Bottoms is just so damn good. Hilarious and absurd!
Apr 16, 2024
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Just everything about her. She is one of the funniest performers, right now. Hands down.
Jan 10, 2025
Your 90% figure is something I use to describe how much art media is basically not good ā tv, movies, music, etc. But the particularity of standup as an art form ā the bizarre mutual expectation of a specific response (laughter) ā means that it can āfailā more obviously. Mediocre music can be shrugged off, and pretty easily tolerated by most; it doesnāt come with the same expectations. But when someoneās jokes don't land, it immediately lays bare a devastating rift between performer and audience.
Most people just want to laugh, though, and theyāre ok with laughing at anything that purports to be funny. You make a joke about the difference between men and women, I laugh, everyone goes home happy. So thereās a lot of trash that ends up getting elevated because itās āgoodā enough to fulfill this social contract for enough people.
But thereās always good stuff out there!
Iāll 4th Chris Fleming and throw in Conner OāMalleys recent special.
Sorry but they both yell, lol.
If you want a very different, bizarre, highly personal, often uncomfortable, avant-garde, and of course, funny rec: Natalie Palamidesās Nate: A One Man Show which was out on Netflix a few years ago.
Jun 21, 2024
One of the best comics out there right now. A master of the use of space and timing on stage
@TYLER yāall gotta get Emily to do a feature
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Finally watched this very 90s Toronto film. Didnāt know how much I would like this oneā¦ but starting with a Leonard Cohen song early on definitely got me. Itās got a real weird feeling to it and kinda got that Lynchian style to it - so if youāre into a kinda weird, 90s, sexy style, check it out!
Apr 16, 2024
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From their 1985 album, Love. Been listening to that record a lot and itās got a lot of great songs on it, but Black Angel is a stunning way to end the album.
Apr 16, 2024