The shows vary tremendously from day to day because they are entirely dependent on the vibe that the three comics produce. If they start bouncing off one another, the enjoyment increases and makes each succeeding segment better. I don’t watch just the clips but it’s hard for me to think that that all-important vibe is properly captured.
There are things about the show I don’t like, starting with the stretch to an hour’s length. Some segments are obvious time-fillers, although they can also unexpectedly produce some great improv. Taylor does the best fake laugh in the business, true, but she also genuinely cracks up and that’s beautiful to watch.
My guess is that this is one of the hardest shows on tv to sample. I’m someone who tends to dump shows after a single bad introduction so I completely get how you and others feel. All I can say is to watch several shows in their entirety and let the patterns snap into place. For me, watching comics have fun with jokes and gags that don’t mention politics at all is right now the best thing on television.
Bill Burr has a new special out on Netflix, Drop Dead Years.
I find Burr to be a flat out jerk at times and other times a quite insightful person who is well aware of hit problems. Both Burrs show up in this show. So some good and some ugly stuff.
Now pardon me while I address Mr. Burr directly:
"Dear Mr. Burr. You ever watch a wildlife show where a group of zebras or whatever are being chased by some lions? Once they get away you notice that they shake their heads. That’s a built-in calming down mechanism. It resets the body. It stops producing adrenaline and its friends.
Humans do this too. So telling a woman to dump any guy who cracks his neck is not good. Sure, some guys do it as an intimidation thing. But a lot don’t. It’s a more nuanced thing. And since you aren’t telling women the nuanced thing, nice guys who just do it to relax get dumped. And a guy who does stuff to calm down is a good one.
I’ve been catching clips of the late (he died at age 45) Ralphie May on social media.
If you haven’t seen him, he’s a very heavy (hence the early death), sort of low brow guy. He’s definitely not for everybody; a lot of his stuff is racial, or sexual, and he plays with bigoted tropes, but he’s an equal opportunity teaser, and if you listen to enough of it you realize he has real humanity (I.e. he refers to his wife as a “Jew broad”, but he speaks lovingly about her).
My favorite comedians are all dead (Mort Sahl, Bill Hicks, George Carlin, Dick Gregory, Professor Irwin Corey, Mitch Hedberg) so there aren’t many around, but I did see Bill Burr’s special when it came out.. This was his least best. I might have smiled a few times, and he’s a likable guy, but I’ve noticed many comedians work go downhill once they get married and have kids, especially if they appear to be happier. Mort Sahl’s least best period was when his son was alive.