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Comedian. Stand up special ‘for the boys’ which is filmed in front of an audience of 15 year old boys. Dumb but also so so so sharp. An insight into the lasting concussive effects of being raised on early 00s culture.
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I’ve felt lukewarm on Dan in the past, and he’s not always a laugh-out-loud comedian for me, but this special’s format hooked me (he performs for an audience of teenaged boys at his former high school). It’s funny what flops (intentionally or not) and what works for the audience. And it takes a lightly sincere turn at the end.
Jul 4, 2024
one of the funniest standup specials i've seen in a minute
ex-writer for SNL, best buds with Joe Pera, the biggest y2k-bam margera-Jackass enthusiast the comedy world has ever seen, still in high school... hes killing it!!!
Jun 3, 2024
Your 90% figure is something I use to describe how much art media is basically not good – tv, movies, music, etc. But the particularity of standup as an art form – the bizarre mutual expectation of a specific response (laughter) – means that it can “fail” more obviously. Mediocre music can be shrugged off, and pretty easily tolerated by most; it doesn’t come with the same expectations. But when someone’s jokes don't land, it immediately lays bare a devastating rift between performer and audience.
Most people just want to laugh, though, and they’re 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 there’s a lot of trash that ends up getting elevated because it’s “good” enough to fulfill this social contract for enough people.
But there’s always good stuff out there!
I’ll 4th Chris Fleming and throw in Conner O’Malleys 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 Palamides’s Nate: A One Man Show which was out on Netflix a few years ago.
Jun 21, 2024
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