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Re: Was Steve Martin ever funny?
He did some good stuff on SNL. I also caught his live night club act pre SNL and it was very good.
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Weird Al wishes he did King Tut. Also, Roxanne is a great date movie.
Martin Pryor were the best two comedians of the late 70's early 80s. |
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[ QUOTE ] You're selling him spectacularly short. Spectacularly. All comedians steal jokes. [/ QUOTE ] Everybody swoons over George Carlin, whose 'Seven Dirty Words' is a direct Lenny Bruce ripoff. [/ QUOTE ] George Carlin got 15 minutes of my life that I wish I had back. He has a relatively new 90-minute or so comedy special on HBO. I decided to give him 15 minutes to make me laugh on once. It never happened. Channel was changed. He did a show in Cleveland about 7 years ago (give or take a year) at one of the theaters in the theater district here. It was NOT billed as a rehearsal. As it turned out, it was essentially a rehearsal for a taping of another HBO comedy special he was doing. I didn't go to the show, but a local critic said he was reading from a script for a good portion of the show. Carlin is made out to be a stand-up comedy god, but he seems like total trash. |
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So, is any of his standup work available today on DVD? I'm cruising Netflix and coming up blank, other than SNL/Muppet Show appearances.
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#55
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I know he has some stand up on Napster I've listened to some of it and don't find it that funny.
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George Carlin got 15 minutes of my life that I wish I had back. He has a relatively new 90-minute or so comedy special on HBO. I decided to give him 15 minutes to make me laugh on once. It never happened. Channel was changed. [/ QUOTE ] That special was horrible. In his "i'm freeze dried hung out to dry fast forward slowed down" stupid part i don't think I laughed once. Was he even trying to be funny? |
#57
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Carlin can be funny, but mostly in his written stuff these days.
His performing height was about 30 years ago. |
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Was he even trying to be funny? [/ QUOTE ] I remember thinking that it was a little amusing that he could memorize all that crap, but all that crap wasn't funny. It was supposed to be some sort of commentary on consumer culture, I'm sure, but I have no idea what he was trying to say. Then he moved on to joking about suicide and how people are too busy to do it. This wouldn't have been funny even if it had any basis in truth, and I don't say that because I thought it was distasteful or anything. It just wasn't funny. None of it. Isn't social commentary supposed to have SOME basis in truth? |
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Back in the 80s, he was funny.
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So, is any of his standup work available today on DVD? I'm cruising Netflix and coming up blank, other than SNL/Muppet Show appearances. [/ QUOTE ] Steve did one of the original HBO specials. I mean literally HBO was about a month old. Tape of that is probably floating around somewhere. |
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