Anthony Jeselnik

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Very funny comedian you might not of heard of. Did two great albums called Shakespeare and Caligula (both available on BT).

 

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I've got "Thoughts & Prayers" sitting around, waiting to watch.

 

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I actually heard about him through a recommendation from Jimmy Carr during a Q&A session with Frankie Boyle on YouTube.

 

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He's good, his hero is Stephen Wright and for me all of the one liner comedians after Stephen Wright are kind of pointless. I love the format, but like with jimmy Carr and Boyle, you sort of work out how they are putting them together over an hour.
Stephen Wright on the other hand, his good jokes aren't even jokes, they are like haiku

 

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Shark Party's excellent.

 

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He's good, his hero is Stephen Wright and for me all of the one liner comedians after Stephen Wright are kind of pointless. I love the format, but like with jimmy Carr and Boyle, you sort of work out how they are putting them together over an hour.
Stephen Wright on the other hand, his good jokes aren't even jokes, they are like haiku

Stephen Wright is one of the comedy gods. Love stand up. I used to go to Ha Bloody Ha in Ealing pretty much every week back in the 90's. Happily enough Yuk Yuk's (where Seth Rogan cut his teeth) is a block from my condo.

 

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Stephen Wright is one of the comedy gods. Love stand up. I used to go to Ha Bloody Ha in Ealing pretty much every week back in the 90's. Happily enough Yuk Yuk's (where Seth Rogan cut his teeth) is a block from my condo.

I've gotten really into American standup over the last couple of years, I've only been to about 5 comedy shows in my whole life but I have specials and podcasts and clips from Opie and Anthony back when it was good on in my house whenever I'm cleaning or doing anything that doesn't involve words at home

It's a golden age in America at the moment, I wouldn't say jeselnik is a heavyweight, but I think his generation also has Amy Schumer, Aziz Ansari, zak galafanakis. It's a very healthy time

 

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I've gotten really into American standup over the last couple of years, I've only been to about 5 comedy shows in my whole life but I have specials and podcasts and clips from Opie and Anthony back when it was good on in my house whenever I'm cleaning or doing anything that doesn't involve words at home

It's a golden age in America at the moment, I wouldn't say jeselnik is a heavyweight, but I think his generation also has Amy Schumer, Aziz Ansari, zak galafanakis. It's a very healthy time

Have to admit I rate him. Have you heard of Bill Hicks? If you haven't he's the one I'd recommend (although Stewart Lee's had a pop at him for being a one trick pony...don't agree).

 

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Have to admit I rate him. Have you heard of Bill Hicks? If you haven't he's the one I'd recommend (although Stewart Lee's had a pop at him for being a one trick pony...don't agree).

Bill Hicks is more famous in England than America I think, everyone has heard of bill hicks, I think he's aged pretty badly, but I imagine that it's like Elvis or Pele or Morrisey or something in that everybody who came after him owes him a debt because what he did was new at the time and people are still doing it

 

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Hicks to me is a bit like The Beatles because I know his material so well it's faded a bit. But the first time I heard it (like The Beatles). Saw him live in Liverpool (still got the ticket stub). It's all subjective though.


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Bill Burr is my favourite comic right now, but although I would argue all day for how technically good he is and how he keeps adding dimensions to his comedy with acting and storytelling, it's also because he's an angry American Irish loudmouth

 

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Hicks to me is a bit like The Beatles because I know his material so well it's faded a bit. But the first time I heard it (like The Beatles). Saw him live in Liverpool (still got the ticket stub). It's all subjective though.


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Well apparently Sam Kinnison and Diceman were amazing at the time, but I find them unlistenablefor the most part because what was new and shocking then is so overdone now, Stewart Lee is more shocking being a nerdy middle aged man

 

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I'll check Bill Burr out. Thanks for the tip. I had a look at his wiki page and Rolling Stone described him as 'the undisputed heavy weight champ of rage filled humour' so he sounds like someone I'd be into.

 

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Not a massive fan of stand up but I recently went on a binge of Comedy Central Roasts on YouTube and came across Jeselnik and Amy Schumer on the Charlie Sheen Roast. Fuck! I know it's meant to be harsh but I don't know if it was comedy or just nastiness. Enjoyed Tyson getting the brunt though. He's a scary cunt, so fair play to the pair of them for giving him shit. Seems like he's a genuine psycho.

 

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I'll check Bill Burr out. Thanks for the tip. I had a look at his wiki page and Rolling Stone described him as 'the undisputed heavy weight champ of rage filled humour' so he sounds like someone I'd be into.

He's brilliant

Louis CK, bill Burr, Brian Regan and Patrice o Neil (RIP) are all worth your time. They have loads on YouTube and they are all just brilliant, they start off saying something really out of order and then spend 10 minutes convincing you why they are right and creasing you up, it's a thing of beauty

 

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Not a massive fan of stand up but I recently went on a binge of Comedy Central Roasts on YouTube and came across Jeselnik and Amy Schumer on the Charlie Sheen Roast. Fuck! I know it's meant to be harsh but I don't know if it was comedy or just nastiness. Enjoyed Tyson getting the brunt though. He's a scary cunt, so fair play to the pair of them for giving him shit. Seems like he's a genuine psycho.

It's the eternal argument about context. I think the only set i couldn't through was Doug Stanhope's bit in Beer Hall Putsch about helping his mother end her life (my mum passed away 2 years earlier so it felt more personal).

 

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It's the eternal argument about context. I think the only set i couldn't through was Doug Stanhope's bit in Beer Hall Putsch about helping his mother end her life (my mum passed away 2 years earlier so it felt more personal).

I don't know if you watched those videos but Amy Schumer made a joke about Steve O's mate's death. It was 3 months before that show. You could see he was visibly upset about the 'joke'.

Agree it's an eternal argument though.

 

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I don't know if you watched those videos but Amy Schumer made a joke about Steve O's mate's death. It was 3 months before that show. You could see he was visibly upset about the 'joke'.

Agree it's an eternal argument though.

Yeh just watched it. Felt uncomfortable. But i suppose the purpose of a roast is to be gross and say the unsayable. So in that context it wasn't funny, poorly delivered and Amy didn't shower herself in glory. But women aren't funny anyway (context).

 

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It's the eternal argument about context. I think the only set i couldn't through was Doug Stanhope's bit in Beer Hall Putsch about helping his mother end her life (my mum passed away 2 years earlier so it felt more personal).

I agree with their defence. You'll sit their laughing at their jokes about murder and massacres and death,mand then they start joking about the thing that you have experienced and you get all holy
I am not having a go at your postion that sometimes it's just unbearable. I find Doug Stanhope very hard going because he is kind of mentally ill with his alcoholism and I just imagine his private life being like that Nicholas Cage film about the alcoholic, I had a best friend who had chronic drinking and got the shakes awful because he had gotten to 50 without addressing it, I struggle with it and Stanhope is talented enough to express it, but what he is speaking for is a horrible life for people who don't have his skill

 

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I agree with their defence. You'll sit their laughing at their jokes about murder and massacres and death,mand then they start joking about the thing that you have experienced and you get all holy
I am not having a go at your postion that sometimes it's just unbearable. I find Doug Stanhope very hard going because he is kind of mentally ill with his alcoholism and I just imagine his private life being like that Nicholas Cage film about the alcoholic, I had a best friend who had chronic drinking and got the shakes awful because he had gotten to 50 without addressing it, I struggle with it and Stanhope is talented enough to express it, but what he is speaking for is a horrible life for people who don't have his skill

Well a lot of comics have had substance abuse problems. I often think that if you see the world as it is you have to diminish it with a remedy be it humour, food, sex, drugs or whatever (knitting?). A book i'd recommend is The Myth of Sisyphus by Camus. Not an existentialist. An absurdist.

 

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