Arts & Humanities Stand Up Comedy

[nicky]

 

[BALKAN]

 

[Hollow Knight]

Way to post two videos I'd already posted Nicky

 

[Caesar]

I reckon Stewart Lee (I posted a short clip of him earlier) is the best standup comedian going around. It's hard to post clips of his stuff because it's hard to get a sense of his comedy from just watching little segments. He doesn't do jokes insomuch as deliberately long, rambling deconstructions and metahumour, punctuated by very funny turns of phrase.

He's not for everyone, but if you like the Carlin/Hicks style of comedy he's worth checking out.

 

[nicky]

Way to post two videos I'd already posted Nicky

a. Great minds
b. I don't take notice of your posts
c. who cares

Seriously though, louis CK is my favourite atm. I've watched that 'white people' clip about 10 times this weekend. It's gold!

 

[Hollow Knight]

a. Great minds
b. I don't take notice of your posts
c. who cares

Seriously though, louis CK is my favourite atm. I've watched that 'white people' clip about 10 times this weekend. It's gold!

You been watching the TV show? Absolute genius. Though quite hard to watch at times.

 

[nicky]

You been watching the TV show? Absolute genius. Though quite hard to watch at times.

No what is it? I'll download it. Currently watching 'oh my god' (again!)

 

[Hollow Knight]

No what is it? I'll download it. Currently watching 'oh my god' (again!)

It's just called Louie.

Third season just wrapped up. It's not like anything else you've ever seen, I promise.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louie_(TV_series)

 

[nicky]

Thankyou very muchly for the tip TBD

 

[dales.girl38]

Can recommend Louie, haven't seen too much of it, but what I've seen was good

 

[stralia]

Stand up lovers have to watch this:

 

[stralia]

It's just called Louie.

Third season just wrapped up. It's not like anything else you've ever seen, I promise.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louie_(TV_series)

He also had a show on HBO called Lucky Louie which was cancelled after the first season.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Louie


On the social commentary side of things Eddie Griffin took me by surprise:

 

[Hollow Knight]

Yeah Lucky Louis can't hold a candle to Louie.

 

[stralia]

Yeah Lucky Louis can't hold a candle to Louie.

Absolutely. It's such a downer some of it is pretty hard to watch.

I think it was a necessary developmental step for CK to get to Louie though. Making Lucky Louie soured him so much on the executive side of things he only agreed to make Louie with absolutely no over site from FX. Apparently they agreed to never even see a cut of any episode before it is to be aired. Which is pretty amazing.

 

[Plugger35]

Has anyone mentioned aka namedropped Louis CK or Bill Hicks in this thread yet just to sound cool?

Bill Burr is funnier than both, the sign of a great stand up comedian is someone that can completely destroy a room and Bill Burr can destroy a room like nobodies business.

No better example than this.



He just escalates the humour levels until the time he's talking about the Titanic I'm like Ray Liotta in Goodfellas.

.

 

[BALKAN]

He's a bit too 'shouty' for me

 

[Hollow Knight]

Has anyone mentioned aka namedropped Louis CK or Bill Hicks in this thread yet just to sound cool?

Have any pretentous Gen-Y kids come in and delivered their subjective preferences as some sort of objective universal truth yet?

Yes.

 

[James_Blues]

Just some more clips of Jim Jefferies

 

[nicky]

Has anyone mentioned aka namedropped Louis CK or Bill Hicks in this thread yet just to sound cool?
.

I've mentioned both those comedians because they happen to be hilarious. What of it flog?














Seriously though, what is your problem?

 

[Caesar]

Bill Burr is funnier than both, the sign of a great stand up comedian is someone that can completely destroy a room and Bill Burr can destroy a room like nobodies business.

I think it just depends on what you are looking for. Bill Burr does stock standard observational comedy, and people who go to see him know exactly what they are going to get. But he does it brilliantly, and every gag builds on the previous one perfectly until his audience is in stitches.

People who say someone like Bill Burr isn't a brilliant comedian because he doesn't do self-aware or multi-layered humour / meta-jokes are talking crap, because the way he puts his sets together is an artform. But that doesn't mean that someone who takes a different approach is a lesser comedian.

This is a perfect example (and explanation) of what I'm talking about:



That whole set involves so much reflexive, incisive humour about the nature of comedy and the arbitrariness of comedic fashion and the nature of and relationships with audiences. He makes jokes whilst joking about others whilst implicitly joking about himself and the nature of comedy in general.



I don't find that sort of stuff any less enjoyable or rewarding than what Bill Burr does, even if Burr is better at 'destroying a room'.

 

[Hollow Knight]

Yeah, and there is the fact that different comedians to speak to different people at different life stages.

Like I said in my first post, when you hit your mid thirties, your youth is gone, your body starts aching in place and doctors tell you "yeah that happens when you get older", you are tired all the time because of your kids, you've got no disposable income... Louis CK speaks right to your heart.

But I guess I'm just "namedropping" to look cool...

 

[Plugger35]

I've mentioned both those comedians because they happen to be hilarious. What of it flog?



Seriously though, what is your problem?

I don't really have a problem, I like both Louis CK and Bill Hicks but I just like Bill Burr better.

Stand up comedy is all subjective though like music so people are always going to have different opinions on who they think is better.

I do think Bill Hicks tends to get overrated though due to his premature death, similar to musicians that die prematurely. He was a good stand up but I don't think he's as great as some people make him out to be.

 

[nicky]

Fair enough but you don't have to cast aspersions on people who like them - which is exactly what you did in this thread and hence why we're having this conversation.

 

[nicky]

It's just called Louie.

Third season just wrapped up. It's not like anything else you've ever seen, I promise.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louie_(TV_series)

Thanks TBD. Am loving it!

 

[Hot Pocket]

LouisCK, Dylan Moran, Mitch Hedberg, Doug Stanhope, David Cross, Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Daniel Tosh, Zach Galifanakis, Jimmy Carr.... all very good. I tend to prefer American standup to British. But I tend to prefer British comedy to American comedy.