The Big Bumper Thread of Stand-up Comedy - Page 12

Undertoad · 05-26-2019, 11:12 AM

Some millennials: Comedy is not funny when it is punching down.

Anthony Jeselnik: Fuck you and hold my beer. In fact hold all my beers because I'm going to punch way way down for an hour and you are going to die.

Flint · 05-27-2019, 10:35 AM

I can only speak for myself, but if someone is "punching down" to a disadvantaged group, and simultaneously wants to literally punch said group, it's not comedy.

Nobody takes Anthony Jeselnik seriously when he says Marlee Matlin should have won a Grammy in the Special Olympics, or that Snoop Dogg stole his wallet. He's an Archie Bunker-- he's satirizing those things.

Undertoad · 05-27-2019, 12:21 PM

Some millennials disagree and want to take everything at face value.

xoxoxoBruce · 05-28-2019, 01:34 AM

That's because they rode the damn bus instead of walking 5 miles uphill both ways. Otherwise they'd think a little.

xoxoxoBruce · 05-31-2019, 10:58 AM

Wife's code...

Undertoad · 02-16-2020, 09:02 AM

Watched Maria Bamford's latest "Weakness is the Brand" last night. She has her own special type of standup genius and I think it just gets better.

05-27-2019, 10:35 AM	#167
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 12,841	I can only speak for myself, but if someone is "punching down" to a disadvantaged group, and simultaneously wants to literally punch said group, it's not comedy. Nobody takes Anthony Jeselnik seriously when he says Marlee Matlin should have won a Grammy in the Special Olympics, or that Snoop Dogg stole his wallet. He's an Archie Bunker-- he's satirizing those things. __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**

05-28-2019, 01:34 AM	#169
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 69,424	That's because they rode the damn bus instead of walking 5 miles uphill both ways. Otherwise they'd think a little. __________________ Tony Montana, Tony Soprano, Walter White, Frank Underwood, and Donald Trump.

05-31-2019, 10:58 AM	#170
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 69,424	Wife's code... __________________ Tony Montana, Tony Soprano, Walter White, Frank Underwood, and Donald Trump.

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05-26-2019, 11:12 AM	#166
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,022	Some millennials: Comedy is not funny when it is punching down. Anthony Jeselnik: Fuck you and hold my beer. In fact hold all my beers because I'm going to punch way way down for an hour and you are going to die.

05-27-2019, 12:21 PM	#168
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,022	Some millennials disagree and want to take everything at face value.

02-16-2020, 09:02 AM	#171
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,022	Watched Maria Bamford's latest "Weakness is the Brand" last night. She has her own special type of standup genius and I think it just gets better.

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