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[–] crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 106 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Imagine buying tickets to a well-established comedian's show just to hear them read Facebook comments for an hour.

[–] diffaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 4 months ago

Its fine if it is funny but they pick a lot of chud comments

Something something transgender something something not allowed to tell jokes anymore.

That's it, thats your "comedy" special.

[–] RodersTrotters@lemmy.world 71 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] edible_funk@sh.itjust.works 27 points 4 months ago

I hope that hypocritical sack of shit's career never recovers.

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Which one, I wanna cringe a little

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 82 points 4 months ago (23 children)

He went to Saudi Arabia to make money and lost many fans. Myself included, those fuck faces killed and dismembered a journalist and deserve no international respect.

[–] Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 37 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I mean it's not even that he went to Saudi Arabia and did this absurd show. It's how he handled the Fallout. If he had just handled it like a comedian by making a joke he probably would have been fine. He said "I'm sorry but you know I needed the money have you see my wife's Instagram page?" Or something like that he probably could have emerge somewhat unscathed. Battered but unbroken. But the way he handle it was just so tone deaf and so patronizing and so God damn absurd that a lot of it just had to tune out.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

What way did he handle it?

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[–] Blackout@fedia.io 66 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I haven't found Dave Chappelle funny since 2005

[–] redsand@infosec.pub 29 points 4 months ago (3 children)

He peaked with the Chappelle show and can't admit it to himself

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[–] shapis@lemmy.ml 50 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Young Dave Chappelle was the greatest comedian of all time and I’ll die on this hill.

He still has some sparks of brilliance here and there. But fuck. Yeah. The meme is accurate.

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[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 40 points 4 months ago (4 children)

While I still think Chappell is talented if he actually put more effort,

Man his comedy has gone downhill. It’s not a skill thing, it’s a: “I care about money and I know I’m gonna make enough anyway” kind of attitude.

IMO this is why artists should never be payed too much. They should make what a good doctor makes, not enough to “build a brand”

[–] paultimate14@lemmy.world 30 points 4 months ago (1 children)

He was always this way. Born to upper-middle-class parents, growing up in the suburbs, cosplaying aa an urban poor black person to grift white people put of their money. Punching down on Mexicans and Asians, anyone he could to be profitable. Now it's trans people, but the grift has always been the same.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 12 points 4 months ago

He has a pretty well known interview where he whines about not being able to make fun of gay people and says something about how Comedy Central didn't mind him making fun of black people and...

Well, Dave, I don't know if anyone mentioned this to you but you're black and not gay.

If he's always at some level just never really identified with other black people, or at least the poor ones, that would make a lot of things about that disconnect make sense.

[–] criticon@lemmy.ca 13 points 4 months ago

When they become too rich they start making bits like "isn't going to the Bentley dealership the worst?" or "oh I hate it when I can't book first class and I have to travel on business cramped with all the others"

[–] Furbag@pawb.social 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I've noticed that once comedians "hit it big" and can live off of the royalties that their specials generate, their comedy tends to go way downhill and they start using future performances as almost soapbox-adjacent platforms rather than writing actual jokes that people find funny. They don't need to write funny material to live off of anymore, they can just ride on their fame and sell out venues wherever they go, so it becomes more of a speaking gig rather than an act.

Like, I remember sitting down during the pandemic with a few friends to watch one of Chappell's new specials and it was just him ranting the whole time, there might have been one or two jokes in there, but I think that was just his personality coming forward and not any conscious effort to deliver a setup and a punchline. It was such a letdown, because we were set for a night of comedy and it was just an angry rant with serious undertones.

Maybe just anecdotal, but that's how I see it going for a lot of famous comedians - not all of them, of course, but a lot of the household names from the past two decades have gone this route rather than segueing into showbiz like comics from the 90's era.

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[–] scops@reddthat.com 32 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I sat my girlfriend down to watch Robin Williams' Live on Broadway set because it was stuck in my mind as the greatest comedy show of all time. I love that man and miss him, but we had to turn that set off a third of the way through. It has not aged well

[–] diffaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)

i think he is a great performer but his jokes arent that good.

[–] Soulg@ani.social 12 points 4 months ago

Completely agree. Never been a fan of his stand-up, but incredible comedic actor. And dramatic actor too for that matter

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[–] Butterphinger@lemmy.zip 13 points 4 months ago

Same for my mom and I's viewing of "Good Morning Vietnam".

Yeah, uhm. Great film, if you can get past the 1980's Shock-Jock Robin Williams yelling to himself, from himself, at himself, back, forth, ad-nauseum.

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[–] BlackVenom@lemmy.world 28 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Went to a Jeff dunham show for free

That's all

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 25 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I saw him easily 30 years ago.

His act hasn’t changed much at all. Still the same racist, low-hanging fruit as always. Just occasionally different puppets.

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[–] LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 17 points 4 months ago

You ask for a refund after? I know free is free, but it would send a message.

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[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 26 points 4 months ago (5 children)

When you thought Ricky Gervais was a mild safe bet.

[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 14 points 4 months ago (17 children)

Has that dude ever been funny?

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 24 points 4 months ago (2 children)

So here’s the thing. In his prime in the early 2000s there legitimately was a liberal PC orthodoxy in comedy. This meant if you made a joke about a marginalised group it was implicitly understood that the humour was either in the outrageousness of it, or that bigotry itself was the true target of the joke, and that we weren’t supposed to take it at face value.

But then actual fascists started gaining power by campaigning against those same marginalised groups, and that type of joke stopped being possible even when played back verbatim. Gervais either hasn’t realized that, or is happy to play to the tastes of real bigots.

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[–] Derpenheim@lemmy.zip 23 points 4 months ago (3 children)
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[–] PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Usually the old material wasn't any different.

[–] nothx@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

Yeah, going back to the old material usually makes me realize how far I've come since I was a edgy young adult with the "just jokes" mentality.

[–] FinalRemix@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Randy Feltface will never age poorly.

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[–] Bakkoda@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Kyle Kinane has never let me down.

[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 26 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Dirt Nap had me laughing so hard I cried

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[–] derry@midwest.social 14 points 4 months ago (10 children)

What about Carlin? Haven't heard cringe about him but .... Wondering

[–] Absolute_Axoltl@feddit.uk 81 points 4 months ago (1 children)

He's unlikely to make a new special

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[–] redsand@infosec.pub 18 points 4 months ago

And his stuff aged like a fine wine

[–] RaoulDuke25@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 4 months ago

Still holds up

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[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)
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