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Best Comedy Albums of 2013
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I think we may be in a golden age of comedy in some ways. At least as far as accessibility is concerned.
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JonJacob wrote: Hey mads, I saw one of your clips that was in English on youtube and it was quite good. Do you normally just do Danish only shows or is there something more of yours on youtube or something similar in English that we can all hear?
Thanks. I don't do much in English - mostly the occasional company gig. But last year we did the geek show thing at Leicester Comedy Festival and I'll see if the recording I made is good enough for me to upload.
And actually we're doing our new geek show at the coming Leicster Comedy Festival as a sort of preparation for booking some shows in the UK and maybe, just maybe, doing a pay what you want recording in English like the one we have in Danish.
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San Il Defanso wrote: I really don't keep up with new comedy releases at all, but the one I did pay attention to this year was Ask Me About My New God! by Maria Bamford. She's one of my favorite comedians, partially because of how she mines the darkness of depression into something really funny. And my goodness, her different voices/characters are priceless.
Good call. I considered putting that one on my list. There is some great material on that album. I especially like the bit about cancer vs. mental illness. Her voices are great, there's no doubt about that, it's not my kind of thing normally but she's quite good at it. I think she's improved a lot over the years because when I first saw her on The Comedians of Comedy I didn't think she very good at all but that new album is the best thing she's done yet and has turned me into a fan.
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Schweig! wrote: Upon your recommendation, I listened to Doug Stanhope's Beer Hall Putsch yesterday and it really is a great comedy album. I particularly liked the bit about charity runs. The one about fucking an NFL player in the ass was a bit too abrasive for me, but I take it that's his schtick, to always get very obscene at the end of his performance.
I'm curious what you thought about the bit about his mother. It gets pretty dark when they start teasing her that they've found a cure as she lay there dying. I found it a fitting tribute to his mom and the life they believe in but I could totally see how some people would think of it as tasteless.
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I liked that one actually. It was combination of satirical and sentimental, which I generally like in films and literature as well. Suicide, or rather euthanasia in this case, is a delicate subject, but not really an obscene one. Anal rape on the other hand is pretty obscene and offensive. Unlike euthanasia I don't think anal rape is a taboo that needs to be broken.JonJacob wrote: I'm curious what you thought about the bit about his mother. It gets pretty dark when they start teasing her that they've found a cure as she lay there dying. I found it a fitting tribute to his mom and the life they believe in but I could totally see how some people would think of it as tasteless.
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Schweig! wrote:
I liked that one actually. It was combination of satirical and sentimental, which I generally like in films and literature as well. Suicide, or rather euthanasia in this case, is a delicate subject, but not really an obscene one. Anal rape on the other hand is pretty obscene and offensive. Unlike euthanasia I don't think anal rape is a taboo that needs to be broken.JonJacob wrote: I'm curious what you thought about the bit about his mother. It gets pretty dark when they start teasing her that they've found a cure as she lay there dying. I found it a fitting tribute to his mom and the life they believe in but I could totally see how some people would think of it as tasteless.
I see why you'd look at it like that but I read that as an anti-homophobia bit and an attack on the average beer drinking homophobic football fan. Although I'm sure he's also fucking with us in extreme detail in an attempt to be humorous.
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I absolutely got that as well.JonJacob wrote: I see why you'd look at it like that but I read that as an anti-homophobia bit and an attack on the average beer drinking homophobic football fan. Although I'm sure he's also fucking with us in extreme detail in an attempt to be humorous.
There is a German comedian (Austrian actually) who starts a bit off as making a couple of jokes about French people, the audience heartily laughing, and then concludes with, "Now we have a great atmosphere in here, reminiscent of 1914".
I have to say Stanhope's balance was a bit off here. I don't believe the fantasy of anal raping a black American Football player is good way to trap people in their own casual homophobia. And the vivid explanation of the act itself is too long for the point he's trying to make. But that may just be my impression.
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