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re: Crowd work has ruined standup comedy
Posted on 4/23/24 at 12:21 pm to hubertcumberdale
Posted on 4/23/24 at 12:21 pm to hubertcumberdale
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Matt Rife is a pretty good example of this. His act is almost entirely 100% crowd work and its pretty godawful. Really not sure how that guy got famous
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.
Posted on 4/23/24 at 12:22 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.
I agree. He does well engaging
Posted on 4/23/24 at 2:12 pm to 0x15E
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I wonder how he gets specials.
He blew the right person.
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.
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