Society/Culture Is Comedy Dead?

[Val Keating]

Fair enough, though I saw Will Anderson this year and the only funny bit was him hanging s**t on the Scottish heckler, can work for some I guess.

It can be funny but the comics don’t like it, especially if they’re filming their special that they have spent such a long time perfecting.

 

[Mofra]

Such a great time for stand up.

This.
We now have multiple streaming services providing dozens of comedy specials, before you consider you-tube, podcasts, etc

I'm not sure how anyone could think that 'comedy is dead'.

 

[Engimal v3]

Comedy died the day Trevor Marmalade left The Footy Show

 

[Osho]

I miss Norm.
Quite a lot.

 

[JackOutback]

This.
We now have multiple streaming services providing dozens of comedy specials, before you consider you-tube, podcasts, etc

I'm not sure how anyone could think that 'comedy is dead'.

Exactly, Netflix has such a variety of global comics to choose from, but I picked up paramount Plus recently and its catalogue of Aussie comics is also impressive. So much to choose from.

As for Rock, will definitely watch. He's had his ups and downs but he's always been watchable.

 

[Leeda]

Can I get your autograph?....
That is what appeases most comical dudes...

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[Leeda]

And there is the problem, which is what we see repeatedly with far right nutjobs who love a laugh at any minority they can find, but draw the line at comedy aimed at them, which most is because their views are so out of line with normal people, it's funny.

I laugh at most things, I'd I think I'm not going to laugh, I change channels in the worst case scenario.

Un...comm..fort...able...
There is the strip tease of comic which has no lines drawn...then there are those who know that a gentle and equitable driver will say what "belongs" to everyone...

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[Cap]

Un...comm..fort...able...
There is the strip tease of comic which has no lines drawn...then there are those who know that a gentle and equitable driver will say what "belongs" to everyone...

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Are you talking about Drawn together ?....


Plenty of strip teasing

 

[ClarkeM]

To answer the question no, but it sure is dying.

In before "dying" is making fun of ill people in which case, I'm so terribly sorry.

 

[Mofra]

Are you talking about Drawn together ?....
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Plenty of strip teasing

That bit where Foxy Love shows up the house kills me. Brilliant writing.

 

[Leeda]

Are you talking about Drawn together ?....
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Plenty of strip teasing

up the bikini... no brackish water for me..

 

[nobbyiscool]

Tell you what killed comedy.

It's nothing to do with privileged white guys punching down before complaining about "being cancelled" on their next sold out tour...

How much would it suck trying to make a go of it as a touring stand-up performer at the moment? Step 1 of that job ceasing to exist was when reality tv performers started getting jobs on radio and needed comedians cos it turned out none of them were funny; step 2 was COVID; step 3 was COVID seeing this massive uptake in cheaply made panel shows featuring panel comedians.

I'm not funny enough to be a comedian, but if I was, I couldn't imagine anything worse than having to go on tv and wear a collar after grinding for years to become a comedian.

 

[Gethelred]

Tell you what killed comedy.

It's nothing to do with privileged white guys punching down before complaining about "being cancelled" on their next sold out tour...

How much would it suck trying to make a go of it as a touring stand-up performer at the moment? Step 1 of that job ceasing to exist was when reality tv performers started getting jobs on radio and needed comedians cos it turned out none of them were funny; step 2 was COVID; step 3 was COVID seeing this massive uptake in cheaply made panel shows featuring panel comedians.

I'm not funny enough to be a comedian, but if I was, I couldn't imagine anything worse than having to go on tv and wear a collar after grinding for years to become a comedian.

So, the explosion of reality TV creating superficial parasocial relationships between ordinary/talentless people coupled with the simultaneous destruction of live gig availability via Covid?

I dunno. Smells a bit snobbish for me. 'I am above those unfunny reality TV stars and panel shows featuring members of Working Dog or Rove enterprises or Dave Hughes (etc) are also boring'.

They don't have to be for you (or me) but if there wasn't a market for them they wouldn't exist.

Isn't it just a simpler solution to say Covid drove comedians onto streaming services, compressing the industry into solely those whose skill/talents were sufficient to the task of being filmed and the industry is yet to truly recover as people have less time/money and are less willing to go out than they used to be?

 

[nobbyiscool]

So, the explosion of reality TV creating superficial parasocial relationships between ordinary/talentless people coupled with the simultaneous destruction of live gig availability via Covid?

I dunno. Smells a bit snobbish for me. 'I am above those unfunny reality TV stars and panel shows featuring members of Working Dog or Rove enterprises or Dave Hughes (etc) are also boring'.

They don't have to be for you (or me) but if there wasn't a market for them they wouldn't exist.

Isn't it just a simpler solution to say Covid drove comedians onto streaming services, compressing the industry into solely those whose skill/talents were sufficient to the task of being filmed and the industry is yet to truly recover as people have less time/money and are less willing to go out than they used to be?

It wasn't intended to be a comment on the state of televison - I watch HYBPA and Front bar on occasions.

It's a comment on the state of comedy and its audiences. No one knows actual stand-up comedians any more. They know tv comedians from one of 3-4 shows of a similar concept that channel 10 are currently advertising. If that's not the comedy you wanted to do - if your comedy is more scripted, more droll, more sarcastic, more adult and less quick-witted, less offensive and less family friendly - I don't know that your career as a stand up even exists any more. Even when you get to the comedy festival, it's the tv panelists that are selling out shows.

Your final sentence is correct, but I wouldn't say it's a "simpler" way of saying anything.

 

[Taylor]

I don't think Australia is a particularly good place to grow your comedy if you're a stand up, as with all things if you want to make a career out of it - go to the US. Tour your hundred cities with an established act. The market is far bigger there, you'll find your place.

Here you have to be Tommy Little or Randy Feltface.

 

[the_interloper]

I don't think Australia is a particularly good place to grow your comedy if you're a stand up, as with all things if you want to make a career out of it - go to the US. Tour your hundred cities with an established act. The market is far bigger there, you'll find your place.

Here you have to be Tommy Little or Randy Feltface.

Yeah there's probably not a big enough market here for you to build a name, I think most of the younger comedians try to do it on Youtube, Tiktok etc. But the main aim is probably to reach those OS markets with a view to touring eventually.

 

[ElectricG]

Could the inbetweeners be made now

 

[burge13]

Could the inbetweeners be made now

Its crass but not overly offensive. I think it would be fine

Its always sunny is still going...

I doubt guys like Ricky Gervais or Jimmy Carr would make it here in Australia today though.

 

[JackOutback]

Could the inbetweeners be made now

No. Because someone, somewhere along the way would realise, ‘hey, this is The Inbetweeners, it’s already been made. This is plagiarism’.

 

[ElectricG]

No. Because someone, somewhere along the way would realise, ‘hey, this is The Inbetweeners, it’s already been made. This is plagiarism’.

mm plus the cast is probably a bit old to be playing high schoolers

 

[the_interloper]

mm plus the cast is probably a bit old to be playing high schoolers

I'll bet you Will's mum is still in good nick though

 

[Gough]

Friday Night Dinner was basically the adventures of slightly older, Jewish Will.

 

[Pistol Night]

I'll bet you Will's mum is still in good nick though

Even after Gilbert smashed her with his “wrecking ball bollocks”

 

[ElectricG]

Even after Gilbert smashed her with his “wrecking ball bollocks”

I bet her body’s still pretty fit.

 

[Pistol Night]

I bet her body’s still pretty fit.

Still piss myself when Will told them all to bring a girl to his birthday dinner and Neil asked him if he could ask his Mum