Yeah, I don’t find Margaret Cho all that funny. I agree with you on Rita Rudner and Roseanne (although that latest thing of hers showing on HBO is…well, let’s just say it’s not good.) But my vote is for Ellen Degeneres…maybe the greatest female stand-up of all time.
Really? She strikes me as exactly the sort of person who would date an asshole.
I saw her on one of those Celebrity Poker shows once and she reminded me of every hgh school drama twit who acts out and trolls for shock value because of a desperate, I’m-a-broken-human-being need for any kind of attention she can get.
I enjoyed the show and also thought of Chris Elliot and his brand of dorky humor. It wasn’t spectacular by any means, but I like it just the same. It’s bratty, snarky, gleefully sociopathic and doesn’t take itself seriously. I’ll take this over yelling obnoxious dude humor (Mencia).
Let me qualify my disgust for the show by stating that as much as I disliked it, it was still lightyears ahead of the Ned Holness (Carlos Mencia) show in quality, intelligence and humor.
I’m by no means a fan but to be accurate his name was Ned Mencia at birth. He went by Holness for a while to honor his father but it was never his legal name. I think it was Mitzi Shore who told him to change his first name since Ned didn’t go with his accent. Like I said I’m not a fan but the Joe Rogan “fake beaner” thing annoys me. He was born in Honduras, his mother is Honduran and when he wasn’t living in Honduras as a child he lived in East LA. I don’t know of any instance where he claimed to be specifically Mexican but he lumps in Central Americans like himself with the Mexicans.
The only reason I know this is because when Joe Rogan started flinging his shit I got curious and looked it up. To say the least Rogan exagerated a bit.
I’ve liked Sarah Silverman on TV before, on SNL and on Greg The Bunny; not having seen the new show, I can’t comment on how bad it was or wasn’t.
I will say that I listened to a standup performance by Ms. Silverman just last week, and it was painful. Half the time, she seemed to be struggling for something to say next. I got exactly one laugh from the whole performance (paraphrasing): “When I was younger I was raped by my doctor…which for a Jewish girl is kinda bittersweet.”
He was never with Second City as far as I can tell… let alone the Chicago wing. He’s an LA guy. He might have done some stuff with the Groundlings but he’s not Second City.
Her conversation with God was one of the best bits ever. I sometimes imagine a sitcom consisting soley of one-sided conversations between Ellen and Bob Newhart.
He was on Friday’s way back when. He was not especially funny, nor was the show.
I’m uncertain what I meant there.
I found the show funny, but that was in comparison to SNL during Joe Piscopo & Billy Cristol (sp?) 's cast. I have to admit that I didn’t find either as funny as SCTV and it was my senior year of high school, so I didn’t exactly have a sophistocated sense of humor.
Yep. So was Larry David.
I loved it.
If you saw Jesus Is Magic then, well, then you should have known what to expect. She’s about the only comic that can mix seemingly ‘shock’ material with high-brow artsy-ness and she does it perfectly.
“Oh, now that I see you up close I can tell you’re old.”
“Thank you, wise old black lady puppy.”
“Factitious? That’s my baby’s name!”
Plus her incredibly goofy yet catchy songs! Too bad it probably won’t last more than six episodes… 
No, he meant a Schroedinger relationship - not only do you want to kill yourself, usually it involves a box and a cat.
Oh, and Laura has a history with Comedy Central, as she was the voice of the receptionist (named, oddly enough, ‘Laura’) on the series Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist.
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I took voice-over lessons from Will Le Bow , who played Dr. Katz’ bar buddy, Stanley. Stanley does not look remotely like Will Le Bow.
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And Laura Silverman’s performance and (drawn) appearance on that show are about a thousand times funnier and hotter than Sarah Silverman has been in her whole life.
In other words the cartoon version of Laura doesn’t look remotely like her either?
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She does have that Newhart-esque quality to her…I like your sitcom idea!
I thought the premiere was pretty funny, although I’m not sure whether the format or her “obnoxious asshole” persona will have much longevity. I can definitely understand people being turned off by that type of humor; it either clicks with you fundamentally or it doesn’t. It reminded me a lot of the “Stella” series from a couple of years ago, which I also enjoyed despite its being intensely stupid.
I especially liked seeing Jay Johnston (who was great in the series “Mr. Show with Bob and David”) again, deadpanning the cop clichés.
“You know, being a cop, I’ve seen things that make you crap a book on how to puke.”
Come on. That’s funny.
I didn’t realize she had time to talk about eating pussy, what with the seemingly endless stretches she devotes to her “Hey! My mom’s got a funny accent!” bit.