gisambards wrote:Performing at a comedy club is not the equivalent of a first draft. The audience at a comedy club is still the public, and it's still a gig. There will have already been a lot of preparation and editing of the set before any member of the public's seen any of it, and whilst, yes, part of is testing whether the stuff the comedian thinks might be good works or not, but it's about testing what is already a fairly refined set. The idea that comedians go to them to throw any random shit they've come up with at an audience is just not true.
the greatest living comedian in the world, apparently wrote:I sexually identify as a place. And that place is your mother's cunt.
cmsellers wrote:I And surviving a mass shooting makes you as much and expert on gun violence as being laid off when your factory is moved to Mexico makes you an expert on global trade. I think the shoving a fat kid might be a reference to how some of the Parkland activist kids were bullies,
Aquila89 wrote:Were they? I believe that's just something right-wingers claimed using out-of-context quotes.
ghijkmnop wrote:gisambards wrote:Performing at a comedy club is not the equivalent of a first draft. The audience at a comedy club is still the public, and it's still a gig. There will have already been a lot of preparation and editing of the set before any member of the public's seen any of it, and whilst, yes, part of is testing whether the stuff the comedian thinks might be good works or not, but it's about testing what is already a fairly refined set. The idea that comedians go to them to throw any random shit they've come up with at an audience is just not true.
And, to respond to iMURDAu, I was a fan of Louis CK for a long time, so I know what his comedy is, and he was a much better comedian than you're giving him credit for. If you thought he was always "offensive for the sake of it", then I think you were missing a lot of why he was funny.
There are a lot of comedians who would disagree with that statement. Maron and Burr come to mind immediately.
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