nguyen.angela•6d agoMost Upvoted

I'm actually siding with the comedian who got dropped from that festival in Austin

I read the old tweets they dug up from 2012, and the jokes were clearly a different style from his work now... but people are acting like he never grew. Has anyone actually listened to his new special from six months ago?

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diana_carr666d ago

Saw a clip from his recent podcast where he talked about how his writing process changed. He said he used to just go for the shock laugh, but now he builds stories around a point. The jokes they pulled up were from a totally different time in comedy.

nelson.vera6d ago

Which podcast was this? I feel like a lot of comedians hit that same wall where the shock stuff just stops working, for them and the audience. It's cool he can admit his old jokes were from a different time, but I wonder if his new point-driven stuff is actually funnier or just safer.

diana_carr666d ago

Remember when comedians just told jokes to make you laugh? Now every bit needs a moral lesson or a hot take. It feels like stand-up turned into a TED talk. I heard a guy spend ten minutes on avocado toast just to say millennials are broke. Sometimes a dumb joke about airplane food is fine, you know? Does everything need to be so deep now?