I personally feel its the best medium for comedy. I have plenty of comics I really like as well.
it’s really boring to me with very few exceptions. i get depressed when i go to someone’s house and they’re watching it because it means nobody will be talking to each other they’ll be parasocializing with the tv together instead
It’s a rare opinion, but I think the best medium for truly well-done comedy…
Is puns.
Rare, medium, and well-done?
Try CBC’s the Debaters.
Can be kind of mean spirited
Always the least funny guy showing you a standup comedy clip on YT- maybe it’s something that you have to see in person because I’ve never seen a special that made me forget the time I lost watching the next big sex pest fail to leave a positive impression on anyone in the crowd who won’t follow them through their “career” until they capitulate to the right to regain a shred of notoriety
I like the kind that is either non stop puns or long weird/funny stories that have lots of setup for relatively fewer, but larger, payoffs.
The short jokes/puns are getting more and more rare these days. Mitch Hedberg did it best in my opinion. Anthony jeselnik still runs short punchy jokes but hes one of the only large contemporaries I can think of with that style.
Yeah, Mitch Hedberg was great. Steven Wright as well for those short, odd, clever jokes.
For long weird funny stories, I recommend Shayne Smith. He just put up a full show on the Dry Bar Comedy YouTube channel.
Edit: Link to video
Thanks!
My take?
Uhhhhh funny person get on stage, funny person make joke, me laugh.
Try going outside once in a while.
Me try going outside? I like asking questions and seeing what people think about things. Im a curious person and I like seeing how my interests align with other people. You can look at my post history, I just ask random questions, get alot of engagement and have some interesting conversations.
its harder than it looks
Encouraging. I would love to try doing it sometime, but I realise I’m probably really gonna screw up
You will bomb. Probably more often than not for the first few months. Eventually you’ll feel like you have a rhythm, and then you’ll start bombing again. But every laugh you get will feel like a drug.
I love it. When the comedian gets the room going it is just incredible. I like to do at least three shows a year.
You actually do some?
Oh god no. By Do I mean I attend a comedy club as an audience member.
Hell if you sit close enough too the stage the comic will work you into the act.
We will do that on occasion just be make it more fun.
Depends heavily on the comedy for me. I have an entire folder of stand up specials, and I really enjoy a lot of it, but I lean heavily away from political and broad social commentary, and toward personal/anecdotal and more nuanced stuff.
I want my comedy to be silly, not offensive. If you are going to be making racial/minority stereotype jokes, they better be about your own experience as that race or minority. That’s the one and only way they even could be funny (tho most still aren’t). If you are going to punch down or across, not interested. If you hit yourself, or punch up and get a fist full of shit for doing it, it might be worth watching!
There’s a HUGE amount of really shit standup out there, though. Punching down, shock comedy (especially shit like rape jokes, sexism, etc), that sort of thing. It’s a shame really because you have to wade through it to find good stuff. There’s also an absolutely absurd amount of totally vapid brainrot comedy that could also go extinct, imo, but at least it’s not actively harming anyone, I guess.
Eh I like offensive stand up because it’s one of the ways I deal with traumatic experiences I’ve had. In my family dark humor was always used following a tragedy. I recognize why people get bent out of shape by it but for me its helpful. Thats why some of my favorite comics are dark fucked up people like Jim Norton.
I am a little out of the scope as to who’s who in today’s stand-up comedy. I listen to Sirius XM channels of comedy stations based on a comic’s arrangement.
Listening to stand up comedy at all, it’s a little relieving. It does make you think but laugh too.
I used to listen there alot back when Opie and and Anthony were still on. They had a few good stand up stations. Thats a great way to find stand ups in my opinion.
My take on stand up comedy is to sit down and shut the fuck up.
I enjoy watching it on YouTube. I’m afraid I’d laugh wrong in public so I’ve never been.
Like at the wrong part of the joke? Too loud? Too long? Ho
Yes, all of that. Also my laugh is weird.
Love it. It’s one of my favourite forms of entertainment and pretty much the only thing I’ll go see live these days. Been a fan since the early eighties.
Im in the same boat but more like the early 2000s. Who did you like back then and who now?
Well there’s a big question, but I’ll try to be brief. I’ve got a shelf full of DVDs and a folder on my PC with many gigabytes worth.
Billy Connolly is an all-time favourite from my early years of random. Seen him 3 times. Stewart Lee, Maria Bamford (saw her live last year), Sarah Millican, Doug Stanhope, Bill Bailey*, Dylan Moran, The Umbilical Brothers*, Lano and Woodley* are all great. (* Also seen live)
Some lesser known more recent comics I’ve discovered from the stand-up comedy subreddit are Chris Higgins, Django Gold, and Mike Baldwin. They’re all pretty unique and great.
This list could be ten times longer.
800 Pound Gorilla and Dry Bar Comedy are a couple of good YouTube channels for discovering new comics.
Thats a great list and most of those comics are WAY under appreciated in general.
Seconding for 800 Pound Gorilla and Dry Bar Comedy on YouTube. Some of the best channels to find new comics.
I was more into them when I was younger. I think my high school friend forcing me to watch a new one every single time I visited made me not care for them anymore. Every now and then I’ll remember a joke from Brian Regan or one of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour guys I liked, but that’s it.
Watch Gianmarco new special it was everything you’ve been missing. “Thief of joy” it’s so clearly a new era in dark comedy, and thank God it’s not like the old days.
Maybe. Looks like one of my friends is into that guy (not the same friend from all those years ago).
When the content and delivery is good, what’s not to like?
