Jena... or something. Oh, Leslie Jones. I tried watching her special. It was painful in proportion to the million beads of sweat pouring all over her body. I'm not even gonna click on anything starting with Chels- and ending with -andler.

Rama · « **Reply #1 on:** May 28, 2016, 10:00:03 AM »

Gallagher?

I don't know. I love Stand up, but get to watch it sorarely that I don't know of any names I can name right off the bat. I got a couple Stand up channels on my Pandora, but I can't listen to that at home because of Sat internet and it eats up the data (same reason I don't have netflix) and I can't at work because I'm...you know working. Sometimes On Wed night and one Sat a month when the boss is gone and I'm highest in the totem pole and get to sit in the big boss chair then I can listen to it, but most of the time I'm doing something else where I can't.

B E C K · « **Reply #2 on:** May 29, 2016, 08:28:38 AM »

Shit, bitch, Pandora has stand up? I'll have to look into that. I wonder if Slacker also has stand up. I've never checked. Granted, I think I'd prefer to watch the person actually doing stand up. But listening to some is nice option.

Rodent of Unusual Size · « **Reply #3 on:** May 29, 2016, 11:18:43 PM »

I like observational humor, but most of the people I see are just being filthy so I just avoid it.

B E C K · « **Reply #4 on:** May 30, 2016, 03:33:21 AM »

Observational stuff is fantastic. I can laugh at some of the filthy shit but presentation is really everything. If I turn on some stand up it's all "I'm such a slut and I'm a drunk, lol" in the entire set, it wears on me. I was looking for more comedy on Netflix and I think I've actually gone through almost all of the women already because it was nothing but a sausage fest. I found one woman I hadn't rated yet and knew I wouldn't like her when she started her special with home movie footage of her kid. Her shtick was "I'm a mom, I'm Italian, lookit my boobs." I was just gonna have her play in the background but she grated my nerves. Then I put on some guy and part-way into his stand up, he persisted on being racist. I think he thought he was being observational but it was on the level of "ho ho, those blacks like to talk during movies, amirite." So I shut him off and put on House Hunters. The other day I found a Craig Ferguson special I hadn't seen before. A bunch of the material was reused from another special but I like Craig.

Rodent of Unusual Size · « **Reply #5 on:** May 31, 2016, 10:11:16 PM »

I like him, but I have a hell of a time understanding him. One night Billy Connolly was on his show, and the whole interview was downright unintelligible. But it was still funny, though...go figure.

B E C K · « **Reply #6 on:** Jun 01, 2016, 04:47:01 AM »

I like to put on closed captioning on everything that has it available just because sometimes sounds will interrupt and I hate to rewind so I'll just read what was being said real quick. It never occurred to me that I could be subconsciously cheating.

Now that I think about it, the last time I saw Craig's late show, I had to scramble to find the remote for the captions and was annoyed that they were lagging. So I don't understand him as well as I thought I actually did.

Rama · « **Reply #7 on:** Jun 01, 2016, 10:06:09 AM »

I really like sketch comedy too. So usually if I'm looking on Youtube I find stuff like that if I need a laugh.

B E C K · « **Reply #8 on:** Jun 01, 2016, 02:31:36 PM »

I usually less into sketches because I think it's easier to flop with sketches than if you're doing a stand up set.

Rodent of Unusual Size · « **Reply #9 on:** Jun 02, 2016, 08:37:02 PM »

I can find an old tape with Benny Hill and laugh my ass off for hours. I don't even have to speak British to love it.

B E C K · « **Reply #10 on:** Jun 03, 2016, 01:53:36 AM »

When I was a kid, I always confused Benny Hill and Benny Hinn.

Rodent of Unusual Size · « **Reply #11 on:** Jun 03, 2016, 06:21:10 PM »

Hill is the intentionally funny one whereas Hinn is a joke, period.

*dodges fire from the Hinn's Holy Ghost machine gun*

B E C K · « **Reply #12 on:** Jun 04, 2016, 03:56:27 AM »

I remember putting the channel on Hinn once and I was so confused.

Rodent of Unusual Size · « **Reply #13 on:** Jun 04, 2016, 12:06:18 PM »

I was just watching a video from somewhere that had a preacher just walk up and start slapping the snot out of some chick in the audience. I thought the dude was speaking tongues at first, but it actually sounded Russian. I'm still looking in my Bible to see where I'm allowed to beat the crap out of people randomly.

B E C K · « **Reply #14 on:** Jun 05, 2016, 02:00:05 AM »

Any idea why he was doing that?

Rodent of Unusual Size · « **Reply #15 on:** Jun 05, 2016, 07:26:11 AM »

Lack of context is a double edged sword in that there is an inversely-proportional relationship between making sense and entertainment value.

Rama · « **Reply #16 on:** Jun 05, 2016, 08:25:58 AM »

I'm sure there is something in the old testament that allows you to slap someone around randomly.

Rodent of Unusual Size · « **Reply #17 on:** Jun 05, 2016, 01:38:27 PM »

I'm not re-reading the whole thing to look, so let me know when you run across it.

B E C K · « **Reply #18 on:** Jun 06, 2016, 04:06:55 AM »

I saw the cutest bibles at Hobby Lobby the other day. I almost wanted to buy one and read it.

joe · « **Reply #19 on:** Jun 12, 2016, 02:02:18 AM »

Burgess Meredith.

No.

Hannibal Buress?

I watched that Ali Wong thing on Netflix. She's super gross, but undeniably funny.

joe · « **Reply #20 on:** Jun 12, 2016, 02:03:13 AM »

This guy.

B E C K · « **Reply #21 on:** Jun 13, 2016, 06:02:23 AM »

I couldn't understand that guy's singing to be honest.

Too bad there were no closed captions.

I've seen all of the Hannibal Buress. Well, I take that back. I tried to see it all. There's one special on there where he goes overseas or something and it just stunk. But he has other stuff that's funny so I watched that.

I started re-watching a bunch of Carlin's specials. I don't think they're on Netflix anymore. Which sucks.

B E C K · « **Reply #22 on:** Sep 14, 2016, 11:18:52 PM »

After watching Bo Burnham, I went and read this interview. http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/news/bo-burnham-talks-social-media-despair-why-trump-is-joke-proof-20160629 He said he's taking a break from stand-up and I just thought "uh oh." Especially since I completely agree that a celebrity's value is only in the things they make. An actress needs to make movies, a singer needs to make songs, etc. It's like, dude, don't derail your own fame train by ending your 15 minutes too early, you know.

joe · « **Reply #23 on:** Sep 15, 2016, 12:06:41 AM »

Remember when Dave Chappelle bailed? Man, what a bummer. I loved that guy. I know he's still around somewhere, but I have no idea what he's been up to, if anything.

B E C K · « **Reply #24 on:** Sep 15, 2016, 12:00:38 PM »

Apparently, he's been up to lifting. lol I think in Dave's case, he didn't want to be as big as he became so he didn't care about cutting his 15 minutes short.

B E C K · « **Reply #25 on:** Sep 16, 2016, 03:40:49 PM »

Saw Lavell Crawford and Keith Johnson. Both were entertaining enough. Nothing to earn my disdain or my acclaim. 3/5.

B E C K · « **Reply #26 on:** Sep 28, 2016, 01:34:44 AM »

I tried watching Iliza Shlesinger "Confirmed Kills" on Netflix and couldn't get through seven minutes. I realized later I had watched one of her previous specials "Freezing Hot" and was relatively entertained. But meh. So I changed it to Trevor Noah and was relatively entertained.

joe · « **Reply #27 on:** Sep 28, 2016, 06:48:07 PM »

I tried watching one of her shows. Probably the one where she's basically nude on the poster. I couldn't stick with it.

She was fully clothed!

B E C K · « **Reply #28 on:** Sep 29, 2016, 01:55:11 AM »

"War Paint?" I kinda watched that one last night. I say "kinda" because I was mainly listening to it. I did laugh a few times. Some of it does fall flat. The bit about the homeless animals or whatever goes on too long. Like she doesn't know how to cut shit short. People complain about the goat noises but I like 'em. "Freezing Hot" was more polished imo. With "Confirmed Kills" she immediately goes into the joke about the party goblin. Like, lady, you already did that shit in "Freezing Hot." I don't think she's as funny as Ali Wong. I'm glad the imdb star average reflects this.

You know, looking up stuff about Iliza Whatsherface, I came across a couple of postings at other places about women comics not being funny. Not to get into another rant or nothing and I'm probably stating the fucking obvious here, but I think a lot of the chick comics skate by on looks. As in a lot more--proportionately speaking--versus dude comics. Because would dudes rather watch a funny chick comic or a hot one? Chicks like this Iliza woman put out a special and advertise with a topless poster. Whitney Cummings also has a topless poster for "Money Shot." (Ho ho.) Google "Amy Schumer Entertainment Weekly" and think about how many male comics pose like that. How many people would put up with Sarah Silverman or Chelsea Handler if they didn't look they way they look? Debra DiGiovanni's decent enough but mysteriously not as popular as any of them.

11,000+ views for this cougar bit.

348,882 views for this "guys put up with us for pussy" thing.

I mean, it's kinda bullshit for people to dog female comics while giving the good-looking ones a pass.

B E C K · « **Reply #29 on:** Sep 29, 2016, 02:29:35 AM »

Relevant to topic or whatever: First ‘SNL’ Latina Cast Member Caught Deleting Racist Tweets. I mean, we've all said shit online but how the hell do you delete over 2000 tweets and still have that kinda shit left behind? And they're not even, like, jokes. Watching some clips of her, she's actually an excellent impressionist but she needs someone else to write jokes for her:

Add another writer and she's waaay better...