Chiral
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Post by Chiral on Aug 15, 2010 1:40:54 GMT -5
How about we each make a list of the stand up types today?
I'll start with the Comedy Central types:
1. Guy complaining about his marriage. Usually fat. Tries to be "edgy"
2. Guy talks and mocks races. Usually mocks own race the most.
3. Single Girl complaining about being single. Says "hot" stuff or "guy" stuff, like "I go drinking, do you guys go drinking?"
4. Guy with guitar that makes "funny songs".
5. Weird Guy. Tells absurd jokes and stories with strange endings. Usually pretty funny.
6. etc.
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Post by Orange on Aug 15, 2010 1:54:06 GMT -5
Guy that performs pretty much as a character - Andrew Dice Clay
Women who constantly makes jokes about having sex with black dudes - Lisa Lampanilli or however you spell her name.
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Aug 15, 2010 1:59:41 GMT -5
Guy who makes racist jokes
Guy who does songs
Guy who does endless one liners
Guy who points out stuff: 'Did you ever notice.....'
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Post by Vampiro138 on Aug 15, 2010 2:09:42 GMT -5
guy who is in character, mostly a gimmic, funny voice, mostly funny jokes, not a real shot at getting a comedy central special - bobcat goldthwait
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Post by Massive G on Aug 15, 2010 2:16:17 GMT -5
profane, slightly in character guy that thinks rape, AIDS, Hitler & 9/11 jokes are funny (Louis CK).
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Post by Bullhead on Aug 15, 2010 2:26:07 GMT -5
Guy with accent whose material consists mostly of how funny his accent is.
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Post by -Lithium- on Aug 15, 2010 5:13:23 GMT -5
Woman in her 30s who is a "trainwreck". Constantly talks about how easy it is to get with her, and how she hates her family and vice versa. Things like that. Like nearly all of woman comedians on TV fall into this category. 4. Guy with guitar that makes "funny songs" I hate this one. Or well, pretty much all comedians who use anything other then a mic for most of their act. Singing, or using a puppet, or whatever doesn't make your mediocre material any better... |
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Post by Flo360 on Aug 15, 2010 5:17:51 GMT -5
7. The Master of them all  |
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Post by FrankGotch on Aug 15, 2010 5:23:23 GMT -5
The crutch comedian. They rely on their race, weight, sexual orientation, disability, or miscellaneous other thing for at lest 70% of their act. See Ralphie May, George Lopez, Gabriel Iglesias, ANT.
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Post by willywonka666 on Aug 15, 2010 7:36:53 GMT -5
7. The Master of them all I fully agree. George is big influence on my life in general. The thing is, that out of the comedians mentioned nobody mentioned what George did, yea it was mostly observational, but there was a point to what he said, it made sense at the end of it all, and the Comedy Central types that were mentioned don't do that. You don't have to always make a point, but a lot of comics today seem "empty" |
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Post by Joe Neglia on Aug 15, 2010 9:51:06 GMT -5
the "depressed" comic
the prop comic who relies on zany inventions (Carrottop, Joel Hodgson)
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2010 9:56:35 GMT -5
The crutch comedian. They rely on their race, weight, sexual orientation, disability, or miscellaneous other thing for at lest 70% of their act. See Ralphie May, George Lopez, Gabriel Iglesias, ANT.  |
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Aug 15, 2010 10:03:17 GMT -5
Woman in her 30s who is a "trainwreck". Constantly talks about how easy it is to get with her, and how she hates her family and vice versa. Things like that. Like nearly all of woman comedians on TV fall into this category. 4. Guy with guitar that makes "funny songs" I hate this one. Or well, pretty much all comedians who use anything other then a mic for most of their act. Singing, or using a puppet, or whatever doesn't make your mediocre material any better... Singing can be good if it's done right, it's just a lot of guys just don't, guys like Bill Bailey and Tim Minchin are fantastic comedy songwriters. |
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Post by cruiserfan on Aug 15, 2010 10:10:45 GMT -5
Legitimately edgy  |
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Post by Spyke the Pacers Fan on Aug 15, 2010 10:31:55 GMT -5
Guy with accent whose material consists mostly of how funny his accent is. The crutch comedian. They rely on their race, weight, sexual orientation, disability, or miscellaneous other thing for at lest 70% of their act. See Ralphie May, George Lopez, Gabriel Iglesias, ANT. I read both of these and immediately thought of Dat Phan. |
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Post by darthalexander on Aug 15, 2010 10:45:33 GMT -5
There are the "mother comedians" who have routines about their supposed cute bratty kids and doofus husbands. You've seen one, you've seen them all.
George Carlin existed in a whole other plane of existence. The guy was a genius.
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Post by Porky's Butthole on Aug 15, 2010 12:49:01 GMT -5
Carlin is the greatest. It's like he said...'I'm a guy who reminds you of funny stuff that you forgot to laugh at the first time. Like...they make a disposable douche. WHO'D WANNA KEEP IT!?'
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Post by Alucard on Aug 15, 2010 13:47:11 GMT -5
I dunno. Mitch Hedberg early on in his career relied on an upright bass player who played in the background while he told jokes, it didn't have much to do with his act at all really, but was rather a distraction from his own stage fright. Does that count as a crutch?  |
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Post by Larryhausen on Aug 15, 2010 17:25:30 GMT -5
I think most will agree with me that there are two types of comedians:
1: George Carlin
2: Everyone else.
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Post by Vizier on Aug 15, 2010 17:55:56 GMT -5
The "I do something other than tell jokes" comedian (singers,magicians, puppeteers etc):
Jeff Dunham, Jonathan the Magnificent
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