Pet Peeves

[Kurt Cocaine]

I think I got the wrong comedian I was thinking of that Aisling Bea one. Point still stands though.

She's terminally unfunny alright (and hated in America, due mainly to her appearance on Bert Kreischer's podcast). Bloody gorgeous, though.

Yes, I would bum the Bea-jaysus out of her.

[Eoin McLove]

She is very good looking,  but yeah,  not very funny unfortunately. What's the craic with the podcast?

[Carnage]

I tried listening to it but she was driving me nuts. The gist as I gather it is that she spoke over him near constantly, being generally annoying and twattish. As he's such a big name on the stand up scene over there, she shot herself in the foot in the process - not that he shot her down or anything, more that he has such a big audience that she alienated most of them, bookers etc.

This is it, if you can stick listening to her. I think I managed about half an hour a year or two back:

https://youtu.be/k9-mDExYIsk

[StoutAndAle]

I tried listening to it but she was driving me nuts. The gist as I gather it is that she spoke over him near constantly, being generally annoying and twattish. As he's such a big name on the stand up scene over there, she shot herself in the foot in the process - not that he shot her down or anything, more that he has such a big audience that she alienated most of them, bookers etc.

If you watch the Hot Ones Truth or Dab challenge with Bert Kreisher and Tom Segura they talk about it albeit without mentioning her name.

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

I thought she had gained some traction in the US after "This Way Up" and that thing she did with Paul Rudd, no?

[astfgyl]

Watched the Truth or Dab there and then started the actual podcast. Didn't last 5 minutes on the podcast. Was getting sort of embarrassed for her from the get go

[Carnage]

I tried listening to it but she was driving me nuts. The gist as I gather it is that she spoke over him near constantly, being generally annoying and twattish. As he's such a big name on the stand up scene over there, she shot herself in the foot in the process - not that he shot her down or anything, more that he has such a big audience that she alienated most of them, bookers etc.

If you watch the Hot Ones Truth or Dab challenge with Bert Kreisher and Tom Segura they talk about it albeit without mentioning her name.

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

I thought she had gained some traction in the US after "This Way Up" and that thing she did with Paul Rudd, no?

Maybe so, TBH I don't pay much attention to her, but that was the impression I got at the time. I suppose showbiz has a short memory.

Once she became surgically grafted onto Shawron Hoargan she automatically became an automatic channel switch.

I watched that Hot Ones at the time, I must give it another look.

[ldj]

TBF that whole scene of comedians in the US who just seem to worship Joe Rogan is embarrassingly shite. The fact that Joe Rogan can be considered a 'legend' of comedy anywhere isn't a good sign.

The only one connected to that scene who's any good is Bill Burr, but he doesn't need to leech off Joe Rogan like the rest of them do.

[Carnage]

I like Kreischer and Segura (and Burr obviously) but yeah, generally a poor scene. I stopped listening to their podcasts when their smugness and self-satisfaction became overbearing. Still watch their specials though.

I can't see the appeal of Rogen, he's not funny at all, and his podcasts are much more miss than hit, depending who's on them.

[Eoin McLove]

I think his show is great when he has an interesting guest on.  He's become much better at shutting up and allowing them to speak so you can get some great insight into whatever topic is being discussed.

His stand up is brutal though. Really bad.

[StoutAndAle]

I like Kreischer and Segura (and Burr obviously) but yeah, generally a poor scene. I stopped listening to their podcasts when their smugness and self-satisfaction became overbearing. Still watch their specials though.

I can't see the appeal of Rogen, he's not funny at all, and his podcasts are much more miss than hit, depending who's on them.

There's a whole slew of comedian lads who go around smelling Rogan's farts and saying it's Chanel No.5. Joey Diaz, Theo Von, Brian Redban, Brian Callen, Brendan Schaub, Chris D'Elia - all of whom are terminally unfunny.

Thankfully Burr is not part of that set, he has his own thing going on the All Things Comedy platform on but Kreisher, Segura, Paul Virzi (basicially an Italian-American Bill Burr), Ronnie Chieng (a Malaysian Bill Burr - whose special I thought was great) etc. all ride Bill's coattails.

Segura has had some good specials to be fair.

Bert Kreisher's specials are like your pissed buddy trying to tell you a complicated story, forgetting it halfway through, remembering it and then saying "But... I guess you had to be there" at the end.

[Circlepit]

Christ yerman Brendan Schaub is as funny as a run beans. How these gimps make a career out of it is beyond me. Shit fighter, shit shit ,shit at the rest too.

[Blackout]

Schaub is a moron. Dana White came out with quite the character assassination a while ago and a lot of it turned out to be true.

[StoutAndAle]

Podcast peeve (also real life peeve) - people saying shit off the top of their head and stating it as fact.

Bert Kreisher is only funny on podcasts and shows - even then he's hit or miss.  Listening to him and Bill Burr at lunch earlier. He made a comment on the BillBert Podcast while they were talking about very talented people not getting their shot at fame.

Bert: "I mean look at Gene Hackman, he didn't get a film role until he was like 54 years old."

Bill (sounding dubious): "Really? Jesus!"

Bert: "Yeah, I read it in an article. He was 54 before he got offered a movie role".

Nobody called him on it! And!!! They have a live researcher.

For the record, Gene Hackman had not only been offered a film role by the time he was 54 but had been nominated for an Academy award 3 times, winning once (and was on his way to a fourth and 5th nomination - with a second win).

[Kunt 4 Life]

That took no time for me to check. Google gene Hackman and his profile comes up saying he was born in 1930. That makes things easy to work out.

French connection is shown below, never seen it but its a big film and it came out in 1971. Hackman would have been 41. superman came out late 70s so he would have still been in his 40s.

Has someone messaged the guy to tell him he's an utter spastic?

[Kunt 4 Life]

The Possedan adventure came out in 72, for fucks sake.