At first I thought this was unrealistic because the comedy portion was so bad. Then I realized it is probably about Joe Rogan, in which case this checks out.
Rogan thinks he’s a philosophy major cause he has friends like duncan trussel. While duncan is rather intelligent let’s not act like he’s Socrates
I’m surprised Duncan still hangs with Joe after Joe’s shift to being an absolute right-wing cunt. I guess it’s hard to bail on old friendships, especially when getting on the wrong side of Joe can fuck your comedy career.
I feel like Duncan whole schtick is live and let live.
Fuck comedians like that. I did standup comedy for years. I wasn’t a modern day philosopher, I was a guy that (hopefully) made you forget about the shitty week you were having for 5-15 minutes depending on the set (I was never a headliner).
I spent a lot of time crafting my jokes, I did a lot of rewriting and honing and testing of material. I wasn’t a philosopher, I was a joke engineer. That’s really the best way to look at most standup. It’s joke engineering.
Got any good one liners from your old sets?
Sorry, not that I would want to write in text form. Part of the engineering process for me involves things like getting the inflection just right when I tell it. Also, I’ve forgotten 99% of it and I’d have to go dig up old notebooks in storage. I haven’t been on stage and behind a mic in at least 15 years. Also, I did somewhat longer-form stuff than one-liners in general.
I had a good long bit about how dogs are better than kids because they’re stupid so you can trick them more easily into doing things to amuse you, but it really is in the way you tell them.
That said, as someone who now has a kid and dogs, I stand by that statement. Fake throwing a ball and having the dog try to find it is one of the funniest things in the world to me.
Well, you could try it with your kids and see how it goes 😁
I already know what would happen. My daughter would ignore me and continue talking about obscure anime most Americans have never heard of or whatever. Teenagers could not give less of a fuck. I forgot about how that was.
Get her to help you make meme templates from that obscure anime, as a bonding exercise. ;)
The shitty ones like Joe Rogan say their philosophers. The good ones that should get that credit. Will be the first ones to tell you they are not. It’s always the rule if you have to tell someone you’re deep you are probably not.
FriendlyJorides is both an absolute wordsmith and a middle aged man who watches too much Simpsons at the same time
“They are”
I always watch this video when I think of that
“And that’s why if an audience doesn’t laugh at my jokes, they’re wrong.”
This was my issue with comedians in cars getting coffee. Felt like being talked down to by rich spoiled celebrities.
Really? I felt like a fly on the wall listening to pros talk shop. The things they had in common were fascinating - like being on the road in hotels and sneaking leftover food off room service carts in the hallway. Seinfeld said that was how he first got to try key lime pie.
Maybe they changed things up in later seasons? I don’t recall the first season really getting into anything like that (and I think I only made it 1-2 seasons in).
I don’t have a sense of when I noticed this about the show, probably right away. I’m always alert to that sort of thing, having done some performing myself (at a much lower level) and I relate to some of the experiences. Things they say hit home because they’re so basic. Can’t think of anything specific right now besides the key lime pie, but I haven’t watched the show in probably a year. I got the same feeling once hearing Jimmy Stewart talk about his thought process while preparing for a role - it was stuff I had thought about myself as a beginner, and that felt really cool.
I did like that show for background noise tho.
I miss George Carlin
And then there’s Conan O’Brien, who’s just generally hilarious.
His appearance on hot ones is one of the greats episodes they’ve had.
One of the greatest…
On the other hand we have had some that we called comedians who spoke about the ridiculousness of people and society they observed, and we found that funny. Then we saw those comedians got bitter over their lifetime.
Then you have Bill Burr who walls up on stage to thundering applause and opens with “Settle down people! Let’s See if Im good first.”
And what’s the deal with cab drivers? I’m thinkin’ hey!
Airline food, don’t get me started…
Jokes about airline food are so plane.
However, cab drivers always go an extra mile.
Good comedians actually are like modern day philosophers for the most part. This strip is smugly trying to claim to be above that 👎
The comic strip is about the shitty comics who think they are modern day philosophers. The bald guy is most likely Joe Rogan, and they both there to smell their own farts.
I feel like that’s seeing even more meaning in this than I saw.
Every dumb hack comedian has mixed themselves up with Lenny Bruce.
I only know Lenny Bruce from The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Was he a real figure?
All of these comedians who whine about not being able to say things, and being so brave to go ahead with their bigoted material, all just wish they were Lenny Bruce. Lenny was funny, said the truth, and while some stuff wouldn’t fly today, he was very progressive for the 50’s, and early 60s. He literally had police camp out his shows to arrest him as soon as he started saying something they didn’t like. He was actually getting beat-up by police, expelled from countries, and making land mark civil rights law, because of his routines.
The show actually captured a fair amount of that. Interesting. Thanks!
Nice, haven’t seen it myself, glad that came through.
He was not afraid.
Who…?
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It’s entirely possible.
George Carlin probably would have had similiar contrasts if he had podcasts as well
Carlin went full social commentary on stage, he didn’t need a podcast setting.
Carlin’s podcast wouldn’t have ads. It would have breaks where he tells a specific corporation to go fuck itself.
He went full social commentary less than halfway through his career…
