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Jul 3, 2021 4:19:52 GMT
Post by Sheriff John Stone on Jul 3, 2021 4:19:52 GMT
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Post by jk on Jul 3, 2021 7:28:39 GMT
Ooh, I forgot Jeffrey Tambor is in The Death of Stalin. Anyway, I've (finally) saved it to my watch list on Netflix and barring any sharp left turns, I'll watch it tonight!
That clip from Would I Lie To You is quite funny. I've heard of and seen David Mitchell before. As for the Easter onion story, that's quite funny. Also possibly the first ever funny German? (I tease, I tease. And my late, full-German grandfather would, well, he'd probably say there's no use for comedy, actually.)
Sorry, Jeffrey, for calling you Geoffrey! Curious to hear your verdict, Cap'n. Yes, Henning can be very funny. He claims he only learnt how to goose-step after coming to England and seeing this scene from Fawlty Towers:
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Jul 3, 2021 11:37:53 GMT
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Post by Kapitan on Jul 3, 2021 11:37:53 GMT
Curious to hear your verdict, Cap'n. I thought it was very good. Very funny. In some ways it felt like a much older movie, it reminded me of a 1960s parody or something. It felt very innocent as a movie--maybe because of the "big" acting, the larger-than-life caricatures--like something from the past, yet the subject matter was obviously as dark (and very much not innocent) as can be.
The mishmash of accents and styles of the council perhaps should in theory have made the movie worse, but it didn't. Not at all! For whatever reason it was hilarious seeing a "New Yawker" Buscemi-Kruschev working alongside a very British Palin-Molotov, etc. It didn't take long at all to just inhabit that world.
As an aside, the score was great.
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Aug 9, 2021 1:30:18 GMT
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Aug 9, 2021 1:30:18 GMT
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Aug 21, 2021 21:42:40 GMT
Post by jk on Aug 21, 2021 21:42:40 GMT
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Aug 23, 2021 12:34:14 GMT
Post by jk on Aug 23, 2021 12:34:14 GMT
Sean Lock discovers some ancient love letters in the loft. (I love that third team of young people, who have a what-the-****-is-going-on-here? expression on their faces.)
Poor Sean. Still gutted...
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Aug 23, 2021 21:10:09 GMT
Post by jk on Aug 23, 2021 21:10:09 GMT
A little more Sean:
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Post by Kapitan on Sept 14, 2021 19:02:37 GMT
This isn't funny at all.
Norm Macdonald--who went from being somebody I found kinda funny sometimes to easily my favorite comic over the past year or so as I dug into his material--died at age 61 after secretly dealing with cancer for nine years.
I hate this. I've watched what must be over 100 hours of his standup, talk shows, guest spots on talk shows, and [listened to] radio during those months and became convinced he's one of the absolute all-time greats. As the pandemic subsided and things reopened, I was committed to seeing him whenever he next came through. The best laid plans.
Here are a few long jokes about "his uncles." Some of the funniest stuff I've ever seen. I love everything about him in these bits. The last jokes--the "railroad bum uncle" and the "Dirty Johnny" one--are absolutely remarkable.
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Sept 14, 2021 19:46:42 GMT
Post by kds on Sept 14, 2021 19:46:42 GMT
That's really a shame. I'll admit, I've not really watching much of his stand up over the last several years, but I used to love him on SNL, towards the end of my steady viewership years.
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Post by Kapitan on Sept 14, 2021 23:01:35 GMT
Being a sentimental sap, yes, I'm re-re-re-re-re-re-re-rewatching a lot... And this is one of the greatest jokes ever told. The Moth Joke. RIP to the best.
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Sept 29, 2021 19:57:10 GMT
Post by Kapitan on Sept 29, 2021 19:57:10 GMT
One of my favorite few living standups*, Dave Chappelle, announced his sixth and final standup special for Netflix is coming Oct. 5. It is called "The Closer." There is a trailer out, but I'll hold off and just watch the thing in its entirety in a week.
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Nov 19, 2021 13:16:50 GMT
Post by jk on Nov 19, 2021 13:16:50 GMT
With thanks to pendlewitch down the road. I wonder what the album sounds like!
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Nov 20, 2021 18:54:54 GMT
Post by jk on Nov 20, 2021 18:54:54 GMT
Appy polly loggies if I've posted this before...
I don't believe this is meant to be funny but I howled with laughter when I saw it:
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Nov 27, 2021 16:58:51 GMT
Post by Kapitan on Nov 27, 2021 16:58:51 GMT
As much as I love long comedic stories, I absolutely love (and sometimes prefer) this kind of old-fashioned, slightly risque (for the times) kind of stand-up jokes. Just one after the other, no narrative arc, just one-liners. Here is a collection of many from the master of self-deprecation: 100 jokes about being ugly, about his wife cheating on him, about his wife's bad cooking and driving, and of course, about how he gets no respect. No respect at all, I tell ya.
"My wife and I decided to quit smoking. We agreed we'd only smoke after sex. So I've had the same pack of cigarettes since 1975 ... but what bothers me is, my wife's up to three packs a day."
That kind of thing.
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Dec 21, 2021 13:36:07 GMT
Post by Kapitan on Dec 21, 2021 13:36:07 GMT
Louis CK released a new special, "Sorry," this week via his website. I'm not sure he released it there because major carriers weren't interested (considering his so-called cancellation) or just because that method works best for him: after all, he was doing things that way for years before he began licensing specials to Netflix.
I watched "Sorry" last night. I thought it was mostly pretty funny--at least if you think Louis CK is funny. It was in line with what you've come to expect from him. The only real disappointments for me were a bit that was very similar to one of Chappelle's about the obvious biological differences between the sexes (so what is nominally a bit against the more radical gender activists, but also just seems like a tired and cranky routine, especially since it has recently, famously been done), and more than that, the fact that he brought up his "cancellation" again. Several minutes in, I thought he was (wisely!) going to leave that in the past, having brought it up already in his previous schedule. But nope. He didn't harp on it, but it was there pretty early on.
Overall, though, I did enjoy the special. That said, it is not for kids or sensitive company!
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