Any Kevin Bridges fans here? Scottish comedian from Glasgow. I just watched his first two specials from 2010 and 2012. The first one is unreal. I cannot believe a 23 year old wrote a set that tight and performed it so breezily in such a big room. It’s nearly perfect. Special 2 had some nice moments, but he swore 20 times as much. I hate the laziness of that more than anything else in comedy. I have two specials to go.

Yeah he's brilliant. Love his bus stop bit.

Bo Burnham "INSIDE" is about as good as anything you will ever watch.

if a comedian is picking up a guitar, I'm so out

lol yeah

agreed. i hate musical comedy.

not a fan of flight of the conchords?

Idk that it added much to his act, but for Demitri Martin it seemed like a necessary conduit to not just be considered a Steven Wright wannabe. These Are Jokes is a pretty solid album.

the bit with will forte is great.

Went to the Comedy Store on Friday and Saturday night this week, main room both nights. Highlights were Harland Williams, Melissa Villaseñor, Marc Maron, Eleanor Kerrigan, Alycia Cooper, Argus Hamilton, and Tom Papa, who had the strongest set of all of them.

Harland Williams gave one of the more uniquely compelling sets I’ve ever seen. I’d heard his name before but had no idea who he was, and didn’t even know it was him when he took the stage; he was introduced as Lou From Fresno. His set started off very hammy, with him doing a lot of big-faced mugging and eye rolling as he engaged in crowd work. He was constantly interrupting his train of thought to engage the audience, and would make these seemingly corny asides that were all tame variations on “sir, if you could sit up straight please, that’d help me focus on my set...Ma’am, if you could please stop looking at your phone, that’d help me get back to my jokes [big eye roll]”...

For the first eight minutes or so, I (and I think most of the full room) is thinking “why is this guy so corny?” Then he said “Ma’am, if you could kindly take your head and smash it into the fucking table, that’d help me focus on my set.” About half the room got the absurdist turn his set had just taken, and he won the other half over as he continued to make increasingly bizarre asides. By the end it was like a symphony, he had conducted the room from a very corny and ho-hum beginning to a bizarre deconstructionist take on the form. Really brilliant and hysterical and not like anything I’d seen before.

I love watching those old Rickles clips.

He was one of a kind.

Well fuck.

Sean Lock, ‘8 Out of 10 Cats’ Captain, Dies at 58

i havent seen it, and i might but i fear he is just too cute, bland and correct and i need more ugly truth in my comedy.

i know, heartbreaking.

that hurts. i had noticed on the more recent shows his voice sounded different but didnt know he had throat cancer

I watched 14 minutes.

I liked it

It's aight