The 28 pages

I hear Russell Brand has a new book out...

Its fine if it is funny but they pick a lot of chud comments

Young Dave Chappelle was the greatest comedian of all time and I’ll die on this hill.

He still has some sparks of brilliance here and there. But fuck. Yeah. The meme is accurate.

His Michael Jackson joke still makes me laugh.

But they have a cheesecake factory!

I hope that hypocritical sack of shit's career never recovers.

you can bribe a senator for less than 60k

Is it the bible?

When you thought Ricky Gervais was a mild safe bet.

I mean, who doesn't remember he was Mr. Conductor?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPKAG3VUfOE

Went to a Jeff dunham show for free

That's all

You ask for a refund after? I know free is free, but it would send a message.

Yeah, You Are All Diseased wasn't exactly a fun comedy show.

Randy Feltface will never age poorly.

He has a pretty well known interview where he whines about not being able to make fun of gay people and says something about how Comedy Central didn't mind him making fun of black people and...

Well, Dave, I don't know if anyone mentioned this to you but you're black and not gay.

If he's always at some level just never really identified with other black people, or at least the poor ones, that would make a lot of things about that disconnect make sense.

Has that dude ever been funny?

Completely agree. Never been a fan of his stand-up, but incredible comedic actor. And dramatic actor too for that matter

I don't get how his bit about him supporting trans people turned him into what he is now.

Is that the one where he's got an entire table filled with water bottles and he makes it through like half of them by the end of his set?

I saw him easily 30 years ago.

His act hasn’t changed much at all. Still the same racist, low-hanging fruit as always. Just occasionally different puppets.

That was my gripe, too. Any one of them could have said, “I know it’s an awful regime, but I went to go give a lot of regular Saudis who live in an oppressive state a chance to laugh and have some real fun.” and I would have said, “You know, that’s fair.”, but for some reason not a single one of them did.

And a chili's! Don't forget the chili's!

Well that just makes the US government look worse. I'm all for bringing down theocratic monarchies but if one's democratically elected government is the only thing propping that up, it would make much more sense to direct the rage there, within a system that answers to its people. Either that or it looks like they're enjoying the financial benefits of the partnership quietly while engaging in moral grandstanding outwardly.

If one's morality is on a firm foundation, petition your government to bring an end to the petrodollar. The Saudi monarchy will fall as you wish for it to. Anything less amounts to hipocrisy.

Plomo E plata

What way did he handle it?

Yes it is. He uses one bottle to make a show of marking his territory like a dog.

Ooh! I can answer this! He made a joke about someone in his life that was trans. It hit the media that he was doing jokes about trans people. So he tried to explain how he wasn't transphobic by telling a bunch of actual transphobic jokes, which was certainly a choice that was made. That turned a lot of people off, so he followed the laughs.

The first "new" Chappelle special is wonderful! No more offensive to any one group than any other. His follow up was mostly good, but some cringing at some bad takes. Clips thereafter are pretty.... Well, you see what thread we are in. 🙃

I've noticed that once comedians "hit it big" and can live off of the royalties that their specials generate, their comedy tends to go way downhill and they start using future performances as almost soapbox-adjacent platforms rather than writing actual jokes that people find funny. They don't need to write funny material to live off of anymore, they can just ride on their fame and sell out venues wherever they go, so it becomes more of a speaking gig rather than an act.

Like, I remember sitting down during the pandemic with a few friends to watch one of Chappell's new specials and it was just him ranting the whole time, there might have been one or two jokes in there, but I think that was just his personality coming forward and not any conscious effort to deliver a setup and a punchline. It was such a letdown, because we were set for a night of comedy and it was just an angry rant with serious undertones.

Maybe just anecdotal, but that's how I see it going for a lot of famous comedians - not all of them, of course, but a lot of the household names from the past two decades have gone this route rather than segueing into showbiz like comics from the 90's era.

Thank you.

Well, yeah, if I could stop doing real work and just use my soapbox to yell at people I'd do it too.

Kyle Kinane has never let me down.

Joe list, sam morrill, Ryan long, raanan hershberg, Mark normand all hilarious w multiple free stand up specials on YouTube right now.

Ive seen clowns wear less makeup than carpenter.

Well he did. But then he came back

Saudi Arabia

a friend of mine lives there. he works 80 hour weeks. poor fella.

edit: no wait it's UAE actually. i just checked.

I don't know all the details, but I get the feeling the oppressed class weren't in attendance.

Normand and Morril took blood money to perform in Riyadh. Solid list otherwise. I'd substitute in Gianmarco Soresi and addJosh Johnson, and Benny Feldman.

There is a video of Ricky Gervais, Chris Rock, Jerry Seinfeld and Louis CK talking about comedy and their different approaches. This was before we knew about Louis CK but it was enlightening on how different the approaches are and I appreciated the difference between CK and Seinfeld. Seinfeld basically does the same act every year and changes maybe 20% at most. CK does an entirely new act each time. I did respect his decision to rewrite his whole performance each time he changes it.

Unfortunately things are where we are at now but I think someone said prior and Carlin would do the same thing and they are some of the greats in comedy

Ever hold a usa $2 bill in your hand?

The Invention of Lying?

That's all I got.

He's also a really stand up guy. Super friendly.

Yeah UAE is where people go to make money laundering profits for billionaires, or to be slaves building stuff for them.

I only saw the McDonald’s on wheels that chased Trump through the desert, but that didn’t help Burr’s case either.

Dirt Nap had me laughing so hard I cried

I haven't seen it, but the reviews I've seen sorta said it was funny because of the underlying premise, not because of Gervais.

My view of the guy is he has a negative amount of humour. Not only is he totally unfunny by himself, but he actively removes the humour from scenes he's in.

Oh shit he was. Sorry I never watched thomas the tank engine. My first carlin experience was him jerking off on the phone with his mom or something?

So here’s the thing. In his prime in the early 2000s there legitimately was a liberal PC orthodoxy in comedy. This meant if you made a joke about a marginalised group it was implicitly understood that the humour was either in the outrageousness of it, or that bigotry itself was the true target of the joke, and that we weren’t supposed to take it at face value.

But then actual fascists started gaining power by campaigning against those same marginalised groups, and that type of joke stopped being possible even when played back verbatim. Gervais either hasn’t realized that, or is happy to play to the tastes of real bigots.

What? He's not racist, that's just the way his people communicate!

Morgie morgie morgaaaaaan