#stand up comedy
Pregi e difetti di And Just Like That tra tematiche woke e LGBTQIA+: un pastrocchio di buone intenzioni?
Pregi e difetti di And Just Like That tra tematiche woke e LGBTQIA+: un pastrocchio di buone intenzioni?
All’inizio mi sono rifiutata di vedere lo spin-off di And Just Like That perché lo pensavo scontato e stantio (come avevo scritto in questo post). I motivi per cui pensavo non mi piacesse è perché i due film degli anni scorsi sono stati orribili, brutti e non hanno raccontato bene le protagoniste come la serie degli anni Novanta. Questo spin-off ha dimostrato che la storia di Carrie Bradshaw,…
Mayim Bialik Interviews Comedian Iliza Shlesigner About Her New Netflix Special: “Confirmed Kills”
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I’m preaching the horse girl gospel at High Plains Comedy Festival tonight!
Some of you have never purchased a dead parrot but you didn’t realize it was dead until you got home and then you had to go back to the pet shop to complain but the employee keeps saying it’s pining for the fjords and that’s it plumage is lovely when the plumage doesn’t enter into it and it really shows.
“In the 70s it was black and minority ethnic people, in the 80s it was gay people, trans people are just the latest to get it in the neck from comedians who can’t be bothered to try at their jobs anymore. I cannot stand there and watch another dogshit comedian go: ‘Ooohh if a woman can identify as a man, maybe I’ll identify as a chair!’ Why don’t you identify as good comedians, you hack motherfuckers?!”
- Nish Kumar: “It’s In Your Nature To Destroy Yourselves pt.2”
It’s In Your Nature To Destroy Yourselves Part 2 was a set Nish Kumar toured with in 2018 and 2019, it is a sequel to a set he toured with in 2016.
Links to both recordings can be found here for those interested: part 1part 2
“In the 70s it was black and minority ethnic people, in the 80s it was gay people, trans people are just the latest to get it in the neck from comedians who can’t be bothered to try at their jobs anymore. I cannot stand there and watch another dogshit comedian go: ‘Ooohh if a woman can identify as a man, maybe I’ll identify as a chair!’ Why don’t you identify as good comedians, you hack motherfuckers?!”
- Nish Kumar: “It’s In Your Nature To Destroy Yourselves pt.2”
Yeah but you needto actually hear the full clip and the fury and passion and glee (because he knows he’s nailing them) in his voice.
(Wish I could find the audio somewhere other than Twitter, but I can’t.here it is!
Starting to realize that the shitty comedians whining about cancel culture/everyone being “too sensitive these days” and the shitty employers whining about how “nO oNe wAnTs tO wOrK aNyMoRe” are cut from the same cloth and are using the same faulty logic. They actually have a lot in common:
1. Both of them believe they are entitled to success.
They think success is their god-given right, and therefore if they don’t get it, it means they’re being attacked. That they’re a victim of some terrible circumstance and society is out to get them, because how else do you explain it? It couldn’t be their own actions and choices, after all. Which leads me to another trait they have in common:
2. Them failing at something is everyone’s fault but theirs.
It isn’t that a comedy set is poorly written, outdated, repetitive or too similar to jokes the audience has already heard a hundred times, aimed at the wrong audience, or not delivered well. That would imply that the comedian is bad at their job, and of course it’s much easier to blame everyone else than face the fact that maybe your set just wasn’t that good. Similarly, workers aren’t quitting or not applying because the business is poorly run with bad management, low pay, not enough training, and no benefits. It must be all the government’s fault for giving out those stimulus checks 2 years ago. That’s a way more palatable thought than having to consider that maybe, just maybe, you’re not a great person to work for. These are hard concepts to come to terms with, mainly because of the third point these groups have in common:
3. Both stand-up comedy and running a small business are extremely difficult fields that require a lot of work and risk to do, especially full-time.
That’s why so few people are able to become stand-up comics and why so many businesses go under. The odds are against you, and many of the people who succeed in these fields (at least, the ones who weren’t born rich) had to work really hard and take a lot of risk to get there. Many never make it. And there’s no one to blame for this, it’s just the nature of the field. It’s insanely hard, and that means only a few will succeed. So you can see why those who do manage it are determined to hold on tight to their success and not let go. The fear of failing like so many others did is terrifying, so they’re desperate to believe that they are not the cause of any setbacks. For those few who make it, the work finally pays off and they enjoy success…until they don’t.
Until suddenly they stop being successful and are met with resistance, which is a scary thing in a field so competitive and difficult. People are more critical than complimentary of their comedy, or workers start quitting. How can this be? Everything was going so well and now it isn’t. But they haven’t changed anything, so it can’t be them. There must be some external factor, some sort of sabotage happening. And that’s the final trait that shitty comedians and shitty employers have in common:
4. They both fail to recognize that the world has changed, and if they want to keep being successful, they need to change with it.
It isn’t that people are “too sensitive,” it’s that our idea of what’s funny has changed. It wasn’t that long ago that blackface was a common comedy tactic, and now if any comedian tried it, they would (hopefully) be condemned. That isn’t because people are less able to take a joke than they were before. It means that our tastes have changed. And there’s no one person or political event you can blame for that. It’s just a thing that happens. A good comedian would recognize this and do the work to update their material accordingly, but a lot of these folks have let the fame go to their heads and make them think they’re incapable of ever doing a bad set. So their failures become everyone else’s fault and in their minds, success becomes a right that they’re being deprived of.
It isn’t that “no one wants to work anymore,” it’s that more and more people are starting to realize that if your job doesn’t pay you enough to live on, then there isn’t much point in having one. A good employer would recognize that and pay a thriving wage, but too many are so invested in the idea of being “job creators” that workers should grovel at the feet of as a sign of thanks for “giving” them jobs that they forget who it is that really makes a business run. And they often have to be reminded of that the hard way, when their whole store quits and they have to close because word has gotten out that they’re a shitty place to work for and now no one’s applying.
Sadly, I doubt many of them will change. Either their success will be limited to only conservative audiences or their lack of adaptability will be their downfall.
With her oddball with, comedian Aparna Nancherla spins dorky puns into absurd rumination on life. Sample joke off her new album:
“Don’t you think any pizza can be a personal one if you cry while you eat it?”
Read her interview with Bitch media about jokes, family, and her new comedy album here.
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It had been 2 whole ass years and John Mulaneys “There’s a hORse lOOSE in the hOSPital” is still the best description of current politics I have ever heard in my life
13MAY22 Being a comic has its perks.
13MAY22 The Rowe-st of Aaron Rowe!
#TheKitaJRevealShow w/Comedian Mr. Jaxn #ExistNNatureMedia #artist Pt.2
If anyone lives in nyc and wants to watch me do my lil part time stand up side hustle let a sister know. I talk about my fam and chef stuff mostly, it’s gr8
