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Topic	These are my ten favorite stand up comedians. Which of my favorites is yours?
WhiskeyDisk 12/06/18 12:48:45 AM #27:	Firewood18 posted... Carlin was steadfast and true. People should wear bracelets that say "what would Carlin do?" This, I'll explain why in a second. Firewood18 posted... And man, I wish Hicks lived a little longer. Double this. JFC, Hicks was...just on another level. DiScOrD tHe LuNaTiC posted... Incorrect. Carlin was one of the greatest social commentators of all time. Also this. Now granted, towards the end Carlin kind of became a cranky, bitter old prick...which was his right at that point in his life and what was happening in the world at the time. That being said, what a lot of Carlin's detractors seem to miss is that the man wrote a new hour every year for damned near 40 years. If you understand anything about standup, you know what a crazy idea it was when he started doing it. He came from an era where a working standup comic could still literally milk the same hour of material in Vegas for 20 years. He was really the first comic that would do a special and straight up burn the entire act and start from scratch as soon as it was recorded because it wasn't fresh anymore. I love Kinnison, but if he were still alive he'd still be shouting OH OH OH. GO WHERE THERE'S FOOD! Dice still tours and gets stuck doing Hickory Dickory Dock as an encore. If Hedbergh was still alive he'd still be feeding ducks with Subway bread as an encore. Hell, even Bert Kreischer can't leave a theater without people begging him to do The Machine. If an audience had begged Carlin to do 7 dirty words in 87 as an encore, he would have flipped them the bird and walked off stage. Once his act was recorded, it was sour milk to him and he was on to the next hour. Without a guy like Carlin, comics could still afford to be complacent and lazy. You'd never have guys like Hicks or Stanhope or Ralphie May if it weren't for guys like him. Gabriel Iglesias would still be doing his fluffy bit. Dunham would still have one puppet. White would still be doing Tater Salad. Foxworthy and the rest of the redneck crew would still be milking their punchlines. Kat Williams would still be doing White People...Demitri Martin wouldn't have to rip pages off his sketch pad as he goes. The modern art of standup owes in particular Carlin, Lenny Bruce, and Hicks an eternal debt of gratitude that any comic worth a damn would acknowledge. Just my two cents. Change My Mind. --- https://imgur.com/4fmtLFt http://s1.zetaboards.com/sba/ ~there's always free cheese in a mousetrap. <cite>WhiskeyDisk posted [p:913623502] in These are ... [t:77271394]...</cite> <quote><cite>Firewood18 posted...</cite> <quote>Carlin was steadfast and true. People should wear bracelets that say "what would Carlin do?" </quote> This, I'll explain why in a second. <cite>Firewood18 posted...</cite> <quote>And man, I wish Hicks lived a little longer.</quote> Double this. JFC, Hicks was...just on another level. <cite>DiScOrD tHe LuNaTiC posted...</cite> <quote>Incorrect. Carlin was one of the greatest social commentators of all time.</quote> Also this. Now granted, towards the end Carlin kind of became a cranky, bitter old prick...which was his right at that point in his life and what was happening in the world at the time. That being said, what a lot of Carlin's detractors seem to miss is that the man wrote a new hour every year for damned near 40 years. If you understand anything about standup, you know what a crazy idea it was when he started doing it. He came from an era where a working standup comic could still literally milk the same hour of material in Vegas for 20 years. He was really the first comic that would do a special and straight up burn the entire act and start from scratch as soon as it was recorded because it wasn't fresh anymore. I love Kinnison, but if he were still alive he'd still be shouting OH OH OH. GO WHERE THERE'S FOOD! Dice still tours and gets stuck doing Hickory Dickory Dock as an encore. If Hedbergh was still alive he'd still be feeding ducks with Subway bread as an encore. Hell, even Bert Kreischer can't leave a theater without people begging him to do The Machine. If an audience had begged Carlin to do 7 dirty words in 87 as an encore, he would have flipped them the bird and walked off stage. Once his act was recorded, it was sour milk to him and he was on to the next hour. Without a guy like Carlin, comics could still afford to be complacent and lazy. You'd never have guys like Hicks or Stanhope or Ralphie May if it weren't for guys like him. Gabriel Iglesias would still be doing his fluffy bit. Dunham would still have one puppet. White would still be doing Tater Salad. Foxworthy and the rest of the redneck crew would still be milking their punchlines. Kat Williams would still be doing White People...Demitri Martin wouldn't have to rip pages off his sketch pad as he goes. The modern art of standup owes in particular Carlin, Lenny Bruce, and Hicks an eternal debt of gratitude that any comic worth a damn would acknowledge. Just my two cents. Change My Mind. --- https://imgur.com/4fmtLFt http://s1.zetaboards.com/sba/ ~there's always free cheese in a mousetrap.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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