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.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.Silent Majority wrote:I find Dave Chapelle to be criminally underrated.
I think he's great. An occasional dud bit here and there, but mostly quite excellent.
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Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.
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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.matedog wrote: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.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.Silent Majority wrote:I find Dave Chapelle to be criminally underrated.
I think he's great. An occasional dud bit here and there, but mostly quite excellent.
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Oh, he's revered in the US and underrated in the UK? Sort of the anti-Jam, then?Silent Majority wrote: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.matedog wrote: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.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.Silent Majority wrote:I find Dave Chapelle to be criminally underrated.
I think he's great. An occasional dud bit here and there, but mostly quite excellent.
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The Led Zeppelin of stand up. If his was British. Nevermind, that analogy isn't that good.Wolter wrote:Oh, he's revered in the US and underrated in the UK? Sort of the anti-Jam, then?Silent Majority wrote: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.matedog wrote: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.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.Silent Majority wrote:I find Dave Chapelle to be criminally underrated.
I think he's great. An occasional dud bit here and there, but mostly quite excellent.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.
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Hoy:analogies :: Springsteen:enjoyable musicmatedog wrote:The Led Zeppelin of stand up. If his was British. Nevermind, that analogy isn't that good.Wolter wrote:Oh, he's revered in the US and underrated in the UK? Sort of the anti-Jam, then?Silent Majority wrote: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.matedog wrote: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.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.
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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.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.
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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.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.
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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."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.
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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.
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.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.
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Since getting heavily into Mr Show (because Bob Odenkirk's so great on Breaking Bad) I've really grown in my David Cross appreciation.
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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.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.
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I wrote him off because of how unlikable he is, but Mr Show gave me a way into his kind of vocabulary.Dr. Medulla wrote: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.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.
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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.Silent Majority wrote:I wrote him off because of how unlikable he is, but Mr Show gave me a way into his kind of vocabulary.Dr. Medulla wrote: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.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.
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Yeah. I used to love him back in the day, but he's kind if insufferable now.Dr. Medulla wrote: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.Silent Majority wrote:I wrote him off because of how unlikable he is, but Mr Show gave me a way into his kind of vocabulary.Dr. Medulla wrote: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.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.
”INDER LOCK THE THE KISS THREAD IVE REALISED IM A PRZE IDOOT” - Thomas Jefferson
"But the gorilla thinks otherwise!"
"But the gorilla thinks otherwise!"