I too am a giant Maron fan and loved the doc just on a storytelling level - the arc of losing Lynn to taping the special about it with everything in between. Maron's so endlessly quotable I took this down: "I'm just waiting for something to destroy me...and I think it's me." Me and my friend are still planning to get Maron tattoos of a pair of glasses and his quote "I'm not for everybody, I'm barely for me" The best .
Last night I watched Come See Me in the Good Light and it has a similar arc for the story except it's a poet and her cancer battle to get back on stage. Highly recommend if you liked the arc of the Maron doc.
I love that Brooks Wheelan and Tim Robinson just keep going on Seth Meyers to talk about Spider League and bad mouth each other. Tim sounds like a tyrant honestly
Stavvy’s World had a great run of guests and then he had Robert Kelly and Joe List on this week and it’s like their brand of comedy has not evolved since the 2000s.
Joe List wrote a movie starring Louie post-aplegations iirc so this is not particularly surprising. And also why Stavvy gives me slight pause even if zi think he's grown quite a bit
Actual non-twee/alt standup is such a debaucherous and dark world that even the folks who aren’t those things still exist in that world and are friends/intertwined with the folks who take full advantage of that world’s opportunities for unsavory behavior. You can avoid people or keep distance but I see so many people who you’d think would be ideologically or politically opposed hang out with each other on their Instas and on club/theater Instas. People I know who are doing well in standup and are decent dudes were happy to hobknob with Tony Hinchcliff and Jeff Ross and only distanced themselves from those kinds of dudes once it became riskier to be aligned with them. It’s a club and they’re all in it together. And when I see comics go after eachother or get in a spat, I feel that it’s more often likely a personal issue than a social/political issue, even if some comics may ride it as social/political differences.
Yeah, Stav’s definitely rolled around with fleas and kept them around. He refers to them as his good friends and then it turns them razzing him for confronting Jordan Jensen and how he’s progressive now to List talking in a tired, racist Asian accent and making jokes about Muslims beating their wives. Like, man, these fools don’t need this platform.
Stav talks on some thing he was interviewed on about how its important to be friends with people you disagree with or whatever. It is annoying but also Stav did a lot of racist voices (and worse!) for years on Cum Town and it would not really be believable to me as authentic at all if he immediately started cutting people out over things he was saying himself 2 years ago. Hope it doesn't sound like I'm defending anything but I imagine that's part of how he sees it. That said I am surprised he hasn't been forced to denounce some old clip yet. Maybe mainstream culture doesn't care about that shit enough anymore
Absolutely. I think he said that on “Staying Alive.” And I totally get it. Comedians, especially ones that came up together have a kinship and some of those people that they continue to share it with are pieces of shit (Dan Soder has a similar problem). I have friends who I don’t support some of the dumb things that they say, but we grew up together and still share a lot of good beliefs, so who among us? Stav has no qualms about being friends with them or performing at The Mothership because he sees it getting outside of his bubble, while he’s made it clear he’s on the left. It’s really whatever. I’m mainly pointing because it’s wild to have progressive, empathetic comedians like Caleb Hearon and Demi on and then have these two jokers saying how New Yorkers can now beat their wives because Zoran got elected mayor.
Really Bryan needs to get his shit together and get them on Guys or PODKast They've publicly stated that they're fans.
only if he thinks it's great, i am uninterested in hearing from another neanderthal who thinks that album is bad