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Kudosx posted:Do people really think Ralphie May is that unfunny? I've enjoyed most of his stand up that I've seen. Ralphie may is a guy like Gabriel Inglesius for me. They are guys who are obviously good at what they do, and they have found their audience, but I just can't get into any of their comedy in the slightest. I will respect their hard work and dedication to comedy though.
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Al! posted:Who do you think the unfunniest comedian on Netflix streaming is, excluding the obvious Mencias, Sinbads, and Larry the Cable Guys. Ralpie May? Russel Peters? I think Ralphie May is quite funny, honestly. And I'm a huge stand-up snob.
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soggybagel posted:Saw Aziz working some new material at Crash Test at UCB last night. Was fun. He told one guy to please not record him because its new material and the guy didn't laugh the rest of the set which was funny because he had no reason to be pissed. He was asked nicely. I saw Aziz come out unannounced at Crash Test in September and it was the same thing. But Nick Kroll came before him too and had to call out an audience member too. It's just inescapable these days, even at a venue where the comedy IQ is higher than most. Frankly, not everybody is a comedy snob who knows it's a faux pas to film someone working out new material. It's not their fault if they don't listen to every podcast to learn the inner workings. But yeah, that guy sounds like a little baby if he stopped laughing. Ralphie May is loving funny.
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Nov 4, 2012 19:59
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Both Aziz Ansari and Chris Hardwick have new hour long specials on Comedy Central this Saturday, plus they're rerunning Amy Schumer's hour long. That's a pretty great block of comedy.
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Nov 8, 2012 06:48
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Conduit for Sale! posted:Both Aziz Ansari and Chris Hardwick have new hour long specials on Comedy Central this Saturday, plus they're rerunning Amy Schumer's hour long. That's a pretty great block of comedy. Amy Schumer censored by Comedy Central seems like it would be pretty terrible (see It's Always Sunny). Do they ever play the stand-ups uncensored like they do with South Park real late at night?
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Nov 8, 2012 11:04
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Ariza posted:Amy Schumer censored by Comedy Central seems like it would be pretty terrible (see It's Always Sunny). Do they ever play the stand-ups uncensored like they do with South Park real late at night? That's how the whole uncensored thing started out. It was uncensored comedy specials and movies now it's lovely parody movies, south park, and Tosh.
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Nov 8, 2012 22:32
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What time do they start uncensoring things? The first special of the night, Aziz Ansari's, airs at 10pm Eastern I think. Not that Aziz is very dirty, but Hardwick and Schumer curse a ton.
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Nov 8, 2012 23:21
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quote:HBO announces it's bringing @LouisCK back for a new standup special, to be taped from his current tour. Uhh, what? First Trent Reznor signs to a major and now Louis is heading back to HBO. It is what it is, and I don't really care that much since I'm a subscriber but I kind of liked the whole "directly towards the artist" way of distributing his specials.
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-Atom- posted:Uhh, what? I don't pretend to know anything about the business, but based on Louis' fervor for the business model he created I would imagine that he cut a pretty good deal for himself here. It sounds like he'll get extra money (and probably extra production) from going with HBO, but can still appeal to the fans and have an extra revenue stream through the digital release. Knowing Louis, he's still probably going to want to be in control of most of the aspects of production. I think it was on O&A once where he really explained how much he did in Hilarious that isn't done in normal comedy specials, such as camera angles and editing. I just wonder if waiting some months between them will cause people who would have paid $5 to pirate just to have it early. I don't have HBO and am easily willing to shell out five bucks for new standup, but being a lovely 21st century citizen means that I also want it immediately without waiting. Ror fucked around with this message at 20:11 on Nov 12, 2012 |
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Nov 12, 2012 19:52
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-Atom- posted:Uhh, what? It makes sense...kinda. If you want to grow your fanbase, when you are already established, you have to play ball with the major corporations. Granted HBO isn't going to help when he's doing the late night rounds and SNL but they probably paid to play. The whole reason why he released the last special online was because the online players (Netflix/etc) offered him peanuts for it when he was shopping it around.
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Nov 12, 2012 20:00
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Sporadic posted:It makes sense...kinda. Don't worry, he'll be fine, he's a literal billionaire that got rich off of Tig Notaro after he gave her cancer and killed her mom.
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Nov 12, 2012 20:10
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Al! posted:Don't worry, he'll be fine, he's a literal billionaire that got rich off of Tig Notaro after he gave her cancer and killed her mom. I almost spit my drat drink out. Well done.
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Nov 12, 2012 20:12
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I'm dumb as gently caress but I have to think that HBO viewed that as a desperately needed get. Even if they overpaid for it and don't own the distribution rights afterwards, getting the guy who kinda started the idea that comics need to break away from them to come back and work with them probably feels pretty important.
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Nov 12, 2012 21:39
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Ror posted:I don't have HBO and am easily willing to shell out five bucks for new standup, but being a lovely 21st century citizen means that I also want it immediately without waiting. 
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Nov 13, 2012 06:09
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Booked flights from London to NYC for April, and definitely plan on checking one of the big comedy clubs out while I'm over there. Funnily enough, it's the same time period PFT booked a 9 day run in London, so while I know I won't get to see him over there it means I can spend an extra few nights in London and see him after I get over the jetlag. Should be super.
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Nov 17, 2012 14:03
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If you want to get the most bounce per ounce I'd recommend checking out shows that aren't at the big famous clubs except maybe The Comedy Cellar super late show. I'm not terribly knowledgeable about the NYC comedy scene so maybe someone else could point you in a better direction than "UCB, Bell House, uh.... google I guess."
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Nov 17, 2012 21:56
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Honestly, it seems like the NYC Comedy scene is fairly moribund at this point. Everybody has moved out to LA. I blame the extremely high cost of rent.
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Yeah I'll probably scour the websites to see who's billed a month or two beforehand, and if nothing takes my fancy take a chance on somewhere that might get some good guests. Just strikes me as funny that I'm travelling thousands of miles to go somewhere, when someone on my 'most wanted' list is playing the UK. If I wasn't going on the trip, I probably wouldn't be able to justify going to London so it works out wonderfully. He's doing something like 11 days in a theatre that looks like it only has 150 seats and they're all unreserved. Sounds like my kinda show! In my 'I really should listen/watch everything PFT has put out before going' task, I watched Driven to Drink earlier. Pretty amazing show, despite the fact he's not as on top of his game as he now. Definitely transcends simple stand up into performance art and would love to see him do a spiritual sequel to it now.
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Al! posted:Honestly, it seems like the NYC Comedy scene is fairly moribund at this point. Everybody has moved out to LA. I blame the extremely high cost of rent. I doubt rent in LA is much better, especially once you add in the fact that you legitimately NEED a car and the cost of gas to get loving anywhere. It's not like New York where you can sub/bus it to your sets. And there are more jobs in LA in the writing/producing area for TV and the internet to supplement their standup income. I think they're shooting less and less stuff in New York anymore. Plus commercial/acting work.
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Yeah, commercial acting work doesn't pay what it used to in NYC. What I commonly hear is that you move to NYC to get good, then you move to LA to get work.
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feedmyleg posted:Yeah, commercial acting work doesn't pay what it used to in NYC. What I commonly hear is that you move to NYC to get good, then you move to LA to get work. Or just skip that first part and get good in LA as well.
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The pHo posted:Yeah I'll probably scour the websites to see who's billed a month or two beforehand, and if nothing takes my fancy take a chance on somewhere that might get some good guests. Just strikes me as funny that I'm travelling thousands of miles to go somewhere, when someone on my 'most wanted' list is playing the UK. If I wasn't going on the trip, I probably wouldn't be able to justify going to London so it works out wonderfully. He's doing something like 11 days in a theatre that looks like it only has 150 seats and they're all unreserved. Sounds like my kinda show!
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Nov 21, 2012 16:07
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soggybagel posted:Or just skip that first part and get good in LA as well. It's much harder cause you can only get like 20-25% of the stage time. Anything would take a lot more time to get good at if you can't practice as much.
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Nov 22, 2012 08:19
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There are a billion places in LA to get stage time.
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Nov 23, 2012 01:59
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soggybagel posted:There are a billion places in LA to get stage time. Yeah, but it's also not like NY. I've been doing comedy in LA for years, but there's just more mics per night in NY. For NYC comedy, you should check out Mike Lawrence or Matt Koff. They're two of the funniest guys I've seen in NY. I don't know Mike's website, but you can check out http://www.mattkoff.com for his schedule.
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Nov 23, 2012 13:18
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New Jeselnik special, premiering on CC-- 1/13/2013, being released on DVD 1/15/2013!!!!
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Nov 24, 2012 14:05
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New Kyle Kinane special TONIGHT on Comedy Central at 11 EST!
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Beef Jerky Robot posted:New Kyle Kinane special TONIGHT on Comedy Central at 11 EST! Nice! And the album is coming out on the 27th.
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escape artist posted:New Jeselnik special, premiering on CC-- 1/13/2013, being released on DVD 1/15/2013!!!! To merge these two threads of conversation back together, I saw him workshop some of the material that (I assume) is on this special when I was in New York back in April at Whiplash at the UCB. So go see that. And ASSSSCAT, because improv is fun to watch and that's the best improv.
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Beef Jerky Robot posted:New Kyle Kinane special TONIGHT on Comedy Central at 11 EST! This was great but there were two unintentional things made me laugh. - Them only cutting to smiling Asian people during his Asians bit. - Five people slowly standing up at the end for a standing o...and nobody else joining in.
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Asterios posted:Yeah, but it's also not like NY. I've been doing comedy in LA for years, but there's just more mics per night in NY. Also no one in LA wants to watch you be bad and get better.
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Kroll was awesome tonight although the show seemed half as long as Chelsea's. He showed clips from his upcoming tv Chappelle show clone. Gabe Liedman opened. I wish he had more time.
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I'll take a dozen Chappelle Show clones as long as they're good. Also Janet Varney's supposed to be in it and she is the best.
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indigi posted:I'll take a dozen Chappelle Show clones as long as they're good. Also Janet Varney's supposed to be in it and she is the best.
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Stewart Lee's new two hour standup special "Carpet Remnant World" is the greatest deconstruction of comedy I've ever seen. He's probably an acquired taste, but anyone who's liked any of his previous material owes it to themselves to check it out.
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Yup, Carpet Remnant World is amazing. "Check it out if you like good stuff" is my review of it.
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NoEyedSquareGuy posted:Stewart Lee's new two hour standup special "Carpet Remnant World" is the greatest deconstruction of comedy I've ever seen. He's probably an acquired taste, but anyone who's liked any of his previous material owes it to themselves to check it out. Carpet Remanant World is an incredible performance from my hands down favorite comedian. I was fortunate enough to see it on it's very first night in Leicester Square then it's final night at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. You're definitely right about Lee being an acquired taste. I'd be really interested to see what people think of him in the states.
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Sometimes twitter is just perfect: https://twitter.com/JimNorton/status/276122153684975616
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Tea Bone posted:Carpet Remanant World is an incredible performance from my hands down favorite comedian. I was fortunate enough to see it on it's very first night in Leicester Square then it's final night at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. You're definitely right about Lee being an acquired taste. I'd be really interested to see what people think of him in the states. I hear about his brilliance all the time and would love to give him a shot, but I haven't found any real good starting places. I've seen his bit about Top Gear that people link constantly and he seems witty and acerbic but I guess I don't see any glimmers of the genius people talk about. I'd like to assume he has much tighter material than that though. Unless he's one of those comedians with wise and clever words but not many actual jokes. I don't need a bunch of pithy one-liners, but I could never enjoy comedians like Bill Hicks for that reason, even while I respect them greatly. I don't really care about brilliance if it's not making me laugh.
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Ror posted:I hear about his brilliance all the time and would love to give him a shot, but I haven't found any real good starting places. I've seen his bit about Top Gear that people link constantly and he seems witty and acerbic but I guess I don't see any glimmers of the genius people talk about. I'd like to assume he has much tighter material than that though. 41st Best Standup is probably the funniest one he's done overall, though not necessarily his best if that makes any sense. The whole of it is available on Youtube starting here. If you watch it all and still don't like him then you're probably not likely to enjoy the rest of his material, but his other standup specials are amazing and his show Comedy Vehicle is also really good even if the occasional sketch comedy bits were a bit lacking at times.
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