Have you been watching Patton Oswalt flip his shit lately? He hated Sanders and truly believes his life is over...

This is now a Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn thread.

this is probably the best one.
youtu.be/S9iH5UUlGZc

no embed huh? sad.

If you want there to be "left wing comedy" (what ever that means) get on stage and do it. You can go up and bomb and be a better person.
And if you do watch the link it is a pretty good discussion of money controlling comedy.

I used to do plenty of standup. They don't want true left-wing views at comedy shows in LA.

Obama worship only, please. Make sure to complain about Straight White Males. It's really become a sewer.

Lewis Black is still cool… Right?

That said, the NYC scene is fucking dope. They still keep it real there. As much as they can.

One of the greatest comedians of all time. I'm glad he's still around.

watch that link (Which Is Giraldo Oneal Black and Irrea) and this one and I have a bunch more. youtu.be/xsEEckCDuio

youtu.be/xsEEckCDuio

Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn called out what you guys are talking about back then. All TV is out of LA and most movies.

But you should keep at it. They might like it somewhere. Telling people things they don't want to hear can be very funny.

Jimmy's standup act is pretty decent. We need more of him.

The entertainment industry has always been about playing ball or keeping in line and being blacklisted by a powerful executive with connections still happens to this day. However, should the talent have a lot of talent, they can still be successful locally and through their own promotion and network of friends and useful hangers-on. The gatekeeping in all forms of media is nearly over and I suppose gamergate was the opening salvo.

Never thought his standup was very good. His show, on the other hand, one of the best on youtube.

He has way too much dead air sometimes on his show.

He was calling for people to hoard food in response to trump the absolute kulak

Patrice is one of the greatest comedians of all time. I met him a couple of times as an assistant on Paul Provenza's Green Room on Showtime years back. He called me "young soldier."

RIP to the legend.

Hey didn't that guy used to work below the queensboro bridge? I always used to hear him talking about making enough money to get a ticket to brazil and "eat a mouth full of pennies burrito." what ever that means. they don't even have burritos in brazil.

That's awesome man. there is a lot of good Patrice on Tough Crowd. and most of tough crowd is on youtube. If you like him check it out.
There is some really great stuff with Patrice and Pat Cooper. youtu.be/I_gQttcLY18
I really wish Patrice and Greg could have lived longer.

Never bothered me

Marc Maron
Jen Kirkman
Cameron Esposito
Michael Ian Black
Patton Oswalt
Scott Aukerman
Amy Schumer
Will Ferrell

Their brains turned into mush.

Let's use youtube.

Hey JDB - you picked up any shit work doing ads or anything lately? How's Faraci doing these days?

Is the Hillary circlejerk in Hollywood just purely down to her being woke on identity shit or is there some finance industry links there too?

Anyone here going to see him at The Masonic?

sfmasonic.com/event/patton-oswalt/

Andy Kindler
Kumail Nanjiani
Stephen Colbert
Andy Richter (His wife too)
Pretty much every Late Night TV writer.
Sarah Silverman

All of these comics have broken my hearts.

And then there's Frank Conniff, who has never been funny.

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I guess I'm pretty obvious.

I'm doing a voice on an animated Marvel show for a few episodes. That's kept me afloat. I'm under an NDA so I can't say what character, but it's a pretty fun/goofy one.

My short gay terrorist romcom Horseshoe Theory premieres at Slamdance next week up in Park City, Utah. (Arthur Chu has a documentary there too. Might crash it.)

Our website is up: horseshoetheory.org/ (No I don't think Horseshoe Theory is real, at least in terms of left-right politics.)

I'm hoping to use the festival to get more writing/directing work. The pilots I sold haven't gotten made, so it's back to the grind. I probably need new agents. Frankly, I need to get paid this year as my 5 year no-day-job streak is beginning to slow down.

Maron was on the show some as a guest and was the executive producer. I think.
youtu.be/I_gQttcLY18

and I met Patton Oswalt once and he was super nice.

Look, these guys, at least right now, are the "new order."

My favorite comedians are dead. There will never be anyone like Patrice O'Neal, Greg Giraldo, Phyliss Diller, Carlin, Pryor, Lewis Black, ever again.

I'm stuck in LA with the hipster comics. The 'mainstream" scene here is all but dead and the alt-scene has replaced it. I've thought about going back to NYC and getting into standup there, but I'm much more interested in directing now.

It's financial. My old agent at CAA, Michael Kives, was a DNC bundler exposed by Assange for sending threatening emails to Tulsi Gabbard and other members of Congress who were considering Bernie. I got banned from Twitter for posting the leaked email and encouraging my fans to call his office.

He's also a piece of shit who signs actresses to fuck them. Good riddance.

Black's alive, but you know what I mean.

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It may seem quaint and lame now, but what Colbert did at the WHCD 10 years ago was pretty extraordinary.

Improv and Sketch is now corporate shit (mainly due to the schools attached to all of the theaters and the industry pipeline that gets promised to students), but for a few years there was some pretty amazing stuff happening in that scene.

Mr.Show was doing crazy shit in the 90s. David Cross may be lame as fuck now but he used to be amazing.

I've always like the NYC comics better, but I'm an LA local, so I'm stuck with my surroundings.

East Coast comics I like: Kevin Barnett, Lucas Bros, Nick Mullen, Mookie Thompson, Lewis Black, Dave Attell, Dave Chappelle, the Chapo gang, (Will or Felix could probably do standup)

I wonder if he'll ever do a stand up bit where he talks about prickly cactus still being a mod on leftypol

What's the deal with B-minus-tier comedian turds (Louis CK, Joe Rogan, John Oliver, SNL alums and now this faggot) who were kinda not-unfunny sometimes about a decade ago that I only remember for one or two random memetic comedy bits, thinking anybody gives half a fuck what they think about politics and how offended they are that somebody disagrees with them? From a business sense, it's unwise for the same reasons Chick-fil-Lay or Oreos having an opinion on gay marriage is: it pushes away potential consumers for no good reason. I really don't fucking get it.

That actually looks pretty good.

Yes, it's almost all fake wokeness and quota systems rather than an examination of how our industry's business models are unsustainable.

A bunch of the women comedians got into a group and started randomly accusing male comedians of harassment and occasionally rape. This caused a panic, and UCB, one of the biggest schools/cults in the LA comedy, began doing investigations of students, which is absurd considering they're a for-profit school and incapable of this kind of thing.

It snowballed into "too many white men." "too many white women" "not enough disabled transgender latinas" and blahblahblah, without any regard for how the profit motive of our industry exacerbates racism.

I remember going to a show a couple of months ago, and watched three comics in a row each do a set on white muh privilege. All of them were white. Two of them were men. It was so cringey. Nobody in the (mostly white) audience laughed.

I try to explain that these attitudes are creating fascists, but they don't genuinely don't get it.

Only because you're the only poster who talks about Hollywood like they've actually worked there so you stand out a bit. It's not a bad thing.

And OH MAN, an Arthur Chu doco sounds fucking tits. I hope it's about himself and he shows the audience how to mindkill yourself.

I hope he does a joke about anfem cunt derailing threads.

ugh typo city. Sorry. Under influences.

I genuinely don't get it either. It turns out wealthy celebrities calling their fans "racist/sexist pieces of shit" doesn't work as a business model. But the alternative is saying "We get paid too much at the expense of the rest of our industry" and you'll never see that.

Hi Prickly :3

I used to think he was the heart of the Jimmy Dore show, but without him and his writing it got 100% better. Maybe Jimmy needed the training wheels off to really start moving.

Colbert's entire act was the false dichotomy of "REPUBLICANS ARE STUPID AND RETARDED UNLIKE OBAMA LOL"

gag

Colbert was doing comedy before Obama was the President.

Oh god, wtf is that?

He's not wrong. Accelerationism has only ever resulted in fascism. Trump needs to be brought down.

Trump will be taken down. But it will be by collective action, not snarky sitcom millionaires who enable Charlie Sheen's 10 year hookerfest.

Being upset at the political values of celebrities seems weird, I think that kind of mentality is what makes fuckwits on tumblr debate the revolutionary merits of Beyoné's Lemonade.

Shit I wasn't really following the story at the time. That is fucked up.

I think this is definitely part of the broader problem with "cultural influencers" or whatever you want to call them. They are always preening themselves over the positive effect they think they're having on culture, but it seems like the feedback they get is only from sycophants and people just like them because it's such a closed, insulated system. They don't have to deal with the fact that at least part of their effect is in reinvigorating a genuinely worrying strain of reactionary "white identity" politics that us working class stiffs then have to actually deal with in our lives.

And, of course, they can't direct any influence to attacking the basic social and economic systems because they are sucking at the teat with their huge stock portfolios.

Exactly, I've tried to explain to many a liberal to try to put themselves in the shoes of a 17 year old white kid from Wisconsin. You probably have one or two friends that are black, gay, hispanic, Muslim, Jewish etc. Everyone else is cornbread. And suffering.

So you come home from a day of working at the Pizza Hut, grab the remote from the hand of your disabled, opioided-out Mom, and turn on MTV to watch a Beavis and Butthead rerun.

Instead, you get garbage corporate identity politics telling you that you are a bad person and everything wrong in the world is your fault.

Meanwhile, the alt-right and the fascists are screaming "Don't listen to them. Join us! We love you?"

Which side do you think they're gonna pick? It's basic survival tactics.

I remember seeing Colbert getting bullied on MSNBC and thought it was insane. He wasn't even a guest. They were playing clips from some private site he runs and sternly frowning and lecturing him on his wrong thinking. I don't really dislike Colbert because he's an explicitly political comedian and its thrown him into a den of psychos that have Real Power.

I mean to say I still like him.

thanks!!! :)

The WHCD was a remarkable act of political trolling.

FIXING THIS

His live show was awesome I actually think he was way funnier in that than in either his straight stand-up or studio show

Irrelevant, before Obama it was still "LOL BUSH IS STUPID REPS ARE STUPID" while always presenting Democrats as the rational alternative. Pretending he's ever been anything but a shill for the elites isn't fooling anybody.

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shit, what happened?

Richter and his wife have an absolutely batshit insane Twitter account.

Ferrell, along with Amy Schumer, made a video threatening voters the day before the election. It was very strange.

Most liberal Hollywood comedians are garbage.
George Carlin, Bill Hick's will be dead for thousands of years and all of eternity, and still be funnier than Bill Maher, John Oliver or Louis CK.

Even Milton Berle was a better comedian than the boring, 5th rate "comedians" that make up Hollywood. The Friars Roast Club is something that will never happen.

Frankie Boyle is alright, in terms of a leftist comedian.

Comedy began to suck more when liberals started considering Jews "lame" and "white." Coincidence?

Frankie would be god tier of he were just slightly less idpol

Louie's early routines were basically full of nigger, rape, cunts, etc. I think he basically just just doing what's safe and profitable right now. Though his pedophile routine was pretty dangerous.

Louis CK? the guy who likes to corner women and make them watch him while he jerks off? I mean there is just too much evidence

No, he was a pretty big fan of him for a bit:
twitter.com/pattonoswalt/status/707433968505909250?lang=en
zimbio.com/Celebrity Political Endorsements 2016 See Who the Stars Are Voting For/articles/a1mMldreFYS/Patton Oswalt Bernie Sanders
twitchy.com/sd-3133/2015/09/21/truth-hurts-doesnt-it-sanders-fan-patton-oswalt-fights-losing-battle-with-adam-baldwin/

Naw he was an entryist, a Clinton supporter who wanted to "show that he gets it."

He even RTd a couple of my pro-Bernie posts before calling me a "chinless shit pudding" and deleting everything when I said I wouldn't vote for HIlldawg.

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Are you triggered?

That guy? He and Roiland had a Walt Disney moment, when his writers went on a strike, because their job didn't cover health care.

They caved in to their demands but blacklisted everyone which was basically the entire writing staff. They kicked them out and replaced them with Harmon's idpol circle.

Season 3 may come with a radical shift as a result. And not because of >muh diversity as most people will definitely claim, but because of the anti-union purge that took place.

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First of all that was Michael Richards, and he apologized. Secondly, comedians tend to always be anti PC and pro free expression for fairly obvious reasons. The tide has turned in your shitty American pop cultural sewer somewhat now from what I've gathered, but it was getting pretty ridiculous, and frankly, you people are idiots.

The only one who can take down Trump is a Sanderist, because the liberal crybabies still can't get their shit together. As a matter of fact they did so in California just recently.

But there a hook you know. After Sanders Corbynises the Democratic party, the people who call Trump a sexist racist homophobe could end up being Trumps fiercest supporters in 4 years.

What makes you think they'll stop being totally ineffectual?

Voted for neocon warmonger.
Lost.
Fucking idiot.

George Carlin wasn't really that based tbh. His rhetoric was so vauge you could pretty much read what you wanted into.

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Never realized how much Oswalt looks like an archetypal Porky.

Whatever one's opinion or lies on GaymerGate are or were, it was and always will be shit.

c-chairman D-Dore?

Nobody cares about GamerGate in the real world. NOBODY. Stop talking about it, it makes us look pathetic.

Tragedy is superior in every way

… we aren't in the real world.

Goddamnit.

HAHA REDNECKS ARE SHIT

EVERYONE WHO DOESNT MOVE TO LA AND BECOME A DANCING CLOWN IS SHIT

Even so, it's history.

need source, this makes me mad

Season 2 couldn't touch the first season anyway. I think the magic is already gone.

hollywoodreporter.com/news/jerry-seinfeld-political-correctness-will-800912

But your confusion is understandable, since we can't go a single goddamn day without a story in the format of:

Did you write "hated" instead of "backed" or something? I'm confused.

Fucking totally. People like Burr and Maron are gradually turning into idiots on their own, but Louis CK took a 180 degree turn in like two years. That "Hillary needs to be elected bc she's a mom" is the sort of thing he'd mock on O&A 8 years ago.

Wokeness is actually worse than liberalism, which has a consistent philosophy and isn't thinly veiled classist signalling

I can't stand Boyle.
He's such a hypocritical blowhard and idpol to boot.
If it wasn't for the accent no one would mistake him for a leftie.

classist? how pray tell

wew

Is there such a thing as a socialist comedian? Has there ever been?

What happened with Scott Auckerman please tell me

bretty hyped for this movie

Lewis Black and Stewart Lee are self-proclaimed socialists. Also you're a fucking pleb

so is bernie

They're comedians. Their jobs are to make people laugh. You people who are so "disappointed" with these comedians are hilarious. Aren't you the ones imbuing their opinions with power? If they do hold weight, either convince them of your own beliefs through education or let them alone in their bourgeois class bubble.

Political comedy fucking sucks, no matter the politics.

You see guys like Eddie Murphy, they were great because they talked about being black, but they also talked about dumb shit like his mom making him really shitty burgers

As for alt comedy, i have to go with some wisdom from the great Norm Macdonald

"Being self aware you suck isnt funny, telling jokes is"

The media only promotes neoliberlism, you see this in every form of media, any actual leftists or rightwingers are shun.

is lee a socialist? he refers to himself as a "guardian reading liberal" (or something like that) a lot, but maybe he's just being self-deprecating.

he's my favorite comedian either way.

Doug Stanhope is the only hope, and he's not even really a leftist, just absolutely anti-authoritarian.
He's one of the few stand-up comedians who I've never got burnt out on.

Fuck that guy.

Am I a fucking pleb for not watching stand up?

Is this some higher tiers shitposting?

Probably.

Is it weird that blatantly mad Holla Forumsyps like that make me smile?

Be with your wife, Patton.

Low blow.
I don't really care about Patton Oswalt's political views. He was funny, years ago. Getting older and more settled seems to have finished that, though.

no, stand up is awful

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Good god no. He's an unironic Reason subscriber. pretty funny tho