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escape artist posted:Speaking of which, has anyone seen John Mulaney's stand-up (live, I mean)? I saw him back in September 2007, when I had no idea who he was-- he was opening for Patton Oswalt. He was spectacular. I was sitting in the first row, dead center. He made eye contact with me a lot through out the show, probably because I was laughing and clapping so goddamn hard. I saw him in 2008 or 2009 at JFL in Toronto. He was on the same bill with Louis CK, Sarah Silverman, Arj Barker, David Cross, and Todd Glass. At the time I didn't know who Glass or Mulaney were, but they (with CK) were the top three of the night for sure.
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BobTheCow posted:Holy poo poo, that's a hell of a lineup, I'm jealous. Then allow me to make it a tiny bit worse: I sat beside Jon Dore! ... if anyone knows who Jon Dore is
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Feb 7, 2013 06:40
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thexerox123 posted:I'm Canadian too, so... I do! It was a great show, and it was at Massey Hall (which is an amazing place for comedy). Did anyone here do the JFL42 thing? I did, and although it was confusing at first, it was a total steal for how much stuff I got to see for $100.
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ibntumart posted:(She also made my worst comedy show fear come true in that she honed in on me and my wife to ask questions, but she was actually nice... the guy after me wasn't quite as lucky, but whatever, she was cool to me and my wife, so fear negated!). That's my worst fear. When I saw Todd Barry, he did it to the woman directly behind me and at first I thought he was talking to me and I turned as red as a tomato.
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Feb 11, 2013 17:12
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The first time I saw Louis CK, I was at the early show, and he let it go longer and made the late show people wait outside, because we were the dedicated ones who bought tickets to the first show. (The second show didn't get added til the first one sold out.)
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Apr 24, 2013 00:16
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Pete's new special is hilarious. I saw him do pretty much all of the material last fall in Toronto (twice) but on the special it's just slightly more polished. He really laughs at himself a lot though.
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May 15, 2013 02:00
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http://www.laughspin.com/2013/05/23...est-performers/ That is one loving amazing list.
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May 24, 2013 01:28
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I really hate it when people call this topic boring or tired or whatever. It comes across as very "Discussion about privilege is boring," says white male on the internet-y.
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Jun 3, 2013 21:40
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This comment is not directed at anyone in particular: In the aftermath of the West/Norton thing the other day, West has been getting dozens/hundreds of "you're too fat to rape" / "maybe a good raping would shut you up" comments on her blog, Twitter, etc. If that doesn't indicate a societal problem to you, I think you are nuts
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Jun 4, 2013 02:01
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My girlfriend was interested in it so we watched about three episodes. We watched one that had a long sketch where the punchline was just fart noises over and over again. I think that was the last one we watched.
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Jun 4, 2013 04:15
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I get that some people are burned out on the rape joke thing, so if you are, skip my post. Jim Norton has an article up today about people sending rape threats to Lindy West after their debate on Totally Biased the other night, I thought it was pretty good. Also, apparently Kurt Metzger started making fake Facebook/comment accounts for Lindy West and then decided to have a meltdown about it? 
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Jun 6, 2013 02:54
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I saw Jen Kirkman tonight! I just read her book this week, so a lot of the material stuck out to me as stuff from the book, but it was still a really great show, lots of fun. I haven't been to a live show in a while (note to self, go see more live comedy). Also, read her book! It is funny.
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Nah, Kirkman had different openers for each of the 3 shows she did this weekend. My openers were Eddie Della Siepe, Evany Rosen, Kristeen von Hagen. von Hagen was okay but the other two were great.
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Jun 9, 2013 20:34
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Patton wrote a thing about joke theft, heckling, and rape culture (not combined): http://www.pattonoswalt.com/index.cfm?page=spew&id=167 Love it.
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I hope some/most of that tour gets incorporated into JFL42. Speaking of which, they're apparently announcing this year's 3 headliners by 9am tomorrow... e: headliners are Sarah Silverman, Aziz Ansari, and Family Guy Live. Underwhelming, but the rest of the line-up announced so far is awesome, including John Mulaney, Maria Bamford, Marc Maron, Kyle Kinane, Hannibal Buress, etc. http://www.jfl42.com/the42/ The Berzerker fucked around with this message at 12:48 on Jun 18, 2013 |
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escape artist posted:New John Hodgman stand-up special on Netflix is to be released today! I really like his stand-up, I've seen 2 or 3 specials. His style reminds me of Eddie Izzard a bit, which people don't like hearing because they think I'm only saying that because they're both British, but that's not why. They really do have a similar style.
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Jun 20, 2013 15:04
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I just watched The Maria Bamford Show and my life has been improved forever.
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escape artist posted:I'm not familiar with Bert Kreischer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PAtFsJY5q0 Bert? HE'S THE MACHINE! e: his story was apparently the inspiration for Van Wilder, and also he's Chris Pratt's cousin. The Berzerker fucked around with this message at 14:43 on Jun 27, 2013 |
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Apparently Amy Schumer is doing a reddit AMA today. I don't post on reddit but hopefully someone asks her why she employs a giant piece of poo poo like Metzger.
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Jul 1, 2013 18:08
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Groucho Marxist posted:I'm sure Reddit will be very concerned about supporting a woman beater. Yeah, I spent too much time in the sun yesterday, I don't know what I was thinking.
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Jul 1, 2013 20:50
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Thelonius Van Funk posted:Todd Barry's first two albums are also great for quick jokes. His joke about the guy from Third Eye Blind on MTV Cribs is one of my favorite jokes ever.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Picking up Jen Kirkman's book tomorrow from the library, how is it? Not bad, but not great. I feel like she says a lot of the same things over and over again.
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IFC has renewed Maron for a second season of 13 episodes.
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They announced more JFL42 acts. http://jfl42.com/the42/ Still 10 more to announce! Hoping for more podcasts.
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Aug 26, 2013 17:12
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I think you meant Todd Barry, not Dave Barry, but that kind of makes it funnier.
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Aug 26, 2013 19:57
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Aug 27, 2013 16:59
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Animal-Mother posted:He's a veteran comic. He couldn't shut down some hecklers? I saw some of the videos on an article earlier, either Laughspin or Splitsider or something, and it was literally 100+ people yelling RICK JAMES BITCH or I WANNA TALK TO SAMSON or whatever. Honestly if you've read Steve Martin's biography, it kinds of has a similar tone to it. He eventually got so big he was playing giant stadiums and the crowd would just scream out WILD AND CRAZY GUY or whatever at him and it was a big factor in him starting to hate doing stand-up.
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Aug 30, 2013 16:31
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Medullah posted:On the other hand, I am a huge Flight of the Conchords fan and they were TERRIBLE (Detroit show if anyone wants to agree/disagree). I really think you have to be a fan of theirs to "get" them and their style. But they didn't make it any easier on the people who hadn't heard them before by choosing a bizarre setlist. They have a lot of pretty easily accessible songs (The Humans Are Dead is one that I think pretty much anyone can appreciate the humor in), but they did songs like "Song for Sally" and a really bizarre version of Rhymenoceros vs Hiphopopotamus. I am a big fan of FOTC but I think you have to see them in the right circumstances. This festival seems like the worst sort of place to see them, I've seen them twice and once it was in a huge venue and it was just horrible. The first time I saw them was in a small venue and it was amazing.
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Every person I've talked to about it suggests going to a couple of open mics so that you know what you're walking in to, so I guess do that. I'm in the same boat as you where I am just trying to push myself into doing it, I've been planning on doing it for a long time and I've written stuff I just have trouble getting over the nerves to do it.
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JFL42 starts this week and I have plans to see Sarah Silverman, Bill Burr, Andy Kindler, Marc Maron, John Mulaney, Maria Bamford, Kyle Kinane, and a ton of local comics and whoever else I can get in to see. It is going to be awesome.
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I saw Sarah Silverman on Friday and then last night I saw two shows, one with Picnicface members and the other was Bill Burr. Tonight I'm seeing some local Toronto comics (same with tomorrow, I think) and then Tuesday I'm seeing Marc Maron, Wednesday I'm seeing Maria Bamford (and hopefully Kyle Kinane), and Thursday I'm seeing John Mulaney (and hopefully Hannibal Buress). It's an insane week.
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ibntumart posted:Dan Nainan doesn't handle criticism well, it seems. What a tool. I saw Maria Bamford twice tonight and it was awesome. I saw Marc Maron and Andy Kindler last night which was also awesome.
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ibntumart posted:Did she try out any new material? Not that the album stuff wouldn't be awesome to hear live, mind. I am dying to see her live one of these days, but haven't had the pleasure yet. (She always picks middle of the week shows in San Francisco for some reason... I think she had a bad experience at another closer comedy club, so hasn't been back.) Yeah, she did a bit of new stuff, she was clearly still working on some things. It was that, mixed with stuff from her latest album. Solid show. The second time I saw her she was being a panelist on Match Game but it was also great.
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I saw Maria Bamford again tonight, she was on Andy Kindler's Alternative Show (along with a bunch of locals, and John Mulaney, and Jon Dore, and Kyle Kinane, and Aziz Ansari showed up as a surprise). Also saw Mulaney do a full hour earlier in the night, he was fantastic. It was all new stuff.
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Sep 27, 2013 07:22
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It isn't, but it was still great. Possibly better than New In Town. Bits about growing up, the phrase "Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free", and a hilarious closer about meeting Bill Clinton when he was a kid.
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regulargonzalez posted:[stuff about modern comedy] Not much to add on the posters above but if you're interested in reading a bit more about stand-up's shift towards observational comedy and that sort of thing, you might enjoy this book: http://www.amazon.ca/Comedy-The-Edge-Richard-Zoglin/dp/1582346259 I read it a few months ago and it basically has short chapters on a lot of different comedians who made an impact in the 70s (from Bruce to Carlin, Pryor, Steve Martin, Al Brooks, Robert Klein, Kaufman etc.), it was a good read especially for $10-15.
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Did anyone watch the Pete Holmes show? I won't have cable for another couple of weeks and TBS' site won't let me either, but I am hoping it was good.
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braden posted:Anyone seen Bill Burr lately? Can't wait to hear his new material! I saw him at the end of September at JFL42 in Toronto, he was spectacular. Theatre was sold out and everyone was dying laughing. Burr is great. Speaking of handling hecklers, at the 2012 JFL42 I saw Todd Barry do a small midnight show. There were probably only 50 people there, max. One guy wasn't heckling but he was giving his input on jokes, or occasionally just repeating punchlines. He was by himself and was clearly drunk. The openers mostly ignored him but Todd was not having it. He told the guy that he was going to ask him to move to the back and to relax and quiet down, but the guy got belligerent and wouldn't leave the front row, so club staff came to escort him to the back. Keep in mind that Todd didn't even ask for him to be kicked out, just wanted him further back where he wouldn't be so disruptive. Anyway, the guy loses his poo poo and starts crying. It was hilarious, because on one side you have a crying drunken idiot, and on the other side you have Todd Barry, who is the calmest, most relaxed person on stage, making fun of the guy without coming across as angry or anything. Frankly I think Todd found it funnier than the crowd did. It was awesome.
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BiggerBoat posted:It makes me wonder if they staged that exchange simply in the spirit of Andy Kaufman which, if they did, I'm not sure is in incredibly poor taste, a really brilliant idea or both. Obviously, Andy's brother would have to be in on the joke if it's a put on. Probably a combination of this and Bob Zmuda begging for them to do literally anything that helps keep his name somewhat relevant.
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