I just got through watching the comedy special "Ugly and Angry" by the last comic standing finalist Chris Porter (Season 4 - Josh Blue won so you don't have to look it up). I decided that this was the time to blog about comedy again (2 word review - Watch It). Chris Porter did an awesome job of describing exactly what his special was going to be about in 3 words. He took the cliche of don't judge a book by its cover and said screw that. Im going to give them exactly what the cover is telling you. He came out Angry about everything. Mainly at stupid people or what he called "fu**tards". He was kinda giving off the "here is your sign" vibe from Bill Engvall about people asking stupid questions. He also gave a entertaining rant about starburks and how people just need to order their coffee and get out of the way. He then went into rant about him being ugly and how ugly people need to be nice because what else you got going for you. At least he is funny. Ugly people need to learn what they are good at and go with that and not being mad or angry all the time. However, Porter is contradicting himself in this exact moment. Hope you get that if not well lets move on to another comedian that has been angry for a very long time and that is Bill Burr.
Bill has had many specials that you can pretty much watch all of them on netflix. Side note if you are any kind of comedy fan you should have Netflix. They are a comedy gold mine from Louis CK, Bill Burr, Aziz Ansari (side note: He sold out Madison Square Garden- WHAT), Ralphie May, Russell Brand, Kevin Hart (He sold out Madison Square Garden 3 times- LEGENDARY) and even a ton of other comics. They even have winners of "Last Comic Standing." Which by the way doesn't mean jack and the we all know that. Back to Billy Red face and that this man is angry about a lot of things. The most common thing is getting rid of this over population of stupid people problem that the word has been diagnosed by two comedians in this same post. Bill rants about "thinning the herd" in at least 4 specials i know and he even did it on Monday night when I went to see him in Jackson, MS on his Billy Bible Belt Tour!!
Which I was kinda nervous about because I thought he just did this special to come to the south to tell us that religion is stupid. I had a right to think that because that is basically what he did for 20 minutes in his latest (funny but too long of rant on religion) Basically religion is like Bacon to Jim Gaffigan on the Bill's special "Im Sorry you feel that Way".
However, I was listening to Bill Burr monday morning podcast and he said that he was in Alabama the week before and he mentioned he didn't believe in God and someone in the crowd said you better not say that in Mississippi and this freaked out Bill. So that guy did us a favor because Bill didn't even touch the religion material in his arsenal when I saw him. Which I think me being sensitive about a topic makes comedians want to rip on it even more which I understand but in this case i was paying money. I am glad Bill Burr did this tour because this exposed him to a bunch of people that had never heard of him or bought his material. I think that was his main goal and it was achieved. The main topics of his comedy in Jackson was feminism, Equal pay, Gorillas and sign language, airports, ad that we all better be glad that Kanye West is black and not white. Which sounds racists but it is funny. Side note: Bill did a meet and greet for all fans that wanted to stay after his show which was awesome. Not many comedians do this anymore. That is one thing that I wish was more common that and the encore of telling classic bits (especially when you have over 5 specials to draw material from). I am not going to mention the comedian that does this because this is a post about angry people and he doesn't really fit. What a suggestion to get a feel for Bill is to watch him on Conan and you get to really hear him go off or in this case be Ugly and Angry about the most common of things like: Oprah, Steve Jobs, Guns, Rednecks, football fans.
Anthony Jeselnik the stand-up comedian and television writer. Jeselnik was named one of Comedy Central's breakout comedians of 2009. Jeselnik has stated many times in advice to practicing beginning comedians that he believes the most important step in the career is learning to continue acts even when no one is laughing, because there is no better practice against heckling. In 2010 released his debut album, Shakespeare
I bought his CD just because of his rating on punchline magazine.com. However, this was a huge mistake on my part.
In no way did I think this album deserved to be the album of the year in 2010. I guess punchline thought it was great just based on the fact that after every joke Jeselnik will tell you himself that the joke was awesome or the best joke. Half of his standup is either complimenting his jokes or telling you a story about how someone didn't like one of his jokes.
However I do think he does a good impression of Dane Cook. He even looks a lot like Dane. I can't stand Dane Cook by the way either.
I believe the ones that should have replaced this one should have been the ones below
BILL BURR – LET IT GO
Though it seemed nearly impossible for Bill Burr to outdo his last release, Why Do I Do This? from last year, he’s done it. Let it Go finds the respected comedian in top form.
BO BURNHAM – WORDS WORDS WORDS
If you had residual doubt as to whether Bo Burnham was not as much a comedian as he just was a YouTube star, his newest effort should fix that. Burnham combines piano and guitar based songs, beat poetry, hip-hop and straight stand-up to deliver wall-to-wall laughs.
Ironically both of these were on Punchline magazines. The 10 Must-have stand-up comedy DVDs from 2010.
The best one out of them that is not even listed on punchline because it was only a digital download album in 2010 was Brian Regan's All By Myself.
It was released on December 7, 2010, so that had something to do with it to to not make the punchline magazine's website. However, if you search punchline you won't fine Brian Regan review or other items anywhere on the site.
All By Myself, was everything I hoped it would be. I had seen him twice on tour in 2010 and it was awesome. For the second show in August in New Orleans he had dyed his hair blonde which made him gets tons of laughs at the beginning of the show before even speaking a word.
