sparky wrote:Bump. The Hicks thread has made me realised that I really do not know enough stand-up comedians. If anyone can recommend anyone genuinely weird - I mean, genuinely surreal, illogical, full of the strange - please do.

Ross Noble has some bizarre ideas. He's one of my faves.

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Man, I used to think Bill Hicks was the funniest person on earth.

That was a long time ago. I bought a used CD for a road trip a couple years back...the most boring shit ever.

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cesb wrote:Watched bits and pieces of the Bob Saget Roast the other night. The ONLY person on there that had me howling was Norm MacDonald. Norm MacDonald, I almost pissed myself. I have misjudged you. Salut.

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=6PCRp-1O5lk

i believe i am missing something here.

I think the joke is that he's telling awful jokes similar to Saget's on America's Funniest Videos.

Oh my god, I swear to you, I wept.

See, it's a roast. You're supposed to FLAY people.

In the context of a roast where the standard joke is along the lines of "Cloris Leachman is here. Her vagina is as dried up as the dirt she sleeps in," you're saying it's not funny to be squeaky clean and corny?

Did you watch the whole thing? Because the more it starts to dawn on everybody what he's doing and that he's not going to break character, the funnier it gets, and it's also funny in the context that throughout the night, he's reading the newspaper and as every other comic takes a dirty or insulting shot at him before they get around to Saget, he has this "Ouch,come on guys" look on his face.

People are calling Saget a pedophile and he's doing this clean shtick.

Priceless, I tell you.

Little help, somebody? Just me? Alright then.

cesb wrote:wrote some things about the roast

I just saw it now. I think most of the audience did not get it.