The “Blue Collar Comedy” crap. I recently heard a friend describe a comedian not on that tour as a “Blue Collar comedian”, as though it’s now an accepted genre. I nearly puked.
There’s a Paula Poundstone joke?
I’m probably dating myself but on New Years Eve 81-82, a bunch of my friends and I saw a host of stand-up comics at the Comedy Store in Hollywood. I recall Howie Mandel was one of them and he was pretty good.
The last guy, whose name escapes me, was the worst piece of shit I ever saw.
I was convinced they put him up there to piss off/sober up every one so that they’d leave. I even heckled him; and believe me I’m not the heckling type.
I saw the same bum on TV a year or so later and he still sucked.
If by some miracle anyone out there was at that show, and remembers the name of this horror, please chime in.
Huh. Besides Ellen (good call, drgnrdr07), I can’t think of a single well-known female comic that I find funny. But I’ve seen scads at local comedy clubs who are hysterical. ‘Course, you’d never know their names (and I’ve forgotten most of them). Funny women are out there, tho’ - I gaurantee it. It just seems that few of them are well known.
I disagree, due to her looks (attractive, if not “Hollywood hot”) and her acting roles. I’d say she might be better known as an actress than a stand-up comic these days.
I’m with you on this one. I don’t mind the one guy who drinks (Scotch I’m assuming) and smokes but the other three I could do without…especially that who’s your sign douchebag. I GET IT, YOU"RE OUT OF TOUCH WITH YOUR DAUGHTER AND YOU HATE STUPID PEOPLE, LETS GET ON WITH IT. The Cable Guy and Mr. Foxworthy aren’t all that much better.
Ron “Tatersalad” White does seem a little out of place amongst the others. He can be funny and he’s less twangy than the others. Could be why he’s not on the Blue Collar TV show.
I don’t find Sarah cute either. I find her HOT. The fact that she talks mean and dirty only adds some tabasco (or maybe horseradish?) to her hotness.
I agree about Lisa Lampenelli and Sarah Silverman. Being continuously foul-mouthed is not my idea of humor.
Silverman has a youngish and girlish face but isn’t cute or overly attractive IMO. On some roast somebody commented that the only reason she was getting noticed was she was Jimmy Kimmel’s girlfriend. Sounds plausible to me.
Better known to whom? Admittedly, I don’t follow the movies religiously, but I just checked her IMDB entry, and of her 27 most recent movies (including animation voices and TV), the only ones I’ve heard of are “The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle” (2001) and “Dogma” (1999). The only movie I knew she was in was “The Truth About Cats & Dogs” (1996).
I agree with Starving Artist in that at least at the moment she’s far better known for being a left-wing “activist”. I did like her early humor for its offbeat quality.
Bill Engvall? C’mon. He’s funny, his humor is relatively clean and he comes across like a really nice guy.
So he’s got a catchphrase and some recurring themes. I don’t mind that at all.
I agree with you here, for some reason I remember her as being funny when she first started out (on her TV show?) but hearing her lately she is just awful.
Rita Rudner always makes me laugh though!
For me, the funniest thing about the Blue Collar Comedy Tour is imagining the guy who had the job of translating these jokes for the DVD’s French-language track.
“What eeeez … how you say … ‘trailer park’?”
Richard Lewis - you’ll know him if you see him.
I had the painful experience of taking my fiance and her parents to see him live. His New Yorky-I’m in therapy-hypochondriacal humor did not go over at all here in the Midwest. At first there were a few chuckles. Then the entire room settled into a stone silence. Not a sound after the punchlines. Not even a groan. Dead silence.
Still, nobody violated the “Rules of Minnesota Nice” and walked out. When it was finally over and everyone did leave, it was like leaving a church after a particularly dour Lutheran sermon. Utterly miserable.
OK, guess which one I am…
“I took a blood test today, I failed. You get it sir, failed, you see because a blood test is…don’t worry people, it’ll be over soon.”
Oh, and I’ll give a hint, think of him as the poor man’s Steven Wright.
GIlbert Gottfried.
And giving away my age : Don Rickles.
How either of these two ever became known outside of their own basements… I’ll never know. If I want to be annoyed or hear insults, I’ll go to work.
OTOH, regarding female comics… I find many of them funny or amusing. At least different. There’s MaryEllen Hooper (sp?) … and that blonde one, kinda young-ish, that does voices, including one where she sounds possessed. Maybe she’s been mentioned and you don’t like her, but if she’s on, I’ll watch.
I wish that “Whose Line is it Anyway” had found a funny woman for the show. They had Kathy, who must have contributed about 2 actually funny or surrealist lines in her multiple appearences. The Asian one (sorry, no name) also contributed WELL under the amount of Greg, Chip, or Brad. Any of those three could throw in something at least once per skit that actually made the audience laugh. At the risk (great risk) of getting pounded, is this a product of women not focusing so laser-like on career skill sets as many men, or something about humor? I can’ really see their lacking humor, because they laugh at most of the same stuff as the men, which means that it’s mostly a human thing generally.
Who’s that imbecillic hillbilly in the overalls who seems to be on constantly on Comedy Central? Man, that guy sucks.
Colin Quinn had a show on CC that lasted about four seconds which consisted of nothing but him and a bunch of his unfunny comedian friends sitting around making racist, sexist and homophobic jokes. Quinn also had a schtick on that show where he thought it was funny to grope the breasts of his female guests. He was an awful host as well. He couldn’t deliver a line without stammering or stumbling or laughing at himself. It was excruciating to watch.
Dennis Miller used to be kind of hip and clever on SNL, but as he got more political, he just got more and more mean-spirited, angry, arrogant and humorless. I’ve heard he’s an asshole in person as well.
He hosted the Critics Choice Awards last night and bombed a big old hole in the ground. It was painful in a gleeful sort of way. I finally had to turn the sound down because he was so horrible, but judging from the blank faces in the audience, he didn’t get any better. I can’t imagine why they hired him in the first place.
To me. I’ve never seen Janeane Garofalo’s stand-up or listened to her radio show, but I’ve liked her in The Minus Man, Clay Pigeons, Sweethearts, The Truth About Cats & Dogs, Cop Land, The MatchMaker, Permanent Midnight, 200 Cigaretts, Mystery Men, Dogma, Wet Hot American Summer, and Stay. I haven’t seen most of the bigger films she’s been in such as The Cable Guy, Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion, The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle, and Half-Baked.
After wathing Letterman last night, I am reminded of a really horrid standup - Albert Brooks.
Holy crap, this guy ain’t funny.