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I think I was just excited to see a full-blown Chappelle special again. After just watching the Louis special, I realized that my vision was clouded and the Dave stuff was actually just OK and sometimes good.
Joined: Tue September 24, 2013 5:56 pm Posts: 47163 Location: In the oatmeal aisle wearing a Shellac shirt
So I saw Louis do all his 2017 material in Seattle, and watched the Netflix special the other night. Then I watched the two Chappelle specials again. I think Louis CK is something of a genius, but the Chappelle stuff is so much funnier to me. He does a bunch of voices; he's comfortable in the silences, letting a vibe take over before slowly setting up a great story. He uses his celebrity and background as a black man as a great lynchpin for all of his humor, and he effortlessly swerves in-and-out of racial and gender insensitivity in a way that I think is silly and risky, and pokes fun at anyone who takes themselves too seriously...
CK's special by comparison is just one long, dark joke about "isn't it uncomfortable how you're laughing at something really cynical right now"? Louis CK is my favorite comedian of all time, but his new special is a classic case of emperor's new clothes.
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After being mostly bored by both kinda-hacky "old-man-yelling-about-stuff-he-doesn't-understand" Chappelle specials, I was thinking maybe I was just bored with standup comedy in general. Nope; this Louis CK special had me laughing pretty hard. I loved the absurdist bent every bit seemed to take by the end.
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I liked the Chappelle one ok. He's just so likable he can ramble about whatever. I always laugh when he laughs at his own jokes. The OJ stories and the Key and Peele dig were funny. The old man stuff in the second half did get a little old.
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Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 2:48 pm Posts: 47350
theplatypus wrote:
After being mostly bored by both kinda-hacky "old-man-yelling-about-stuff-he-doesn't-understand" Chappelle specials, I was thinking maybe I was just bored with standup comedy in general. Nope; this Louis CK special had me laughing pretty hard. I loved the absurdist bent every bit seemed to take by the end.
The Magic Mike bit had me rolling
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Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 2:48 pm Posts: 47350
theplatypus wrote:
After being mostly bored by both kinda-hacky "old-man-yelling-about-stuff-he-doesn't-understand" Chappelle specials, I was thinking maybe I was just bored with standup comedy in general. Nope; this Louis CK special had me laughing pretty hard. I loved the absurdist bent every bit seemed to take by the end.
The Magic Mike bit had me rolling
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