Seeing Anthony Jeselnik at the local comedy club tonight….

I remember when he was a thing

JRVP!

Jeselnik is in an interesting place where he is famous enough and wealthy enough that he promotes way less than Bert, Segura, Mark Normand, Theo Von, Stavros, etc even though he is much bigger than them

Tosh is in the same boat.

How was Jeselnik?

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Y’all ever been to one of these things?

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A comedy club?

Then you have the crowd work specialists who I hold in disdain like Matt Rife, Ashley Gavin, Akaash Singh, etc who just do extremely hacky and simple crowd work, which the TikTok algorithm loves for some reason.

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How was Jeselnik?

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here's a few jokes that really stood out (if you know anthony jeselnik, you have to read these in his tone to get it... essentially ):


there's a lot of trans people nowadays.

i consider it being the new pregnant....

you can't ask them how far along they are...

and you can't ask them if they're going to keep it or not.

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here's a little test i use to see if a woman is trans or not...

i order them a bourbon...

if they say, "oh, i'm sorry. i'm pregnant." then they're a woman.

if they take the drink... they're fricking trans.

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what do you call a pregnant woman that gets hit by a bus....?

a gender reveal party.

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everyone knows i hate kids.

my sister sends me texts of my niece all the time...

i would just ignore it. act like i never got it...

my sister would say, "got nothing to say about your niece fricking up this finger painting...?"

so every time i get a picture of a kid, and you can use this,too.....

i reply back, "thanks........ i'll save that for later."

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i don't know want to get political, but i want to tell you what's wrong with this country

you can get your drivers license at 16, but you have to be 18 to vote.

i believe, if your old and mature enough at 16 to drive in this country.......

then i should be able to frick you.

:everyone:

i tell that joke in alabama, and someone meets me in the parking lot after show and tells me, "anthony, you've really got to change that joke. age of consent is 16 in alabama."

i respond, "you've really got to change that law."

I paraphrased. He had a lot of them.

He had a Rogan joke:


I love Joe Rogan. He’s one of best friends….

But if you listen to his podcast….

You’re a fricking loser.

I’ve got a cousin, doesn’t miss an episode.

All four hours and he still thinks it isn’t long enough.

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Freaking hilarious and much darker than I expected

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& that's why he is sooo entertaining.

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Andrew Schultz and his cadre of unfunny friends.

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Schultz is hilarious. Unless you’re referring to the guys on the podcast with him.

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The only one that is really unique to me is Normand. And Segura is a good, if not revolutionary.

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I like both of them but they’re both pretty middle tier. If you think Normand and Segura are better than Schultz. I don’t know what to tell you.

My problem with a lot of these people is that they are situationally funny but not good comedians.

Bert is very lame as a comedian but hilarious as a story teller and sidekick friend.

Tim Dillon’s standup is ok at best but his off the cuff interviews or podcasts kill me.

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Then you have the crowd work specialists who I hold in disdain like Matt Rife, Ashley Gavin, Akaash Singh, etc who just do extremely hacky and simple crowd work, which the TikTok algorithm loves for some reason.

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Yes. 1000 times yes to that. I’ve said for months that YouTube and TikTok have been pushing them hard, not real people.

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And Akaash Singh is pathetic. A guy whose livelihood is kissing the arse of any guest they have on the show and bullying people at his shows with tired, boring lines that any 14 year old could come with.

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Maybe he figures it worked for Jimmy Fallon.