Imagine buying tickets to a well-established comedian's show just to hear them read Facebook comments for an hour.

Nikki Glaser

They gotta decide if they want to be the jester, or the stooges.

I haven't found Dave Chappelle funny since 2005

Jeff Dunham

Usually the old material wasn't any different.

Jim Breuer

Gen X forgot how to bite their tongue

EDIT: That came out wrong. Let me try again: Dave Chappelle, Adam Sandler and the like, really let the veil slip on their generational sexism and racism, and as their comedy stays the same, they arent aging well with the times.

Gen X here. How would biting my tongue help? You don't change anything by keeping silent, especially since we are sometimes called "the forgotten generation."

Because sometimes you tell a bad joke and you need to apologize or shut the fuck up.

The problem is that he was never funny. Went to see him in Atlanta one summer when he first started getting big. He informed us that he was filming his Christmas special soon and needed to practice so we got 90 minutes of Christmas jokes while it was 100° and 90% humidity outside and the one time an audience member made a well timed heckle (and it was non-disruptive) he paused the whole show and berated the audience, calling us all rude.

And you believe that to be generation-specific? Yeah, I think maybe you need to take your own advice.

I sat my girlfriend down to watch Robin Williams' Live on Broadway set because it was stuck in my mind as the greatest comedy show of all time. I love that man and miss him, but we had to turn that set off a third of the way through. It has not aged well

The way he would constantly advertise his website during his act still haunts me to this day... it randomly just creeps up on me.

Bill "Petrolium" Burr

Lmao he's obsessed with chem trails and thinks the moon landing was fake. I listen to a podcast called Guys that checks in on him all the time and it's hilarious. He also looks like a Frankenstein.

Which one, I wanna cringe a little

Gen-x here. Since we've been referred to as cringe so often we're obviously experts in the field. Annnnd this shit right here ^^^ ? That's some grade-A cringe.

Bravo.

Who did you study with?

Or a chud.

He was always painful to sit through.

i think he is a great performer but his jokes arent that good.

What about Carlin? Haven't heard cringe about him but .... Wondering

He went to Saudi Arabia to make money and lost many fans. Myself included, those fuck faces killed and dismembered a journalist and deserve no international respect.

Still holds up

He's unlikely to make a new special

The only joke in this thread is your mom never closing her legs.

While I still think Chappell is talented if he actually put more effort,

Man his comedy has gone downhill. It’s not a skill thing, it’s a: “I care about money and I know I’m gonna make enough anyway” kind of attitude.

IMO this is why artists should never be payed too much. They should make what a good doctor makes, not enough to “build a brand”

Amazing impressions, but lunatic conservative loser

Oh, he went with that group. Yeah, fuck that.

When they become too rich they start making bits like "isn't going to the Bentley dealership the worst?" or "oh I hate it when I can't book first class and I have to travel on business cramped with all the others"

I mean I've felt this way for the last 10 or 15 years.

I think a lot of people don't realize how much power they have when they become popular. That their shitty ideals will spread like wildfire if not kept under control. Once money gets involved people do wild shit.

Sam Seder can out comedian him by literally just describing a thing Breuer decided to do.

He was always this way. Born to upper-middle-class parents, growing up in the suburbs, cosplaying aa an urban poor black person to grift white people put of their money. Punching down on Mexicans and Asians, anyone he could to be profitable. Now it's trans people, but the grift has always been the same.

This is interesting because the US government has clearly been very friendly with the Saudi regime for decades, supports monarchy / authoritarianism there militarily and diplomatically, developed the petrodollar system with them which saves the average American household thousands of dollars a year and allows the US government to run a $40 trillion dollar debt with favorable interest rates. Several advantages America has over other Western nations and the rest of the world come from this partnership.

In a sense every American makes money off of Saudi Arabia and doesn't realize it. Perhaps that's something they didn't consent to so they shouldn't be held accountable. But if the petrodollar ended tomorrow, inflation in the US would spike almost immediately through currency devaluation and a bond crisis would likely follow.

The first morally logical step would be to petition one's own government to stop supporting the Saudi monarchy militarily and diplomatically.

Tl;dr: The US is the reason Saudi Arabia has international legitimacy and respect. If anyone wants to change that, start with them.

Got a little dark towards the end. Not wrong per se, just. Not lighthearted.

Same for my mom and I's viewing of "Good Morning Vietnam".

Yeah, uhm. Great film, if you can get past the 1980's Shock-Jock Robin Williams yelling to himself, from himself, at himself, back, forth, ad-nauseum.

Boom

Won’t work. Saudi spectacularly demolished some NY real estate and the US bent over backwards to pretend Afghanistan was to blame.

He peaked with the Chappelle show and can't admit it to himself

And his stuff aged like a fine wine

Fair.

He was lighthearted?

I mean it's not even that he went to Saudi Arabia and did this absurd show. It's how he handled the Fallout. If he had just handled it like a comedian by making a joke he probably would have been fine. He said "I'm sorry but you know I needed the money have you see my wife's Instagram page?" Or something like that he probably could have emerge somewhat unscathed. Battered but unbroken. But the way he handle it was just so tone deaf and so patronizing and so God damn absurd that a lot of it just had to tune out.

Tbh he had good skits and bits but Chappelle in my opinion wasn't as funny as perceived.

His comedy really is that line "but have you ever seen it on weed?"

Like he's not this philosopher comic person people think he was.

Yeah, I made it a couple minutes into the new special and had to turn it off.

He should have left at the peak.

Early on. Even in the 80s.

Funny thing is that it wasnt even that much of money.