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re: Crowd work has ruined standup comedy
Posted on 4/23/24 at 2:24 pm to Eric Nies Grind Time
Posted on 4/23/24 at 2:24 pm to Eric Nies Grind Time
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I would say podcasts ruined standup. They use all of their material on the podcast and that leads to having to do crowd work.
Saying they ruined it is hyperbolic. However, I do find myself laughing at just as much on the podcasts as I do on the specials, e.g., I think Theo Von is way funnier when he's ad libbing.
I saw Bobby Kelly on Friday and many of his bits are based on things he's talked about on The Bonfire.
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Posted on 4/23/24 at 2:41 pm to 0x15E
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I know it’s “the thing” nowadays to hate him, but he’s actually pretty good at crowd work. Better than most of the trash doing it these days.
His actual standup is terrible…and for that, I wonder how he gets specials. I know his Netflix one was met with similar reviews.
Yea I've laughed at a few of his crowd work videos on Instagram so I gave his Netflix special a try. Turned it off halfway through because it was awful. No idea why they gave him a special. Plenty of much much better standup comedians are waiting on a Netflix special and they gave him one based off some 30 second clips.
I don't think it is killing standup, but I don't like crowd work in general. Almost all of my favorite standups don't do it. Anthony Jeselnik (minimally does it just to introduce some jokes), Nate Bargatze, Dusty Slay, Chapelle, Bill Burr, Shane Gillis, Sheng Wang. They don't rely on just making fun of someone in the audience to tell jokes. Not sure why anyone would go to most of the crowd work shows.
Posted on 4/23/24 at 2:52 pm to facher08
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Saying they ruined it is hyperbolic. However, I do find myself laughing at just as much on the podcasts as I do on the specials, e.g., I think Theo Von is way funnier when he's ad libbing.
I saw Bobby Kelly on Friday and many of his bits are based on things he's talked about on The Bonfire.
What podcasting has done is open up headlining gigs to comedians who are barely opener quality standups. They book headlining spots because their podcast audience will buy the tickets. I've seen several decent podcasters who are fair to shitty comics. They skipped past the paying your dues part of standup and it shows.
This post was edited on 4/23/24 at 2:53 pm
Posted on 4/23/24 at 3:00 pm to PrawnMichaels
Kelsey Cook is pretty good at it
And don't say Rickles was great at so and so. Rickles is like Ali, he did things no one else could do
And don't say Rickles was great at so and so. Rickles is like Ali, he did things no one else could do
This post was edited on 4/23/24 at 3:06 pm
Posted on 4/23/24 at 3:05 pm to Bonkers119
Comedians only post crowd work so they don't blow their material.
Posted on 4/23/24 at 3:09 pm to BilbeauTBaggins
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He's pretty good at what he does and gets a following because he's an attractive guy that's quick witted.
Matt rife isn’t even a little bit funny. The funniest thing he’s done is sue that Indian dude for saying he got famous by sucking off some Hollywood exec
Posted on 4/23/24 at 4:02 pm to Bonkers119
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What happened to actually writing and telling funny jokes?
there are still some out there.... my personal favorite right now is Andrew Schulz
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