Over a total of roughly two hours, both comedy greats manage to get in some genuine laughs, but ultimately stumble when trying to discuss the social mores of 2019.īurr starts off with a trial-by-fire, using the first two minutes to portray PC culture as whiny and then starting in on jokes using transgender people as a punchline. Netflix released Paper Tiger shortly after Dave Chappelle’s doggedly controversial special, Sticks and Stones, and the parallels are difficult to overlook. During his hour on the Royal Albert Hall stage, Burr attempts to find the gray in both situations, but en route shows the absolutes he lives by-absolutes that, coincidentally, keep him from being relevant. In that particular instance, he was referring to the die-hard “patriots” opposed to Colin Kaepernick’s police brutality protest and, later on, the #MeToo movement. Review by Brian Kruger.ĭiary & Herself (Parasol).“Everything has become fucking absolutes,” Bill Burr declares on his latest special, Paper Tiger. Lewis Black asks, in the age of 45, What’s my job? on Black to the Future.īen Varkentine’s got a little list (“He’s gota little list…”). ![]() How did he get there from here? This book answers that question, spilling many secrets in the process, and Ben Varkentine stumbles across the biggest: Good writing. Weingarten tries to find out if love can keep these musical and matrimonial partners together.Īfter taking everything he wanted from Liberal Hollywood, Joe Eszterhas, author of Showgirls, now lives in the happy heartland of Ohio. The Mates of State aim to become the Captain and Tennille of indie-pop. S D Green explores whether or not it’s a world worth visiting. What is in a name? Well, Mortimer Taylor Coleridge, Professor Fillmore Skinny, and Bertrand Fuddle suggest oddly mannered eccentrics contrived to knee-jerk the reader into a fantastical parallel world where it’s all evolutionary biology, hot dogs and Gwen Stefani. ![]() Jen Cray can’t decide which band she enjoyed more. Review by Carole Jaszewskiįlogging Molly’s 7th annual Green 17 Tour brings to Orlando the added bonus of opening act Moneybrother. Review by Carl F Gauze.ĭays For Days (Alias). Rumble, Shake and Tumble (Thirty Tigers). Repeat the good parts, skip the bad, laugh your ass off. But that’s why the good deity invented the skip button. ![]() Sure, there’s some crappy racism (Billy West’s “Moo Shu” character is not funny at all), and no one who likes the “I’ve Got Mail” thing can be trusted. And on her other bit, she gets to say, “If it is nine dildos, tell him we’ll throw in a butt plug.” Brilliant. And Sykes’ complaint to a car shop about someone having left a huge dump in her backseat could have actually made my junior high principal laugh. Lisa Kushell turns in two incredibly sexy performances, especially her turn as a woman getting off on the voice of a nerdy tech support guy. (I think Chappelle is one of the funniest men in America you have to admire the gentle way he charms and flirts with the woman while still scaring the shit out of her). Some of the best bits on here belong to Morgan’s Spoonie Luv character, ordering flowers for his two-timing girlfriend and trying to get the woman at the shop to write, “You’re nothin’ but a stupid ho,” and Chappelle trying to book space at a Christian bed and breakfast for The Wu-Tang Clan. But I like this, just like I liked some of The Jerky Boys’ stuff, and I still laugh, even without the puppets. If you’re all like real sophisticated and stuff, you won’t like it one bit: bits about homicidal monkeys and blind strippers just aren’t exactly Oscar Wilde. This CD contains 17 different cranks from the show, all of which I’ve seen before, but it’s still really hilarious. Gotta turn it off when the kids are up, of course, with evil-minded Muppets and all, and it’s low-brow as all hell, but it’s still funny. It’s just crank calls, with Muppets acting out the scenarios, but it’s still really funny, because they use some of the funniest people in the entire world: Dave Chappelle, Sarah Silverman, Tracy Morgan, Steven Colbert, Denis Leary, and series masterminds Jimmy Kimmel and Adam Corolla. ![]() I admit it: I watch this show on Comedy Central and I laugh my ass off. Crank Yankers The Best Uncensored Crank Calls Volume 1 Comedy Central
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