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| Author: | Did he sell eggs? [ Thu Jun 28, 2007 9:22 pm ] |
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The Noid wrote: Wayne Brady's good on Whose Line, and the guest spot he did on Chapelle's was hilarious.
Colin Mochire, Ryan Stiles, and some of the other guests on Whose Line, mainly the black haired one. Almost everything on that show is hilarious. Especially when you add a Richard Simmons. I am on the top of this page with my post, dancing. |
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| Author: | PianoManGidley [ Thu Jun 28, 2007 9:29 pm ] |
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The Noid wrote: Bill Engvall and Ron White don't force the whole redneck thing as much as Foxworthy or Larry and that's why they're better.
Agreed. Larry the Cable Guy just sounds too much like a far-right nutjob sometimes, with the way he pokes fun at anything leftist. |
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| Author: | The Joe [ Thu Jun 28, 2007 9:35 pm ] |
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I hate him for another reason. Everyone in my school like thirty times each over the past year: "GET ER DONE!!!!!!1" |
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| Author: | StrongRad [ Thu Jun 28, 2007 10:31 pm ] |
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PianoManGidley wrote: The Noid wrote: Bill Engvall and Ron White don't force the whole redneck thing as much as Foxworthy or Larry and that's why they're better. Agreed. Larry the Cable Guy just sounds too much like a far-right nutjob sometimes, with the way he pokes fun at anything leftist. That's mainly because he's actually making fun of the group that composes his fan base. He's a fantastic actor that hardly ever breaks character. LOL (not really), Dan Whitney. PG-13-ish. He is just dying on stage here. |
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| Author: | PianoManGidley [ Thu Jun 28, 2007 10:35 pm ] |
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StrongRad wrote: PianoManGidley wrote: The Noid wrote: Bill Engvall and Ron White don't force the whole redneck thing as much as Foxworthy or Larry and that's why they're better. Agreed. Larry the Cable Guy just sounds too much like a far-right nutjob sometimes, with the way he pokes fun at anything leftist. That's mainly because he's actually making fun of the group that composes his fan base. He's a fantastic actor that hardly ever breaks character. LOL, Dan Whitney. PG-13-ish. He is just dying on stage here. Yeah...I've seen the whole Dan Whitney thing, and David Cross' angry letter to him for his redneck persona...it still irks me, though, because you KNOW that his core audience thinks that it's all for real. He may be secretly making fun of the right on the macro scale, but it keeps the face of him making fun of the left, for which too many people are just too willing to go along. Not that making fun of politics and whatnot is necessarily bad...but it's like the racist/sexist/homophobic jokes that people tell. Sure, they're funny, and even the victim of the joke can learn to laugh at it...but the sad truth is that there are still too many people who take that point of view seriously...and they laugh at the joke, too, because they really DO think that Blacks/Women/Gays are inferior people. |
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| Author: | StrongRad [ Thu Jun 28, 2007 10:41 pm ] |
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The problem I have here, and it might be just because I'm misunderstanding what you're saying, it that it sounds like people shouldn't be allowed to tell woman, gay, or black jokes. If women or black comedians* tell a joke about men or "whitey" nobody says a word, but make a joke against blacks or women, and you're suddenly Hitler. While I think that disparaging jokes against a gender/ethnic group/sexual orientation are a low form of comedy, I think that, if a group is willing to joke about another group, they should have no problem with that group joking about them. *I don't add gay comedians here because I've never heard one tell a "straight joke", although I'd imagine it'd go something like this: "Did you hear about that guy that got married to that woman? They had sex and she had a baby! Stupid breeders be all up in Disney." |
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| Author: | The Noid [ Thu Jun 28, 2007 10:47 pm ] |
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Larry the Cable Guy is almost never out of the act when I see him. The only time I ever heard him not use the accent is when he was telling the Gay Mafia joke. |
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| Author: | PianoManGidley [ Thu Jun 28, 2007 10:59 pm ] |
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It's not really that I have so much of a problem with the jokes by themselves...it's just the gestalt of his performance. He acts, essentially, like too many close-minded backwoods redneck idiots I've had the misfortune of meeting...the kinds that are full of hate and vent through hunting and beating their wives. The reason why he's so popular, IMO, is not because people see him as a spoof of that persona, but because they relate to that persona. They like him because he acts like they really are. |
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| Author: | What's Her Face [ Thu Jun 28, 2007 11:11 pm ] |
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PianoManGidley wrote: It's not really that I have so much of a problem with the jokes by themselves...it's just the gestalt of his performance. He acts, essentially, like too many close-minded backwoods redneck idiots I've had the misfortune of meeting...the kinds that are full of hate and vent through hunting and beating their wives. The reason why he's so popular, IMO, is not because people see him as a spoof of that persona, but because they relate to that persona. They like him because he acts like they really are.
Meh, I think you're reading way too much into it. I, for one, think he's funny, and I'm as middle-class as they come, not to mention a dirty unAmerican foreigner. ---- Anyway, my pick: Des Bishop, Dylan Moran, Ardal O'Hanlon, Andrew Maxwell, Colin Murphy, Linda Smith, Marcus Brigstocke, Bill Bailey, and a bunch of others you never would have heard of. Of the ones you would have heard of: Hicks, Carlin, Leary, those Bluecollar guys, some others. |
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| Author: | The Noid [ Thu Jun 28, 2007 11:15 pm ] |
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WHF is the only person that still has that sig. One of the guys on MAD tv did a real-good stand-up while they were setting up for another skit. I think it was Frank Caliendo. He was funny. On the subject of Mad tv, Micheal McDonald. |
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| Author: | What's Her Face [ Thu Jun 28, 2007 11:20 pm ] |
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Yeah, too lazy to change it. I will someday, honest. |
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| Author: | The Noid [ Thu Jun 28, 2007 11:22 pm ] |
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It doesn't matter, it's funny anyways. |
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| Author: | StrongRad [ Thu Jun 28, 2007 11:23 pm ] |
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The Noid wrote: WHF is the only person that still has that sig.
One of the guys on MAD tv did a real-good stand-up while they were setting up for another skit. I think it was Frank Caliendo. He was funny. If location = MadTV and funny = yes, then it was Caliendo. His skill comes in his impressions, yet he's still thought of quite highly by his peers, which is strange because impressions are generally considered a lower form of comedy. |
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| Author: | The Noid [ Thu Jun 28, 2007 11:26 pm ] |
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The only part of MADTV I don't like is when all the classics left and they put all those other people(Paul Vogt and Ron Pederson) in that didn't do a lot. Bobby Lee also seems to be pretty funny there too. gb2w |
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| Author: | Smorky [ Fri Jun 29, 2007 4:11 pm ] |
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Oh, I forgot one. Jim Carrey is the best. |
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| Author: | The Noid [ Fri Jun 29, 2007 4:15 pm ] |
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I have actually never seen his stand-up. Heard it was really good. |
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| Author: | DESTROY US ALL! [ Fri Jun 29, 2007 10:29 pm ] |
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George Carlin and Eddie Murphy are my two favorite comics. Demetri Martin is up there as well. |
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| Author: | IantheGecko [ Fri Jun 29, 2007 10:39 pm ] |
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Lesseee... Pablo Francisco Mitch Hedberg (I have his last CD) Gabriel Iglesias Josh Blue (From here in Denver; won Last Comic Standing. He has cerebal palsy, which gives him most of his material. He's sort of like a real-life Jimmy from South Park. And he's my new avatar.  )
Kathleen Madigan Sue Murphy Greg Proops Jim Gaffigan Daniel Tosh Bill Engvall Jeff Foxworthy Ron White Billy Connolly (Scottish dude; been around a long time. Not the cleanest material, though.) |
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| Author: | The Noid [ Sat Jun 30, 2007 1:14 am ] |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VROn7ZvVoW8 Yeah, that's Larry the Cable Guy. He's like a dirtier Joey Gladstone. i mean, LOOK AT HIM |
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| Author: | StrongRad [ Sat Jun 30, 2007 3:29 am ] |
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The Noid wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VROn7ZvVoW8
Yeah, that's Larry the Cable Guy. He's like a dirtier Joey Gladstone. i mean, LOOK AT HIM I already posted that... Scroll up. |
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| Author: | putitinyourshoe [ Sat Jun 30, 2007 4:26 am ] |
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Mr. Show is awesome. the show, not a person named that. it's with david cross. also Amy Sedaris is one of the funniest people alive. |
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| Author: | The Noid [ Sat Jun 30, 2007 12:42 pm ] |
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StrongRad wrote: The Noid wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VROn7ZvVoW8 Yeah, that's Larry the Cable Guy. He's like a dirtier Joey Gladstone. i mean, LOOK AT HIM I already posted that... Scroll up. OSH- sorry |
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| Author: | DESTROY US ALL! [ Sun Jul 01, 2007 3:30 am ] |
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WHY DID I FORGET ED IZZARD???? |
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| Author: | Didymus [ Sun Jul 01, 2007 3:43 am ] |
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The late great Jerry Clower! "HAAAAGGGHHH!" Jeff Foxworthy and all these modern "redneck" comedians steal most of their best stuff from him. |
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| Author: | StrongRad [ Sun Jul 01, 2007 4:09 am ] |
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Didymus wrote: The late great Jerry Clower! "HAAAAGGGHHH!" Jeff Foxworthy and all these modern "redneck" comedians steal most of their best stuff from him.
Yes, VERY YES!!! Add him to my list as well. Ardell, Burnell, Raynell, W.L., Linnel, Odel, Eudell, Marcell, Claude, Neugene, and Clovis!!! Supposedly, the Ledbetter family actually exists. |
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| Author: | StrongRad [ Wed Jul 04, 2007 9:21 pm ] |
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New comedian: Rob Paravonian is great!! Watch his videos on YouTube. I highly recommend his Pachelbel rant and/or the Friends theme song rant. PG-13, but funny. |
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| Author: | What's Her Face [ Wed Jul 04, 2007 9:25 pm ] |
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Huh, by weird coincidence, I just watched that Pachelbel rant an hour ago. Funny stuff. Quote: WHY DID I FORGET ED IZZARD????
Ah! Yes, indeed. |
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| Author: | Wrong Sad [ Thu Jul 05, 2007 3:13 am ] |
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Didymus wrote: Ooh! KitH! I used to Love those guys! Ohhhh, I love KitH!! Quote: Especially that one guy who went, "I'M CRUSHING YOUR HEAD! I'M CRUSHING YOUR HEAD!" hahaha MAN I love that character! Soooo cuuute... I looove guys with glasses... "And still they go... like SHEEP TO THE MOON!!"  And the "Crushing Hospital" sketch is one of my favourites. "I'll never crush again!!" awwww... haha Yeah , that actor was Mark McKinney.The Noid wrote: Wayne Brady's good on Whose Line, and the guest spot he did on Chapelle's was hilarious.
Colin Mochire, Ryan Stiles, and some of the other guests on Whose Line, mainly the black haired one. Ahhh, I love that show!! my favourites are, uh... Colin Mochrie, Ryan Stiles, Wayne Brady, I forget the dude's name, Greg Proops, uhh never mind, list got too long 
So, I love Ron White and Lewis Black. If it weren't for my horse... |
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