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Posted: October 27 2015 at 17:26
*frinspar* wrote:
I appreciate Jay Mohr doing Norm MacDonald more than I do Norm MacDonald. But when he's not doing stand-up, I think Norm is a genius.
Bill Murray has done 3 movies I care about, and not necessarily because of him. The rest of his career and output has been cringeworthy for me. He is the very definition of "try hard" IMO.
That's odd because Bill Murray's never tried hard at anything in his life, at least acting wise. Usually plays a variation of himself. Guess you're just a bad viewer.
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Posted: October 27 2015 at 01:59
I appreciate Jay Mohr doing Norm MacDonald more than I do Norm MacDonald. But when he's not doing stand-up, I think Norm is a genius.
Bill Murray has done 3 movies I care about, and not necessarily because of him. The rest of his career and output has been cringeworthy for me. He is the very definition of "try hard" IMO.
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Posted: October 26 2015 at 22:43
As far as TV and movies are concerned the biggest influences over my personal humor have been Bill Murray (who i consider God), the Monty Python crew, John Swartzwelder and other pre-season-10 Simpsons writers, Conan O'Brien, the MST3K crew
As for stand-ups above all others has always been Norm Macdonald. I tend not to judge stand-ups solely on their stand-up material but if they can kill and interview and Norm's always been a great/insane interview. I also love Louie CK, Steven Wright, Bill Burr, Artie Lange, Gilbert Gottfried, Jim Norton, some others and of course Doug Stanhope:
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Posted: October 20 2015 at 04:08
*frinspar* wrote:
Unfortunately, everything Bill Cosby has ever said, put on film, or has done on TV, will now, or should, forever be tainted by the fact that he is a serial rapist who drugged women across decades and violated them. I can't brush that knowledge aside to continue chuckling at him talking about chocolate cake. There's no room for compartmentalization. I took the 3 vinyl LPs of his I've had in my collection for a while and tossed them in the mulcher, then into the trash.
It's very sad, those LPs are absolute classics and Cosby was a comedic hero of mine and many others. A true shame, but I agree that his work is now tainted though I'd like to think those old routines still have value despite the horrible things he's done.
Steven Wright, Lenny Bruce, Norm MacDonald. And a big shout out to Andy Kaufman, a true genius before his time.
Edited by Atavachron - October 20 2015 at 04:08
"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy
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Posted: October 20 2015 at 01:58
Unfortunately, everything Bill Cosby has ever said, put on film, or has done on TV, will now, or should, forever be tainted by the fact that he is a serial rapist who drugged women across decades and violated them. I can't brush that knowledge aside to continue chuckling at him talking about chocolate cake. There's no room for compartmentalization. I took the 3 vinyl LPs of his I've had in my collection for a while and tossed them in the mulcher, then into the trash. It's like saying, "Well, at least Gacy made kids smile when he dressed like a clown."
Whoever mentioned Bill Burr up there, yeah. He's good.
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Posted: July 21 2015 at 18:41
Goons yes, Pete and Dud, Monty Python etc etc but one of my all time favourites was Vivian Stanshall. Other than his Bonzo stuff Sir Henry at Rawlinson's End is simply an utterly anarchic masterpiece. (Movie and Radio Series)
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Posted: July 16 2015 at 11:29
I har to thank David Letterman for making me appreciate political satire, while not a political satirist of the caliber of Maher, Stewart, Colbert, South Park dudes, yet hes touches it elegantly in monologues and in ĺ jokingly way.
I have appreciate more of Letterman then what i have cringed, i like goofy humor and he was the king of goofy humor.
Also like the humor in Scrubs and Psych
Jerry Seinfeld is important to my apprecistion of humor.
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*frinspar* wrote:
. Redd Foxx also back then.
You know when he performed he almost never did the same material twice. Pretty amazing.
