re: Comedians You Do Not Understand Why People Think They Are Funny?

Posted by LSU Tigershark

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Posted on 2/13/19 at 4:55 pm to OweO

Maron

Posted by LurkerTooLong

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Posted on 2/13/19 at 4:56 pm to DustyDinkleman

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Sam Kinison

I don’t know man, he always seemed like that little voice in your head that has no filters and you always suppress it. Him losing his shite is pretty fricking epic.

Posted by oVo

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Posted on 2/13/19 at 4:56 pm to Bert Macklin FBI

Yeah Rogan’s girl voices can be annoying af

Posted by ShoeBang

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Posted on 2/13/19 at 4:56 pm to OweO

Aziz - Awesome comedic actor. Never laughed at one of his jokes in standup.

Posted by KG6

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Posted on 2/13/19 at 4:58 pm to IS_IT_GAMEDAY

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Joe Rogan’s standup just isn’t funny to me

He isnt great, but hes not so bad that I dont get why hes up there.

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Kevin Hart

I dont get why hes selling out arenas, but he's funny.

I've seen a few people mention Iliza Shlesinger in thread stalking about their favorite comedians. She is the female Dane Cook to me. Loud noises with voices and noises, lots of movement on stage and large gestures, very little actual funny content.

Posted by Scoop

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Posted on 2/13/19 at 5:00 pm to LurkerTooLong

If you watch when Kennison brought out his famine bit on Letterman, it destroyed Letterman. It’s pretty cool to watch when you can see Letterman in the background.

Posted by SouthEndzoneTiger

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Posted on 2/13/19 at 5:03 pm to Scoop

You see this? This sand. NOTHING frickING GROWS HERE!!!!

Posted by Brosef Stalin

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Posted on 2/13/19 at 5:03 pm to OweO

There's very few standup comedians I find funny. Even guys who were funny in the past, like Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock, aren't funny now.

Posted by OMLandshark

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Posted on 2/13/19 at 5:03 pm to OweO

I’m only going with stand ups.

Bill Cosby
Woody Allen
Kathy Griffin
Jay Leno
Ellen Degenres
Aziz Ansari
Lisa Lampanelli
Amy Schumer
Trevor Noah
Hannah Gadsby (least funny person I’ve ever heard)

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Posted by 50_Tiger

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Posted on 2/13/19 at 5:05 pm to OweO

What?? The fricking Pimp Chronicles 1 and 2 are classics!!!!!!!!

Posted by JPinLondon

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Posted on 2/13/19 at 5:07 pm to OweO

Trevor Noah

Thought he was marginally funny on his current show. But really not that good.

Watched a stand-up routine, specifically to see why CC chose him for the show. Wow is he bad.

He needs writers, just to be marginally funny.

Posted by ColoradoAg03

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Posted on 2/13/19 at 5:11 pm to JPinLondon

Sarah Silverman

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Posted on 2/13/19 at 5:18 pm to 50_Tiger

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Pimp Chronicles 1

Is legit funny.

His other standups are horrific.

Posted by Four Leaf Tayback

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Posted on 2/13/19 at 5:18 pm to IS_IT_GAMEDAY

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His podcast is fascinating but Joe Rogan’s standup just isn’t funny to me

Joe’s early stand up was pretty good. Over the last decade, not so much.

I enjoy most of his podcasts

Posted by Saint Alfonzo

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Posted on 2/13/19 at 5:18 pm to OweO

Amy Schumer is the obvious choice. All of her stand-up seems to revolve around her smelly vagina. Comedians who rely on hackey ethnic premises also irritate me. The whole "white people talk like this" trope is just lazy. Pryor, Chappelle and a few others were good at racial humor; you're not.

Posted by GynoSandberg

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Posted on 2/13/19 at 5:20 pm to IS_IT_GAMEDAY

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His podcast is fascinating but Joe Rogan’s standup just isn’t funny to me

I have to agree

I think most of his comedian friends are terrible comedians too (theo von, joey diaz namely)

Posted by BRIllini07

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Posted on 2/13/19 at 5:21 pm to OweO

Of current comics: Nikki Glazer, Joe Rogan (as a standup, he’s great in podcast form).

Aziz Ansari I neve found funny, but I have since seen him after his “me too” moment and he’s better now.

Posted by ellishughtiger

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Posted on 2/13/19 at 5:24 pm to ShoeBang

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Aziz - Awesome comedic actor. Never laughed at one of his jokes in standup.

I have a buddy who's a big name in the standup scene and he once told me that Aziz is pretty hated amongst the NYC comedy circles. Apparently he use the be really cool then Parks n Recs happened and his ego exploded.