/lit/ Tier comedians

[Anonymous No.8431325]

Any /lit/ tier comedians out there

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[Anonymous No.8431354]

>*reddit tier
ftfy

[Anonymous No.8431355]

Samaid Hoidelberg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdNAhlqnxA0
this stand up really made me think

[Anonymous No.8431390]

[Anonymous No.8431391]

Russell Peters

[Anonymous No.8431487]

Stephen Fry
Louis CK

[Anonymous No.8431490]

>>8431354
>ftfy
reddit tier

[Anonymous No.8431491]

i want to kill myself!

[Anonymous No.8431510]

i figure this is the thread for this, i dig Adam Carolla's books, and i recently finished Aziz Ansari's book Modern romance. good stuff, and i need more entertaining books to listen too when i'm commuting. any recommendations?

[Anonymous No.8431546]

Bill Hicks

[Anonymous No.8431593]

>>8431325
I like his earlier work a lot more.

[Anonymous No.8431603]

After watching "Make Happy", I've come to the conclusion Bo Burnham isn't shit.

If you watch "What." followed by MH, honestly he is telling a story, and the way he weaves his emotions/demons into it is almost masterful. Also, he has links to DFW interview on his website, so he's /lit/erally mostly there anyway

[Anonymous No.8431604]

>>8431593
Yeah his earlier work was influenced by Wittgenstein his latter by Chomsky.

[Anonymous No.8431609]

>>8431604
Idunno about influenced by. You could certainly draw some similarities.

[Anonymous No.8431610]

>>8431603
He's very very clever but he's not funny there's a difference. He's not smart either he's more of information cataloger as opposed to an original thinker.

[Anonymous No.8431611]

>>8431603
MH was preachy shit and What., while funny at times, also got caught up in itself and came off as contrived/pretentious

[Anonymous No.8431615]

>>8431609
He was influenced by literature, philosophy and TV characters not comedians.

[Anonymous No.8431623]

>>8431610
I dunno, bits like the salt and vinegar joke and "kill yourself" were hilarious. I'm not too informed on what makes something humorous vs. clever, what would make the difference? Take his timing jokes, there was an expectation of the audience for it to go one way, and he went another in a manner unexpected, he's basically making fun of the audience's assumptions, which I would consider "funny"

[Anonymous No.8431634]

>>8431623
He's humor doesn't work universally because he relies on clever word games and construing expectations of the audience who are comediaclly literate. Charlie Chaplin and Carlin can make the world laugh. Bo cant. His humor is too gimmicky.

[Anonymous No.8431636]

Woody Allen and maybe Steve Martin.

[Anonymous No.8431659]

He also has /lit/ taste in novels

[Anonymous No.8431665]

>>8431325
*tips fedora*

[Anonymous No.8431666]

>>8431355
Nigga is pretty based

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[Anonymous No.8431668]

I prefer droll humor, but droll doesn't get famous.

[Anonymous No.8431717]

Nick Offerman. His reddit AMA's shows his writing skills. He's also written two books I believe.

[Anonymous No.8431960]

>>8431325
Dostoyevsky is a slapdash comedian

[Anonymous No.8431963]

>>8431325
>Pic possibly related
not really

[Anonymous No.8432606]

>>8431325
Ellen

[Anonymous No.8432632]

>>8431960

Dostoyevsky did often go for humor, especially early on, and it really wasn't his thing. At the least, it hasn't aged well out of its original context.
Actually now that I think of it, some of his later work like The Crocodile does work pretty well as humor. But he never really was able to pull it of character-wise (certainly not in comparison to Dickens, whom I think he was trying to emulate in writing comic characters).

[Anonymous No.8432634]

Sammy Hydel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxK1abRYXJo

Tell me that isn't reminiscent of Inherent Vice.

[Anonymous No.8432676]

>>8432606
Kek

[Anonymous No.8432839]

>>8431355
why is he wearing a pijamas

[Anonymous No.8432985]

Vic and Bob have let themselves go.

[Anonymous No.8433000]

Naked in his rocking-chair of undressed teak...

[Anonymous No.8434432]

>>8431634
That's like saying Joyce is bad because you need to be a reader to read him.

[Anonymous No.8434450]

>carlin
LMAO THERE IS NO GOD BECAUSE I TAKE THINGS OUT OF CONTEXT

No. Discernible. Talent.

[Anonymous No.8434457]

>>8431634
>Carlin

Carlin basically just made observations in rant form so everyone could acknowledge how hypocritical or incongruous certain situations were.

What's funny about him?

[Anonymous No.8434478]

>>8432632
>he didn't get the reference

[Anonymous No.8434484]

>>8434457
The funny things he says. Went to see him live, never saw anyone so in their element in my life. Dylan Moran is also pretty fun, his earlier stuff anyway. His last special was pretty odd, it seemed like something had changed in his life. Probably stopped doing some drug or another. But his first two or three shows are great.

[Anonymous No.8434489]

Demetri Martin tbqh

[Anonymous No.8434497]

>>8434484

Dylan Moran is the only right answer so far

[Anonymous No.8434555]

>>8434497
finally, another fan. what did you think of his latest special? it seemed way too calm and not cynical and posh enough. just really a kind of tired drugless hour conversation with no material. it was kind of sad in comparison with his other stuff, but if he has a better life now, i'm happy enough with what i've gotten from him. Not many more comedians i know of, really. Bo's good in the sense of his quick wit and cleverness, but i think whether he truly becomes a great comedian in the future is something only time will tell. he has the potential to be one, certainly. there really aren't a lot of funny people out there. I mean, I liked richard pryor and even chapelle, but are they lit? nah. are they funny? absolutely. Leslie Nielsen was also very very funny, for example. Lit? fuck no. But I'm not the type to find literature funny, Confederacy of Dunces wasn't funny to me, for example. If anything, that book was a depressing cry for help that no one listened to until he was fucking dead. Carlin was funny in the sense that he was a social commentator, kind of like Bill Hicks, really ultra cynical and critical of a lot of things, Carlin only hit that tone when he got a bit older, he used to be just a goofy fucker, which I enjoyed. Someone who was quick witted and funny, albeit fairly old timey, was Groucho Marx, check out a video of you bet your life sometime, that shit is pretty fucking fun. Jonathan Winters also, he was a skit genius, and though a lot of his jokes are just edgy for their time and kind of quaint now, his scenarios are great and his facial expressions and voices are absolutely mint even to this day. Truly funny comedians only come very rarely, unfortunately.

[Anonymous No.8434641]

oh sorry, that was too much i guess.

me like funnyman. he make belly laff.

[Anonymous No.8434684]

>>8434450
That's not his entire standup though. Politically the guy isn't all that interesting, sure, but as a comedian he was certainly talented. Watch and listen to a lot of his stuff from the 70's & 80's. A lot of his talent lied in his delivery.

[Anonymous No.8434753]

>>8434684
No, but that's what he chose to define himself as in his last years and what he died as.

[Anonymous No.8434916]

>>8431325
that Kaufman isn't on here reminds me I need to gtf off this board

[Anonymous No.8435296]

>>8431325
Monty python

[Anonymous No.8435303]

Dylan Moran.

[Anonymous No.8435314]

>>8435303
yeah this dude's face has sort of a literary vibe

not the stupid face he's making in that gif, i mean his face generally

[Anonymous No.8435338]

>>8431659

This.

Also Stewart Lee.

[Anonymous No.8435349]

>>8435314
He's actually very well-read and very sophisticated. His choice of words is very elegant, which makes a very pleasant combo with his on stage drunk random guy character.
Black Books is a great show also, he's one of the two writers of the show and he plays as the main character. Very diogenes-like character with a twist of absurdity

[Anonymous No.8435356]

I always thought Stewart Lee was a pretentious unfunny asshole but I've seen some good bits on youtube by him, I'll check out some of his shows, he seems pretty /lit/ desu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDs7-QYlGyY

[Anonymous No.8435454]

>>8431666

he should really stop taking alex jones seriously lmoa

[Anonymous No.8435924]

>>8431325
Rich Vos.

[Anonymous No.8436030]

>>8434478
>fueling a Nabokav meme

[Anonymous No.8436031]

>>8435349
>Very diogenes-like character with a twist of absurdity
Don't describe things you like this way.