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Old 09-29-2003, 04:51 PM   #11
OnyxCougar
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The solution to that is...get new material. If you're genuinely a funny person, with relevant anecdotes about society, then you can have new, fresh material that is still funny. That way, you don't get burnt out as quickly.

Most music groups cut an album, then take that material on tour, then cut another album, then take that material and add it to the tour, etc until people stop coming. But they keep making new stuff, so people keep coming.

Even Neil Diamond, whose latest effort was Three Chord Opera several years ago... his concerts aren't the same. I've been to five of them since 1996...and he sings the standards, but he also rotates the old songs... (He did Shilo last year, but not the year before, for example.) I'll go every time.

G.C. is not as funny anymore because it's the same old thing. If he injected new material that was less scathing and bitter and more intellectual and relevant, he'd return to his status (at least in my opinion) as one of the funniest comedians around.
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