If Music Could Talk

Flex wrote:

Silent Majority wrote:I find Dave Chapelle to be criminally underrated.

I always thought he was pretty highly regarded. Maybe it's with you young whippersnappers, since he sort of purposely crashed his career while he was on top.

I think he's great. An occasional dud bit here and there, but mostly quite excellent.

I've only seen his Fillmore special which was good. Yeah, his tv show is legendary (and rightly so, I believe), so I can't see him as being underrated.

matedog wrote:

Flex wrote:

Silent Majority wrote:I find Dave Chapelle to be criminally underrated.

I always thought he was pretty highly regarded. Maybe it's with you young whippersnappers, since he sort of purposely crashed his career while he was on top.

I think he's great. An occasional dud bit here and there, but mostly quite excellent.

I've only seen his Fillmore special which was good. Yeah, his tv show is legendary (and rightly so, I believe), so I can't see him as being underrated.

He's made very little headway over here. For years, I just knew him as the irritating stand-up in The Nutty Professor. Yesterday, I spent about two hours laughing really hard at everything of his on YouTube.

Silent Majority wrote:

matedog wrote:

Flex wrote:

Silent Majority wrote:I find Dave Chapelle to be criminally underrated.

I always thought he was pretty highly regarded. Maybe it's with you young whippersnappers, since he sort of purposely crashed his career while he was on top.

I think he's great. An occasional dud bit here and there, but mostly quite excellent.

I've only seen his Fillmore special which was good. Yeah, his tv show is legendary (and rightly so, I believe), so I can't see him as being underrated.

He's made very little headway over here. For years, I just knew him as the irritating stand-up in The Nutty Professor. Yesterday, I spent about two hours laughing really hard at everything of his on YouTube.

Oh, he's revered in the US and underrated in the UK? Sort of the anti-Jam, then?

Wolter wrote:

Silent Majority wrote:

matedog wrote:

Flex wrote:

Silent Majority wrote:I find Dave Chapelle to be criminally underrated.

I always thought he was pretty highly regarded. Maybe it's with you young whippersnappers, since he sort of purposely crashed his career while he was on top.

I think he's great. An occasional dud bit here and there, but mostly quite excellent.

I've only seen his Fillmore special which was good. Yeah, his tv show is legendary (and rightly so, I believe), so I can't see him as being underrated.

He's made very little headway over here. For years, I just knew him as the irritating stand-up in The Nutty Professor. Yesterday, I spent about two hours laughing really hard at everything of his on YouTube.

Oh, he's revered in the US and underrated in the UK? Sort of the anti-Jam, then?

The Led Zeppelin of stand up. If his was British. Nevermind, that analogy isn't that good.

matedog wrote:

Wolter wrote:

Silent Majority wrote:

matedog wrote:

Flex wrote: I always thought he was pretty highly regarded. Maybe it's with you young whippersnappers, since he sort of purposely crashed his career while he was on top.

I think he's great. An occasional dud bit here and there, but mostly quite excellent.

I've only seen his Fillmore special which was good. Yeah, his tv show is legendary (and rightly so, I believe), so I can't see him as being underrated.

He's made very little headway over here. For years, I just knew him as the irritating stand-up in The Nutty Professor. Yesterday, I spent about two hours laughing really hard at everything of his on YouTube.

Oh, he's revered in the US and underrated in the UK? Sort of the anti-Jam, then?

The Led Zeppelin of stand up. If his was British. Nevermind, that analogy isn't that good.

Hoy:analogies :: Springsteen:enjoyable music

Finally listened to a Louis CK album a few months ago. It was very good. I'll certainly be checking out more of his stuff.

Jim Carrey used to be decent. Like a lifetime ago.
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Somehow I ended up watching a few Andrew Dice Clay stand up routines on youtube as I went to sleep last night. He's just the worst, but I did find out that only part of his routine consisted of stupid dirty nursery rhymes. Man, the late 80's we weird.

matedog wrote:Somehow I ended up watching a few Andrew Dice Clay stand up routines on youtube as I went to sleep last night. He's just the worst, but I did find out that only part of his routine consisted of stupid dirty nursery rhymes. Man, the late 80's we weird.

From about 1985-1991, there is almost no way to explain pop culture other than to shrug and say "you had to be there, I guess."

I can't stop obsessing dice clay.

I went to the nurse the other day and she asked me to piss in a cup. I told her, "bitch I'd rather you give me a fucking blow job."

Puffs cigarette, crowd roars.

I really need to see Ford Fairlane now.

Since getting heavily into Mr Show (because Bob Odenkirk's so great on Breaking Bad) I've really grown in my David Cross appreciation.

Silent Majority wrote:Since getting heavily into Mr Show (because Bob Odenkirk's so great on Breaking Bad) I've really grown in my David Cross appreciation.

Cross' first two comedy albums are strong (and especially his HBO special, The Pride is Back), but the last album he did was pretty weak. Likewise, his book should be avoided—it comes off as a collection of undeveloped and previously rejected ideas.

Dr. Medulla wrote:

Silent Majority wrote:Since getting heavily into Mr Show (because Bob Odenkirk's so great on Breaking Bad) I've really grown in my David Cross appreciation.

Cross' first two comedy albums are strong (and especially his HBO special, The Pride is Back), but the last album he did was pretty weak. Likewise, his book should be avoided—it comes off as a collection of undeveloped and previously rejected ideas.

I wrote him off because of how unlikable he is, but Mr Show gave me a way into his kind of vocabulary.

Silent Majority wrote:

Dr. Medulla wrote:

Silent Majority wrote:Since getting heavily into Mr Show (because Bob Odenkirk's so great on Breaking Bad) I've really grown in my David Cross appreciation.

Cross' first two comedy albums are strong (and especially his HBO special, The Pride is Back), but the last album he did was pretty weak. Likewise, his book should be avoided—it comes off as a collection of undeveloped and previously rejected ideas.

I wrote him off because of how unlikable he is, but Mr Show gave me a way into his kind of vocabulary.

There was a hungrier humility about him in the 90s. He's become more of a smug liberal in the last ten years and it hasn't benefited his comedy.

Dr. Medulla wrote:

Silent Majority wrote:

Dr. Medulla wrote:

Silent Majority wrote:Since getting heavily into Mr Show (because Bob Odenkirk's so great on Breaking Bad) I've really grown in my David Cross appreciation.

Cross' first two comedy albums are strong (and especially his HBO special, The Pride is Back), but the last album he did was pretty weak. Likewise, his book should be avoided—it comes off as a collection of undeveloped and previously rejected ideas.

I wrote him off because of how unlikable he is, but Mr Show gave me a way into his kind of vocabulary.

There was a hungrier humility about him in the 90s. He's become more of a smug liberal in the last ten years and it hasn't benefited his comedy.

Yeah. I used to love him back in the day, but he's kind if insufferable now.