/lit/ - Literature

Aside from his excessive edginess, he opened my mind about Christianity and using drugs a little.

0/10 he's a frat boy stoner pseudo-intellectual

If you needed him to gain critical thinking you are a lost cause

>people who think comedians are modern day philosophers

Who the fuck looks to comedians for highbrow intellectual enlightenment? You're just too fucking lazy to read a book.

>>3984840
>he opened my mind about Christianity
*tips fedora*

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>>3984841
>frat boy

in other words, you aren't very popular.

>>3984809
Pic related.
>>3984841
That's kind of dickish. Rogan is a lot smarter than he leads on.

>>3984888
And I forgot the pic.

joe rogan?

fucking ufc promoter, talks like the stoner kids I knew in highschool (I think it's okay for some 16 year old to talk that way, but a guy older than 17 actually recording it? sheeit)

have you heard him strawman on feminists?
my jimmies are rustled you troll

>>3984841
>>3984845
calm down

>>3984865

I love how he can make comedy out of the most depressing topics:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDj85J59OhE&hd=1

>>3984897
>have you heard him strawman on feminists?

oh the lulz

>>3984888
Rogan himself said he just repeats sources and whatever conspiracy theory DVD and psychedelic he's jerking off over.

>>3984898
the only legitimate ranter/political is >>3984865 because he's not manically egocentric about his assertions.

>>3984920
did i say i disagreed?
i just think you got abit too upset over a thread on 4chan.

>>3984923
Clearly photoshopped.

>>3984929
It's not. It looks like it's "clearly" photoshopped because the chopped text at the top is a feature of the site.

>>3984887
Nobody likes sweet and loving Mitch...

>>3984809
The Simpsons, since they're always spot on

>this thread

>>3984948
I got into him right before he died, shitsux
I haven't listened to him in a while though I should go do that

>>3984841
He's too aggressive and crude, but he's a smart guy for his class.

>>3984951
You mean before 1999 right?

>>3984983
There are Simpsons after 1999?!

>>3984987
I suppose not.

> all these ugly folk
America doesn't have an intellectual heavyweight. That's why we're in such bad straights.

>>3984918
I can agree with this. I honestly do think he was one of the smartest men in comedy. Obviously most of his sketches were just jokes and his politics were crazy, but I think he deserves all the praise he gets.

>>3984983
>>3984987
Yeah, the Simpsons are always spot on.

desproges

>>3985058
"I'd rather laugh of Auschwitz with a Jew than play Scrabble with Klaus Barbie"

Pierre Desproges

/lit/

Every time I see a thread like this, I die a little inside.

If I could leave I would /lit/, but for some reason I keep coming back here, only to deal with this retarded bullshit.

If you comment, I won't see it, because I'll have left for a day or too. I'll be back though.

>Crtl+F
>no Louis C.K.

Jesus Christ /lit/. If you ever want to see a sweepingly humanistic and poignant show, watch the television show 'Louie'.

>>3985283
>reddit

>>3985313
He's a good comedian. You're just young and sensitive to saturation and hype.

>>3984809
>>3984840
>>3984865
>>3984918
>>3984895
Ugh

>>3985201
>>3985217
Thank God

Lenny Bruce is the only comedian who needs to be posted here. Everyone else can thank him for paving the way then fuck off.

>>3984841
When did /lit/ become so blue collar that four people disagreed with this?

>>3985350
You mean Spike Milligan.

>>3985283
I feel like Louie's not very well done a lot of the time. Like the episode with his pregnant sister that was just a setup for an incredibly stupid fart joke.

Tim and Eric taught me that hatred and cruelty will always have a place in the human heart, and that I'm not alone in the world.

>>3985201
Kaufman was great, yes.

>>3985201
isnt that Krist Novoselic?

>>3984931
Love Izzard.

Is that from the San Francisco show?

I don't know about "comedian" but he does use comical elements in his shows.

>he's one of the greatest thinkers of our generation
I agree. I don't much like his stand up, but some of his podcasts and the ideas he gets his fans thinking about are very good.

I watched this yesterday
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyODZ4IjBVI
Here are a few of the topics he discusses in that one podcast:

Existentialism, Albert Camus, Theology, decentralised peer networks, Dawkins Bashing, Ethics, Subjective experience of reality, metaphysics, The future of technology, Bhagavad Gita, deixis, maslow's hierarchy of needs, Cartesian Dualism...

...and he even lifts.

>>3985915
I've heard him speak about a number of interesting topics. He does it in a way that just revealed how shallow his understanding is.
He's a product, designed to appeal to pseudo-intellectual drug users.

If you think Rogan is any kind of intellectual, chances are you are a fucking idiot

This is a horrid thread.

Joe Rogan sometimes has smart people on his podcast.

He isnt very smart though
HE just looks smart when he has dumb people on his podcast, which is most of the time (eddie bravo, redban, duncan trussel, all fucking morons)

>>3985382
I guess this means we're getting more mainstream, I guess we need 500 more gravity's rainbow and postmodernism threads to drive them out.

>>3985915
This. We need far more people like Rogan in the public eye instead of the Kim Kardashians.

>Actually very clever tier
Stewart Lee

>Average
Carlin
Hicks

>Idiot
Rogan
Stanhope

Stanhope is hilarious though. Rogan is really terrible nowadays

>>3985382
This whole thread is pretty embarrassing. The guy who said Rollins is probably worse off than anyone, but the Joke Rogan fanbois are really showing the calibre of people who come to /lit/.

I know this is a troll thread, but there are actually people out there that consider Joe Rogan to be an intellectual

>>3985926
>Stewart Lee

Leave.

>>3984931
>>3985897
The two best in this thread.

>>3985932
How do they make you think though?

>>3985927
>The guy who said Rollins is probably worse off than anyone
how so? he's not the best blade in the set but there are far worse... kind of agree with Anon here.

>>3984809
The only correct answer is Woody Allen and he dropped that comedian shtick a long time ago.

>>3985929
Of course there are. if you ever left the /lit/ circlejerk for half an hour to venture outside your house, you would instantly discover that the average person really isn't very intelligent at all.

Joe Rogan is far more intelligent and articulate than the average person, and provides a platform that cultivates interest in numerous topics.

Of course he's a 'mainstream pseud' and you are infinity superior to him in every conceivable way; all of your interest are 'patrician tier' and you are the greatest being on the face of this earth who would vomit if ever subjected to his podcasts. But what he does is beneficial on so many levels.

>>3985927
And you're on this board... associating yourself with these people. Congratulations.

I'm sure Joe Rogan does make a lot of people think

His fans are mostly retards though

>>3985946
>But what he does is beneficial on so many levels.
List them off

>>3984937

Joe Rogan is a fuckinfg idiot

All his friends are even worse, which is the amazing thing .

Duncan Trussel his is intellectual equal for fucks sake

>>3985952
Anyone who actually tries to communicate a bit of intelligence to a widely educated mass proves that he isn't just a wanker who sits in some board and jerks off while pissing on others.

>>3985956
Welcome to /lit/. Swearing isn't filtered here.

>>3985330
IT'S EASY BEING DEAD BILL HICKS

>>3985959
>Of course he's a 'mainstream pseud' and you are infinity superior to him in every conceivable way; all of your interest are 'patrician tier' and you are the greatest being on the face of this earth who would vomit if ever subjected to his podcasts
>he isn't just a wanker who sits in some board and jerks off while pissing on others.
Thats what you're doing

I watch his podcasts sometimes. His guests range from Les Stroud to Neil DeGrasse Tyson, and many different people in between. I just enjoy the relaxed atmosphere he presents, it's like having a beer and talking shit with my mates.

>>3985965
Yea of course I love stroking my cock in this board. But does that make the statement less true?

If you want to understand a society, take a good look at the drugs it uses. And what can this tell you about American culture? Well, look at the drugs we use. Except for pharmaceutical poison, there are essentially only two drugs that Western civilization tolerates: Caffeine from Monday to Friday to energize you enough to make you a productive member of society, and alcohol from Friday to Monday to keep you too stupid to figure out the prison that you are living in.

I was in Nashville, Tennessee last year. After the show I went to a Waffle House – I'm not proud of it, I was hungry. And I'm alone, I'm eating and I'm reading a book, right? Waitress walks over to me. "Hey, whatcha readin' for?"

Isn't that the weirdest fuckin' question you've ever heard? Not what am I reading, but what am I reading FOR? Well, goddamnit, ya stumped me! Why do I read? Well . . . hmmm...I dunno...I guess I read for a lot of reasons and the main one is so I don't end up being a fuckin' waffle waitress.

This is where we are at right now, as a whole. No one is left out of the loop. We are experiencing a reality based on a thin veneer of lies and illusions. A world where greed is our God and wisdom is sin, where division is key and unity is fantasy, where the ego-driven cleverness of the mind is praised, rather than the intelligence of the heart.

Oh sorry, was I taking life seriously again?

ITT: Comedians who say what you already think so you can pat yourself on the back.

>>3985984
>where the ego-driven cleverness of the mind is praised

>makes his living insulting others in his stand up comedy routines

>>3985999
Great post. Top notch. Excellent work. Thick, solid, tight.

>>3986001

So brave and intelligent

>>3986001
>Thick, solid, tight.

Rogan fan i bet

>>3985999
"This is the material, by the way, that has kept me virtually anonymous in America for the past 15 years. Gee, I wonder why we're hated the world over? Look at these fat Americans in the front row - 'Why doesn't he just hit fruit with a hammer?' Folks, I could have done that, walked around being a millionaire and franchising myself but no, I had to have this weird thing about trying to illuminate the collective unconscious and help humanity. Fucking moron.”

Yes I agree Rogan is one of the great thinkers of our generation. But his stand-up isn't good.

>>3986007
his last show was unbelievably bad

>>3986006
Oh god he's so awful. He's the personification of a certain type of forum poster.

>>3986004
Nah, "Thick, solid, tight," means he is from /fit/.

>>3986011
>Oh god he's so awful.

E-prime, motherfucker. Do you speak it.

>>3986011
"Go back to bed, America. Your government has figured out how it all transpired. Go back to bed, America. Your government is in control again. Here. Here's American Gladiators. Watch this, shut up. Go back to bed, America. Here is American Gladiators. Here is 56 channels of it. Watch these pituitary retards bang their fucking skulls together and congratulate you on living in the land of freedom. Here you go, America!

God, I can't watch TV longer than five minutes without praying for nuclear holocaust."

>>3986013
It's clear from context I'm expressing an opinion.

>>3986006
Glad he's dead

>>3986028
“I left in love, in laughter, and in truth; and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.”
― Bill Hicks

Alexander Pope, Lord Byron, Juvenal...

>>3985927
>Joke Rogan

this negates anything you have to say about comedy.

>>3985946
He's not intelligent, though. He just happens to talk about subjects that are associated with intelligence and dumb people get confused.

>>3986011
>a certain type of forum poster

Luckily not the "oh god he's so awful" Reddit type, though.

>>3986057
Reddit loves Bill Hicks :)

>>3986058
So does 4chan.

>>3985926
Stewart Lee's diatribe against Richard Hammond and his accident was solid gold :)

>>3985399
lol, not him but that was so not the point of that episode

>>3986065
I know.

>>3984809

>>3986118
If one comedian fully embodies /lit/, it is Russell Brand:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-NCDovAWB8#t=03m11s

all of these americlap comedians are pseudo-intellectual drop-outs, whereas most of the glorious britbong comedians are oxbridge educated.

>>3986161
Everyone that goes Ivy League has to turn in their sense of humour to pay tuition.

That said, Oxbridge produces some of the greatest comedians I know of, and some of the most mediocre. There are some fantastic comedians from Britain that aren't "Oxbridge educated". Between Charlie Higson and Paul Whitehouse, and Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, I know which I prefer.

No it isn't Fry and Laurie you twat

>>3986161
>Muh Monty Python

Bill Burr.

>>3985399
Watch the God episode, that's the one that impressed me a lot. And also, he's just good at showing a slightly skewed version of modern life.
All the shit in his show could happen, but it's all highly improbable, making it just slightly surreal.

I hope that made sense.

>>3986170
DON'T BE SO REVOLTING DARLING!

lol @ people making fun of the topic and content of the jokes themselves. there's so much more to comedy than the actual words. i'd hate to read your lit crit.

>>3985918

Sure, but compared to the competition I'd say he is a step in the right direction.

>>3985548
You know, regardless of you being ironic or not, I think that Tim & Eric's comedy is very compassionate. Think about it. Think about how the most mundane aspects of the life of a human being, like making love to your wife, or having a son, or writing your resumeé are just so awful. I don't mean awful in the sense that... making love to your wife shouldn't be awful, it should be a positive and beautiful experience. I'm just saying that we do a lot of mundane things that are not compatible with a exciting/glamorous life. If you are like me, we want a glamorous life but not everybody can have that. We have to accept that fact.
The life of a human being is very frustrating for that reason. Now... just imagine, for a second, that, instead of being negative about that mundane stuff you laugh about it. Get it? It's really genius because Tim and Eric do exactly that, and it makes me think, so it's great.

>>3984937
This is the only answer.

Moran's ruminations on and description of things never fail to delight.

On the U.S. side, there's Louis C.K. (his admitted overexposure doesn't lessen his act), Mike Birbiglia (he is truly the Rembrandt of awkwardness), Maria Bamford, etc.

Rogan and Stanhope are just awful though, and I hate how they seem to be the main inspiration of the unfunny fucks with whom I have an acquaintance who aspire to becoming stand-up comics. Rollins is just so overly angsty but occasionally has glimmers of genuine funniness; it's too bad it always stems from a feeling of superiority over someone else though.

Hicks was unforgivable. At least Carlin remembered to tell a joke once in a while and only really got bad towards the end when he didn't give a fuck.

I pretty much can't stand any comedian who just yells constantly.

>>3986573
Tim & Eric is cynical, misogynistic tripe. There's no compassion in shamelessly mocking culture that is a product of intellectual and financial poverty. All the while hiding behind the cowardice of "absurdity." Privileged, sociopathic shit.

Jasper Carrott and Billy Connelly are where it's at.

>>3986832
Go to bed, Dad.

I suppose it's Morecambe and Wise and the Two Ronnies next?

>>3986006
"Hey, y'know mice? They're nothing but FAGGOT RATS."

>>3986812
I'm assuming you haven't seen "The Comedy"