Dane Cook? Funny?
Big_Chan
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I watched some of this dude's Madison Square Garden show on Comedy Central last night. I do not think he is very funny at all. Why is this guy doing shows in big arenas? Do any of you folls think he is funny? Not my kind of comedy.
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Why is this guy successful?
And why does this guy make 200K a show?
The simple answer is for all three is there is no God and life is a cruel joke.
Just been listening to the ricky gervais show and karl pilkington and that of late, and i can't believe i'd slept on it so long!! consistent bouts of audible laughter.....for days!!
Had me crackin' the f**k up, though. He put on a good show.
I couldn't stop laughing long enough to give him a good,
thorough (and I wanted to).
not funny at all. never understood his appeal. its weird, people bump his stuff at work and i have to listen. people are all crackin up and i'm just waiting for the joke to actually drop...
Talking of which, what happened to Carlos Mencia?
ew.
following that a great sense of humour is sexy, he is un-blap-able to the max.
Q: Since good and bad are so subjective, what do you think are some indications of good and bad comedy?
DC Well, it helps to be at least unique in some way. Not that you can tread the same territory and not be funny and/or ???edgy,??? but I would say that having your own voice that is hard to imitate or deconstruct lends itself to ???good??? comedy as opposed to ???bad.??? The inverse is true as well. If you???re out there talking about how hard it is to F*ck fat chicks unless you???re drunk or how weird the names are for drinks at TGI Applebee???s ??? and your cadence and intonation make you sound like a cross between a 16-year-old girl from Orange County and a drill sergeant ??? then you???re probably not doing ???good??? comedy. Also, tricks are an indication of weak comedy. If you take a random set of Robin Williams or Dane Cook and reduce them to just a transcript written down on a piece of paper ??? which I know isn???t really fair because half of comedy is the presentation and performance (the ???show,??? as it were) ??? and you take away the corny ???gay??? voice or the high energy yelling and flexing at the audience and you???re left with some pretty weak ideas that have been offered a million different ways before you. But, again, it???s all subjective. Some people just want to have a good time and not think about stuff and stuff."
interview here:
http://thatotherpaper.com/austin/david_cross_an_eye_for_a_tooth_and_a_tooth_for_an_eye
He makes me guffaw. And, at times, snicker.
All of the great stand-up comedians of my lifetime are dead.
Hicks is #1.
Bruce
Carlin
Pryor
Kaufman
Round out my Top 5
Mitch Hedberg gets honorable mention.
Wow, you might be the first person i've ever heard of who finds her funny.
Over here in the UK she's on some panel show called Mock The Week which she regularly stinks up with unfunnyness and her stand up routine is a bit wank too.
To each their own I guess, the rest of your list was cool so i'm taking it as an anomaly haha.
I listen to a lot of the Soulstrut massive's opinions, but movies & comedy I DO NOT.
And how would you describe his core audience? I just can't see anyone with a higher IQ than the demographic described above getting into that crap.
There are way better comics I should be spending my time/money on.
Like this guy. I saw him at the Comedy Cellar in New York last year and he killed it.
Bazinga!
somewhere in the middle