Comedy fail :(

[sandorski]

I just had revelation of sorts a few days ago when I watched some Lenny Bruce stuff.

I am a huge fan of Izzard and CK. Both are guys who are very influenced by Bruce. I have watch all of their stuff. I have also enjoyed some stuff I have seen of Bill Hicks. Another person who was very influential on them.

But what I have noticed with Hicks, and especially with Bruce is that I can see how they influenced and molded the comics I love and I can appreciate how ground breaking and different their material was, I can't help but see how dated and for lack of a better phrase "played out" their material is now.
It is hard to time travel with comedy. Their style and innovation is impressive but the jokes and punch lines are just not quite as sharp and witty all these years later.

It is almost like Scotch. I love the stuff. I have tried some expensive stuff and I can appreciate the complexity and flavors and all those things that Scotch lovers talk about. BUT, the price makes in inaccessible and not really my thing.

I dont know. I respect and appreciate those that came earlier and I do find some of their material pretty fucking funny.

But with that said, I watch that Steve Martin clip and have a good chuckle at his funny gestures about sex but not nearly as hard as when I saw Zach Galifinakis 5 years ago. Though they were both doing really goofy physical comedy, Zach was fresh and bizarre and Steve Martin is the guy who made me laugh when I was 8 and watched the Jerk.

He hates these cans!

 

[midwestfisherman]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kLEnrc4yHA&feature=related

 

[preslove]

I had this one comedy album of his that was awesome, but the videos in this thread have sucked.

 

[0roo0roo]

I disagree on that go look at some of Red Fox's and Richard Pryor's clips back in the 70's and tell me they are not funny. I would link some clips but they are real dirty and I'm at work.

I tried, and it was just not funny, aged comedy, you could see it was a step towards more modern comedy, but it just wasn't far enough to be funny.

Eddie murphies raw stuff did seem more current, and some of it was funny, but I guess different groups are at different levels of the cutting edge, and black people might have been ahead on the edginess of culture, so his stuff ages slower. Martin on the other hand probably was old fashioned from the get go.