Great stand up routines.

[checkoutgirl]

Larry Miller's Five Levels Of Drinking.

Watched that for the first time a few weeks ago and it's brilliant.

I'd submit Bill Hicks Spectre-Vision wanking in hotel room bit, the term "hairy bobbin' man ass" has stayed with me.

[checkoutgirl]

Pryor's junkie talking to an alcoholic bit from Live and Smokin' is a brilliant piece of character acting. And anything where he impersonates his insane father is also excellent.

[kalowski]

Yeah I love that. Norm's short Germany bit cracks me up too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXdtafGdIVM (although the version on his Netflix special is better)

I don't find that funny at all. Seems really simplistic to me.

[kalowski]

Pryor's junkie talking to an alcoholic bit from Live and Smokin' is a brilliant piece of character acting. And anything where he impersonates his insane father is also excellent.

"Take that bass out your voice when you talk to me."

[grassbath]

Larry Miller's Five Levels Of Drinking.

Yeah, this is superb. And always makes me feel a little bit sad/guilty, because it has a dark undercurrent that's very relatable.

[Ballad of Ballard Berkley]

Billy Connolly's incontinence knickers routine. His vivid imagery and precise physicality trigger an almost - yes - incontinent wave of audience hysteria. That whole concert is one of the greatest pieces of stand-up I've ever seen. Like Stewart Lee once said of Daniel Kitson, "Why does anyone else bother?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY3Ng5kDWUo

So many great asides.

"It strikes at all ages."

"Just the very job at St Andrews!"

"Cares not a jot."

And my favourite: "What's happening later?"

Saddle up and ride your pony.

[kalowski]

Billy Connolly's incontinence knickers routine. His vivid imagery and precise physicality trigger an almost - yes - incontinent wave of audience hysteria. That whole concert is one of the greatest pieces of stand-up I've ever seen. Like Stewart Lee once said of Daniel Kitson, "Why does anyone else bother?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY3Ng5kDWUo

So many great asides.

"It strikes at all ages."

"Just the very job at St Andrews!"

"Cares not a jot."

And my favourite: "What's happening later?"

Saddle up and ride your pony.

That show has those lovely lines he delivers so well.
"Bike? I'll give you bike!"
"I'll make you smile on the other side of your face. What he's going to do, slash me?" Robbie Coltrane crying with laughter is the seal of approval.

[Ballad of Ballard Berkley]

That show has those lovely lines he delivers so well.
"Bike? I'll give you bike!"
"I'll make you smile on the other side of your face. What he's going to do, slash me?" Robbie Coltrane crying with laughter is the seal of approval.

"Dow Jones? I don't even know who the man is. Wouldn't talk to him if I did."

That last line is beautiful.

[Ballad of Ballard Berkley]

CaB has probably done this before my time, but can we discuss great routines? Stand up that goes beyond those dreadful puns in the fringe thread.

I love Richard Pryor's Mafia routine.
https://youtu.be/m3D6Qc6uByo

That's magnificent.

[hummingofevil]

20 years ago my mate's mam died a few weeks after being given 9 months to live. We hated the language around illness back then and spent many a night sharing pretty much these sentiments. To hear them told back to me in a comedy routine is so satisfying. This is just great. Norm McDonald on cancer.

https://youtu.be/NMRd-n_s4c8

[kalowski]

"Dow Jones? I don't even know who the man is. Wouldn't talk to him if I did."

That last line is beautiful.

"Here's the country where you live, and here's a wee cloud. I KNOW WHAT A FUCKING CLOUD LOOKS LIKE JUST TELL ME THE WEATHER!"

[Terryfuckwit]

Mick Miller's 'Noddy on the Radio' routine is a classic.

https://youtu.be/jVOmf28QGEQ

[non capisco]

Eddie Murphys 'cook out' routine from delirious
https://youtu.be/oEpaLtJ6zCQ

His aunt's protracted falling down the stairs bit in that is so fucking funny. "My SHOE!"

Absolutely mint thread, this. Enjoying both new stuff and old. Keep 'em coming, folks.

[non capisco]

This, from Andy Daly

https://youtu.be/CiajbgY6ofU

Yeah, that is sublime. I got Comedy Bang Bang fatigue about two years ago and sacked it off but I should probably go back and hoover up any Andy Daly episodes I've missed because he was always the greatest contributor.

On a similarly anti-comedy note, Jon Glaser as Johnny Ding-Dong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ULKbLsZowg
^ I must have watched this brief clip of what was presumably a one-off character performance into triple figures and it still kills me. I still think the cocky little cap twist and swig from the water bottle is as perfect a flourish of character acting as I've ever seen. I love how both this and the Andy Daly routine play off a shared sense of weariness between performer and audience with the hack comedy acts they're satirising, neither would work whatsoever if they played to silence and it was just the comic on stage spewing bitterness. The fact people are pissing themselves with laughter at the world's most basic insult comic hits me square in the funny bone every time. "Who else we got? HEY, FOUR EYES! WHY HAVE YOU GOT GLASSES, YA FUCKIN DICK? DING-DOOOOONG!"
I would kill to have seen the entirety of this routine, I imagine he went on to eat the whole sandwich.

[hummingofevil]

Yeah, that is sublime. I got Comedy Bang Bang fatigue about two years ago and sacked it off but I should probably go back and hoover up any Andy Daly episodes I've missed because he was always the greatest contributor.

On a similarly anti-comedy note, Jon Glaser as Johnny Ding-Dong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ULKbLsZowg
^ I must have watched this brief clip of what was presumably a one-off character performance into triple figures and it still kills me. I still think the cocky little cap twist and swig from the water bottle is as perfect a flourish of character acting as I've ever seen. I love how both this and the Andy Daly routine play off a shared sense of weariness between performer and audience with the hack comedy acts they're satirising, neither would work whatsoever if they played to silence and it was just the comic on stage spewing bitterness. The fact people are pissing themselves with laughter at the world's most basic insult comic hits me square in the funny bone every time. "Who else we got? HEY, FOUR EYES! WHY HAVE YOU GOT GLASSES, YA FUCKIN DICK? DING-DOOOOONG!"
I would kill to have seen the entirety of this routine, I imagine he went on to eat the whole sandwich.

Absolutely. This is my single most wanted comedy missing link. I would love to see the rest of this. It's glorious.

"Slammed!"

[chveik]

Yeah, that is sublime. I got Comedy Bang Bang fatigue about two years ago and sacked it off but I should probably go back and hoover up any Andy Daly episodes I've missed because he was always the greatest contributor.

I've had the same cbb fatigue than you, but I still listened to Daly's last appareances on it and I was a bit disappointed. he didn't play any new characters and I guess the interaction with Aukerman and al. has lost its freshness.

he was great in a fairly recent hollywood handbook episode though. & of course his Andy Daly Podcast Pilot Project is a thing of beauty.

here's another great routine by Andy Daly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nPKPCgeeG0

[ramsobot]

I've been lucky enough to see Johnny Ding Dong on at least two different occasions, most recently in a hour-long Glaser show last year. Here's what happens after that clip:

Johnny takes his sandwich break. (Last time it was a burrito break, actually. He made a big deal about a patented Johnny Ding Dong "no hands bite.") In between long pauses, he stops to describe how good it is. Then the sound guy accidentally leans on his laptop and starts playing a song. Johnny turns on him, angrily and really lays into him.

Johnny goes back to his sandwich but his curiosity gets the best of him. "What was that song?" It was "Cavatina" from the movie "The Deer Hunter." After another stretch of sandwich eating, he asks the sound guy to put it on while he eats. Slowly but surely, the sad guitar gets to Johnny and he breaks down. The accent is gone. The attitude is gone. He apologizes to the sound guy and to the crowd members that he ding-donged.

The full song plays out over the next few minutes as he apologizes to the crowd for his behavior in his life. He then asks the sound guy to play the song again and he continues to be moved and continues to repent. He's returning to his birth name of Jonathan Ding Dong going forward he wants to help people. He is changed forever and leaves the stage.

[Twit 2]

20 years ago my mate's mam died a few weeks after being given 9 months to live. We hated the language around illness back then and spent many a night sharing pretty much these sentiments. To hear them told back to me in a comedy routine is so satisfying. This is just great. Norm McDonald on cancer.

https://youtu.be/NMRd-n_s4c8

Yes love that one. "Haha I'm fucking Uncle Bert's wife" and "Take my grandson" always crack me up.

[Jockice]

That whole concert is one of the greatest pieces of stand-up I've ever seen. Like Stewart Lee once said of Daniel

it was on telly a few weeks ago. ITV4 or something. It's still brilliant.

[kalowski]

That's magnificent.

"Who is it? Carmine? Tell him I'll call him back. Tell him it's a stick-up, hahahah."

Just beautiful comedy.

[grassbath]

This short bit from the wankbeast:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrahQpIWD08

A good philosophical observational bit, but it's all in how he inhabits the characters.

[DenzilHolles]

Nothing life changing, but Nate Bargatze's bit about
Time travel always makes me piss

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QXy3uII-xn0

And yes about Norm. Every word is so important with him.

'The country of Germany' ....

[checkoutgirl]

This short bit from the wankbeast:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrahQpIWD08

A good philosophical observational bit, but it's all in how he inhabits the characters.

Wankbeast is quite easily in the top 50 comedians ever. Shame he's an exhibitionist/flasher/public-masturbater but many geniuses are flawed transgressors. Oscar Wilde and Mohammed were paedophiles and Aziz Ansari is a sex pest. Harvey Wenstein is a straight up rapist as is Bill Cosby. Let's not even get started on Michael Jackson.

It's an interesting philosophical conundrum. When a unique artist who seems to fill a void that nobody else seems to fill turns out to be a sex offender (problematic) do we just ignore that unique opinion? Or do we push the real person aside and enjoy the tune/bit/film/book/poem/TV show/game/lecture/painting/play/building?

[zomgmouse]

When a unique artist who seems to fill a void that nobody else seems to fill turns out to be a sex offender (problematic) do we just ignore that unique opinion?

[apologies if this derails the thread, but]

Yeah. Especially given he's made no efforts to atone or improve. He's probably also not as unique as you think he is and there's enough other voices that the absence of his will be unlikely to affect the global scene. And if it does, then so be it. Losing his contribution is not more important than setting a wider precedent and supporting both his victims and any others.

I think it's also a related but separate argument about more historical figures like Oscar Wilde because we don't necessarily have the connection to a living person and their trajectory, just the legacy.

Ansari is an interesting example because I think he got shoved under the "sexual impropriety" bus a little when the Louis CK furore was in full swing, and almost tarred with the same brush when his actions were in no way as recurring or comparable. He's also for what it's worth at least appeared to have some awareness and introspection about it, though whether that's enough to absolve him remains to be seen.

In short I'm not sure you truly can "separate" anyone's person from their output because on a more symbolic note by accepting or consuming their work you are legitimising it and by extension them and their place in (broadly speaking) the history of art etc. And then you have to ask whether you think missing out on that is worth it or not. In most cases the answer is not.

[c]

[apologies if this derails the thread, but]

Yeah. Especially given he's made no efforts to atone or improve. He's probably also not as unique as you think he is and there's enough other voices that the absence of his will be unlikely to affect the global scene. And if it does, then so be it. Losing his contribution is not more important than setting a wider precedent and supporting both his victims and any others.

I think it's also a related but separate argument about more historical figures like Oscar Wilde because we don't necessarily have the connection to a living person and their trajectory, just the legacy.

Ansari is an interesting example because I think he got shoved under the "sexual impropriety" bus a little when the Louis CK furore was in full swing, and almost tarred with the same brush when his actions were in no way as recurring or comparable. He's also for what it's worth at least appeared to have some awareness and introspection about it, though whether that's enough to absolve him remains to be seen.

In short I'm not sure you truly can "separate" anyone's person from their output because on a more symbolic note by accepting or consuming their work you are legitimising it and by extension them and their place in (broadly speaking) the history of art etc. And then you have to ask whether you think missing out on that is worth it or not. In most cases the answer is not.

Just an appeal to please not let this excellent thread now become a 100 page toxic shout pit

[Wayman C. McCreery]

Stew's Joe Pasquale joke.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YE9Kthyaco

It's weird seeing Stew doing five minutes for TV. It's a great bit, and it's even better as part of 90s Comedian when he ends the vomiting into the gaping anus of Christ routine with a callback to Pasquale.

The just give it to me straight like a pear cider that's made from 100% pear routine from Milder Comedian is my favourite of Stew's. That first reveal gets me every time:

"And at the end of all this I went to see the specialist in his room, and he did this thing where they get you out - they get the results up on the screen, and then he just looked at them for ages without saying anything. You've probably had this happen. So after a while I said to him 'look, you don't have to beat around the bush', I said to him, 'my mother had Crohn's disease, I've talked to her about coping strategies so, you know, don't prevaricate, just give me the results. Just give it to me straight like a pear cider that's made from 100% pears'."

[non capisco]

Thanks to this thread I went down a beautiful Norm Macdonald YouTube wormhole yesterday evening when I was thunderously depressed and it really honestly helped me out a ton so cheers. He's fucking great, isn't he?

[zomgmouse]

Just an appeal to please not let this excellent thread now become a 100 page toxic shout pit

Yes I definitely agree it should be in a separate thread, I just wanted to address it while it was fresh in my mind.

[kalowski]

Speaking of Murphy, as someone did earlier, I love his routine about different musicians. His impressions are spot-on.
"Lemonade. That cool refreshing drink."

I was just becoming a serious James Brown fan when I saw this and his impression was just perfect.

https://youtu.be/U-6Qn2wiaSA

[Cold Meat Platter]

Thanks to this thread I went down a beautiful Norm Macdonald YouTube wormhole yesterday evening when I was thunderously depressed and it really honestly helped me out a ton so cheers. He's fucking great, isn't he?

Absolutely. If you haven't seen his special "Me Doing Stand Up" I recommend checking it out, a few of the bits posted are from that but the whole thing is superb, maybe my favourite stand up set ever.